I think we need another term to describe DDoS attack other than massive. Every DDoS attack is massive, that's kind of how they work. How about megalithic, prodigious, elephantine or gargantuan? Other suggestions?

You mean the CIA has been actively trying to halt the nuclear weapons program of a nation who is opposed to the United States? Surely you jest!

Except if batteries improve as described in the article you will want to charge at home or charge quickly at any station with access to the electrical grid. Instead you will have a $40,000 investment in a company with a proprietary battery and charging system who you have to pay a monthly service fee to... Brilliant.

The US provided a loan guarantee to Solyndra. This does NOT encourage dumping because it does not allow you make panels at below market costs. The effect of a US loan guarantee is to encourage investment in industries which the private sector has determined are not yet sufficiently developed to justify the risk of investment; however, our government has determined is strategically desirable for some reason not directly related to profitability.

There is a third order effect that a loan guarantee drives down borrowing costs thereby slightly decreasing production costs but this is very far and away from the direct subsidy actions being undertaken by China.

"receives sunlight 24 hours a day" - are you suggesting an orbital platform for your hypothetical off-grid mansion?

Did anyone else think of Fallout 3 immediately upon reading the summary? I for one would love a nuclear powered 1950 Buick Roadmaster! Inconvenient radioactive explosive behavior aside....

Try reading your water or electric bill sometime. If you are a typical residential user about 70% of your water bill is fixed costs for access to the tubes (and yes we are talking about tubes here). You pay only a marginal amount for increased volume of water. With internet traffic the costs are even more imbalanced because there is no tangible good such as water or electricity. The costs for increasing volume are negligible in comparison to the costs for installing and maintaining the base connection. The problem here is the aging local internet infrastructure in the same way that cities are incurring skyrocketing costs for maintenance of failing sewers, water lines and power lines. It is not "Bandwidth Hogs" (thank you for falling prey to industry propaganda) it is the failure of local ISPs to invest and maintain their own infrastructure as they saw demand changing.

The engadget article below would indicate that Apple does not use Gorilla glass in the iPhones at least.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/white-iphone-4-delay-the-challenges-faced-by-apples-glass-supp/

You are talking about taxes and the original poster is discussing subsidies. They are two sides of the equation. Furthermore, the article you cite is discussing how companies such as Exxon have structured their finances in such a way as to avoid the payment of taxes in the US. This would seem to run counter to the thrust of your argument. Tax shelters allowed by the US tax code are just one form of subsidy...

Getting a trustworthy citation on this issue is almost impossible. Climate groups put the number in the trillions by claiming unpaid environmental damages due to greenhouse gas emissions as a subsidy. I don't believe you should include data you can't quantify.http://www.progress.org/2003/energy22.htm [progress.org]

Conservative groups claim that the amount is only a couple of billion per year. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/26559.html [taxfoundation.org]

The proposed budget by the president attempts to cut subsidies by 36.5 billion. Since it is unlikely that this is an attempt to end all petroleum subsidies (every industry from aircraft manufacture to rice farming receives some subsidies) the number is probably somewhere between 40 and 100 billion per year. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6103RM20100201 [reuters.com]