I carry a $1 million umbrella policy which covers personal and professional activities. It runs me $13 per month - pretty affordable for what it is. I consult quite a bit, and it's nice to have the coverage for any potential liability claims that could come in the future. If $13/month is too rich for your blood, then the $100+ per month for the car insurance itself is probably out of the ballpark.

The Clinton Foundation seems to have figured it out. End up spending 10% of your income on charitable grants, and the rest goes for "overhead" including private jets and the like. Real easy to live like you have balls-ton of money if you do that!

With $48 million in losses over 90 days, that's a bit over $500,000 per day. Seems about right in terms of royalties. Ads and paid subscriptions probably cover operational costs minus royalties.

Time to call out the truant black hole...

Slack is the king of these parodies... Oh wait, that's REAL? Seriously?

Spending on research has been constantly growing over the past 50 years, and private spending is well ahead of Government spending. There really isn't a "cutoff" in funding, unless a cut from a 5% increase to a 2% increase is construed as a cut (in a time when inflation is running around 2%).

Why? My Note 2 has 1729 hours (and counting) uptime right now. That's over 10 weeks since the last reboot. Still runs fast and responsive... Why reboot?

My Note 2 is rock-stable like yours. I just checked - 1729 hours and counting since last reboot. Battery easily lasts from 6 AM to midnight (30+% left when it finally hits the charger), with moderate use (30-40 minutes of voice, a few dozen texts, and 70-80 e-mails, with a bit of GPS and web access mixed in). Rock solid device, plenty of battery life - and I love the note-taking ability with the pen!

Got 1729 (and counting) hours on my Note 2 right now... It just runs and runs and runs... Reboot? What reboot?

Got 72 days so far (and counting) of uptime on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - nice Android experience as well! It's fast, responsive, does everything I need, and hasn't been rebooted in a long time. Is that your definition of slow and unusable and unstable?

1729 hours and counting... So it's been a little over 10 weeks since the last reboot. That's fairly stable, I think...

Yep! And with it the jobs needed to keep that studio working. Instead of 224 low income residents, we'd probably have a few thousand middle income residents. Damn the free market!

Zoning density may be an issue here. There may be a mandated minimum lot size to consider.

No the big problem with the China push was regulatory. In order to have an electric car, you have to have a way to charge it. Installation of charging stations at the owner's home was required - and that means it's limited to those who own an actual house (not an apartment). So the market instantly shrunk down by orders of magnitude. I know several wealthy people in Shanghai who were interested in the Tesla, but because they lived in penthouse apartments could not get a charging station installed - and thus end up sticking with the latest Mercedes or Porsche.

They all went to China. Beers, sodas, juice drinks - so many use disposable pull tab tops. And they're the original US toolings that were pumping them out in the 70s and 80s. How do I know? Because the top of the can is still embossed with English, just like back in the day. Newer toolings (China sourced) are all in Mandarin, but you still see a lot of those older toolings used to stamp the pull tabs - English embossed and all!