A couple of other things circulating on premium cable right now deal with the same subject West Of Memphis Is a documentary and The Devils Knot Is a movie.  Both on the subject of one of the most amazing miscarriages of justice ever.
I see bad reviews for the Devils Knot which I have not seen.  But it's an amazing book.  I have seen west of Memphis.  And it's great.

Okay.

And yeah, you can't get something for nothing.

Are you against subsidies to power companies as well?  Or does that not count somehow?

Allocation of subsidies in the United States

A 2011 study by the consulting firm Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI)[19] estimated the total historical federal subsidies for various energy sources over the years 1950-2010. The study found that oil, natural gas, and coal received $369 billion, $121 billion, and $104 billion (2010 dollars), respectively, or 70% of total energy subsidies over that period. Oil, natural gas, and coal benefited most from percentage depletion allowances and other tax-based subsidies, but oil also benefited heavily from regulatory subsidies such as exemptions from price controls and higher-than-average rates of return allowed on oil pipelines. The MISI report found that non-hydro renewable energy (primarily wind and solar) benefited from $74 billion in federal subsidies, or 9% of the total, largely in the form of tax policy and direct federal expenditures on research and development (R&D). Nuclear power benefited from $73 billion in federal subsidies, 9% of the total, largely in the form of R&D, while hydro power received $90 billion in federal subsidies, 12% of the total.

And my semi-snarky comment was somewhat tongue in cheek with an apology. But I don't see how pointing out someone is getting something for free is really bad

If you know, in fact that it is the case, but you've stated that you'd bet on it, not that it actually is the case.

- You obviously know nothing about solar power and what's required to turn it into electric power that is usable. Here's the original comment.

Good mind-reading.  Do you do card tricks as well?  You only have figures without any source for them.

As you can see in this article here, solar power installation is getting cheaper, and there are no indications that this trend will stop any time soon.  

I doubt it was the tax code. More than likely it was a fuss about whether the utility would subsidize the unit itself and whether or not the utility would purchase the power back a retail or wholesale rates.

Or, he made have been thinking of this:

ALEC, which has referred to homeowners with their own solar panels as "freeriders on the system," is deeply involved in both combating renewable energy mandates and modeling legislation that targets net metering. Last year alone, ALEC pushed more than 70 bills in 37 states that would have impeded clean energy growth. While ALEC was highly unsuccessful at actually passing anti-clean energy bills it advanced at the state level last year, a new document obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy reveals the intensity that ALEC is bringing to 2014 in its anti-environmental efforts -- which include not just stifling clean energy, but opposing EPA coal regulations related to public health, promoting the Keystone XL pipeline, and working toward industry-friendly fracking rules.
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The bill lets electric utilities apply to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to establish a higher base customer charge for users of rooftop solar or small wind turbines. While the executive order isn't binding, it guides the Corporate Commission, made up of statewide elected officials, with what to do.

"May cause you to bleed from your ears and die"

"May cause convulsions and the growth of a second head"

JimakaPPJ: "And I love your generalization that my generation watches more TV while your's is on line. Where do you get such BS??"

Sorry, Jim, but that's not BS. Rather, it is a fact borne out repeatedly in Nielsen surveys over the last 10-15 years.

Americans spend an average of 34 hours per week in front of the tube. But when viewership is broken down by age, one finds that children between the ages of 2 and 11 years will generally watch an average of 24 hours of TV per week. That number dips to 22 hours weekly for teens 12 to 17 years old, then rises to 25 hours for those who are 18 to 24 years old. After that, TV viewing rises steadily as one gets older. People who are age 65 and older average 48 hours of TV viewing per week, or nearly seven hours a day.

(Those same Nielsen statistics also show that increasing numbers of us over the last five years are using DVRs to record favorite programs for later viewing at our leisure, and more than a few of us are starting to access TV programming through game consoles, computers and handheld devices such as iPads.)

I would think that the reason for the greater amount of TV viewing among older adults should be fairly obvious. Your generation is mostly retired now, and you generally have more leisure time than we do (because we're still working full time and the kids are in school), and thus a greater portion of older adults' time is spent watching TV.

Your generation also reads more books, magazines and newspapers than does either my generation or my children's generation, and they travel more than we do (and for longer periods). And your generation may well also be the last generation in America to still write letters on a regular basis.

My generation and my kids' generation tend to get more of our news and information online, because we are generally more computer literate and are online for longer periods during the day. There are older adults (like yourself) who have computers and internet service, but by and large, they tend to eschew social media interaction such as texting, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., in favor of good old-fashioned (?) e-mail.

There's nothing BS about any of that, either. That said, while the younger generations' technical prowess is generally superior, it doesn't mean that I think it's necessarily very beneficial. Your own observation about kids not reading books or talking in person to one another is a case in point, and actually validates what I just said.

And frankly, the erosion of personal interactive social skills amongst the younger generation should give us all cause for concern. I'm seeing that more and more in young adults with whom I happen to have business dealings, and it's especially pronounced with their short attention spans.

Personally, I find it very annoying when I'm in a meeting with them, and they're checking their e-mail on their iPhones, or their phone buzzes with a text message and they simply have to respond immediately. They like to think they're multi-tasking, but what they're actually doing is a mediocre job on all fronts, and being quite rude in the process.