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Evidence for that? Because cities that have that already implemented 15/hr wages have not seen a rush to automate.

I don't mean to be rude, but please, put on the critical thinking hat.

When one or two cities raise the min wage, there isn't enough of a reason to invest the billions of dollars required to replace half the workers in McDonalds with robots.

When it happens NATIONALLY, then there is now reason to do it.

It is far easier to just raise prices a bit in those areas where the wages went up, than to spend billions to replace a few thousand people. Make min wage $15/hr nationally, and that changes. This is why it hasn't happened in Australia, where min wage is already over $15/hr, because with only 22 million people, the market isn't big enough. But it is starting down that road.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/...

Dominos in Australia is testing robot delivery today with the goal of rolling it out nationally in 2-3 years. It is getting too expensive to hire people to do this.

Would you rather have a large segment of adults (more adults make min. wage than 18-20 year olds by far) earning 7 dollars an hour, supplemented by food stamps and other government handouts, or would you rather have the 'bottom' wage be liveable, and people able to support themselves without government assistance?

You left out option 3: Would you rather have large segment of adults out of work completely and needing all $15/hr in the form of government assistance?

You don't think that can happen, but it can.

I'm kinda sick of my tax dollars subsidizing Walmart's workforce.

Would you prefer they lay off half the workforce and replace them with robots?

https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

Seriously, it isn't THAT far off... Atlas now works without a tether and on rough ground... Another few years and that robot may well stock shelves in a Walmart better than humans do.

And the real nail in the coffin, so to speak, is that goods and services do become that much more expensive even when doubling wages. Last time I saw the numbers run, a Big Mac would cost 50 cents more. That is way worth it to me if 90% of people could live without government handouts.

I don't disagree, you're right, it won't double prices to do it...

But consider that if Atlas up there can make your Big Mac and the price went DOWN 50 cents rather than UP 50 cents, you might like that even more.

BTW, why do you want people making burgers anyway? It is a stupid job, let robots do it.

If I could teleport to the year 2150, I'd be shocked if we didn't have a basic income at that point with robots making everything anyway. I just don't think it will be pretty getting there, the current people in power will fight tooth and nail along the way.

There is a lot of garbage in the glassdoor data. I personally always inflate my salary when I report it to 'help' HR realize they need to pay programmers more. In any case, here is some better data:

Women make more than men in some tech jobs.
Overall in tech, men make as much as women.
Another study, women are paid as much as men after graduation, and tech is one of the most equal fields to go into (see page 17). And I believe it. You want to see sexual harassment? Look at the sales team, not the programming team.

These sorts of stories are harmful, because they make women say, "I shouldn't go into tech, look how bad it is!" Then they do something mis-informed, like go into sales.

If you want to know what it's really like for a woman in tech, here is a good blog post. It's a great field for women.

More or less. We needn't worry about the police state anymore because it's already here. They're threatening to seize Apple's intellectual property without due process. If they can get away with doing that, then they can get away with taking anything from anyone for no reason whatsoever. Sounds like a Police State to me, with Comrade Obama leading the charge.

We leave huge dirty bombs next to our cities ready to be used. http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/...

The key flaw in socialism remains excessive concentration of power. The end.

you mean like capitalism?

We've had socialist redistribution of wealth in the USA for many years.

No, we have had a socialist redistribution of tax monies. Incomes and actual wealth have been accumulating at the top. If this is an attempt at socialism, it's not working.

Trump supporters shoudl check out stories like this:
http://fortune.com/2015/08/03/...

Yeah, considering they can't even secure their biggest cash cow.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/10/...

While the source you are citing is another form of unemployment, http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/...
that's the same link you posted. he's posting 23 vs 5, in which is the current number (U3 = 4.9 ) in use and quoted to the public. the numbers shown are unemployment of population ( 16 years to death ) which read based on that chart 40.6% and since taking office 41.7ish. but I'm more interested in the 23.

Thank you for citing your source.
also
while I can not test it yet, it would be interesting to see if the current president increased jobs while we had population growth.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/...

Just search for the real unemployment rate on your favorite search engine . You will find all sorts of links. Most of them were from before trump or the primaries too.

Japan is already forcing people to horde cash with their negative interest rates.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/23/...

Something like bitcoin could prove disastrous for their banking system.

Correlation is not causation.

I did not imply that it is, I said that it disproves your assertion. If you make an assertion that $X causes $Y, and we find an inverse correlation, then we can be pretty sure that $X does not cause $Y. You asserted that $ISM causes $OBSERVATION. I contend that assertion by observing that $ISM is actually inversely correlated to your $OBSERVATION.

And I doubt the correlation. Do you have any evidence to support your conclusion, like a peer reviewed study?

You would doubt it; your ideology fails if the correlation of "more options for girls" = "Less girls in CS". Let's look at my observations, shall we?

Iran (few female rights): females account for 70% CS and STEM graduates (source)

Gulf region (so few female rights they can't even display their face in linked photo): females account for 60% CS and STEM graduates (source)

Qatar (few female rights): females account for 60% of CS and STEM students (source)

Malaysia (few rights for women): females account for 52% of CS undergraduates (Peer reviewed source)

Now let's see what the top ten feminist countries in the world look like:

Finland: 32% female CS students (source)

Sweden (possibly the largest number of female rights in the world?): 22% CS grads (source

Norway - newest figure I can find on line is from 1999, so ignoring it for now

New Zealand: less than 33% female CS graduates (source).

UK: 13% female CS graduates (source)

Canada: 27% female graduates (maths and CS) (source)

USA: 18% female graduates in CS (source

Netherlands: Can't find sources for this either.

The best countries for female rights have fewer female CS graduates than the worst countries for female rights. This is directly observable.

Now that I got some of the numbers, you just know that I'm going to repost this list (not a link, the actual list) every time you make the incorrect assertion that sexism *must* be responsible for the dearth of females in CS.

My position is backed by evidence. Women's experiences, detailed and comprehensive studies. I'm on my phone now so ask again tomorrow if you want a list, but Wikipedia has a good article about it with 59 references: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

You've given a list of 59 references, of which only one academic article supports your position (somewhat tenously, but there you go). As it is clear that you did not read your own references, I'll leave it to you to figure out which one supports your $X causes $Y position. The other articles all repeat your mantra - that there are fewer females in CS - but none of them address the glaring issue of why this is not

It was also illuminating that he doesn't know how much he himself is paid.

Might help if you stay current with the news.

The Republican-controlled House and Senate budget committees jointly broke with tradition in announcing that they would not even listen to the details of the Obama administration plan. The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shaun Donovan, was not invited to testify about the administration's plan, according to a joint House and Senate press release.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/congress-snubs-obama-budget/

Bloomberg : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/foxconn-said-to-offer-about-600-billion-yen-for-japan-s-sharp
Fortune : http://fortune.com/2016/01/21/reports-foxconn-makes-bid-for-struggling-sharp/?iid=sr-link1

Here's the full quote:

"In early grades, students differentiate between responsible and irresponsible computing
behaviors. Students learn that responsible behaviors can help individuals while
irresponsible behaviors can hurt individuals. They examine legal and ethical
considerations for obtaining and sharing information and apply those behaviors to protect
original ideas. As students progress academically, they engage in legal and ethical
behaviors to guard against intrusive applications and promote a safe and secure
computing experience. "

What these Kings of the Universe don't realize is normal people don't share and will never share their Ayn Rand -cocaine-driven amphetamine-fueled vision of extreme indivuduality at the expense of the health of society (which is the bedrock upon which protection of individuality rests).

So, sure, go ahead promote those discussions. The more discussion there is, the less well it goes for software patent lawyers like Brad Smith who, readers should know, basically originated the idea of using software patents as an offense weapon to supress innovation while he was at M$:

http://arstechnica.com/busines...

http://archive.fortune.com/mag...

which directly led to all other tech companies following suit and finally the fantastical, supernatrual prosperity of every Chinese take-out in Tyler, Texas.

All that's going to happen is they're going to find out no one shares their idea of societal good and justice. Every survey finds that young people are far more concerned with creating an fair, free and egalitarian society that benefits everyone, rather than the winner-take-all psychopathic shithole that is America at this particular tick of the clock.

  Not everyone blew their brains out snorting coke while reading Ayn Rand in the 80s. That's a particular generation and they have a particular , uh, "view" of what the goals laws of society should support. Going on 40 years later now, it's getting to be old-man-dying-time for this particular strain of sociopathic, societal predators. Can't happen too soon for my money. Here, take it with you; fuckin' see ya later.

The level of arrogance and ignorance in both your post and the grandparent would be astounding if it wasn't for the fact that it appears to be all-too-common. That "landlocked Asian minor country" has the largest coastline of any nation in the world. They are in the midst of rapid deployment of technologies to exploit the resources and opportunities of the arctic region including many new icebreakers in an effort to open a northern sea route (which may become very viable if the global warming predictions come true). Further, their current military campaign in Syria has proven remarkably effective, especially in contrast to the anemic actions of the United States and our western allies before they entered the conflict. They have demonstrated the capabilities of submarines being able to fire missiles while submerged to the effective use of some of their most modern fighters (as opposed to our failed F-35) and effective long range cruise missiles. They are growing increasingly capable while we appear to be stagnating.

It should also be noted that Russia has been signing major deals with some of the world's largest nations at the same time that we seem to be alienating our friends here in the United States. Far from being a needy border-line-third-world-nation, Russia seems to be showing us up time and again. Twice now the United States in the past few years, the United States has been forced to back down when Russia asserted their will in Syria, and despite economic pressure on Russia over Ukraine, they have not backed down at all. A lot of talk has been made over how Russia has a shrinking cash reserve and yet everyone seems to forget that _they_actually_have_a_reserve. Further, their foreign debt is currently decreasing at the same time our national debt has just reached $19 trillion. When one considers that our proposed defense budget is as large at the combined total of the next 8 countries and yet we have a fighter that cannot fight and a high-tech destroyer that cannot float, I don't think we have much room at all to speak of Russian corruption (though it almost certainly exists).

Given current trajectories, it seems to me that our country is more likely to face a future of irrelevancy than the Russians right now. Our press is very selective about what they cover, but reality has a nasty way of asserting itself and often in very painful ways.

Bitcoin is the the most important development in human rights in centuries.

Really? More important that women's sufferage or the end of slavery?!?

Oh wait, I just read about you on Fortune

Well if harassing people like you is what our Big Brother state gets us, I can't say it's entirely evil.

Not that it is really relevant to this discussion, but my political views did not change when I was in prison. Here's an entry from my blog from 2008 demonstrating my long-held views, as well as a Fortune magazine article from 2010.

I didn't put my personal politics at the forefront of my rhetoric when I was fighting my case, because the potential legal precedents involved were too important to have them overshadow it. We were talking about the future of everyone who uses a computer. It was important enough for the EFF and the world's most important legal scholars on the subject of computer crime to take up their pens on. I didn't want to disrespect their work at the time, so I bit my tongue and kept many of my thoughts to myself.

Now I am no longer fighting my case. No precedent that affects us all is on the line. I no longer have an obligation to keep my thoughts to myself, and thus speak them freely.

Google has been tilting toward evil ever since Facebook passed it in views back in 2010 and at that moment everything we had done before became no good.

"You couldn't even beat Facebook"

It was great a place to work up until that day.

Seems Google's still a relatively good place to work:
http://fortune.com/best-compan... (puts them in first place)
http://uk.businessinsider.com/... (puts them in second place behind Facebook)

There were so many other ways they could have handled this correctly.

No, no there isn't. As Chrisautrey stated, and you failed to listen: Its not the seasoned hobbyist, or semi pro that is the problem. It's the rank and file immature moron who by design or accident gets too close to commercial airspace and downs an airliner full of people. There have already been far too many close calls. The simple fact is that, although you are right that no self respecting hobbyist will go astray, There is no good way for anyone outside of your hobby to know the difference in advance. Model aircraft were equally dangerous, except for a few basic facts that made them less of a global issue. First, a model aircraft or Heli used to be much harder to fly. Before the advent of microcontroller based flight controls, you had to know what you were doing. This inherently made the hobby expensive and very time consuming. As a result, would-be pilots had a large amount of experience and invested time and money before they were ever able to affect commercial air traffic. That kept incidents to an extremely infrequent pace. Today, any idiot (and a quick hunt around youtube will easily demonstrate that many of these people *are* idiots), can cough up $100 and go fly a drone into someplace they don't belong. This would be akin to allowing any numnuts with $100 to go driving on public roads without a license. You can't make a rational argument for that either.

I'm genuinely sorry that your hobby is being ruined by the massive popularity it wasn't ready for, but doing anything in communal space comes with responsibilities which you and your compatriots have dutifully respected, and now a new breed of kids is ruining it for you. The best you can do is not to fight the regulation that is coming, but work to help ensure that it keeps the riff-raff out, and burdens you the least amount necessary to maintain the safety of the general public.

First, the link goes to forbes.com which blocks any browser with an ad-blocker. http://fortune.com/2015/12/22/...
That's ironic and hamfisted, but particularly in light of Forbes own September 2015 article that says ad blockers won't hurt online adversiing. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ro...

Second, the summary of this "anonymous posting" says:

The stars call to us through the ages, with each and every one holding the promise of a future for humanity beyond Earth

No. They don't. Humans evolved to live here, on Planet Earth. Not on our own star, or on any other star, and humanity's future is right here where we have an entire planet we were built for... not on a foreign star.

How CRAZY would we think it of MONKEYS who want to live underwater? We'd marvel at why happy jungle monkeys would leave a comfortable environment free of most predators and full of food to go somewhere hostile where they can't breathe, their temperature will decay, and without machine aids would soon die.

That's no different than us claiming that other stars[sic] becon us to live there. No. There's great scientific exploration to be done, and we could even establish limited outposts where machines keep us alive despite the harsh vacuum and cold [or relative heat] of space. The ISS is a good example of one such outpost. However, there's no "interstellar colonialism" happening because the rest of the universe is inhospitable.

Saturday... when an "anonymous" (friend of the editor?) posts something that makes no sense, and links to a site that's about as close to a paywall as you can get.

Ehud

Isn't the Internet a Microsoft thing? http://fortune.com/2015/12/08/...

You mean Made in America like Toyota, Chevy, Honda, Buick, and GMC?

http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/...

I know Toyota has more American Made cars than Ford, when did that happen?

"So next time roma gypsy gangs come across from the continent on the ferry to rape just about every shop in a particular city / shopping centre in the space of a few hours before heading back home again on the ferry with a boat load of stolen shit"

Not too racist?

In the US employee theft accounts for 43% of lost revenue. That’s about $18 billion, or $2.3 billion more than the cost of five-finger discounts taken by customers .

The rest is things like spoilage, broken merchandise, returns the supplier won't respect, etc.

So is the US Treasury. They are actively investigating why ISIS has so many Toyota's. There are so many of them, this is a quote from the article: “Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand,” said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

I hear there's a tech company with $200B in cash that's rumored to be building a car.

No it almost certainly is not Apple. Apple would have little reason to hide the fact that they were getting into building cars. Furthermore, Apple as a corporation has some.. ahem, control issues. I very much doubt that they would work through proxies like this - it's completely out of character for them. Furthermore there have been plenty of journalists asking if Apple is involved and the answer seems to be a pretty clear no.

It's a known quantity.

Right. . . It is not like there are tons of new discoveries every day , right? Sorry, but your assertion is absurd. Knowing how CRISPR, itself, works in no way reduces the risk when we use it on all the stuff (you know, life on planet Earth) we barely understand.

How about we perform an experiment. . .you and I both get into fully automated cars. I allow you to randomly change binary bits of my car's programming (much like natural mutation). You allow me to randomly change source code functions, configuration values, etc. . . of your car (much like the genetic script kiddie activities you are asserting are complete harmless). Let's see who lives longest. . . : )

"Paper" money will never go away.

Earlier this month [May 2015], the Danish Parliament proposed a law that would allow stores to refuse to accept cash payments in exchange for goods or services. http://fortune.com/2015/05/22/...

1) The CIO is saying this because they just got bought by IBM, who pushes "open source" until you look around and your whole operations is being run by H1Bs fresh off the plane who say "open source" to distract you while they Google for how to open a command prompt. http://fortune.com/2015/10/30/...

2) I agree. That's why I use a free, open API for weather instead: http://openweathermap.org/pric...

The main experiments were back in the 1960s. There are some proof-of-concepts for future commercial plants from what I've heard and read. There are some being used to provide power to high-use single users like high-energy research labs I think.

Nobody's producing power to sell just yet. It's supposed to be soon, though. A Canadian company has a design they're putting into pre-licensing review in the coming months to hopefully be online around 2020. The US DoE which first developed MSRs (a program which Nixon axed) is helping China build a full-scaled 100 MW preview unit to be operational by 2024.

These things are safer (thorium vs. uranium for the bulk of the fuel, lower pressure inside the reactor), more efficient (higher temperatures transferred to the water/steam so more work gets to the generators), have easier spent fuel requirements (the half-lives are much shorter and it's much easier to keep them from breeding bomb-grade elements). They'll be cheaper to operate and produce cheaper, safer electricity. China's into the hundreds of millions researching building these things. It should happen.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
http://fukushimaupdate.com/tho...
http://www.technologyreview.co...
http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ke...

junk food isn't to blame for America's obesity epidemic ?

"The decision comes as no surprise to the oil industry, and they've been busily working on other ways to transport the oil."

Like, for instance, the railroad that Obama's 1%'er buddy Warren Buffett owns. I'm sure there's no connection there, though.

I'm also sure there's no connection.

I mean the basis of your conspiracy is the fact that a famous rich donor (who's relatively friendly with the administration) has some of his billions stashed in railways, and those railways will see some mild to moderate increase in business due to the cancellation.

The evidence against your conspiracy, besides the fact that that's a remarkably weak motive for a massive political decision, is the fact that Warren Buffet is on record supporting the pipeline

Buffett said that if he were president he would have passed the Keystone pipeline. Buffett said he thought the pipeline would be good for both Canada and America. Buffett said it was also a mistake to jeopardize the trading relationship with Canada.

And is it going to cut carbon emissions? Are we pretending that Canada's just going to leave it in the ground if we don't buy it?

As a lifelong resident of Alberta yes it will.

That stuff is very expensive to get out of the ground and new development is based on the profitability of the investment. The reason they wanted Keystone so bad is because it increases profitability, without Keystone the oil is harder and less profitable to ship, and so there's less development.

How do you define success? As of late October, Apple music had 15 million users, of which 6.5m were paying and 40% of users dropped their subscription after the free trial ran out. iTunes has 800m registered accounts so that's less that 1/10th of 1% paying customers for their user base, or just under 2% of their user base that even tried it during the free intro. By those measures, yeah, not all that much of a success especially since Apple wanted 100m subscribers.

Spotify has 75m users of which 20m are paying. The entire industry is reported to have around 41m paying subscribers. 12% market share isn't awful, but it's not a slayer.

I'll leave what I originally said stand. Netflix doesn't have anything to worry about.

It's not a lawsuit, it's criminal charges brought by the district attorney after journalists uncovered the evidence.

By publicly denying that fossil fuels cause global warming they have been making false claims about their primary product - fossil fuels. You are generally required to disclose to customers any potential (and definitely any guaranteed) risks or negative side effects that your product has so they can make an informed decision.

Here is a sampling of the news reports that followed the work of two different groups of journalists who both independently found proof of the cover-up, one from the left-end and one from the far-right end of the spectrum:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/...

And here is a report on congress asking the DA to investigate the events and charge them if it's found to be criminal:
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

The EU is a failed experiment that was doomed from the start. The clowns in Brussels treat it like a dictatorship, and the member states have just about had enough of being told what to do when the directives are so visibly not in their best interests.

But hey, just keep blaming the boogeyman. You might distract a few low-IQ readers that way.

Here's why eSports is coming soon to a TV near you.

https://www.theranos.com/our-l...

We are voluntarily submitting all our tests to FDA even though we don’t need to – opening up to regulators like no lab before. We received our first FDA clearance this summer.

http://fortune.com/2015/07/02/...

it has not been, and still isn’t, required to seek FDA approval because of the way its business model works, which differs from those of incumbent diagnostic labs, like Quest Diagnostics DGX 0.67% and Laboratory Corporation of America

Holmes has voluntarily submitted voluminous data and validation studies to the FDA on more than 120 of her tests so far—without any legal obligation to do so—in an effort to persuade that body to grant formal clearance to her methods. She has done so, she says, because she regards the FDA’s imprimatur as the “gold standard” for safety and effectiveness.

In an interview, Holmes says that, because the FDA has today approved the basics of her system in the context of HSV-1 test, she is hopeful that clearances of her other tests will now be occurring at a faster pace.

So you are now saying that HSV is a simple test to get approved, but you don't believe any other tests will be? It takes time to get FDA approval, but funny, this company doesn't need any approvals, they are doing them voluntarily, which no other lab is required to do, hospitals don't have to get their tests approved by the FDA, so why is Theranos any different?

But right now a drone is going to give someone a bad cut or maybe take out an eye.

Here are some much worse things done by remote controlled aircraft.
Kill someone
Interfered with fire fighting
Interfered with police
Invasion of privacy

As for drones interfering with flight operations, have you ever met a goose? If you are a pilot and your choices are to hit a goose or to hit a drone pretty much every pilot will chose the drone.

How many geese to you know that carry a lithium battery that can explode under the right circumstances? Geese are not within human control but drones are. We do what we can.

I personally believe this is a good thing. Walmart is #1 on the Fortune 500 list so they must be doing something right. Amazon.com is #29 on the same list BTW.

Having worked in the ERP/Logistics space myself, you don't get to be as big as Walmart without some serious tech in place and working.

If anything, maybe having more players in this space is good just for the competitive aspect; it will force others to lower their prices to lure customers!

I believe you are wrong.

Winterkorn became CEO in 2007, and the cheat started in 2008.
He was claiming "I know every screw in our cars" Source: http://fortune.com/2015/09/23/...

So I have no doubt that he was aware of the cheat.
An engine cannot become clean without any hardware modification.

The interesting thing is in the 80s there was even fewer girls into computers then now.

Well that would be a lot more interesting if it were true. Lets see what the department of labor says about that:

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factshee...

Scroll down to the 2nd graph "Employed computer systems analysts, scientists by sex 1983 - 2001"

In the 80s women made up nearly half, and the gap has increased. So there were in fact more women computer scientists and systems analysts in the 80 than now. Not less. That pretty much trashes your entire thesis.

But you know what, I completely agree with you that men and women are likely biased towards different things. And I agree its pretty likely in a world with no sexism men would still be prevalent in some fields and women prevalent in others. I don't dispute that. I'm not suggesting every job needs to be 50:50 men and women or: sexism !!

But just because that is true, that doesn't mean sexism doesn't exist, and isn't a problem in any industry.

Additionally, when the women who ARE in tech leave tech they most frequently cite the culture as being the primary issue. That doesn't line up with your thesis that they aren't interested in the subject... they WERE interested in the subject, they enjoyed the subject, they left in droves because of the culture. And yeah... I have cites for that... three different studies.

http://www.npr.org/sections/al...

http://www.fastcoexist.com/301...

http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/...

Not totally convinced? That's fine; you owe it to your own intellectual integrity to accept that maybe the situation is more complicated than "women don't like computers as much as you do" after all.

So when you talk about sexism, give me a fucking break. No. Scratch that. There is a problem of sexism in tech : women are privileged over men.

In the sense that all these over-the-top-sexist (pro-feminist) and highly ineffective programs to get women back into tech exist, I completely agree. They don't solve anything, and if anything make things worse. They are part of the problem, but they are not the entire problem by a long shot.

Surely the purpose of a fine, or any other punishment, is to discourage similar behavior in future. I did a quick search on SkyPan and it looks like they have already obtained the proper authorization from the FAA (Drone startup issued biggest fine ever for flying without permission). So why hit them so hard if they have already adjusted their behavior? It's probably to set an example, but it seems very excessive for a legitimate company that appears to be adhering to the regulations already ...

And people wonder why rich are getting richer and the middle class is shrinking.

The facts don't agree with this statement.

I don't know what 'facts' you're referring to so please feel free to present something more substantial.

Here are some references supporting my statement:

"...economic inequality has worsened significantly in the United States and some other countries. The richest 1 percent in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

"University of California, Berkeley research published in June showed America's richest 1 percent captured 55 percent of total real income growth between 1993 and 2014. "
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/09...

"There is no dispute that income inequality has been on the rise in the United States for the past four decades. The share of total income earned by the top 1 percent of families was less than 10 percent in the late 1970s but now exceeds 20 percent as of the end of 2012."
http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/...

"...with the share of total household wealth owned by the top 0.1 percent increasing to 22 percent in 2012 from 7 percent in the late 1970s"
http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/...

And people wonder why rich are getting richer and the middle class is shrinking.

The facts don't agree with this statement.

I don't know what 'facts' you're referring to so please feel free to present something more substantial.

Here are some references supporting my statement:

"...economic inequality has worsened significantly in the United States and some other countries. The richest 1 percent in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

"University of California, Berkeley research published in June showed America's richest 1 percent captured 55 percent of total real income growth between 1993 and 2014. "
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/09...

"There is no dispute that income inequality has been on the rise in the United States for the past four decades. The share of total income earned by the top 1 percent of families was less than 10 percent in the late 1970s but now exceeds 20 percent as of the end of 2012."
http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/...

"...with the share of total household wealth owned by the top 0.1 percent increasing to 22 percent in 2012 from 7 percent in the late 1970s"
http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/...

These all indicate that she wasn't the terrible CEO that her detractors would like you to believe. But, she wasn't great either.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/21/...
http://time.com/money/4042662/...
http://www.bloombergview.com/a...

Us techies always think it's about power or performance, but mobility is a transformative feature. Many people prioritize it over nearly every customer experience feature we can offer in products today. It's largely why Apple came to dominate smartphones. They offered the world's most mobile handheld computer first.

If I were Microsoft or Sony, I would be very worried. Most of my gaming time used to be on PC games. Then I progressed to consoles and now nearly all of my gaming time is on my iPad or iPhone with minimal laptop time for games not on iOS. Smart gaming companies are already pivoting into mobile gaming where the majority of the money is in the gaming industry.

From the article:

When demonstrated for General Omar Bradley, he was impressed enough to order them built in quantity for the tanks. Eventually the prototype became an engineered product (dubbed the “Culin Rhino Device”) that was fitted to many tanks before being shipped over from England.

I wonder how long it took, from the demo for Gen. Bradley, until the device was fitted on tanks sent over from England. Hopefully not too long. Imagine the tanks being made in the US today. How long would it take before they were outfitted with the "tusks"? Senator #1: "I demand that the tusks be made in my state." Senator #2: "No - make them in my state, or I'll vote against them being made at all!"

In related news, U.S. Air Force instructs airmen on exactly how to praise the F-35. The Air Force should reject the F-35 for its many flaws, and demand their money back. Sigh. Some things really were better back in the past.

Best thing to do is stick to Play until he understands this stuff.

LOL. http://fortune.com/2015/07/08/...

This is the court case where Samsung presented Apple blue-prints showing the entire iThing UI and hardware design was lifted from Sony, who strangely haven't sued Apple. The documents were too inconvenient and the judge ordered they be removed from the record citing they arrived too late. Yes, too late, despite rendering Apple's case moot.

Can't have those slitty eyed eastern types showing a trendy US corporation ripping off the nations that build their products, then pretending to have invented it. Ban the gooks!

Bwahahaha. That claim was even dumber than the 2001 claim. http://fortune.com/2012/08/01/...

Anyone still repeating is must be dumb as shit. Especially when he tries to hide his stupidity behind the race card (not to mention that the judge is Asian-American).