The national grid doesn't work that way, there's not enough interconnect capacity to ship 2.2GW of additional power out of SRSO.

There isn't anywhere close to enough oil in the USA that can be pulled out of the ground fast enough to satisfy our oil demands...The only way to achieve energy dependence is to cut oil demand in half

B.S.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels.
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Ok, just to play devils advocate, what if instead of being a barista he wanted to be a basic science researcher. Those positions are generally fairly poorly paying relative to their long term value that they generate for society yet he can't afford to take that position despite his parents supposedly generating more wealth then they could spend in their lifetime (I won't go into the fact that 25% of the US economy at the beginning of the last recession was financial services which generates very little real wealth).

Exactly, and when you are borrowing $1B it's not even making a significant change in the tax liability to be paid like when you shift income from high earning periods to retirement through a 401k (baring of course the top earning bracket moving, though right now we've got about the lowest top tax bracket in US history so moving liability forward is probably foolish).

Virgin Mobile USA offers almost the same plan, 300 minutes, "unlimited" text, and 2.5GB of data and then they throttle you for the remainder of the month. Current cost is $35/month, my wife still has the $25/month rate for that plan because she signed up before they upped the rate and despite it being no contract they will keep her at the same rate as long as she keeps current on payments. She's even had her phone replaced without losing the better rate.

Well if they only counted for 1/4th of the production and the price is marked up over 100% I think an investigation is in order because i smell price gouging.

They also account for 90+% of the production of some components used in HDD's which has been a bigger problem, the other 75% of wordwide capacity has been hamstrung from lack of parts.

Really? How? I don't think there would be a half dozen apps for syncing Chrome bookmarks to Android devices if it was native functionality and I sure as heck don't see any results on the first five pages of a google search for "chrome bookmark sync Android" that involve native tools or options....

Hmm, that means if you're developing for Android (not Android with Google) you can't assume the browser component will be available in the future, that kind of blows. I wonder if that means some third party Webkit library will become popular for developers who want to get their apps on things like the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet but still need a browser component?

I was thinking they could allow the browser component to be updated outside the rest of the OS just like they did for Google Maps.

Actually given the number of apps which consume the browser component I think it SHOULD be part of the base OS and should also be updated regularly.