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There's a slight difference in that Google maintains physical offices and possibly datacenters in Canada.

Slight correction. Google has offices in Canada, but no data centers: http://www.google.com/about/da...

Yeah, it took literally 2 seconds to Google thousands of examples of the Red Cross being overrun with corruption. Here's just one entry:

Red Cross Scandals

Or Google yourself: https://www.google.com/#q=red+cross+scandal

Interesting how you pick one of the worst organizations that regularly flaunts its largess as a champion of altruism. Though I'm not a fan of the Roman Catholic Church, at least they have people dedicated to altruism instead of making their CEO wealthy. The second worst offender this year is Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross... for her salary for the year ending in 2009 was $651,957 plus expenses. Enjoys 6 weeks - fully paid holidays including all related expenses during the holiday trip for her and her husband and kids. including 100% fully paid health & dental plan for her and her family, for life. This means out of every dollar they bring in, about $0.39 goes to related charity causes. Gotta love bias.

Hi Zynder, Yes I saw that project link a few day ago via https://docs.google.com/presen...
Glad I could help you with your research :)

There is no shortage of CS/IT personnel.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics would disagree with you.

https://docs.google.com/docume...

They did work with her. They have agreed to let her keep the domain. She simply can't profit from it so the ads have to go. She posted on the site she is looking for a new domain to transition to over time since she does need the revenue the ads bring to keep the site viable. It sucks but at least they are working with her and maybe they will realize the benefit she is to them and help her out.

Given that hunger in developing nations is mostly an issue of distribution, not production (africa mostly is anything but arid: https://www.google.com/search?...), I would indeed be impressed if GMO bananas will help here.

You're lying. To be maximally effective, three primary DTP (aka DPT) doses must be administered, per CDC guidance on DTP vaccination. In 2013, the DTP1 (first dose) vaccination rate in Mexico was 90%, and the DTP3 (third dose) rate was 86%. In the same year, the DTP1 vaccination rate in the United States was 98%, and the DTP3 rate was 94%. Also, one presumes that for a variety of reasons, previously non-vaccinated illegal immigrants aren't going to rush to get their DTP shots once they're in the United States. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't see statistics like these.

Why are you lying?

You're lying. To be maximally effective, three primary DTP (aka DPT) doses must be administered, per CDC guidance on DTP vaccination. In 2013, the DTP1 (first dose) vaccination rate in Mexico was 90%, and the DTP3 (third dose) rate was 86%. In the same year, the DTP1 vaccination rate in the United States was 98%, and the DTP3 rate was 94%. Also, one presumes that for a variety of reasons, previously non-vaccinated illegal immigrants aren't going to rush to get their DTP shots once they're in the United States. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't see statistics like these.

Why are you lying? If your intent is not to deceive, and instead you are merely grossly misinformed, perhaps you should visit the link in your sig again for a bit of personal reflection.

Precisely because we do not know that particular qualifications the person may or may not have, which I also believe you are placing undue stress on in light of epidemiological training receiving over the course of obtaining an MD/DO and compounded by a lack of undergraduate level epidemiology programs in general, I am cautioning you to temper your view of what the term "expert" would mean for such a person. I believe there is more gray area here than you are willing to accept, but it may simply be the case that our perspectives will differ on this point.

My goal is still to encourage you to review more materials on this topic instead of working to find means of discounting a view without further data. This might be a good start.

Just in case somebody missed the reference:

https://www.google.com/search?...

From Rebel Code:

"[Lemmke] had this small area on ftp.funet.fi ... and he said that 'hey, I'm putting a directory aside for you.' So he created the /pub/os/linux directory," Linus recalls

"Linux was my working name," Linus continues, "so in that sense he didn't really name it, but I never wanted to release it as Linux." He says he was afraid that "if I actually used it as the official one people would think that I am egomaniac, and wouldn't take it seriously."

"I chose this very bad name: Freax -- free + freak + x. Sick, I know," Linus acknowledges. "Luckily, this Ari Lemmke didn't like it at all, so he used this working name instead. And after that he never changed it."

The foreign countries might already have similar tech, maybe even years ago:
http://www.rslab.ru/downloads/...
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl...
http://repository.tudelft.nl/a...
https://encrypted.google.com/b...

About 3.5% of Google's traffic is IPv6. This is more than double what it was last year at this time. If the grow continues on this curve we will be at 10% within a year and a half. This sort of traffic is more than enough for sites to enable IPv6.

If you can enable IPv6 at home over 50% of typical home usage is IPv6 (Google and FaceBook). There is no reason for Consumer ISP's to not enable IPv6 as there is enough volume to make it worthwhile.

https://www.google.com/search?...

http://www.google.com/intl/en-...
  Google Health has been discontinued

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From a biography of Alan Turing:

Alan could not stand social chat or what he was pleased to call "vapid conversation". What he really liked was a thoroughly disputatious exchange of views. It was pretty tiring, really. You could take a safe bet that if you ventured on some self evident proposition, as for example, the earth was round, Alan would produce a great deal of incontrovertible evidence to prove that it was almost certainly flat, ovular, or much the same shape as a Siamese cat which had been broiled for fifteen minutes at a temperature of one thousand degrees Centigrade.Alan's hatred of "vapid conversation", his fear of "unsafe" women, and the value he placed on the importance of time--that is to say, his own--did not make him the most amiable or helpful of guests.

The author, Sara Turing, his mother, does not suppose Alan Turing to be misogynist. But it sounds as Alan was not terribly interested in understanding the female sex, much less understanding the "ways of women" well enough to imitate them. I may be doing a disservice in quoting a source that infamously does not grapple with Turing's homosexuality but given that the (original) Turing Test can be misconstrued as analogous to a transgenderist exercise, I feel it's appropriate to question whether Turing was even interested in that sort of thing.

It is graduated from 1 to 11. At the bottom is the subscript "MPH x 100". I'm used more to "RPM x 100"!

For a mass production vehicle, the display may not make a lot of sense. But for the one guy who is ever going to drive the car, I think we can trust him to understand what it means. It's no worse than an aircraft altimeter.

>> Gitmo is that it was attempted to be closed but was blocked via procedural means. Only certain penitentiaries can accept prisoners from outside of US soil and in order to do so they must have authorization from the (state) Governor...all of the penitentiaries that were able to take the prisoners had Republican governors. All of them were asked in turn by the administration, and all of them said no.

Pretty sure your facts are wrong here. For example, Illinois, an all-Democrat state, had exactly the kind of prison needed, and was proceding down this path. Long story short, there's no "blocked via procedural means" argument here, and if there were, do you really think Obama would hesitate to break the law (again) to get this done?

A quick Google search may help you...
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

Not exactly what was asked for, since it only plots the output of Android device sensors, but the price is peanuts: SensorScope: https://play.google.com/store/...

0.1% of lightspeed is only about 20 times faster than Voyager 1 is currently moving

Current speed of Voyager 1 is about 62,000 kph, or 0.0017 percent of the speed of light. 20x that is 0.035 percent of the speed of light.

For the link, google UBS Transparency Report: https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

It should come up as the first result. I don't seem to be able to copy a direct link.

Most of those couldn't see anything directed at them without lots of effort put into the sending. I don't think we could detect planetary engineering, when we can barely detect planets. Dyson Sphere's COULD be detected, but are quite unlikely because they don't tend to maintain a designated center. (Yeah, RingWorlds are a lot worse. But that doesn't make Dyson Spehere's stable.) AFAIK, nobody's been looking for them on purpose, but even if they were we shouldn't expect to find one. topopolis https://www.google.com/search?... seems a lot more plausible.

Many many peer reviewed researchers have successfully used natural sleep to MR image infants without an anesthetic. Yes the MRI is loud, but not after proper ear protection is applied. Plugs plus sound reducing headphones is enough.

https://www.google.com/search?...
Take a look at this simple. You are wrong. I hope your overpayed ego can take it.

You mean like this?

Baby Boomers are retiring and their parents are often living into their 90s. Of course labor participation is falling.

The Economic Populist, Forbes, and the US Census Bureau disagree with you.

Baby Boomers are retiring and their parents are often living into their 90s. Of course labor participation is falling.

The Economic Populist, Forbes, and the US Census Bureau disagree with you.

Baby Boomers are retiring and their parents are often living into their 90s. Of course labor participation is falling.

The Economic Populist, Forbes, and the US Census Bureau disagree with you.

1. 1. Omni motion "trackpad" -- $500 (or similar product)
2. 2. Oculus rift headset -- $350 (devkit2 pricing)
3. 3. Razer Hydra or similar -- $140 (priced from here)
4. 4. playstation move motion controller -- $70
5. 5. at least commodity laptop worth of components to power it all -- $450 (based on middle tier notebook here)
6. 6. At least basic surround sound or decent headphones -- $90 (here and here)
7. 7. A decent gaming computer ~$1500

So that brings the overall price to ~$3,100 if you don't already have a gaming box and ~$1,600 if you do. Plus the const of your living room. This is totally in price for a lot of people. It's all available in hardware form now (to varying degrees of "done").

The major problem is what you pointed out: it will eat your living room/den. These costs and tech are also only for one player and you might get interference/tracking issues with more than on person in the same room. Only people who have solo/networked gaming as their primary form of entertainment will be willing to to make this trade off (that still is a lot of people). BUT, it's super affordable from a business aspect. Take a building, divide it into sound-proofed closets. Put one of these units into each of said closets. Have a desirable set of games (could even be one a la LaserQuest) that people want to play (or with telepresence bots: virtual tourism! (project tango?)) and it's really something to get in on. You could also see it used easily in therapies, spas (walk through a beautiful garden), military training (not as good as the real thing, but decent),and whole lot more.

That said, businesses won't be willing to invest in this without content Just like 3D movies and TVs, the life and death of an entertainment technology depends on the content available to it. There are a lot of companies jumping on the VR bandwagon right now. I think there will be a good set of initial IP that launches with these products or it will integrate with previous games (Skyrim, etc.), but there has to be something that makes you throw your money at them.

Overall, it's getting cheaper, faster and better. I think within 5 years everyone will know someone who has VR in their house.

Pro or Con, Uber is pushing the boundaries and bringing some clarity to the old system. Some terms for discussion:

Rent seeking

People are said to seek rents when they try to obtain benefits for themselves through the political arena. They typically do so by getting a subsidy for a good they produce or for being in a particular class of people, by getting a tariff on a good they produce, or by getting a special regulation that hampers their competitors. Elderly people, for example, often seek higher Social Security payments; steel producers often seek restrictions on imports of steel; and licensed electricians and doctors often lobby to keep regulations in place that restrict competition from unlicensed electricians or doctors.

Fascism

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society's economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the "national interest" - that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

I find it particularly interesting that not only does Uber do background checks on its drivers and allows the rider to rate the cabbie and cab, it also allows the cabbie to rate the rider, potentially increasing safety for the cabbie in ways that the government model does not and can not. Cabbie murder is a real thing and government does not offer a solution. But it's still not surprising that the cartel members are upset that their cartel membership is losing value.

I can accommodate a conscientious objector when he's honest and decent, but you seem to be merely a contrarian, and an apologist for people who are putting whole populations in danger of serious illness through smug stubbornness and willful ignorance.

See, that's where we differ, right there. You apparently think it is "honest and decent" to call people assholes, and to openly encourage intolerance towards people you consider smug and willfully ignorant. You can't conceive of an argument of conscience that results in disagreement with your viewpoint and dismissal of your ridiculously overstated fears ("whole populations in danger" hyperbole for example), so it must be contrarianism or apologism.

But how many people have you vaccinated, that are biologically unrelated to you? I'm betting none, although I'd actually love to be wrong.

Meanwhile, not only has my family adopted children and vaccinated them, I've contributed financially to vaccination campaigns in Afghan orphanages. So what's wrong with contrarianism again? Why do you consider it "decent" to engage in negative actions like spreading fear and inciting intolerance, while it's "apologism" to encourage bravery, social change, and ideological tolerance? Which in practice has resulted in positive action?

I think I can be proud to bear the title of "contrarian" in this particular debate, so I'll continue to refuse to play for either team, and continue to vaccinate, and continue to defend anti-vaxxer's right to make wrong choices.

But it doesn't sound like we're ever going to reach a meeting of minds. We're both too convinced of our own righteousness.

currently Glass has a 30 minute battery life while recording video. Realistically you would need to see a 6-8X improvement in battery life to record a video. Batteries are not improving at anywhere near that rate

So apparently it charges with a micro-usb cable. I can fully imagine somebody having a small 12v battery pack and a car charger in their bag, or pocket.. just wait until the lights dim, plug cable in and off you go..

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

Nope. You are only affected as much as you were involved with the banks â" being there customer or an employee, or dealing with other people, who were. But the recession was not the bank's fault â" rather it is that of the politicians, who forced banks (with the threat of "discrimination" lawsuits) to give money to unqualified borrowers.

1. The global recession caused millions of people to lose their jobs, for so long, that the government has been extending unemployment for years (up until recently)
2. You're trotting out the long debunked claim that the Community Reinvestment Act caused this
3. Your debunked claim is supported by... an essay from Orson Scott Card. I will rebut with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

[Citation Needed]

Here's some reading for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+sachs+subprime+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+suisse+mortgage+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Washington+Mutual+loan+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+of+America+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=PNC+Financial+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=suntrust+racial+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+signing+settlement
https://www.google.com/search?q=JPMorgan+mortgage+fraud+settlement

This is a fun press release:
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed an $85 million civil money penalty against Wells Fargo [...]. The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial employees steered potential prime borrowers into more costly subprime loans and separately falsified income information in mortgage applications

If you noticed, I'm intentionally not rebutting you point by point,
because everything you've parroted has already been said and rejected a thousand times already.

Yeah, yeah. And if I don't agree with you, I must be stupid and incompetent.

And in yesterday's news: https://www.google.com/search?q=citigroup+mortgage+discrimination
I honestly don't know what alternate world of facts you're living in.
Going by your Orson Scott Card essay, Fark.com headlines are more informative than what you've been reading for the last 6 years.

The reason is that for Apple, you are the customer. For Google, you are the product, because its customers are the advertisers.

Stop that rubbish, the privacy policies make it pretty clear:

"At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers."
http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

"We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites."
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

So if you want to show where "you are the product" then go right ahead, from what I can see they both do pretty much the same thing and anything that goes out to 3rd parties outside the reach of these companies' policies is non-personal information.

Really, you should get one of those Aeron mesh chairs. It's much nicer to let your body breath.

It means the iPhone won't provide its MAC address *until* it finds a recognised network to connect to - it won't be broadcasting it constantly while you are out traveling or shopping.

This problem is easily solved by not turning on WiFi unless you know you are going to connect.

For me, I use an app on Android that keeps WiFi off unless I am in a location where I have already said I want to auto-connect to a specific network. It uses cell tower IDs and GPS to determine where I am.

Oh it must be true, as a pithy one-liner describes it so. Or not. Yes, Google gets the majority of its money from advertising. You fail to notice that Google users are the ones who buy the advertising, and are the ones who click on adverts. This also ignores the many non-ad-based services Google offers, but I guess that's not as cool as your one-liner, even if it is far more accurate, so you will keep spouting that nonsense.

https://www.google.com/search?q=advertisers+complain+apple+doesn't+share+enough+data - now replace "Apple" with "Google" in that search.

BTW, this app does the same on a rooted Android device.

I'll add my thanks as well. The whole reason I came to this thread was because I hoped someone would post something like this.

Although Amazon has a ridiculous P/E of 513 at least they make some money and are not bleeding red ink line Go Daddy.

BTW, this app does the same on a rooted Android device.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mod this up!

Replying to my own post. This app is also available on the 1Mobile Market.

BTW, this app does the same on a rooted Android device.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mod this up!

They don't connect the dots for everybody for free. Become a strategic partner (that is: find a way to bring them more money) and they'll be happy do connect the dots for you. So don't be naive: Apple cares about its customers only when it can turn that care into profit.

BTW, this app does the same on a rooted Android device.