Maybe this is the future of programming; drag blocks and symbols around the screen so they snap together into a working program. It doesn't surprise me though, visual WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver aren't really programming anyway.

It would be idiotic to only look at local generation and ignore power imported from the south

Education, healthcare, EPA, FCC, OSHA, etc, etc. Where are they not involved? Oh, and that ticket? It goes into the FBI's database.

He could change his name to Kim Clinton. Probably have over $100M in the bank in a couple of years.

People don't want "a party" to have seats, they want a local representative who will look after local interests. Your proposal makes it impossible for people to vote for a candidate.

According to the UK government data in the first link in TFA, renewables share of total generation was less than 20% (and falling) in the first half of 2014.

A better solution is to do what the founding fathers came up with in the first place. Most governing should be done locally (city or county level). Things that are too big for local get handled by the state. The states form a federation to handle matters such as national defense, but for the most part the federal government stays out of citizens' lives. Unfortunately, some big government politicians insist on sticking the federal government into places it doesn't belong, which is why we have the mess we do.

Quite trying to fix the abused system, stop abusing it instead.

From the UK government report in teh linked article:

Maybe try to sell maple syrup for $1000 per ounce?

Yea, just like all those authentic copies of Windows XP you could buy on street corners. Just because the box looks the same as the one in the US doesn't mean it's the same.

Every few years someone realizes they can query the database schema and generate CRUD forms. I never understood why Rails became popular, it was the same old approach with the same old inherent shortcomings - mostly that management thinks you have 80% of the application written in a couple of hours, when in fact you have almost nothing with any business value that a database IDE like PhpMyAdmin doesn't give you.

I pulled that list from Wikipedia, for what it's worth.

All of them on both lists have "expressed interest", not much else going on this early besides putting out feelers to potential donors.