Come on, Slashdot, I expect more from you. There is no useable evidence provided to back this incendiary claim. Please have some professionalism and critical thinking skills. If Slashdot is going to be abused for propaganda, I'm out.

Individual solutions to climate change, I think, are kind of a waste of money and cycles, it's going to be structural, societal, governmental changes, and fast (not over a 30 roof life) or we as a biosphere are in deep trouble. So, lawyers now > save a trickle of energy for 30 years. I hate to be negative for a company that, like you say, is trying to do something, but I think a better environmental case could be made for doing a conventional roof and donating the $X,000 you'd save over a Tesla roof to the Sierra Club or 350.org to sue the Trump Admin more and better.

Sheesh, America is mirroring its enemies, beards are hip in some crowds and pseudo-Medieval execution of political enemies is in others. Is Woolsey running for Caliph, trying to land consulting gigs with the Saudi government, or just considering a stab at US President 2020, and why is there so much overlap between those jobs?

I'm kind of amazed at the image used here -- the fox guarding the henhouse. Wouldn't that image best apply to Google assuring us they'll do no evil?

Quite contrary to the business propaganda, Adam Smith spelled this out Way Back When: the invisible hand needs a counter to it, and that's democratic, public government. "Unless government takes pains to prevent it..." http://books.google.com/books?id=-mxKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=unless+government+takes+some+pains+to+prevent&hl=en&ei=Ku_ATM3jE4yr8Abmio3hBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=unless%20government%20takes%20some%20pains%20to%20prevent&f=false

I'm likewise amazed how often people in capitalist quasi-democracies are *more* paranoid about government abusing individuals than corporations abusing individuals. I'm not saying this is black/white -- of course there are *plenty* of examples of totalitarian government -- but corporations are clearly, inarguably non-democratic. Quasi-democratic governments (such as the US) have *some* public interest and public input (the rest of their motivation and input has been bought by the investment class). Both corporations and "democratic" governments are necessary evils, but "democratic" governments are gonna be the lesser evil.

I can second the gist of this (I'm not an agent by any stretch). My family's been off corporate health insurance for about 6 months now and it would have been *much* worse if not for working with a good agent, I believe. What a byzantine, horrible system. We got hit with some pre-exisiting condition ridiculousness, had rejections, etc. Our agent helped steer us and prioritize and advise.

We're insured, not broke because of it, have decent coverage, and can do the work we want to and get the pay we deserve (versus the work that provides health insurance, what a bizarre criterion for a career!!).

Still, I don't feel really secure -- health insurance drops people, etc. Next step is we'll form as S corp to get better rates (I think) and group protection. We'll have our agent help with that.

Next step after that (seriously) is considering immigration to Canada, not even so much about health insurance, but more about a rational, workable society, versus the oligarchical wealth grab known as the US economy and government.

I think these are very important topics -- raising good, capable, happy people, being good to kids. These topics used to be vitally important to me as a student in "good," but mainstream public schools. I checked out the alternatives as best I could, especially for college. I found that the "structureless" alternatives, like Goddard College, spent a lot of time focusing on what structures, if any, to have. At a certain point, I wanted to spend my schooling focusing on something other than schooling itself. The Big 10 model -- thousands of people taking a class, even over video camera -- from one authority seemed somewhat criminal to me.

I settled on a middle ground, the Great Books model, in my case the Hutchins School at Sonoma State University. The seminar is the heart of it: dialogue, discussion, shared enquiry, shared not-knowing. There are classes, teachers and students have different roles, there are reading assignments, but those are to a large extent scaffolds to make seminaring possible. Good stuff. 16 years out and no regret here in my choice.

Slashdot actually has always reminded me a lot of a good Great Books seminar.

Like a lot of arguments, I think the most effective options draw creatively from the domains of both extremes versus getting stuck at one extreme -- authoritarian structure versus structurelessness.