In 1976, Stuart Feldman, the author of make(3) at Bell Labs, realized too late that using tab as a significant character (to distinguish recipes from rules) in makefiles was a Bad Idea. In an interview, he admitted, "And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn’t want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history."

Perhaps, but these solar plants sell their power onto Dominion's grid; the town gets none of it. In fact, Dominion is raising customers' electric rates to pay for their conversion from coal to solar. The lease accrues rent to absentee landowners, so that doesn't go into the local economy, either.

There is no existing value to trash. That's why the companies want to install solar farms there.

Not true. The reason the companies have located solar farms adjacent to the town is to be close to a substation. There is plenty of cheap land out in the county, but they would have to run transmission lines.

Having a solar farm right next to residential lots destroys property values. The residential lots are inside the city limits and taxable; the solar farms are just outside the city limits and are not.

Isn't this conclusion pretty much identical to the findings sixty years ago? It's no surprise that the explanation was oversimplified to "resonance" by the popular press, but to claim that this is an entirely new result misrepresents what engineers learned from the failure.

It's not a sale, it's a zoning variance, which would allow the (absentee) landowner to lease his land to an energy company. The solar farms are unsightly, which negatively impacts the value of surrounding residential properties.

They tried that. The Supreme Court struck it down.

When you open a microphone for "public comment" in any town hall in the world, you can expect to hear from a disproportionate number of cranks and ignorant concerned citizens. They seek these opportunities.

It is widely accepted that the quality of education in segregated, rural, black public schools in the late '50s and early '60s was poor. However, to hold the generation who received that education up for international ridicule is the height of bigotry.

Rev. Jane Vinson Mann is pastor of the Immanuel House of Prayer.
Her husband, Bobby Columbus Mann, is a truck driver.
Both are black, in their late '60s.
It is very unlikely that they are Tea Party supporters.
It is, however, quite likely that they were educated in underfunded, segregated public schools.

...is #473 in the Encyclopedia of American Loons.
(I'm too lazy to give you a link--just use Google.)

Those are all perfectly legitimate responses to attacks from food-fear mongers.
It's not just one startup--it's a multi-billion dollar industry built on FUD.

No, the President does not require a security clearance.
He has access to virtually all information by virtue of his Constitutional office.

that a Fender Twin Reverb might be rather inefficient, too?

The premise of the question is false. The Bill of Rights does not GRANT rights to the people. It places specific LIMITS on what the government may legislate. In addition, the Ninth Amendment says that the rights of the people are NOT limited to those that are explicitly enumerated in the Constitution and its amendments.