The telephone sanitizers?

True, but they are more practical due to smaller size.

She probably means the more common 250W panel size, and is including installation costs, and other equipment costs like the inverter.

The solar industry would survive without subsidies, but it would also take a lot longer to get the number of panels that the country needs to reduce pollution and CO2 emissions.

It won't be, for the most part. Storage is moving towards lithium for small scale and sodium sulphur for large scale. In both cases, most of the battery is recycled. Used lithium cells are already getting quite cheap thanks to electric vehicles.

They are getting tax breaks for a variety of historical reasons, the main one being that they gave massive amounts of money to certain politicians in exchange for them. Sometimes they use threats as well, as in give us more free money or we will raise prices and cripple parts of the economy, and make your voters really pissed off with you.

Renewables, depending on the type, have been profitable for a long time. There are two problems though. Firstly we need lots of continued investment and a drive to push costs down even further. Secondly unlike other forms of generation where a company can build one large site supplying vast amounts of energy, solar is usually installed on roof tops so requires individuals and businesses to invest a few thousand in them up-front. That's a barrier for many people, a barrier to something that the country as a whole needs.

But then people should just buy the cheapest, dirtiest energy and consumer products that they could lay their hands on, regardless of the effect on others. After a very long time lawsuits might step in the sort things out I guess. Alternatively the government could just ban all coal, gas and nuclear energy but that doesn't seem very practical.

Subsidy of the things we, collectively, need is a good idea.

For a non US-citizen can you explain what the buy-back is exactly? Do they have to refund the purchase price or simply pay market rate for the vehicle? The Jeep offer is a trade-in, so presumably you have to then buy another car from the same company to trade it against.

That might actually be a good way to get some publicity for this thing. I'm sure it will get shut down pretty quickly, but at least the news stories it will generate would embarrass the AG and maybe take him a step closer to being kicked out.

Who is next up the chain to complain to? I'm not in the US, I'm asking... The FBI maybe. Could someone file a crime report with them?

Most tax systems are based on the assumption that the rich need to subsidise the poor, otherwise the poor will suffer so much that they get desperate and start causing problems. First crime, then eventually revolution.

Education is a good example. Most people couldn't afford to give their children a good education, if private school costs are anything to go by. Society needs to be well educated though, especially in the west where the majority jobs these days are clerical and require skills (literacy, numeracy etc.) Without the rich subsidising education they would find that their businesses start to fail due to lack of skilled workers, and that the unskilled masses get fed up and take their wealth by force. That's basically what happened during the industrial revolution when modern taxation systems formed.

Someone from the Smithsonian was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in the UK and explained the cost. They need to find and hire historians to figure out what the suit is made of (believe it or not the records are incomplete) and what modifications were made after it returned to earth (they intend to restore it to its original state when used on the moon). They then need to get materials experts to figure out how to clean, restore, maintain and preserve it indefinitely. It's not easy, especially when you have a mixture of unusual materials that were made using obsolete techniques back in the 1960s. It's also fairly unique, as later suits were improved versions, often with informal undocumented mods and changes made by staff and crew.

They also want to 3D scan the whole thing, inside and out. That will require some careful disassembly and reassembly.

Half a million bucks doesn't seem like a lot when you consider the salaries involved, the contracts and materials etc. You can't just grab some cotton swabs and alcohol.

That's what the Windows Update drivers are supposed to be. It's Nvidia's fault for not following the Microsoft guidelines, and I hope MS comes down hard on them for this. Same with FTDI, they should have been severely sanctioned for bricking hardware with a driver update.

The only possible way it could work is by putting the text of the email into an inline image, or making the recipient click a link to view a web page with the text. Then they can "delete" it by removing the image/web page from their server.

Both of these methods won't work very well in practice. Emails that are mostly one large image tend to be marked as spam. and most clients (including gmail) don't display images by default. When gmail does display an image, it caches it on Google's servers so that the server hosting the image can't see when the user loads it (tracking protection).

Many clients also block links to external sites by default, making the user take an extra step to open them due to the risk of malware.

Also, this would seem to break replies. If you can't quote the sent text, you can't reply properly and it breaks threading.

I hear this complaint often on Slashdot, but I don't see any way it could be resolved without a massive invasion of privacy (telling the advertisers that you bought something). Some ads have a "not interested" button, but it's too risky to click it.