I would never leave the house.

+1. Politicians at the state level have been paid off by cable companies and ISPs to squash competition from local municipalities. The cities who got in before the legislation are loving their services. It is absolutely insane what money can do in the political process.

Dear Verizon Customers,

We were recently told we needed ~$100,000 worth of equipment. In order to pay for this we're going to need to add an interconnect service fee of $5/month to your bill. Sorry. Try a competitor? Hah, suck it.

Thanks,
Verizon CEO

PS We have also sued the company who told us this for saying it publicly, and we will most likely charge them more money, too.

To be honest, I don't know much about the tracking feature, but it sounds like something where if one big corporation takes a hit, we'll see more push back from others. Make an example of them. (Please note, I own a lot of Apple products, I'm not anti-Apple by default, just on this issue.)

Some temporary or permanent haircut to their profits is the only way to reach them.

The Russian CPU is guaranteed to have more holes, if any of them are in fact flawed, though. Their citizens are nuts if they don't think so.

I'm calling BS on you firing anyone for this. What programmer these days only knows Python, and thus hasn't uses a language that requires braces?

You're overstating the problem anyway. Blocks are among the easiest concepts to grasp. How do you think some many people were able to pick up Python quickly after using their braced languages? Anyone who can't understand braces will have some other easily noticeable problem instead.

Does the list even change? I'm thinking you basically just add Alan Turing.

That's why there are peer reviews in science, and the need for reproducibility. When there is a 97% consensus, it's well-past the point where we should be arguing with them.

Consider there is an ample amount of agenda-driven motivation to deny that AGW is happening, but very, very few scientists are apt to do so. Your sword swings both ways.

What is GWT? Google Web Toolkit?

97% of scientists agree that humans are causing global warming. You're apparently asking for both sides of the debate to be given equal time, 50/50, when the consensus is nowhere near 50/50.

That humans are contributing to global warming is an established scientific fact. You're wailing away on what appears to be a non-sequitur here, not even a straw man.

So the debate should be over what we do about AGW, not whether it is happening. That's the point. Right now, in the US, we can do basically nothing about it because one whole party has chosen to bury their head in the sand from the word, "go."

Except that you just said you think you and people like you will be killed. That's real psychopathy. The rest of what you said is ginned up nonsense. Not, "hate speech," just insanely stupid.

And herein we find one massive problem with the idea that we shouldn't make things political - some people will find something political about anything.

97% is scientific, not political. That's why AGW should get 97% "pro-" coverage, and at most 3% "anti-" coverage, but people like this Spazmania will cry when their anti-AGW coverage doesn't get 50%.

Well said. RE corporations: the standard Republican (conservative?) rejoinder is that unions could always contribute money, but I'm in favor of denying them all. Screw them. All only individual contributions up to $45, adjusted for inflation going forward. Make a law that prohibits politicians and staffers from joining lobbying outfits after their term is up to eliminate the opportunity for deferred under the table contributions. Then we'll finally have a government that responds to the true will of the people.

Yeah, but those companies have more speech, so they should be allowed to use more speech. And those companies are people. And the speech is money. And the legislation that eliminates one potential competitor actually doesn't eliminate any competition.

Is there ANY way this isn't backwards? Wow.

public happylittle HelloWorld : hugs Object {
        public ecstatic ambitious main(String[] compliments :-) {
                weee (int i =) 0 ; i 10; i++ :-) {
                        Compy.outAndProud.prettyplease.print("Hello, World!!!!" :-);
                }
        }
}