From DTE Energy’s brochure (pdf) on net metering: How many customers are eligible for net metering? Net metering is limited to one percent of Detroit Edison’s peak load, or about 100,000 kW. The eligibility is further broken down like this: * 0.5 percent for units of 20kW and less* 0.25 percent for units generating between…

Competition taken to its logical conclusion is global thermonuclear war. Competition stripped down to its bare essence is three men in a two-man lifeboat. A lot of tools employed in the humyn resources field will try to get you to believe in “cooperation within competition” or other absurdities intended to facilitate the cooptation of cooperation…

“I have looked at the big four cell providers in the US, but all their websites are just as complicated one compared to the other… it’s as if they don’t want us to know how much exactly things will cost.”&mdashmichelito “The real problem is the competitive nature of [the] economy across the world. IT and…

Give a man [sic] a job, and he’ll work for a few weeks. Give a man a killer resume, and he’ll work a few weeks, every few months, over the next few years. Keep the aspidistra flying!

Keep the aspidistra flying!

irridian.com appears to be a phishing domain. Their MO appears to be facebook impersonation. Keep the aspidistra flying!

Many tendencies of rightist thought go by monikers akin to ‘voluntarism,’ ‘volunteerism,’ or ‘voluntaryism.’ These power-words serve to drive home the point that everything that isn’t coerced is considered voluntary. The use of the word ‘voluntary’ and its various contrived inflections open the door to trite belittlements such as “nobody’s holding a gun to your…

As is the trend in the ISP industry, the price of bandwidth is going up, so nickel and dime tactics become a more central feature of business models everywhere. In Virgin Mobile’s case it takes the form of a “speed cap.” I expect customers’ threats to go elsewhere are little more than face-saving bluff, and…

The McCarthy era saw the institutionalization of a lot of ‘civic religion,’ such as addition of ‘under God’ to the Pledge of Allegiance, and ‘In God We Trust’ to the currency, and the inevitably sectarian ‘National Day of Prayer.’ The present pattern of secular-bashing will perhaps dissipate if/when the public (both religious and not) comes…

“Vernor [Vinge] is too smart to blog. He writes books! ”—David Brin “I am aware of the counterargument, which is that government needs to do some things in secrecy because doing all of its business in public makes it impossible to get those things done. True, however, if the price of ‘empire’ is that we…