"Good" educators have been using this strategy for lets say...forever. We've all had that one teacher/professor, who may not have had the specific technology but used this teaching formula.

I so agree. Mod the parent up! I'm sick to DEATH of these stories about great new solar cells printed on any surface. I hear them twice a day. Just STFU and make them already!

It certainly doesn't include the cost that air pollution from conventional energy plants would cause. Those health costs are murder! How about the cost of securing our oil as it travels all the way from the Middle East? Or keeping those dictators in power so our corporations get the sweet oil deals? Wait...what about the cost of the transmission lines, because who wants those dirty old power plants so near their house?

Oh and if its debt your worried about. Three letters: DOD

With a BIGGER magnet! of course.

De-Regulate!

I wish I had mod points for you!

This is exactly right. GEES, this isn't rocket surgery game-makers! There are so many ways to include the after market. Why f-up every single time and punish your customers?

Just saying.

I'm happy to pay my share to have any company put a weather satellite in polar orbit and send the data it collects back AND make it freely available for the betterment of the whole country (world). Anyone? anyone? Buhler?

Well, unless you calculate the real long term damage it does to oceans -> microbes -> plankton -> fish -> humans.

WTF? "Other people's property"? I was under the impression that the internet was developed by ARPA (DARPA) in 1969. (and a bunch of universities -- go bruins) with my tax dollars. Can the part that is owned by the tax payer (Government, Military, Public Universities, and the parts that were built with government subsidies) all be run the way "I" want? (We want)

Sorry to harp on this one, but it has been bugging me for years. In 1997, Microsoft saw that browser based computing was not only possible but in fact, the future. The idea at the time, didn't fit into their world view (read: profit stream) so they spent millions to kill Java applets, then gave the world a system that was so virus prone it has soured us against all browser based apps for over 10 years. I don't know that Mozilla will have the perfect system, or anyone will, but I do know that 'market share' will not be the defining factor in security decisions, and open standards will get us a lot further down the road.

Tennessee, that's a red state right? Well like Reagan said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Yeah, but when metal spoons explodes (like they do all the time)....you can just walk over and pick up the pieces.....right then, no need to evacuate for 500 years.

Our education model has always followed our scientific model, where you share your work. Time to stop letting publishers publish (read: own) our text books. Time for the professors and institutions to own (read: share) the copyright. Problem solved. Now...who needs that cancer cure?