If my neighbor has a resource I don't have but trades me fairly for access to it, then war isn't in either of our best interests.

The right feeds the left, or haven't you looked at the political demographics of the US farming communities?. Have fun feeling superior for however long you last.

If you'd read the article, you'd realize that the premise is quite impossible given today's technology to be cost effective -

"Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources..."

Lossless transmission requires super conductor transmission lines. While it's possible, it's not when you factor in the logistical reality.

They didn't get it, we gave it to them.

You think that the entire Cuban regime is of one mind about things? It would be quite remarkable if you were correct.

The only people that would think that making what a H1-B hire makes is a good deal thinks so 'cause a free green card comes attached.

And the problem with your reasoning is that content isn't an issue yet you insist it is. Sticks and stones don't exist virtually, it's just bits and bytes.

I was on the verge of getting concerned about someone possibly using drones to perform illegal assassinations but I realized that a RC quadcopter with a pistol attached isn't anywhere near the threat of the use of government drones in the killing of american citizens without due process.

Possibly any machine can be used to kill or destroy. The real trick is using them to create. Post more videos of that!

Because they still use the registry.

There are other ways to share applications outside the Apple App Store. HTML 5 and Javascript apps aren't restricted in a manner inconsistent with their programming paradigm, best I can tell.

Just because you don't get what you want doesn't mean lions are getting frisky with lambs somewhere.

I wrote code for nuclear weapons and that was a requirement...not only did you write the comments, they were reviewed and approved before I could actually compile code. It was part of a method that was called PDL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_Design_Language

The system asks "What SSD"?

Do you think a claim would be denied if you were going over the speed limit?

I don't. Your rates would probably go up though.

Thing is, Apple does live up to it. I had a MBP with a defective GPU and Apple replaced it for me.

I don't know the back story about this issue, but it's hard to reconcile what I read on the Internet with what I personally experienced without believing that the entire story hasn't been divulged.

My personal experience trumps your ... anything.

I've had things like RAZR flip phones that were held together with screws and after a while they get really loose feeling. My work laptop, a 3 yr old Dell, creaks like a haunted house when I pick it up with the display open. Not my Apple equipment. My 5 yr old MacBook Pro sems as solid today as it was when I bought it. My iPhone seems to be made from a single slab of glass wrapped with a metal band. My iPad 2 is the same way - solid feeling.

Used to be, back when the phone company was broken up, cheap home phone makers were bolting big slugs of metal in the base of their stuff to make it feel solid. Solid is good - ever slam a car door? Cheap cars have doors that rattle. Good ones don't.

People value stuff that stays solid. As long as I can get my stuff fixed, I don't care if it's me that's doing the fixing or someone else. I used to fix my own cars, now I take them in. I can't fix the ECU and have no desire to buy the equipment necessary to be able to do so.