Should all car drivers be accomplished horse riders? Well yes obviously! You never know when your car will break down, run out of gas, etc. and you'll need to hitch up a horse to get you home.

I think that it's pretty clear that within a few 10s of years the car with a driver will be the anomaly. The economic advantage in large areas of transportation (trucking, taxis, deliver, etc. etc.) are so huge that the technology will be adopted, and the transition to home vehicles is inevitable because the cost is minimal and the advantages great.

These discussions will look really stupid, probably before mid-century.

Well yes, but usually only in the comments. Making a story out of each one would be a little overwhelming.

WTF. We have one person's bad experience with a phone carrier as "news". If we're just going to start publishing individual complaints the entire site will be filled with rants about Verizon and AT&T, that's without even starting on Comcast and Time Warner.

Actually, the insurance companies wrote much of the bill and are estatic about insuring anyone, especially when the government is paying them. Effective compeitition (a pubic option) or allowing medicaid to negotiate drug prices with the drug companies might have helped with cost control, but those were both nix'd extremely early in the process.

Yes, but in fact Obamacare was mostly written by the drug and insurance companies, who both win big on the deal. The party of limited regulation threw in the clause that prohibits the operation of the free market by preventing medicaid from negotiating prices with drug companies. So the drug companies get to price their drugs as they please. The "rational" for this is that they need this money for R&D (how many times have you heard this?) whereas in fact they are going back to their shareholders and explaining how they are keeping their R&D costs under control and making big, fat profit (off sick people).

Despite 2015 not being the year of Linux on the Desktop, it IS the year of Linux in just about every embedded device, board and SOC on the market. This means that there are more developers being paid to work on Linux, presumably including the Linux kernel.

The summary is full of percentages. 11.8% seems to be about 19% less than 14.6% but that just serves to obfuscate. I'm not willing to dig into the "fill-in-the-form-to-read" article, but would assume that the total number of paid developers has increased accounting for the change in percentages.

The phrase "I live in the US" would have been a fine substitute for your example. Even if it's not true, it makes it much clearer. You can use that phrase and "crappy broadband" more or less interchangably.

I'm sorry, this time it's totally different. For starters, there's much more money to be made by simply ignoring all the possible problems.

Citation? Ask any of the residents of high lattitude and they'll explain that, in summer (or winter), they have daylight - real daylight - until they go to sleep, at which point they frequently use thick curtains to block the light.

If your idea had any credibility these lattitutes would be uninhabitable, or at best inhabited by serverely sleep disturbed people.

Ideally, bulbs would produce exactly the same spectrum as sunlight from the time you flick the switch "on" until you switch it "off". CFLs come close. LEDs have a little more of a challenge and tend towards the blue, unless they are attempting historical reconstruction in which case they tend to be yellow.

Are you using "cool" or "warm" white lightbulbs in your house? Daylight bulbs are readily available, so why to people choose to emulate the yellow incandescent bulb color that was the closest filament bulbs could come to daylight (or maybe they were emulating candles)?

I'm confused as to what point you are trying to make. Are you suggesting that just because this is a policy they supported, and indeed requested, they won't use it to lambast their opponents in future elections? If so, there is no historical evidence supporting this.

Since the goal of all these media outlets is to sell advertising, it's easier if your market is a bunch of gullible morons rather than critical thinkers.

Odin promised to rid the world of ice giant, whereas the Christian god promised to eliminate poverty and hate. I haven't seen any ice giants recently...

If you're pro-life, why would you not follow Planned Parenthood? Most of what they do is preventative health care for poor women who have no other access to such services - life saving proceedures like mamograms. Or are we talking the crowd that supports life only until birth - like the "pro-life" governors who refused the affordable care act medicaid expansion killing thousands of post-partum people a year?