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Seen it so many times; local store becomes popular, tries to expand from 1 store to 6-12 at once...

http://community.seattletimes....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

always fails.

Correct AC.

The Walkman killed LP slowly, and the CD finished both off rather quickly.

But the Walkman had enough power to make tape sales higher than LP by 1983

I thought Bill Clinton showed the country how to deal with this: I do not recall.

That was Ronal Reagan - 124 times in fact. http://community.seattletimes....

She did. And....she won the equivalent to 6 of 6. Somehow.

http://community.seattletimes....

"The disclosure that Hillary Rodham Clinton parlayed $1,000 into nearly $100,000 through highly speculative commodities trading may create political embarrassment for the Clintons, who have sharply criticized a national culture of greed during the Reagan and Bush years in the White House."

First, there is NO such thing as 100% death proof. There have been 5 serious injuries/deaths in around 75,000 Model S. 1) a car thief that hit an old 1920's street light at over 100 MPH and split the car in half. He actually died a day later. 2) a car that went over a cliff and dropped over 300 feet. 3) another car that went over a cliff and bounced some 250 feet off the sides. 4) another one that had a head-on with a semi-truck that ran OVER the Tesla, crushing it. 5) the most recent in which an old man drove through a garage and put the car in a pool, but was unable to escape and drowned. Beyond that, tesla is by far the safest car ever made and yet, it is NOT 100% safe. It is STILL possible to die in it.

"The group said no drivers of '88 through '92 Volvo 240s were killed during those years [between 1989 and 1993]" http://community.seattletimes.... 5 people were killed in a 240 the next year, though, when they were hit head on. http://www.iihs.org/externalda...

Also from here http://community.seattletimes....
it appears that one of the types are Hermes 450 drones, and from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... they cost 2 Million dollars.

I'm sure Airbus cared when the GCHQ snooped on the details of a bidding process and handed over the details to Boeing.

Probably not, since that doesn't appear to be what happened.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

The Boeing Co. was among the targets of a French government plan for a massive spying effort to learn U.S. technological secrets and trade strategies, according to classified documents.

The plan targeted 49 high-tech companies, 24 financial institutions and six U.S. government agencies with important roles in international trade, the French documents show.

The plan focused on research breakthroughs and marketing strategies of leading-edge U.S. aerospace and defense contractors that compete directly with French firms.

The French also sought advance knowledge of the bargaining positions of American negotiators in trade talks involving France. . . .

Among the most coveted U.S. secrets:

-- Research, test results, production engineering and sales strategies for Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas. Both compete against the French-led European conglomerate Airbus Industrie.
 

Why We Spy on Our Allies - By R. James Woolsey, ... former Director of Central Intelligence

The European Parliament's recent report on Echelon, written by British journalist Duncan Campbell, has sparked angry accusations from continental Europe that U.S. intelligence is stealing advanced technology from European companies so that we can -- get this -- give it to American companies and help them compete. My European friends, get real. True, in a handful of areas European technology surpasses American, but, to say this as gently as I can, the number of such areas is very, very, very small. Most European technology just isn't worth our stealing.

Why, then, have we spied on you? The answer is quite apparent from the Campbell report -- in the discussion of the only two cases in which European companies have allegedly been targets of American secret intelligence collection. Of Thomson-CSF, the report says: "The company was alleged to have bribed members of the Brazilian government selection panel." Of Airbus, it says that we found that "Airbus agents were offering bribes to a Saudi official." These facts are inevitably left out of European press reports.

That's right, my continental friends, we have spied on you because you bribe. Your companies' products are often more costly, less technically advanced or both, than your American competitors'. As a result you bribe a lot. So complicit are your governments that in several European countries bribes still are tax-deductible.

When we have caught you at it, you might be interested, we haven't said a word to the U.S. companies in the competition. Instead we go to the government you're bribing and tell its officials that we don't take kindly to such corruption. They often respond by giving the most meritorious bid (sometimes American, sometimes not) all or part of the contract. This upsets you, and sometimes creates recriminations between your bribers and the other country's bribees, and this occasionally becomes a public scandal. ...

The other bad news is that it's a sign that no other college likes the college you got your 2 year degree from, for some reason, which either speaks to the quality of education that you received or to some underlying college political issue, and you won't know which without digging a bit

In the USA, there are two tiers of institutions of higher education: regionally accredited schools and nationally accredited schools. Regionally accredited institutions tend to be more prestigious and more academic as opposed to vocational. Credits from nationally accredited schools seldom transfer to regionally accredited schools, and students have sued over this.

The NSA claims that it doesn't steal trade secrets from foreign companies in order to give US businesses a competitive edge. I suspect they are lying, given that it seems like they lie about everything, and that we already have reason to suspect they are lying about this in particular.

The NSA, like other intelligence agencies, prefers to say nothing. That isn't the same thing as lying. As to the rest ...

Why We Spy on Our Allies
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

In my mind, we are trying to accomplish the same thing as the Chinese, just via a different means (or probably, via both means). Yet we criticize them as if we are somehow morally superior in the way we do it.

Suppose you are trying to improve your personal economics by increasing the amount of money you have in the bank. You could cut back on your spending, open a new business, or steal. Are some of those morally superior to another? Diplomacy is preferable to war, trade and exchange are preferable to espionage. Other countries are free to not accept US positions on trade and treaties, just as the US is in return. Countries don't really have a say about Chinese espionage.

I think you need to rethink some things.

Sorry, but you are misinformed about the facts.

Why We Spy on Our Allies
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

It seems that you are the one that either believes nonsense or is confused about the facts. Do you have any proof of that the NSA is giving business secrets to US companies? I don't recall that there has been any proof of that, only wild speculation. But maybe you are confusing these revelations with this? You probably have things backwards in more than one way.

You mean Boeing.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort
Airbus' Presentation on Boeing 787 - Bad CI Ethics?

If French intelligence had tapped US phones ... I suspect many Americans would be demanding that Versailles get nuked or we name french fries to freedom fries.

France has been caught spying in the US before and nothing like that happened.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

European, Russian, Iranian, and Chinese intelligence agencies are also known to spy, including on internet based communications, email and the rest. If you want to avoid that you need to think about only using Elbonian hosting and labor. Otherwise you're kidding yourself that you're going "spy free" by going outside the US.

You're also confused about the spying that the US government does. It isn't to seal trade secrets. I can understand the confusion on the point though, given certain European practices.

A little more data for you.

Airbus' Presentation on Boeing 787 - Bad CI Ethics?
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

You might read those, then read the link above labeled, "Why We Spy on Our Allies."

US spies, how should others respond then? By rolling over?

I think you have things a little confused.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

Why would any country trust a closed-sourced product produced by a US Technology firm?

Because the Chinese, French, Germans, British, Swedes, and Finns aren't much different?

Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy
Supo wants expanded net surveillance powers
The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

It's just that there is a combination of ignorance of the spying by other countries and disdain towards the US for not being quite European enough. Time will probably reduce that.

Reading into Glen Greenwald's comments and some of his other statements, it would seem that much of the spying is used not for security purposes, rather it's to give an edge to certain select US businesses.

Unless you can point to something firmer, you probably have that garbled. The situation is rather more subtle than that.

Why We Spy on Our Allies - By R. James Woolsey, a Washington lawyer and a former Director of Central Intelligence.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort
Airbus' Presentation on Boeing 787 - Bad CI Ethics?

I think this might be what you are looking for.

Why We Spy on Our Allies
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

That's fine as far as it goes, but intelligence agencies aren't businesses. There are going to be strict limits on what they can and will divulge as part of the recruiting process regarding what countries or organizations they target. I would think that anyone seriously contemplating such employment would have a reasonable idea of what that is list going to look like ahead of time. The thing most likely to be missed by recruits would be intelligence operations involving friendly countries. But if you keep track of the news you should have some idea of that being of interest as well.

At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

Do you have a citation on that? I did a little looking, but found some unexpected things instead.

Exclusive: Airbus Dreamliner Dossier Revealed

In a stunning and candid critique of its chief competitor, Airbus has crafted a comprehensive competitive analysis that touches on nearly every aspect of the troubled 787 programme gleaned from Boeing proprietary data and an embedded network of sources from inside the Dreamliner's global supply chain.

Competitive intelligence is a standard practice in the aerospace industry, but the information revealed in the Airbus analysis reveals a scope and specificity of the data collected.

The document includes what appear to be seven slides labelled BOEING PROPRIETARY with a format style used in Boeing presentations, including two that appear to have been photocopied, raising questions about the methods and sources the European consortium utilizes to collect its data.

Airbus claims the presentation, as well as its competitive intelligence gathering methods, fully comply with all laws. Though when approached about how the information was gathered, Airbus declined to address it specifically, suggesting that a lot of data labelled BOEING PROPRIETARY is freely available online. Airbus added that not all documents labelled BOEING PROPRIETARY are in fact proprietary. A spokesman emphasized that Airbus closely watches the market to draw its own conclusions, as do its competitors.

A search engine query for "Boeing Proprietary PPT" did not yield the slides in question.

Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort

The Boeing Co. was among the targets of a French government plan for a massive spying effort to learn U.S. technological secrets and trade strategies, according to classified documents.

The plan targeted 49 high-tech companies, 24 financial institutions and six U.S. government agencies with important roles in international trade, the French documents show.

The plan focused on research breakthroughs and marketing strategies of leading-edge U.S. aerospace and defense contractors that compete directly with French firms.

The French also sought advance knowledge of the bargaining positions of American negotiators in trade talks involving France. The 21-page assignment sheet, prepared by the French equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency, is considered authentic by senior U.S. experts.

Why We Spy on Our Allies

That's right, my continental friends, we have spied on you because you bribe. Your companies' products are often more costly, less technically advanced or both, than your American competitors'. As a result you bribe a lot. So complicit are your governments that in several European countries bribes still are tax-deductible.

When we have caught you at it, you might be interested, we haven't said a word to the U.S. companies in the competition. Instead we go to the government you're bribing and tell its officials that we don't take kindly to such corruption. They often respond by giving the most meritorious bid (sometimes American, sometimes not) all or part of the contract. This upsets you, and sometimes creates recriminations between your bribers and the other country's bribees, and this occasionally becomes a public scandal. ...

Why do you bribe? It's not because your companies are inherently more corrupt. Nor is it because you are inherently less talented at technology. It is because your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. In spite of a few recent reforms, your governments largely still dominate your economies, so you have much greater difficulty than we in innovating, encouragin

All the major players spy on each other. Even their allies. I think it's expected to happen and only when it becomes public do the players pretend to be outraged.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

Everyone jaywalks, but it is still against the law. You can still get in trouble for it.

All the major players spy on each other. Even their allies. I think it's expected to happen and only when it becomes public do the players pretend to be outraged.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

I'd be surprised if the European governments aren't bugging US embassies. Afterall, the French were doing stuff like this:

"The Boeing Co. was among the targets of a French government plan for a massive spying effort to learn U.S. technological secrets and trade strategies, according to classified documents. The plan targeted 49 high-tech companies, 24 financial institutions and six U.S. government agencies with important roles in international trade, the French documents show... At least a dozen allied countries, including France, Japan, Italy, Taiwan and West Germany, have stepped up spying on U.S. businesses since the end of the Cold War, analysts say. These countries are particularly interested in electronics, defense and aerospace." http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

It seems bizarre, given the history of the 20th century, that you would see the europeans as dealing with each other like fine, upstanding gentlemen.

There is evidence that the countries are doing the same, you know: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

WASHINGTON - The Boeing Co. was among the targets of a French government plan for a massive spying effort to learn U.S. technological secrets and trade strategies, according to classified documents.

The plan targeted 49 high-tech companies, 24 financial institutions and six U.S. government agencies with important roles in international trade, the French documents show.

The plan focused on research breakthroughs and marketing strategies of leading-edge U.S. aerospace and defense contractors that compete directly with French firms.

The French also sought advance knowledge of the bargaining positions of American negotiators in trade talks involving France. The 21-page assignment sheet, prepared by the French equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency, is considered authentic by senior U.S. experts.

A French Embassy spokesman in Washington, after conferring with officials in Paris, responded: "There is nothing in this document to indicate that it was released by French government offices."

At least a dozen allied countries, including France, Japan, Italy, Taiwan and West Germany, have stepped up spying on U.S. businesses since the end of the Cold War, analysts say. These countries are particularly interested in electronics, defense and aerospace....

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

Oh, really? Everybody's doing that? Well, perhaps the USSR did, but do you honestly believe that close Western allies of the US are systematically bugging US embassies and spying on US politicians on a massive scale?

Yes. I've read elsewhere that the French are particularly zealous about spying on businessmen from the US.

Here's an example:

WASHINGTON - The Boeing Co. was among the targets of a French government plan for a massive spying effort to learn U.S. technological secrets and trade strategies, according to classified documents.

The plan targeted 49 high-tech companies, 24 financial institutions and six U.S. government agencies with important roles in international trade, the French documents show.

The plan focused on research breakthroughs and marketing strategies of leading-edge U.S. aerospace and defense contractors that compete directly with French firms.

The French also sought advance knowledge of the bargaining positions of American negotiators in trade talks involving France. The 21-page assignment sheet, prepared by the French equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency, is considered authentic by senior U.S. experts.

A French Embassy spokesman in Washington, after conferring with officials in Paris, responded: "There is nothing in this document to indicate that it was released by French government offices."

At least a dozen allied countries, including France, Japan, Italy, Taiwan and West Germany, have stepped up spying on U.S. businesses since the end of the Cold War, analysts say. These countries are particularly interested in electronics, defense and aerospace.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696416

If you fire someone because of their skin color, religion, ethnicity, gender, or age then you have illegally discriminated against them

The non-discrimination laws you are referring to have nothing to do with unions.

Unionization is just as much an American right as the right to bear arms.

Is it? Then, please, cite the relevant Article of the Constitution or Amendment. You can't. The most you can scrape is "freedom of association" — and I have no problem with that whatsoever. People ought to be free to unionize to their heart's content, but such unions can not have any more legal power, than bowling leagues or reading clubs. Unfortunately, they do have a lot more power than that: you can not, for example, be a carpenter in New York City without being a union-member.

If you don't like Unions then don't work with them or buy from them, after all that's what we're told when we complain about Walmart.

If Walmart were to conspire with K-Mart to raise prices of their wares, they'll be subject to anti-trust laws — and rightly so. Individual employees unionizing to raise the price of their labor are not any different morally — and should be treated the same legally.

If the US saw fit to block the merger of Staples and Office Depot once — for fear, the resulting entity will become a monopoly in the market of the freaking office supplies, why do we not only tolerate, but encourage monopolies in the markets of law-enforcement, firefighting, healthcare, mass-transit, and public school labor?

So believe me when I say that if the judge I worked for, of if the judges my friends were working for were being offered bribes, I would definitely know about it. He isn't, and they aren't. Not even close. It just does not happen. Sorry.

look just a few comments up for the counterexample

Federal Judge First Ever Convicted Of Taking Bribe

It may be rare (or it might be rare for there to be a conviction), but it can in fact happen, despite personal anecdotes to the contrary.

It's actually quite a good default position, with incompetence only slightly behind it.

The number of federal judges impeached for all causes since 1904 is 10.

Two were acquitted, Six were removed. Two resigned. Impeachment in the United States

NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Robert F. Collins was convicted yesterday of scheming to split a $100,000 bribe from a drug smuggler, making him the first federal judge in the 200-year history of the judiciary to be found guilty of taking a bribe.

Federal Judge First Ever Convicted Of Taking Bribe [June 30, 1991]

When confronted by fact, the geek retreats into fantasy,

You're claiming that the self policing system isn't corrupt because it doesn't result in many convictions? Is my sarcasm meter broken or did you seriously just try to make that argument?

It's actually quite a good default position, with incompetence only slightly behind it.

The number of federal judges impeached for all causes since 1904 is 10.

Two were acquitted, Six were removed. Two resigned. Impeachment in the United States

NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Robert F. Collins was convicted yesterday of scheming to split a $100,000 bribe from a drug smuggler, making him the first federal judge in the 200-year history of the judiciary to be found guilty of taking a bribe.

Federal Judge First Ever Convicted Of Taking Bribe [June 30, 1991]

When confronted by fact, the geek retreats into fantasy,

A Microsoft sponsored petition had 115,000 signatures! That's probably more people than are using Windows 8.

Of course, we should double check and make sure all of those signatures belong to actual living people, and not dead people. MS has a history of fake grass roots campaigns involving dead people. You should all listen to your international corporate overlords and be outraged at being scroogled, but ignore the fact that Microsoft reserves the right to examine all of the data on your sky drive.

It shouldn't suprise us that Microsoft products are so popular among the dead. After all, Balmer is one of the most brain-dead CEO's in the tech world. They used to be such a scrappy competitive company. Then the 1990's happened.

Asking Google to stop rifling through their e-mail is a perfectly reasonalbe request, as long as the people making that request understand that they will then either have to pay a subscription fee or that they will be told by Google to go someplace else where that feature is on offer. GMail is free because Google can rifle through your mail, harvest your personal data and sell it in an anonymized form (or so they claim) to advertisers. You either get an e-mail service where you can pay for privacy or you sacrifice your privacy to get e-mail for free. You can't have your cake and eat it too. There is no such thing as free lunch, even freetards pay a price for 'free stuff' it just isn't always money. It's amazing how hard it is for some people to understand that (general observation, not accusing number6x personally).

A Microsoft sponsored petition had 115,000 signatures! That's probably more people than are using Windows 8.

Of course, we should double check and make sure all of those signatures belong to actual living people, and not dead people. MS has a history of fake grass roots campaigns involving dead people. You should all listen to your international corporate overlords and be outraged at being scroogled, but ignore the fact that Microsoft reserves the right to examine all of the data on your sky drive.

It shouldn't suprise us that Microsoft products are so popular among the dead. After all, Balmer is one of the most brain-dead CEO's in the tech world. They used to be such a scrappy competitive company. Then the 1990's happened.

In Washington, many health providers are barely regulated (see Seattle Time's report Seniors for Sale). The state regular, DSHS, is notoriously incompetent and hasn't been nationally accredited since at least 2001. I imagine most of the oversight comes from the feds, who are pretty overworked. Skylar

Seems like every backward region I've ever been too has been awash in conspiracy theories, urban legends, and superstitious horseshit. Worked down in South America, where every illiterate countryside hick seems to think Americans are trying to steal their organs (resulting in shit like this). Worked in India, where half the hicks think that clean water is just a ruse to poison them. Even worked in a ghetto, where the rumor was that whitey was putting chemicals in menthol cigarettes to make black men sterile.

So it doesn't surprise me that backwater Pakistanis believe that Christians are out to give their kids drugs to make them hate Mohammad (or whatever other crazy crap runs through those heads), disguised as these things called "vaccines." Combine that with a CIA sleight-of-hand and a Taliban which is happy to use any excuse to show it's still relevant, and you get a lot of kids who are now going to die from a disease the rest of the world eradicated long ago.

Fuck, just look at this idiot as the perfect example of what happens when you mix base stupidity with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

It's all well and good until said hillbillies start killing people or getting them killed.

In comparison, climate change, here, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is not going to get dramatically worse, if we don't do anything about it. For example, they generally forecast the loss of about as much land over the next century from rising water levels (assuming a one meter rise) as are lost each year from desertification due mostly to bad agricultural practices.

This is a joke. This is the exact opposite of what every scientific report says.

Your post is a classic example of someone holding forth in an authoritative tone who knows exactly zero about the subject he's pontificating on.

Global Warming Threatens Our National Security IISS: âoeA Global Catastropheâ For International Security

A recent study done by the International Institute for Strategic Studies has likened the international security effects of global warming to those caused by nuclear war. [On Deadline]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/climate-change-.html

U.N.: As Dangerous As War United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said this year that global warming poses as much of a threat to the world as war. [BBC]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6410305.stm

Center for Naval Analyses: National Security Threat In April, a report completed by the Center for Naval Analyses predicted that global warming would cause âoelarge-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water.â [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/320929_secured.html

Genocide in Sudan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon charges, âoeAmid the diverse social and political causes, the Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change.â [Washington Post]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html

War in Somalia
In April, a group of 11 former U.S. military leaders released a report charging that the war in Somalia during the 1990s stemmed in part from national resource shortages caused by global warming. [Washington Post]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401209.html

Starvation
A study by IISS found that reduced water supplies and hotter temperatures mean âoe65 countries were likely to lose over 15 percent of their agricultural output by 2100.â [Yahoo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/ts_nm/climate_security_dc

Large-Scale Migrations
Global warming will turn already-dry environments into deserts, causing the people who live there to migrate in massive numbers to more livable places. [MSNBC]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19479607/

More Refugees
A study by the relief group Christian Aid estimates the number of refugees around the world will top a billion by 2050, thanks in large part to global warming. [Telegraph]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/14/nclimate14.xml

Increased Border Tensions
A report called âoeNational Security and the Threat of Climate Change,â written by a group of retired generals and admirals, specifically linked global warming to increased border tensions. âoeIf, as some project, sea levels rise, human migrations may occur, likely both within and across bo

Where I'm from (Pittsburgh, PA), many bicyclists don't use hand signals or stop at red lights - They buzz right through.

While I can't comment on the stupidity of failing to stop at red lights, I have to offer a possible explanation for the lack of hand signals. Two words:

• Fear
• Ignorance

I'm afraid to even attempt to use hand signals because of the possibility of being confused with using gang signs and I say this as someone whose hard of hearing and uses (pidgin) ASL to communicate with Deaf friends. Even with ASL I'm nervous about using them in public, there have been too many stories of people being attacked or confused for being a gang banger over use of hand signs.

Ignorance also plays a factor. How many motorists would recognize bike hand signals if they saw them? How many would only see a hand movement and decide they were being flipped off by rude bikers?

What good does it do to use signals that are unknown and likely to get you killed if misinterpreted?

State pushes prescription painkiller methadone, saving millions but costing lives

At the risk of repeating myself:

This lawsuit was about the Galaxy line of phones, all of which have a larger screen than the iphone.

If I'm mistaken, tell me where I am mistaken and tell me the correct answer. Don't just say, "YOUR WRONG!" and leave it at that. Tell me which devices are part of this lawsuit because everything I can find says the Galaxy line. I also read that they are using this lawsuit to try to ban the Galaxy SIII.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48783982

The verdict, which came much sooner than expected, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely solidify Apple's dominance of the exploding mobile computing market.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-apple-vs-samsung-case/

As part of its lawsuit, Apple also demanded that Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market. A judge was expected to make that ruling at a later time.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/avantgo/2018986876.html

Apple lawyer plans to formally demand Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market.

While the SIII is not listed specifically, it is the most popular cellphone Samsung sells right now.

It's not religious nuttery, skippy.

Three of the top four states for non-vaccination rates are: Washington, Oregon and Vermont. None are well known for being conservative or religious. The fourth is Alaska.

This article shows a history of Microsoft's logos.

According to this report, global warming will make western Washington even gloomier than it already is. So while the rest of the nation bakes, people in Seattle will be perfectly comfortable while they're being glum.

In America, we too have VERY few massacres.

How do you define "VERY few"?

July 2012 - 12 dead, 50 wounded - Aurora, CO
May 2012 - 6 dead, 1 wounded; Seattle, WA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Seattle_cafe_shooting_spree
April 2012 - 7 dead, 3 injured - Oikos University, Oakland, CA
Feb 2012 - 3 dead, 2 wounded - Chardon, OH
Aug 2011 - 8 dead, 1 wounded; Copley Township, OH -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Copley_Township,_Ohio_shooting
July 2011 - 8 dead, 2 wounded; Grand Rapids, MI -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Grand_Rapids,_Michigan_shooting
Jan 2011 - 6 dead; 13 wounded - Tucson, AZ -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting
Jan 2010 - 8 dead; Appomattox, VA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Appomattox_shootings
Nov 2009 - 13 dead, 30 wounded; Ft. Hood, TX -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_Shooting
April 2009 - 14 dead; 4 wounded - Binghamton, NY -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shootings
Mar 2009 - 11 dead 6 wounded, Samson, AL -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_County_massacre
Feb 2009 - 4 dead, 1 wounded; University of AZ -- http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-527308.html
Dec 2008 - 9 dead, 3+ injured; Covina, CA
Sept 2008 - 6 dead, 2 injured; Alger, WA -- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008153942_webshooting02m.html
Dec 2007 - 8 dead, 5 wounded; Omaha, NE
April 2007 - 32 dead; Virginia Tech
Oct 2006 - 6 dead, 5 injured; Nickel Mines, PA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_school_shooting
Jan 2006 - 7 dead; Goleta, CA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_San_Marco
March 2005 - 7 dead, 4 wounded; Brooksfield, WI -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Ratzmann
March 2005 - 10 dead, 12 injured; Red Lake HS, Minnesota
October 2002 - 10 dead, 3 injured; Washington DC (sniper attacks over 3 week period) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
July 1999 - 9 dead 13 wounded; Atlanta, GA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O._Barton
April 1999 - 12 dead; Columbine HS
Dec 1993 - 6 dead, 19 wounded; Long Island Railroad -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road_Massacre
May 1993 - 2 dead, 3 wounded; Dearborn, MI --
May 1993 - 3 dead; Dana Point, CA
July 1993 - 9 dead, 6 wounded; San Francisco, CA -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_California_Street_shootings
Nov 1991 - 4 dead, 6 wounded; Royal Oak, MI -- http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/15/us/ex-postal-worker-kills-3-and-wounds-6-in-michigan.html
Oct 1991 - 4 dead (1 by samurai sword); Ridgewood, NJ -- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-former-postal-worker-commits-mass-murder
Oct 1991

Am I the only one that thinks that the interpretation of free speech is overly broad?

No, sadly, you're not. And please, don't quibble about the 'indecency' aspect. We don't want a bunch of meddlesome ninnies deciding what is 'indecent'.

Capitalism would do a better job with education, housing and healthcare if government would stop introducing massive distortions in the market.

Nothing in this sentence is even remotely true; you're just reciting right-wing dogma. On housing, weren't you awake in 2008 when the lifting of regulations on capitalism caused the huge housing meltdown? On health care, aren't you aware that the least socialized American health care system costs the most and performs the worst of all developed nations? On education, don't you know that the completely government funded education systems in places like Finland deliver vastly better results than the much less regulated US school system? Maybe you should look sometimes at the real world around you and check whether what happens matches your conceptions. And if they don't, maybe reconsider them.

Microsoft?

Yes. Say what you will about all of Microsoft's other actions, but their track record on gay rights is pretty good.

Citation needed? Citation offered: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/2018582581_ballmer_gates_each_donate_100000_to_support_gay_ma.html

That took a few seconds of searching. Further examples are left as an exercise for the reader.

I remembered the story wrong and didn't bother looking it up: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2018556441_apaschinadeadlydairy.html

The University of Washington was caught giving preference to out-of-state students for this very reason. As a WA resident and tax payer, it's infuriating that our students are denied the chance to remain within their home State- even worse, they are at a disadvantage relative to the out-of-state students simply because they don't even have the option of paying that out-of-state tuition rate just so that they can be on a level financial playing field. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014670294_admissions03m.html

Old story here

The burden of evidence is on the person making a claim, not on the reader of said claim.

If it were difficult to find this information then you would have a point, but it isn't. If you search google for "gates foundation criticism" then odds are that above link will turn up in the top 10, and in fact 40-50% (depending on how you count) of the links are actually from credible sources like The Guardian and The Seattle Times. As it is, you are just fucking lazy, and you want some basis on which to attack the comment in order to discredit it. You don't actually want to see the mounting criiticism against the foundation, such as that many [of the Gates' Foundation's] partners said the foundation didn't understand their goals, was inconsistent in its communications and often unresponsive, or that Bill, Melinda and Microsoft maintain pharmaceutical patent investments, tobacco investments, investments in alcoholic beverages, petroleum investments, investments in experimental and controversial crops, or that grant making by the Gates Foundation seems to be largely managed through an informal system of personal networks and relationships rather than by a more transparent process based on independent and technical peer review. You'd rather remain blissfully ignorant because the more you know, the more defensive bullshit you have to invent to support your untenable position.