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by ja30278 15y ago
The patent application appears to have more detail: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090067402
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by ja30278 15y ago
Actually, no company _really_ pays taxes. Taxes are another cost of doing business which is passed on to the consumer
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by ja30278 15y ago
umm...you did notice that the article was talking about temperature variations caused by the GIANT NUCLEAR EXPLOSION AT THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES ALL OF OUR HEAT AND LIGHT....right? or are you suggesting that our pesky fi
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by ja30278 16y ago
Of course the price is lower. If Time Warner had the power to levy property taxes in addition to charging for internet services, they could probably get away with charging less for internet access.
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by ja30278 16y ago
* having tax-subsidized government entities competing with private business doesn't exactly lead to a vibrant competitive marketplace * I'd rather not have any facet of government in an easy position to monitor my internet traffic
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by ja30278 16y ago
Not yet leaked, but apparently derived due to Sony's poor random number generator. See the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CA4fqAdsc (part 1...money shot is in part 3)
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by ja30278 16y ago
Airplanes only represent a unique terror target if they can be used as weapons to inflict greater damage. Putting a bomb on a plane will kill several hundred people, but so will putting a bomb in a mall or train. Thus, securing the cockpit
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by ja30278 16y ago
Weirdly omitted from the cut options: Medicaid: $290 billion HUD Programs: $47.5 billion Unemployment: $106 billion Any part of the giant 'Other mandatory' block (~$600 billion) which makes up Food Stamps, WIC, Welfare, etc.
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by ja30278 16y ago
I've never understood how it's possible to be offended on someone else's behalf, particularly on a perpetual basis, as your tone leads me to believe you must be. Your pejorative reading of "complicated" is far out of proportion to the origi
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by ja30278 16y ago
It depends. Do you have a solid resume? Do you know your stuff backwards and forwards? Are you willing to relocate pretty much anywhere for the right job? If so, pick the companies you'd _most_ like to work for (even if you think you'd neve
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by ja30278 16y ago
I've found that over time, I prefer services like rekindle.it to instapaper. Mostly this is because I only tend to push _really_ long content to my kindle, and I usually want it titled correctly (everything coming from from Instapaper ends
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by ja30278 16y ago
Following your comment through to it's logical conclusion: why not make the minimum wage $1,000,000/yr?..that should take care of poverty altogether.
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by ja30278 16y ago
I thought the real issue here was biodegradability. Since most disposable cups are not recycled, the ease with which they could be recycled matters a lot less than the fact that styrofoam is forever. Then again, in the absence of oxygen an
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by ja30278 16y ago
Surprised not to see "Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operation System" mentioned yet ( http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operatin... ). McKusick's 'Kernel Internals' class is based on this, and is well worth your
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by ja30278 16y ago
That it be better than previous offerings in some measurable way that's valued by the consumer?
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by ja30278 16y ago
echo 'alias mysql="mysql --i-am-a-dummy"' >>~/.bashrc
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by ja30278 16y ago
This is contradicted elsewhere in the article by the observation that families who could afford more childcare were _not_ necessarily happier.
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by ja30278 16y ago
"Hig labor prices" = "High Prices" Imagine the cost of a Big Mac in a hypothetical world in which fast-food workers are paid 10x as much.
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by ja30278 16y ago
Enjoy _your_ third world economy, free from pesky pollutant-causing industry and manufacturing. The poster has correctly identified the value proposition that causes companies to locate their manufacturing facilities elsewhere, and points o
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by ja30278 16y ago
How about: "You hear the one about the people who thought they could maintain a first world standard of living while replacing cheap means of energy production with happy thoughts and butterfly power"?
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by ja30278 16y ago
A good point. The obvious alternative to terrorists being stupid and/or scarce is that their motives are quite different from what's usually assumed. That being said, I'm also not sure I buy the 'terrorists hate freedom, so they want more b
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by ja30278 16y ago
But part of the reason they were caught is that they were purportedly targeting airplanes, which are closely watched. If they had 18 people willing to act as suicide bombers, why not cruise ships or trains, where security is much lighter?
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by ja30278 16y ago
Either there are groups of terrorists who are willing to kill and die, or there aren't. My question is: why do they seem to prefer complicated plots involving heavily guarded airplanes instead of simpler plots involving lightly guarded [any
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by ja30278 16y ago
Think of the drug trade, which manages to organize far larger groups in disparate cities who actually have to transport large shipments of physical goods, and have to do it _repeatedly_. There are backwoods meth labs that display at least a
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by ja30278 16y ago
"poor Latin" immigrants have many disadvantages, which is why they depend on coyotes. Presumably, a terrorist organization could: * pay well enough that the coyotes would forget their principles * provision their agents well enough
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by ja30278 16y ago
Even assuming they were incapable of finding their own way across, surely a copy of 'Rosetta Stone: Spanish' and a few thousand dollars would find them a guide. Or why not Canada? Hundreds of miles of rural, unguarded border.
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by ja30278 16y ago
> If you've managed to coordinate 10 different homicidal suicidal maniacs in 10 different cities to kill a bunch of people on the exact same day (and somehow managed to find 10 who won't tell anyone anything that suggests they're doing
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by ja30278 16y ago
I've been increasingly wondering about this, and I'm not sure I agree with the article. Schneier asserts that "It's hard to sneak terrorists into the U.S.", which is hard to swallow given the essentially unchecked flow of immigrants coming
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by ja30278 17y ago
to nitpick: the government doesn't 'enforce' the first amendment. The first amendment prohibits congress from creating laws which would abridge the free speech rights of the people (which they possess inherently, independent of government)
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by ja30278 17y ago
The argument against 'too big to fail' presumes that such a thing doesn't exist. I.e., it isn't government's role to prop up corporations, regardless of the effect their failure _might_ have on the economy. In that view, deregulation, even

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