Now with work conditions like that, is it any damned wonder that nobody wants the fucking job?

Ha! Right on target. I would add to that the number of interviews I went to that I was well qualified for the job and the company was holding out for someone younger, or who would work unlimited hours for $30K.

Industry crapped on a whole generation of IT people and now it's coming around to bite them in the ass. Oh, we can't find qualified IT people. Ahhhh. Someone call the waaaaaaaaambulance.

I've invested a lot in the Netherlands over the years; those investments have paid off really well. So did money I put into Canadian stock fund.

Funny how those darn socialist countries continue kicking the crap out the USA, where we're always number one in our own minds.

To really figure the electrical cost of gaming, you have to figure out what else people would be doing if they weren't playing games. Some activities, like watching TV, would use as much or more power.

My guess is if we calculated the energy use of those other activities, gaming might be a net energy saving activity.

Iranian officials stress that Iran's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes

Ha-ha. We say the same thing about ours in the U.S.

Browsers that getted sued for having ad blocking features.

It's only a frivolous lawsuit when someone besides Fox files it.

Chernobyl is not exactly a fair comparison. That was a massive release with so much radiation in some places you could actually taste it.

Like it or not, Fukushima actually demonstrated that in an absolutely worst case nightmare scenario the releases would not be that bad.

What I think is funny are the people who worry about getting cancer from the minuscule, barely measurable radiation drifting in weather patterns and then sit down to a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Processed meats have a much better statistical correlation for cancer than micro levels of radioactive isotopes, some of which occur naturally.

I know, I know. I'm going to burn in hell now for ripping on bacon.

There was plenty of room, but I think most people were glum because we got so close to the launch before they scrubbed it. That at everyone got up at 3 am to get there.

Because the walled garden worked so well for AOL.

Then everything shut down. Drive all that way at 0 dark thirty for a fizzle.

My first thought when it was obvious the engines shut down.

Ah, the good old days when launching a rocket involved someone named "Hans" and a big red button.

The fact is that solar power is just not that economical on its own

So? Neither is train travel, air travel, or highway construction. A good set of American made solar panels have a life expectancy of 20 years. That's a good investment in my mind, especially if we can hold off building new power plants.

Any big change in civilization comes at a cost that's rarely profitable at first, but it's the right thing to do.

The Chinese we're trying to undermine U.S. manufacturing by dumping panels below cost, it's about time we started fighting back. Republicans would have just gone, "Oh, too bad, the Chinese make panels cheaper...free market blah, blah, blah." And kiss those jobs goodbye.