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by mrdodge 11y ago
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html "Non-Hispanic blacks have the highest age-adjusted rates of obesity (47.8%) followed by Hispanics (42.5%), non-Hispanic whites (32.6%), and non-Hispanic Asians (10.8
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by mrdodge 11y ago
There is nothing about growth that is guaranteed. Perhaps thinking that the entire world can adopt western style institutions and would become good consumers was too optimistic.
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by mrdodge 11y ago
And look how that is turning out for them.
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by mrdodge 11y ago
They are also unemployed at a far higher rate than the natives and cause many times for crime. Equating education levels from a broken state to Western European education levels is a false equivalency as well.
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by mrdodge 11y ago
That we are responsible for them. They are responsible for themselves, they understand that, that's why they go to the most generous countries.
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by mrdodge 11y ago
Why do you state this like it's a truth?
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by mrdodge 11y ago
How do you do a background investigation on someone from Syria?
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by mrdodge 11y ago
These people are naive. They have no knowledge of history.
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by mrdodge 11y ago
These people will not be net contributors to the system.
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by mrdodge 13y ago
Xbox is brought up a lot in these threads although it has been a total business failure. Even after losing billions over many quarters, making a quarterly profit only recently, it's still in a virtual 3-way tie for the tiny gaming cons
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by mrdodge 13y ago
They haven't been able to do that for a while, and their competition is now a lot smarter and much richer than even Microsoft. Apple's iPhone business alone is larger and more profitable than all of Microsoft combined. Take out th
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by mrdodge 13y ago
And how much growth potential is there in selling Active Directory, Excel, and Exchange? Every sizable company already has these things installed. Smaller and new companies may choose to spend their dollars elsewhere and that's a chang
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by mrdodge 13y ago
A lot of people use Excel for making lists and doing very simple calculations. You can do that just fine in Google Apps.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
What market indeed. There has been no market for the hybrid laptop/tablet.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Car dealerships are big business, many of the big new car dealerships are owned by Fortune 500s like Sonic Automotive and Penske Automotive Group.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
He hired Microsoft and what sounds like a Microsoft Partner. No one gets fired for buying Microsoft.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Sounds like Microsoft was trying to sell a few SQL server licenses.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
How often do people use the Task Manager? I keep hearing about how great it is in every Windows 8 review.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Last quarter Apple made $11.6 billion. In pure profit. Apple's margins are actually better than Microsoft's. This is an incredible change of events. For the first time in ages Microsoft's primary competitors are far richer or just as rich.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
The critics think it looks great. I haven't heard anything positive, however, from normal people. Just my experience though.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
My favorite aspect of this is that enterprise support is often very bad and unknowledgeable about the product if you try to do something that's the least bit uncommon or outside their script. You would think people focused on knowing just o
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Xbox is a failure by almost every financial metric. Microsoft is not anywhere near recouping the initial costs. The entertainment/devices division is rarely profitable and last quarter lost over $200 million.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
> In terms of profit - I think MS will price the hardware as low as they can, to fight off Apple. Their profit will come elsewhere From where? They do not have a successful media store and they are bundling Office. Aside from Windows an
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Most consumers don't use Photoshop or Visual Studio. What do MOST consumers need full Windows for these days? Office? Most consumers could get by on iWork. I guess if they want to use their favorite virus scanner or anti-malware program the
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by mrdodge 14y ago
Xbox 360 - 67.2 million sold since November 2005.
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by mrdodge 14y ago
> Edit: For Some reason I forgot about Xbox and Kinect. So yes, they do have extensive manufacturing experience, but boy was the Original Xbox a disaster with the RROD. There's manufacturing consumer electronics and then there's manufac
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by mrdodge 15y ago
Major stock exchanges have gone down for hours, I've had trouble reaching my bank's web site for hours. Let this myth of the enterprise having any idea of what its doing die. And Facebook could lose millions of dollars in that time span, de
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by mrdodge 15y ago
I work for an e-commerce company and our breakdown with 200,000 unique visitors a month is 54% IE, 19.22% Safari, and 14.36% Firefox, and 8% Chrome. IE 6 is < 1% and IE 7 is < 5%.
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by mrdodge 16y ago
"(also, on your tu quoque in regards to Iran, there's not a lot to defend about that country but at least they give equal legal status to all people within their borders, kurdish or baluch" Try being Baha'i in Iran. I know several refugees
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by mrdodge 16y ago
I've been reading comments on this and most of them include something like 'we have all these new downtown condos, I thought we'd see growth from that'. It's simple math though, a condo with 1 single person is not going to help your populat

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