Regarding the incentives (tax credits and the like), again, once solar hits some critical mass, why would the government provide incentives? The incentives did their job, and got some number of people to adopt solar.

Maybe to level the playing field with the fossil fuel industry that has been enjoying those subsidies and incentives forever?

It's funny how certain people are all of a sudden saying, "You mean we're subsidizing energy? I'm shocked, I tell you, just shocked." It's even funnier when the Koch Brothers do it.

..by telling her you're proud of her and that life is too short to spend any of it worrying and afraid. Make the most of the life you have.

I wish you both the best.

a bunch of NSA geeks are high fiving each other and can't seem to stop hooting and hollering with awesomeness

You are absolutely correct, and they're doing it in public.

Anyone who has seen the NSA's twitter feed knows they love to joke about this stuff. The first time I saw it, I was sure it had to be a parody account, but in fact it was the actual NSA account. The Intercept did a whole story about the sec-bro culture at the NSA and how we've basically got a bunch of 8chan dickheads who have been given the keys to our lives.

But can we believe them?

Can you name a single reason why we should believe them?

Public vs private.

Speaking of the Yellowstone River and oil pipelines:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/20/...

Nope - because oil is a world market. It will certainly reduce prices in the US by increasing the global oil supply.

Not one bit. It will not reduce the price of oil one bit.

You should know by now that "supply and demand" does not exist in regard to the oil market, because both sides of the equation are easily manipulated by energy producers.

The KeystoneXL has nothing to do with energy policy. It does not move the meter one bit in regard to US energy. It is all about profits policy for a foreign corporation.

My biggest complaint about this is that they were using eminent domain to take people's land for a project that is not primarily for the public good.

Even better, taking peoples' land for the sole benefit of a foreign corporation.

They wouldn't call it by that name, but they would talk about the potential jobs that could have been created to build and maintain the pipeline.

A grand total of fewer than 50 permanent jobs.

...thank God.

I think you misunderstand my meaning. The people who had slaves were not worrying about taking Saturday and Sunday off because they had slaves. It was a seven-day weekend for them.

I think "weekend" is a more recent development. More likely, they traveled out to the villa in the 'burbs when the smell in the city got to be too much or there was sweltering heat. I wonder if people who owned slaves back then even thought in terms of "workday" or "vacation".

These are the stories I want to see

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." - Mark Twain.

Telling such a complex story in 90 minutes is not trivial. All dramatizations require fictional mechanisms that leave certain things out and include other things. I will bet that even those wikipedia entries you describe are incomplete, self-serving, and miss the truth by varying degrees. It's OK. Stories are how we pass along meaning. An exact 1:1 match with reality is not desirable, nor does it make it more likely that the viewer will come away with understanding. And devotion to the precise truth will definitely not make for indelible absorption of meaning.

If someone saw The Imitation Game and learned of Turing and then went on to maybe read a book or look him up online, then it's done its job. People who are not curious enough to do that will probably not be harmed by being told a good story.

The Imitation Game has been out almost six months and there are no new Turings yet! It has clearly failed to inspire the next Turing.

Also, the magic green beans I planted yesterday still haven't grown, so I'm gonna chalk that up as a failure, too. The subzero temperatures should not matter.

Has the internet made everyone stupid, or just headline writers?