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Really? I didn't know that pine coffins were so expensive.

There's something wrong with your reply on the surface. I haven't looked at the costs, but that "it (routinely) costs more to execute someone than not?" Assumptions, cost measurements, or what: SOMEthing's wrong with that line. Doing a Google search now. Ahh, phrasing: you mean the cost of the legal proceedings, long and drawn out as they are for kill vs non-kill cases while I literally mean the cost to kill them, period; not the previous "set up" costs that must be incurred. Good point, they are different.

If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole*, which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could ...

I hadn't considered that. And it does solve the 100% sure thing, as you don't kill someone, you just effectively "take their life away over a long period of time."

So we'd need more jails if (as?) we get more permanent jail residents. Oh, and don't forget health care, even if they want to change their sex. And visitation rights, and guards, alarms, upkeep, training, and what-now.

Vs an "Escape from New York" setup.

So you take someone, put them in "The Big House", locked up with bars everywhere, ordered around all of the time, take care of them (not being sarcastic here) for as long as they live? I originally was going to say THAT sounds like "cruel and unusual punishment," just like living on death row for 20 years -- see Nathan Dunlap. But Food, AC, heat, dry, bedding, security, and medicine all provided? The more I think about it the more I think I want to go there myself -- everything's all done and provided for me. All I have to do is be there and complain if I'm bored. And as a bonus I even get to take out someone that I absolutely abhor? Depending on who it was: forget being regretful about it, if it was the right person I could have nice dreams about that every night.

So once I cross some magic threshold all you can do to me is lock me up and feed me? For someone serving concurrent or even sequential life sentences: maybe that's all the judge can do, but it's ridiculous non-the-less. So James should have shot more, more "bang for the buck" as it were, right?

And that permanent "without parole" line is so harsh, shouldn't we think of the poor victimized prisoner in the years to come?

Taking someone life against their will should NEVER be an easy, dried and cut thing. That doesn't mean that you don't do it, though. And: let's ask the opinions of their victims. Oh wait, we can't. Their life was cut short -- do we "owe" them anything?

Not all of them would agree with me, though. She's a better person than I.

Then again you've got mob rules, but that's no good either.

Hmmm ... Santa keeps a list of people, I guess I'll have to ask Jason if he's keeps one as well.

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NO I'm not going to go out and kill anyone. I don't hate anyone that much. If they do irritate me I just usually get away from them, or irritate them enough so that they move away from me.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Even if is "cheaper" and nicer to keep most killers alive, it still seems l

The "massive" subsidies for solar/wind turn out to be small compared to the subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry subsidies are simply invisible because they've been in place so long.
http://www.ibtimes.com/us-foss...

Just read that article. Calling the "tax breaks" the oil and gas industry receive "subsidies" is a monumental exercise in propaganda new-speak. Not taxing the money BP spent on oil clean-ups was the biggest example. In what twisted world view should the money spent on oil clean-ups be considered a taxable profit? It is an expense, not profit.

The "massive" subsidies for solar/wind turn out to be small compared to the subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry subsidies are simply invisible because they've been in place so long.
http://www.ibtimes.com/us-foss...

Clinton Foundation went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear that some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

She ignored violence against union members in Columbia for a bribe. Charming.
http://www.ibtimes.com/colombi...

Clinton Foundation went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear that some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

She ignored violence against union members in Columbia for a bribe. Charming.
http://www.ibtimes.com/colombi...

Clinton Foundation went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear that some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

She ignored violence against union members in Columbia for a bribe. Charming.
http://www.ibtimes.com/colombi...

It went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

It went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

The only thing I ditched was cable.

This. Although the number of people with cable is dropping, it's estimated that 83% of Americans still have cable TV as of last year:
http://www.ibtimes.com/forget-...

Of these low income folks that strictly rely on cellular for Internet access, how many still have cable TV? That would be the first thing I'd cut if funds didn't allow it. Actually, I could afford it, but cut it 8 years ago because I'm sick of paying for commercials and channels I don't watch. After the first few weeks I didn't miss it anymore.

However I'm sure that some cable providers won't sell you Internet without a TV subscription, so it may not be an option for some of these folks (fortunately I'm able to buy Internet only from Cox), but if you were buying a TV subscription just to get broadband, paying for it on your smartphone would be sorta pointless.

"The US Government pays 2.7 cents per KWh to wind producers for each KWh sold."

And the coal and oil industry get 20 billions of subsidies each year, one wonders why.

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-foss...

At $100 million, that's roughly the cost of 40 airstrikes against ISIS. It's too bad we're such a trigger-happy country, we aren't willing to let our thumbs rest for two weeks and use the money we saved to launch a scientific mission instead.

I'm sure we can expect him to criticize his hosts any tweet now.

Like, if he criticize[d] Russia's human rights record, [or] says online restrictions, [and] treatment of gays, [is] 'wrong'? You're in for a long negative-eight month wait before that'll have happened.

To counter your advertising, here is the link -- http://www.ibtimes.com/profit-... -- talking about ITT Tech issues.

Tell me with a straight face you want even four years with this robot at the helm of the country. You do know the Clinton foundation makes money from arms dealers too right? Why do you think she started a needless war in Libya? At least Bush had some motive of saving someone, not just pure profit.

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Not sure which source you are going to come back and say "that source is too biased", so I included 4 you can find more even the NYT if you want to bother looking. Its not even debatable at this point, its pretty much known fact that Clinton took bribes while Secretary of State, between $150M and $300M depending on the source. The one that is getting her in trouble is foreign donations (which she lied about multiple times before telling the truth), specifically Abu Dhabi that got a BIG favour for giving her half a million, and I think that is the one the FBI is investigating. You would think Clinton supporters would already know this about her. She even got in trouble with the IRS for not reporting the bribes as income and had to redo her taxes after she got caught.

If the OS was updated to IOS 9 then there's this fun hack...

Maybe Apple could try a web search to find other vulnerabilities.

Just a thought.

We aren't fighting on the battlefield, we're having a discussion. I don't "blather mindless propaganda," I reference news items bearing on the discussion. The fact that some of that is contrary to what you either believe or think you know gives you a chance to examine new facts. If you are an intelligent person (I'll take no position) it is possible that you may find your previous beliefs in error and adopt a new position. Some people have difficulties doing this since not mouthing the party position will get them in trouble with friends, family, or the party, so they prefer to be wrong as part of the group instead of being right and alone. Many people on Slashdot get some fairly simple issues or questions wrong because of ideology.

So, I'll meet you half-way given your post. You might want to actually read these stories.

Saddam-Era Chemical Weapons Now Under ISIS Control: Reports

However, according to a report published by The New York Times on Tuesday, the U.S. military not only recovered massive stockpiles of chemical weapons in Iraq, including in the Muthanna complex now controlled by ISIS, it actively attempted to keep the discovery of the munitions a secret. The report, which is based on interviews with several former U.S. army personnel, alleged that between 2004 and 2010, soldiers found thousands of rusty and corroded chemical munitions.

Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq’s Real WMD

Just because you think it sounds wrong or stupid doesn't mean that it is.

Err... I can't believe you're asking for citations? Really? I can understand some healthy skepticism but there are actually SCIENTIFIC PAPERS published on this. But, let me help you out... I searched first for "china scientific fraud" and found that there were papers on this subject but I clicked on the first, non-scientific, paper:

http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-...

The money quote:

Just last month, BioMed Central, an open-access publisher based in Britain, retracted 43 papers, most of them from Chinese researchers, after discovering that reviewers who had supposedly signed off on the studies were made up by agencies hired by the original authors.

I liked their phrase better, so I searched for "china scientific credibility" and figured that I'd find you some more information though, to be honest, I've no idea why you want it as it's obvious you're not actually a scientist or following science with any great enthusiasm...

Here's one about the "credibility paradox" that China faces. Zhang is Chinese, by the way.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

It's so prolific that China had to BAN dishonesty in scientific research... Ban it, by law... They just banned it recently, as in very recently. Who knows if it has actually had any real-world results? I'm thinking that "probably not" is a good answer. That should not be misread to make it seem as if I'm claiming this research is fraudulent. See below as to why I'm a bit skeptical about it having any major, real-world, long-term, impact. The link to cite that for you too:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article...

It baffles me that you have no idea and would ask for citations. They've plagiarized a ton of stuff, fabricated stuff, and made stuff up out of whole cloth and, by most accounts, that's actually due to governmental pressures. Some are inclined to believe that it is cultural. Being a bit of a pragmatist, I don't see why it can't be both. However, that's not my area so I probably am not qualified to speculate as to the reasoning.

At any rate, WTF are you going to actually *do* with a citation? This is Slashdot, not Wikipedia, and you're not a scientist - I know because this is endemic across the entire board of studies, you'd know about it if you were a scientist or even just an enthusiast. Either way, there's a whole shit-ton more articles (and actual published research) on China's reputation in all things science.

ahem... http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-r... http://bgr.com/2014/06/13/ipho... http://bgr.com/2015/06/03/appl...

I was going to mention all the federal arrests and issues in Utah before they decided to follow the federal laws, but you summed it up rather well with the description you gave.

The state (federal government) absolutely interferes in proper religiously wed polygamists. I was going to bring up the show Sister Wives, but apparently, that family has brought a striking down of the anti polygamy laws in Utah recently...I had not heard that until I started looking for citations about the harassment they received, and came up with this link:

http://www.ibtimes.com/utah-po...

I really wish I could find the statistics, but the percentage of black Oscar winners was within 1-2% of the overall black population. So uh, I fail to see the point you are trying to make. If you don't believe me, crunch the numbers starting in 2000. It matches up.

Yes, I wish you could find the statistics too. It's a shame that there's not some way we could look up information like this:

Since the Academy Awards was founded 85-years ago:

Only one woman of color (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Actress
Only seven men of color (9%) have ever won the Academy Award for Best Actor
Only one woman (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director

Now I don't know what your "within 1-2% of overall black population means", but I don't think it means what you think it means.

http://www.ibtimes.com/oscars-...

[note: the percentages are actually a bit smaller, because these statistics were as of one year ago, when no people of color were nominated. This year, no people of color were nominated again, despite there being several performances of note that would have garnered nominations if the actor had been a white actor.]

That is certainly NOT a "purely political" story; although I can understand why someone would make that mistake. It's a story about the decline of technology in the United States caused by those who make money favoring secret actions by secret U.S. government organizations.

NSA = No Sales for America.

Boeing Might Lose $4B Brazil Deal For F-18 Jets After NSA Surveillance Scandal; Analysts Say Politics Won't Trump Business (09/12/13)

Three months later: President Dilma Rousseff Announces Brazil Is Buying Sweden's Saab Gripen Jet Fighters (12/18/13)

NSA = Not a Sensible Arrangement.

The NSA does not provide "Security". Instead, the secrecy makes everyone feel insecure. Anyone can claim that a secret organization did something destructive; that's an easy sale when a small group wants violence. Suppose an NSA manager wants a promotion. The manager can arrange something likely to cause violence; there is no outside review; new violence can be used as a reason for new authority.

Consider the Culture of fear. Nazi leader Hermann Goring: "The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

Quote from that same Wikipedia page: 'Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it "obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue." '

Another quote: "... journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society."

NSA = No Structural Authority.

There are complicated problems in running ANY organization. Managing secret organizations sensibly is impossible. Each manager of a secret organization has an excuse to hide his or her mistakes. There can be no outside ideas to fix problems because no outsiders are allowed to know what is happening.

Backdoors:

The U.S. government allows secret government agencies to go to any executive in any company, make demands for "security", and threaten the executive with prison if he or she doesn't do what the secret agency wants. Is that the reason that U.S. computer equipment has backdoors? We are not allowed to know. Secret agencies are allowed to lie, so even if an agency says it didn't force a backdoor, no one can know if the statement is true.

A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:

D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)

Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)

Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)

Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)

Netgear

That is certainly NOT a "purely political" story; although I can understand why someone would make that mistake. It's a story about the decline of technology in the United States caused by those who make money favoring secret actions by secret U.S. government organizations.

NSA = No Sales for America.

Boeing Might Lose $4B Brazil Deal For F-18 Jets After NSA Surveillance Scandal; Analysts Say Politics Won't Trump Business (09/12/13)

Three months later: President Dilma Rousseff Announces Brazil Is Buying Sweden's Saab Gripen Jet Fighters (12/18/13)

NSA = Not a Sensible Arrangement.

The NSA does not provide "Security". Instead, the secrecy makes everyone feel insecure. Anyone can claim that a secret organization did something destructive; that's an easy sale when a small group wants violence. Suppose an NSA manager wants a promotion. The manager can arrange something likely to cause violence; there is no outside review; new violence can be used as a reason for new authority.

Consider the Culture of fear. Nazi leader Hermann Goring: "The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

Quote from that same Wikipedia page: 'Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it "obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue." '

Another quote: "... journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society."

NSA = No Structural Authority.

There are complicated problems in running ANY organization. Managing secret organizations sensibly is impossible. Each manager of a secret organization has an excuse to hide his or her mistakes. There can be no outside ideas to fix problems because no outsiders are allowed to know what is happening.

Backdoors:

The U.S. government allows secret government agencies to go to any executive in any company, make demands for "security", and threaten the executive with prison if he or she doesn't do what the secret agency wants. Is that the reason that U.S. computer equipment has backdoors? We are not allowed to know. Secret agencies are allowed to lie, so even if an agency says it didn't force a backdoor, no one can know if the statement is true.

A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:

D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)

Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)

Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)

Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)

Netgear

To match up to ALL the Republicans at the Dec. 12 debate?
Republicans say encryption helps only terrorists THOSE republicans are 'as bad' ad the guy who wants only cell phones available WITH A WARRANT?
NOt even close

So, Capossela, take Windows 10 and stick it up your ass. This is one former Microsoft fanboy who isn't going back. Fuck you.

Apple and Ericsson will work together to develop 5G technology, the next generation of mobile data communication, having signed a global patent agreement that ends lawsuits in Europe and the U.S. The deal will see Apple being allowed to use Ericsson's standard essential patents as well as certain other patents held by the Swedish company while both parties have also agreed to end all ongoing litigation between them. Looking to move away from court room battles, Apple and Ericsson will now look to work more closely together collaborating in "multiple technology areas," which include 5G development, video network traffic management, and wireless network optimization. "We are pleased with this new agreement with Apple, which clears the way for both companies to continue to focus on bringing new technology to the global market, and opens up for more joint business opportunities in the future," Kasim Alfalahi, chief intellectual property officer at Ericsson, said in a statement accompanying the announcement.

> You can opt-out of participation.

Considering that facebook builds shadow profiles of people who have chosen not to create accounts I have to call bullshit - a big steaming pile of bullshit - on you.

The paper:
https://www.sciencemag.org/con...

A short article and interview with Lake:
http://www.ibtimes.com/say-hel...

Clinton the arms dealer. She also lied and tried to cover up this as well and had to resubmit her tax returns after she got caught. So not only did she sell arms for donations allowing people to skip State Department reviews, she failed to report the bribes on her taxes as well.

I think it says a lot about the DNC when she is their candidate of choice.

> Clinton foundation exists to be charitable

It exists to be charitable to its donors.

And the Clintons.

Never forget it's their right to sell influence for millions of dollars:

Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department

Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States' oil-rich ally in the Middle East.

...

These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.

...

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation.

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You where wrong in that regard, why jumping to lithium selling war lords (are there any?)?

Because wind and solar rely on substantial storage capability when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing.

Right now, and for at least the next decade, "substantial storage capability" is code for "lithium batteries".

And yes, there are warlords involved:

Tesla Motors, and Conflict Lithium from the Democratic Republic of Congo:
http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-m...

That legitimizes them. They should be referred to as "Daesh".

http://www.ibtimes.com/isil-is...

Immigrants have a history of racial tension against native french. Muslim immigrants have a history of racial tension against jews. Muslim immigrants have a history of racial tension against christians. Muslim immigrants have a history of racial tension against black immigrants. Muslim immigrants have a history of racial tension against cops, women, cartoonists, other muslims.

Just a little sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As for motive, ISIS has repeatedly called on muslims to attack on French soil, and has already claimed this massacre on social media.
http://www.ibtimes.com/paris-b...

This story claims "All three of Japan's largest automakers are pushing to locate production of cars meant for the U.S. market in North America, primarily in Mexico and the United States. Toyota, Honda and Nissan are all recovering from supply chain disruptions caused by last year's tsunami in Japan and floods in Thailand, and localizing production for the U.S. market provides a natural hedge against supply chain disruptions. Moreover, the continued high value of the Japanese yen against the dollar means that it is now more expensive for Japanese car companies to ship cars overseas to the U.S. than it is to build them locally."

US tariffs on Japanese car imports are only 2.5%.

No, pipeline spills don't occur weekly unless you count releases at stations that are contained and remediated on pipeline property.As for your Kalamazoo oil spill Wikipedia reference and un-cited claim of the river not being cleaned up:
http://www.ibtimes.com/enbridg...

"Five years and billions of cleanup dollars after the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history, the river is largely revitalized."

That pipeline was also 40 years old when it failed. Are you claiming that a new pipeline constructed in 2015 is as safe as a pipeline constructed in 1970? Boy I wouldn't buy a new car... Those 1970s safety technologies really sucked and I'm sure nothing has improved since then.

a huge number of oil-transporting trains. That's right, in typical crony-capitalist mode, the billion-dollar-men who back Obama have gotten amazingly wealthier from their investment while Obama's ignorant voters are unaware that the wealth gap between rich and poor has never been greater than under Obama.

Stupid college kids think Obama is "saving the planet" while he is actually making all his friends insanely rich, some from "investments" in "green" companies that were only made profitable by Obama's government-driven market distortions and others from faux-eco moves like this pipeline ban.

Remember "Solyndra"? Those Obama supporters made a pile of money by investing a bunch of money in an unprofitable solar company, then giving Obama some campaign dollars, then getting a big pile of government loans after he was elected, and cashing-out - leaving the non-viable corporate shell to go bankrupt and the taxpayer with the debts.

Personal cars have a high external cost

Of course. Which is what I was talking about. But they are more convenient.

Countries richer than the USA

There aren't any.

Western Ukraine is somewhere I'd like to visit.

I was talking about Eastern Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk. They are in Europe and, according to your own words, you'd rather pick a job there, than anywhere in the United States.

And who cares? /sarcasm Because no-one ever clones physical hardware

Whether a product is open or closed is irrelevant. It won't stop people from cloning it.

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Only an self-entitled idiot wants to rob Paul to pay Peter

My point is that copyright law gives video game publishers the power to set restrictive policies. Your point appears to be that most relevant publishers have not chosen to assert restrictive policies, and that their policies can change and have changed. But they can change in both directions.

It turns out Blizzard has a video policy that as of today grants essentially blanket noncommercial rights and specifies when a "content use license" must be negotiated. But it doesn't give any examples of how much such a license is likely to cost or whether the conditions that Blizzard imposes on licensees qualify as a fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) regime. Another page implies that a commercial license is not available to individuals: "Blizzard Entertainment® does not enter into licensing agreements with individuals." It also supports the point that policies can change: "we reserve the right to revoke this limited use license at any time, for any reason, and at the sole discretion of Blizzard Entertainment®." And here's a story from 2015 about Blizzard takedowns. Finally, Blizzard's parent company also publishes Guitar Hero, which contains third-party music to which more restrictive policies have been applied.

A post by a moderator implies that Capcom also grants blanket noncommercial rights. In fact, both Blizzard and Capcom have announced that they are working with the noncommercial YouTube community to resolve copyright strikes.

But to me, the "sports" ecosystem includes broadcasting the events on subscription or ad-supported television. A blanket noncommercial license does not cover such commercial use. So I'm still confused as to how much an organizer of a video game tournament shown on TV should expect to have to pay for a nonexclusive license to stream each event or what other conditions a promoter will be expected to follow.

Amazon hasn't ever made a significant profit. What point am I trying to make? I have no idea but it's an important one!

The reason Amazon 'hasn't made a profit is because they've plowed it back into building a 21st century and beyond IT and logistics infrastructure to support their growth. That's fair competition. What bugs me is Amazon's use of software patents to stifle their competitors and I wonder how that will affect Wal-mart. as they try to play catch up. I am sure Amazon has done some unique stuff but a lot of what I've seen is obvious, at least if your looking to solve the problem. One-clcik is just a shining example of this.

Amazon hasn't ever made a significant profit. What point am I trying to make? I have no idea but it's an important one!

Choice getting you down? Are you paralyzed by the array of different breads available at the store? Well have I got the solution for you, friend: Bread Lines! Everyone waits in one long line, and you get handed bread. "What kind?" you ask? Sometimes it's rye, sometimes it's pumpernickel, sometimes it's nothing at all! The important thing is you don't have to worry. Let the State worry for you.

Psshh. You bread eaters sure do whine a lot. What with your warm social breadline networks, and your rotating flavors of bread. Show off.

Now the starvation economy, there's where choice isn't a problem. http://www.ibtimes.com/amid-no...

The step that you and many others who share a similar opinion miss is that in general, the police don't waste their time pulling someone over without some form of probable cause.

I guess that's why we have so many non-violating stop and search court cases?

For drunk driving accusations, this falls into one of two dominant scenarios: 1) it's about 3AM and all the bars closed down for the morning; 2) the driver was driving recklessly. Even if it is 3AM, if you do not show any signs of impairment when the officer comes to talk to you, they probably won't waste their time with a field sobriety test.

Note that at 3am, hopped up cops are more than happy to pull over anyone, for any reason. They are bored, and arresting anyone, even under false pretenses, means they get to do something other than just being bored.

they've either gotten stuck with a cop who's had a bad day and will look for any slight excuse to fine or arrest someone

Yep, and that means arresting you whether you're guilty or not, just because you were out, oh, and they have an "unofficial" quota to meet.

It's not that they're no longer updating it, but rather that they're going to update directly to Marshmallow. If you don't get that update when HTC releases it, perhaps it's time to switch to a carrier that doesn't block updates in the name of selling phones.

Also, what do you find so craptastic about 5.0? And shouldn't that be 5.0.1 if you're actually up to date? Nothing really changed (on my Nexus 6 at least) from 5.0.1. to 5.1.1, so you're not really missing out on anything exierience-wise. As for security, AT&T pushed HTC's patch for Stagefright (and other known and already-patched-in-AOSP vulns) back in August, it was a patch coming in between 28 and 55MB depending on device configuration, so I'm not sure what you're considering craptastic there, either.

If your complaint is that you're not on Marshmallow (which we were told would be out last quarter) yet, can it. Neither am I and I'm running a Nexus 6. Know why? Because it isn't out yet.

1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.

2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.

None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.

I'm sure that ALL of these benchmarks are done by Apple shills.

Right.

Oh, and whiner, I found this and this about the memory subsystem in the iPhone 6s. Glad you asked!

A History Of Gaming The System

It started in the 1970s, just after the EPA was created and began to regulate auto emissions under the Clean Air Act. Volkswagen, in fact, was among the first to equip its cars with defeat devices to override emissions control systems. In 1973, it confessed to installing them on 25,000 cars. The following year, Chrysler was forced to recall more than 800,000 cars after it was found to have installed a similar device in radiators.

The 1990s saw a couple of major scandals. In 1995, General Motors settled with the Justice Department and the EPA for $45 million, acknowledging it installed a computer chip in 500,000 Cadillacs that tripled the amount of carbon monoxide output when the cars’ heating and cooling systems were running. Three years later, Caterpillar, Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks reached a similar settlement, worth $1 billion, for equipping trucks with defeat devices.

Kia and Hyundai followed suit more recently. Last November, the South Korean corporations copped to overstating fuel economy standards on 1.2 million cars from 2010 and 2012, settling with the Justice Department and the EPA for $300 million.

A representative for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group that represents automakers operating in the United States, declined to comment.

I wouldn't count on it. Boehner is famous for crying: http://www.ibtimes.com/john-bo...

And their CEO now wants to be President of the United States.

You mean the one who says marijuana can't be legalized, because she buried a child due to drugs, except that the child was her 35 year old step-daughter, was an alcoholic and was addicted to prescription drugs? Age and cause of death don't make it any less tragic, but it also doesn't support her opposition to drug legalization.

yeah, well, then you have to "attack" global warming - because that's been a religion for some time. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever: "I am a skeptic - Global warming has become a new religion. I am Norwegian, should I really worry about a little bit of warming? I am unfortunately becoming an old man. We have heard many similar warnings about the acid rain 30 years ago and the ozone hole 10 years ago or deforestation but the humanity is still around. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money," http://www.ibtimes.com/nobel-l...

There is nothing preventing us from building something bigger than the LHC. This is just the beginning.

While the money representing the $13.25 billion that the LHC project required may be infinite, the labor and resources that it represents is not.

Let's presuppose that you could raise the collision energy of the LHC by 10^12 to cross this so-called "energy desert." If that only requires increasing cost by 10^2.... you're talking more than 1 trillion dollars. For this one science project.

In contrast to other projects such as space, proteomes, etc., there's precious little likelihood that there will be applications for the particles and forces discovered. The energies are simply too high to make these more than single-digit-off technologies. What's the Tevatron doing these days?