Your desktop computer probably tops out at 200W, monitors included. The hot water heater isn't a continuous drain, and neither is the fridge. Sure, it could be better, but you have to look at the overall usage - I use between 15-70KWh/day (electric heat and crappy windows, I think), which works out to about 600-3000W continuous usage. Even with this large amount of consumption, I pay at most $5/day.

With your solar installation, you can switch to a gas-powered heater and probably only budget for 20 amps or do grid-tie, depending on your location. If you did a grid tie system and got about 2kW capacity, that's $6k + what, $2k for install, other equipment? It won't solve all your problems, but it'd probably pay for itself in under 10 years.

Sez you.

I'm sure that will be a nice comfort when you lose your job because you were illegally arrested for not having papers handy.

If all your friends do this, then forswearing it for a day means you just disappeared for a day.

"did you Bing my wife?" Yeah, that's a word I want to use.

It's worse than that - take away someone's social links and prevent formation of new ones and they will go crazy. Takes about 6 weeks at the outside.

Wow, isolate someone from their friends and they feel alone - paging Dr. Romero.

You mean like the people in Africa who use cell phones to trade commodities efficiently? They don't even have indoor plumbing or electricity, but they can run businesses on a cell phone. They have access to banks - this is HUGE!

How is it within the Church's authority to prosecute these cases? Also, you left out the coverup - telling anyone about the abuse = excommunication.

That doesn't make a damn bit of sense. If they deny missing a prototype when you ask them about a specific prototype you have, you don't lose ownership of it, but you can't come back later and claim that it's stolen. There is a certain requirement that you acknowledge ownership when someone asks you.

Is there currently a largish group of militant jews that issue death orders against people that mock judaism? I'm guessing no.

Is that an active surah or one that's been overridden? As I understand it, later Surahs have priority over earlier ones, and the Qu'ran gets progressively aggressive as it progresses over time. More importantly, how does this work in practice? The really nasty parts associated with islam aren't even part of the religion, but leftovers from tribal practice.

Because it's the explicit goal of some groups of muslims. Naturally, not an organized thing across Islam, as there is no central church/leader, but it exists. Besides, if it isn't the case, why is turkey interfering in the operation of the Eastern Orthodox church?

Which is objectively stupid - making a blanket ban on lying or killing is demonstrably wrong, or only achievable when everybody acts the same way. You have to retreat to arguments about the commandments being corrupted by generations of oral history and multiple translations (arguably true with killing), which sort of weakens the idea of having an example of divine reason. Also, you get to have fun with varying ideas about what adultery is - I liken it to screwing around with someone in a relationship with someone else, but that ignores open relationships, poly lifestyles, and other people take a ahrd line and call me an adulterer for screwing someone I'm not married to. It's not so much morality as a demand that I follow some lifestyle loosely based on nomadic desert people from 2500 years ago.

This leaves aside totally that God may just be messing with us.

And he just happened to worry about the internet's effect on individuals in the middle of a massive worldwide child abuse scandal that he has his dick caught in?

And possibly the pope, too. Remember his likely involvement.

Why do atheists give a damn? The embarrassment of the church rates somewhat below pictures of Britney's cooch on my scale. The systematic rape of children is much higher, but given the crap the church of england pulled on orphans in the 50s, I can't say I'm surprised. Cut from the same wood, etc.

Because it's a damn iphone that appears to be a prototype. Who else would have something like that?

Good luck with that. According to what I've read, Apple denied that they were missing a phone at the time, so prosecuting it as a theft should be really tough.