It is why Cities have always struggled. To many people to close to each other. The wealthy always purchase enough space to make themselves comfortable. However the poor can not and once you get so many people pressed together they fight.

I think the fighting is because downtown areas heavily subsidize the suburbs (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4) and so the inner city poor are getting fed up because their money is leaving their neighborhoods and is spent on subsidizing the middle and upper class lifestyles. And because the middle class prevents economic mobility by keeping the poor out of middle class neighborhoods.

And how much will each customer be reimbursed?

Oops, that's 0.47 TB for $19.45, which is $41.38 per terabyte.

Here is 1.25 TB for $22.95, which is $18.36 per terabyte. You won't be able to fit 160 TB of that in a 4U enclosure, but maybe in a filing cabinet.

...I have 160TB in a 4U enclosure which cost something like 20k just for the hardware.

That's $125 per terabyte. Here is 4.7TB for $19.45, which is $4.14 per terabyte.

The ground station temperature data has been quite thoroughly manipulated, always "adjusted" in the direction of confirming the theories of the researcher making the adjustment

What would you expect to happen if there are correctable errors in the data and the theories are correct?

But now there's this new satellite data that must be "processed" to be understood.

The raw data should be open and verifiable against the original film so that anyone can double check the data and the conclusions. But somehow I don't think even that will be enough to convince the skeptics that the conclusions are correct.

if all your neighbors have solar, it will exceed consumption during times of bright sunlight.

That can only happen if the price of electricity during times of bright sunlight is above market equilibrium. Smart meters and smart appliances solve that problem, and it doesn't require energy storage.

To be locked up over this is right.

I can't believe you got upvoted for advocating revenge (a.k.a. "retribution"). Revenge won't make the streets safer, so it won't really solve anything, and it makes a jury hesitant to convict.

No, the best way to deal with this is to permanently take away his driver's license, unless and until he proves, through a battery of psychological tests, that he no longer has a problem with distracted driving. What jury would say no to that?

Oracle insisted Oregon hire a project manager and systems integrator... Oregon refused those requests...

So Oracle took Oregon's money, and the hit on their own reputation. I wonder if it was worth it?

It's essentially extortion because at that point the organization is so many millions of dollars into it that they're willing to spend millions more to make it functional.

This is a good example of the sunk cost fallacy.

Store your spare li-ion batteries with a half charge

And at 0 degrees C.

Surely community service would create the same deterrence and benefit society more than rewarding him with free room and board and medical care at the taxpayer's expense?

Those telcos are forced to provide service to everybody at the same price, which means they make a profit on tightly packed businesses in the city and that offsets their losses on the more widespread customers out of town.

Subsidies like this for suburban and rural residents is why we have sprawl.

I wouldn't mind paying $10 per gallon of milk in exchange for lower taxes and lower utility costs. (Especially because I'm lactose intolerant!)

the worst transport freeloaders are cyclists who pay zero usage taxes yet use the roads and have their own special lanes/paths built for them.

Those aren't really for bicyclists. They're for motorists, to get bicyclists out of their way, because motorists don't want to have to share the road with bicyclists.

But you're correct that bicyclists don't pay any user fees for the roads. I propose a mileage fee to cover the road damage caused by the vehicle which is proportional to the 4th power of the weight of the vehicle. If a 2-ton vehicle owner pays $200 per year for the roads, then a 200-pound bicyclist going the same distance would pay 1/8th of a cent per year. Plus maybe an administrative fee of $10 per vehicle. That's fair, isn't it?