The joke IS not on me: I am well aware of pumped storage stations; there is one in my country too.

Now, they only need to install electric pumps for when it's not raining, and they're 100% renewable forever!

Not likely. The leftist America haters are being swept from power election by election. Ted Cruz should set NASA right in 2 years and send Obama's bed wetters home.

Not surprising. Obama's activists at NASA have been slow walking (read sabotaging) the program for years. They'd rather be raining federal dollars on their crooked hero Elon MUsk. We need a new President who will make SLS a priority. Constellation was a great program and the leftists wrecked it. Now we are marooned for the next decade on a decrepit space station with our arch enemies, the Russians. Not a space program befitting America, but then again, neither is our leadership.

Just for my information, suppose you sell your house with a profit, then buy another house in the same country, do you still have to pay for capital gains ?

It's not "the establishment does not like competition". Nobody likes competition. However it is actually illegal for your competitor to not abide to rules you need to abide to.

The correct way is that the market should integrate the actual, legal innovations of Uber (i.e. an app that matches drivers and riders), which should come easier if Uber is driven out of business by law enforcement.

Once law abiding taxi businesses have integrated these innovations, information asymmetry between dispatcher, driver, and rider -which is ultimately what taxi businesses are about- should plummet, and you'll end up paying something X between Uber price U and taxi price T (UXT), T-X being the value of the current information asymmetry, X-U being the money Uber currently externalizes to (i.e. steals from) driver and society.

Sarah Palin's emails were investigated, and held up to leftist scrutiny. Hillary destroyed hers, without giving the rightful owner of the records a chance to investigate. That concealment is a crime.

Does that go for Hillary's server too, or is it optional for people who hold high office?

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I've been accumulating cheap oil stocks. So have at it leftists. You're making rich in preparation for retirement.

Intel stock is a screaming buy. P/E of 13, yielding 3%, great growth prospects, and the best chip foundry on the planet.

I prefer the firing squad. It is an American tradition. No nonsense. Put 'em down with prejudice. Arguing about drugs is silly.

Political power is irresistible to left leaning scientists, particularly those who've constructed and apocalyptic narrative around their subject (climate research, cough cough...) Who wouldn't want to save the world, and line their pockets at the same time?

Makes me wonder: in countries where prostitution and proxenetism are legal (Germany, Switzerland...), did anyone think of making a Uber for sex ?

Yeah I'd like some more meat to the story as well. Amazon Glacier achieves its pricing by using low-RPM consumer drives plugged into some sort of high-density backplanes; supposedly they are so densely packed that you can only spin up a few drives at once due to power and heat issues. Hence the delay.

I assume Google is doing something similar, maybe with somewhat better power or cooling since they're offering faster retrieval times which implies that perhaps they can spin up a higher percentage of drives at a time.