Need to mod down parent -- this isn't insightful.

Property tax is one of the big reasons that the City is going after the universities, because as it stands, they're exempt. That means no "inclusion in school tuition and dorm fees".

Gas tax? You've never been to the University of Pittsburgh, have you? It's an urban campus -- there's not enough parking for commuters, let alone student residents!

Road tolls? Nope on that one, either -- the nearest toll roads to campus are easily a half-hour away, and don't figure into the equation of resident-student travel.

Sales tax? Yeah, but that's not what the City is trying to target here. They recognize that sales taxes are coming in, and what they're attempting to do here is fill the void in the rest of the tax burden, by grabbing from students what they cannot grab from universities.

Sure, I have -- Death Star was a shell game, designed to collect fees for congestion relief. Do you know what congestion implies? Excess capacity in one area of the grid, and insufficient transmission to get it to where it wants to go. The California problem was blackouts -- in other words, insufficient capacity. In a situation in which there's grid-wide insufficient capacity, there generally aren't any congestion situations... duh!

Please mod parent down -- this is neither "informative" nor "insightful"... Enron had nothing to do with the rolling blackouts in California; as the fine article mentioned, the problem was that retail rates were capped, while wholesale rates were deregulated. All it took was a relatively sustained spike in prices, and the retail suppliers were swimming in red ink; this led to even higher prices (because energy prices depend on a whole bundle of factors, including credit risk -- once the retailers were swamped, prices went even higher, as wholesalers (reasonably) suspected that retailers couldn't survive, paying hundreds while charging pennies... (I was in the industry at the time, and was sent to a client site in the aftermath of the blackouts...)

Now, once California's blackouts happened, people started questioning deregulation in general. The increased attention may have been what led to the sniffing around Enron, and the discovery of their accounting shenanigans. It's not the other way around, though...!

Do I really have to go the "correlation doesn't imply causation" route? Enron =/= California meltdown. Some Enron traders worked to artificially inflate rates, but the blackouts would have happened without their attempt to game generator down-time...

Note that Edison =/= Enron...

Suggesting that he runs his prof's code through the analyzer, if the prof truly believes his code deserves a "D"...

Dude deserves to fail: when confronted, he shoulda countered that he used his program as a baseline: the program that minimally gets a "pass", when run through the analyzer. Any MS student who can't BS his thesis prof... *sigh*...!

So, if I understand you correctly, you're guessing that they're adult stem cells, not embryonic stem cells? That might answer your implied question of why Neuralstem isn't talking specifics -- stem cell research is only cool when it's embryonic stem cell research... ;)

umm... it was also the intention of church founders that all Christians must be circumsized, and follow Jewish law. However, they decided that it was wiser to allow Gentiles to follow their own dietary customs and not to require circumcision. So... why is it ok on one hand that church leaders to make a decision against Jewish custom, and not ok on the other hand that they decided that celibacy be mandatory? It all comes down to the ability of church leaders to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit in making decisions related to the church, doesn't it?

Really? A human embryo can develop into an adult human, not just "become part" of one. Once you're able to take an ant and turn it into a human being, come back into the discussion. Until then, enjoy your diet of ants...