Those connections are wonderful, where they are available (typically on in town, go even a couple miles outside and your choices are pretty much crap BT. No different than in the States. I live in Tampa now and enjoy a 100/65mbit for the same price I was paying in England for the garbage ADLS connection six years ago. 100/65 is not even their fastest offering, but again go a little to far out of town and your choices stink.

Also, we don't have to suffer truly godawful ISPs, the way you do in the US, which is nice.

cough cough....BT...cough.

P> Look up BT in the dictionary and you'll get the definition of "truly godawful"

Wait? What? You are talking about California? The capital state of the armies of the idiotic.

I highly doubt their thoughts are so benevolent.

This is about money pure and simple.

That's about all they have....and oh half the state is on welfare.

Who said anything about disconnecting anything? Sure the house will be hooked up to the grid. As long as you owe on a mortgage you typically have to be hooked up to a public utility as part of the agreement.

Doesn't mean most of my appliances will be running off of it.

Big deal. Hook up the panels to something you find useful and tell the grid to take a hike.

I've got 4 100 watt panels that send power to my desk. All my devices and this computer are powered by what is stored in the battery that is in a box nearby.

My next 1000 watts will go to run the pool and all my backyard lighting. The power company can cry all it wants, but eventually my entire house will be off the grid.

Cool, thanks for the link, but pretty much all that report gives is CO2/greenhouse emmision rates, mitigation, and economics. Where is the temperature date?

And that, in turn, makes it fundamentally incompatible with such things as democracy or freedom of speech - or even of thought.

How does "I mind my business and you mind yours" is so incompatible with things such as democracy or the freedom of speech or liberty? Well it does interfere with people calling for the harm and slavery of others, under the pretence of social justice and fairness, which is why you resorted to name calling instead of a logical argument for a response. If the shoe fits........

"You keep using that world. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Not seeing how few regulations and low taxes for everyone equally on one hand, and lot's of taxes, loop holes, subsidies and regulations tilted towards favored or politically connected groups/business on the other hand is a false dichotomy.

Currently we have the second, and a great many of us would prefer the first. As far as throwning out the baby, the only false anything is equating with "few" and "low" as meaning the same as "none". Does that help any there Paul?

why don't you (Libertarians) stop opposing efforts to ban private money from political campaigns.

err because we believe that you actually "own" your own property and can do what ever you want with it. I'm sorry but the progressive view which is that as long as you only have a little bit of property it's pretty much yours, unless of course the gov't says it's not doesn't really work for us.

In other words we are not National Socialists..... like you.

He also believes lower taxes (no floor on that) will increase tax revenues. Always. Use your science degrees and do the simple math, it doesn't work. It's a corporate giveaway.

I'll take the lower taxes with fewer regulations for everyone vs. what we have now which is a lot of regulations (that benefit only the big business players) and the corporate welfare that arrives monthly in the form of checks, subsidies, and tax breaks again only for the big boys and the political supporters.

I for one am ready for the female personnel/marketing revolution to be over. They can have boss jobs, wear pants, do math, fly planes, serve in combat, and I guess now be Thor.

This kind of stuff used to be novel, but now is just dumb. Me thinks the girls have enough Girl power roll models.

actually all science is debatable, but in a debate you are supposed to say something other than "the science is settled" or "nearly all climate scientists agree" in order to support your argument

.....and I could give a fart less about all the small local shops. They charge too much and provide too little. A few have figured out how to survive by providing other services such as coffee shops and expanded product offering, the rest well so sad too bad, but I don't have a need for buggy whips anymore.