It should be to serve the country, passing laws for the positive benefit of the people as a whole.

What it ends up being is trying to get re-elected because then those nice people keep dropping off envelopes stuffed with cash.

Actually well run corporate social media often implement an approval process for all tweets replies and other comments to avoid spelling mistakes misinterpretation and ensuring that the right corporate message gets across. I'm sure that a committee sat down here and said "what is the best way to write this?" Rather than let some 20 something quickly write something in the spur of the moment that might be wrong. So yes prewritten is probably a good idea, accidentally pressing send however...

But instead of re-certifying decades old plants with iffy designs how about building new ones with better safety features? Job creation too.

You had strict payment terms in your contract like net30 right?

They are so predictable, the slightest hint of something being difficult they give up and say it can't be done. We'd still be living in caves rubbing two sticks together if it was up to you guys.

So it might be cloudy sometimes. Well maybe there is a way to store electricity when there is a surplus and feed it out again when there is high demand. There are dozens of technologies available to do this from batteries to pumped storage and everything in between (oh yes I know someone will reply to me to say that won't work because conversion losses or whatever so we shouldn't bother).

Also this grid thing might be a good idea, that way if it is sunny in one place but cloudy in another people can share (but oh no it won't completely replace all nuclear coal and gas fired power stations in the whole US so we shouldn't bother).

Do you know how many new houses were built in the last decade housing boom? I don't know either but just consider if even a small PV panel of a couple of square meters was on each one, the cost would be much less through economies of scale and it would make a significant dent in energy demands (but oh no it won't completely replace all nuclear coal and gas fired power stations in the whole US so we shouldn't bother).

And yes most states now have laws that prevent HOAs restricting the use of PV.

You wouldn't happen to have a friend waiting in the wings who owns a company that just so happens to supply such solutions at great cost to government entities would you?

One wonders if it is possible to draw the conclusion that the because his model was so accurate then the majority of voter suppression efforts must have been ineffective? Or the corollary, if his model had been wrong would that have indicated large scale successful voter suppression?

I had always wondered what "LOL" meant.

You know what has also become Roundup resistant? Giant ragweed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19585341

Finally someone points out it is only an application. Unfortunately the "patent experts" here on slashdot will declare it doesn't matter because they'll grant it anyway.

We need to know

Are you counting AOL as a VPN?

European Convention on Human Rights to which the UK is a signatory includes the right to free speech.

The advantage in the UK of course is a specialized Patent Court with Judges and no juries. These Judges are patent specialists spending their time only looking at Patent cases. They are a very sharp bunch. I recall one incident in which the Judge suspended a complex case so he could go and learn some pretty high level biochemistry from the head of biochemistry at Cambridge.

Now ask how many times TSA has had to change their procedures after someone tried to blow up their shoes/underwear/water bottles...