Everyone raise your hand if you know the difference between proprietary software that's closed source, and open source with viewable binaries! That's right kiddies, if you have open source with viewable binaries you can even compile your own, and fix any bugs you find. You can even fork it! You can't do that with closed source, you're at their mercy for patches, fixes, and security holes.

Simple, by requiring that these companies get paid at the same leveled costs as anyone else would without specialized subsidies. In Ontario, if they were competing against the nuclear energy sector which is the largest(providing about 68% of our power) they would be in at 18c/KwH, not 64.8c/KwH, if you wanted to peg them against say Niagara Generation, it would be 2.4c/KwH, and they provide 15-22% of the electricity of the province. The rest is made up from NG, Oil, or Coal. There would also be no special hand outs for "not producing energy."

And really, I would end the policy of selling energy at less than what it costs to the US, than what residents of Ontario can buy it for.

But your second sentence? You're right and so far the Liberal party has done a bang up job of making sure that they're in charge of that rule book and screwing everyone over.

Correction: Crony capitalism is a failure. Finest example of this is in Germany and Ontario with "Feed in Tariffs" for all the "green energy producers" where we pay excessively high prices including to pay them to not to produce energy. And that can be as much as $0.70/KwH.

That's nice to say when you have plenty to eat.

Not as bad as the stupid fake cable cars we have in San Francisco.

The fake ones are more dangerous than the real ones. The real ones are limited to 9.5MPH (the cable speed), but the fake ones, on truck chassis, can go at highway speeds. They have sideways facing seats, standees, and no seat belts, which is OK at 9.5MPH but not at 30.

Dear fan,

I am sure that you can find many other entertainment content options that also cost significantly more than $5, especially among those available on the first day of theatrical release. Many of them also require you to get off your ass and go somewhere, rather than letting you enjoy your entertainment experience in bed, at home, on your tablet.

So, yeah. $5. It costs that much because we think it's worth that much, and because we think that enough people will agree with that assessment to make this business financially viable. In a very real and tangible way "what people will pay" is very much "what something is worth", at least for dollars-and-cents pricing decisions.

Sincerely,

Joss Whedon

P.S.: I'm funnier than Louis CK, so there's that, too.

You know that by far the largest group of unemployed people living on a government income are retired old folks collecting Social Security, right?

But I'm guessing that "grandma" isn't the demographic group I'm supposed to think of when you blow your ill-informed dog whistle.

Gays are not singled out.

Gay sex is not singled out. There is no cherry picking involved. The root of all sexual teaching is the same: non-procreative sex acts are sinful.

It is a sin for a straight couple to have sex before they are married. Are we bigoted against the unmarried?

It is a sin for a married straight couple to use contraception. Are we bigoted against married couples?

It is a sin to masturbate. Are we bigoted against masturbators?

It is a sin to have sex outside of your marriage. Are we bigoted against adulterers?

It is a sin to have gay sex. Are we bigoted against those who harbor attractions to those of the same sex?

They are not singled out. The same rules apply to everybody.

The same is true for speeding. But even if you want to narrow the scope to "things I can do in my own home, where I won't get caught except if something goes terribly wrong, or by happenstance" there is still a pretty big field.

Suppose I live in a high-rise apartment tower. It would be trivially easy for me to buy a couple of dozen propane cylinders from local retailers, and slip them into my hypothetical apartment. (Put each one in a suitcase or cardboard box to carry it upstairs, and spread the purchases out over a few different stores, across several weeks of summer barbecue season. Pay cash.) No one knows my apartment is now a giant bomb. Totally illegal under an assortment of fire codes and municipal bylaws. Probably runs into state and/or federal rules about the transportation and storage of dangerous goods. To be honest, I can't be bothered to look up all the different ways in which it is illegal.

Anyone could do it. No one who does it would get caught (unless they talk about it). Should it therefore be legal to store a quarter ton of compressed, flammable gas inside a residential apartment building?

Sounds like a crate full of stupid my friend. Imagine how many people could be fed from that corn? Well as long as the environmentalists didn't throw a hissy fit over it and try claiming it was poisonous or something.

Biofuels are about government subsidies and nothing more. All the talk about biofuels and the environment is just to trick the rubes.

Over and over and over, never stopping, regardless of how many people are hurt with each attempt, climbing a mountain of misery toward an always elusive utopia.

The evils of alcohol vs. prohibition.

It's not society this time. The sickness here is all in the government schools.

But remember this: even though government schools do a bad job of teaching children in poor neighborhoods, we can't have non-government schools. Because poor kids wouldn't get a good education with non-government schools.

I have to admit that I am always surprised by people who confuse and conflate the notion that something is possible with the notion that laws against that possible-to-do thing are thereby rendered unenforceable.

It is extraordinarily easy to acquire an automobile with a top speed exceeding 75 miles per hour. They can be found readily on our city streets, in the garages of our homes, all across America. Millions of such vehicles exchange hands, legally, every year. Shockingly, that doesn't actually render laws against speeding unenforceable--even though every driver has access to technology with which they can speed, available at the twitch of a foot.

Trouble from religion seems to be associated more with dosage level than theology. Once a week seems to be a safe dose for most people, while several times a day is an overdose. The nuttier religions tend towards the overdose end of the scale. Islam and the haredi branch of Judaism go for All Religion All the Time. Scientology goes in that direction, but more through intermittent intense experiences rather than constant daily obsession.

Fortunately, Scientology is stuck, by policy, with Hubbard's 1930s technology and their skin-resistance meter. If they were keeping up with technology, they'd have mobile apps tied to wristband sensors reporting to HQ in Clearwater, FL, auditing using functional MRI machines, and big data systems analyzing all member communications.