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Who wants to be a pilot and put your butt on the line every day as you enter enemy territory when you can be a drone pilot half way across the world and go home to your wife and kids every night.

Who wants to drive something dangerous like a Ferrari P4/5 when you can drive something safe and dependable like the Mack Terapro garbage truck? The Ferrari is expensive, has hardly any room for passengers of the opposite sex, is difficult to maintain, and says you don't watch your spending. The Mack truck, on the other hand, is much cheaper, has much more room for members of the opposite sex (even if they have to ride in the back), and maintenance is a snap at many conveniently located dealers. Nobody will question your spending habits if they know you turned down a Ferrari for a Mack. You'd be a fool not to go with the Mack.

Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress

Non-drone aircraft pilots love to fly, even if it is dangerous: The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

Point to _one_ NYTimes article where they get the science right? Shouldn't be too hard.

You're right. Posted three hours ago, 2nd link from the top of the page.

I mean, really?

So what are we going to do about it? Keep voting for republican bitches who have never met an out of control cop or prosecutor whose dick they wouldn't suck harder for being "tough on criminals"? Keep voting for liberal losers who aren't going to do a damn thing about out of control government?

and i would be willing to bet people that had one autistic child is statistically more likely to have a second autistic child...

You would win that bet. The risk is about twenty times higher, 1 in 5 instead of 1 in 110.

Why I have a system that'll work! It's called the Spurious curios child finder.

The school system needs to buy these at $15,000 a piece and if they don't, they DON'T care about the Children!!

And if it doesn't seem to work, then you just don't have enough Faith in Jesus!

> And let me tell you - the current cultivars are almost invariably better at that than their 1950 era relatives.

Do you have any data to back that up? This recent NYT article seems to disagree.

Modern cultivars are selected for business reasons rather than health reasons - better yield, pest/pesticide resistance, transportability and presentation. We are still at the start of the green revolution. Now that we got the business stuff in control, perhaps the next generation plant genetics research can focus on healthier stuff.

> And let me tell you - the current cultivars are almost invariably better at that than their 1950 era relatives.

Do you have any data to back that up? This recent NYT article seems to disagree.

Modern cultivars are selected for business reasons rather than health reasons - better yield, pest/pesticide resistance, transportability and presentation. We are still at the start of the green revolution. Now that we got the business stuff in control, perhaps the next generation plant genetics research can focus on healthier stuff.

I completely agree. As you may know, there are examples of this. In fact the term is restorative justice.

In one unusual case it was applied to a murder as described in this excellent NY Times article: Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-the-nutrition-out-of-our-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&gwh=C55932C623A00AD8AD823E3855A54699

I can't get an online subscription

I'm not sure why you can't. They offer a number of options.

My post fails to answer the original question, so here's an actual answer.

Call up the advertizing departments of the major online magazines which have a subscription model, such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Tell them who you are and what you want to do, and ask if someone could discuss their situation with you and give some recommendations.

Surprisingly, many people are willing to spend time helping others, giving advice, and outlining their experiences with a problem. Talking to someone with first-hand knowledge is the most valuable information you can get.

If you do this, please write up your conclusions somewhere and submit it as a followup article. Many Slashdot readers aspire to have online businesses, and would be interested in your results.

From what I've read, I strongly suspect that the online magazines aren't making enough money from online subscriptions to warrant the hassles of the infrastructure. NYT, for example, had to implement their own subscription interface... is your small shop willing to bear that expense? It will take manpower, money, and time away from adding value to your product, and I suspect that the return on your subscription won't be worth the tradeoff.

You'll be putting a lot of effort into the subscription mechanism, while at the same time reducing your readership. It's better to ditch subscription altogether, put your efforts into adding value, and get money from advertizing.

George Orwell begs to differ. As do Richard Stallman.

Owership, as in the number of families who own guns, not the number of guns per capita: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-is-down-survey-shows.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/chart-day-gun-ownership-30-year-decline

Here's a recent example: Blythe Masters, an executive at JP Morgan Chase, may escape prosecution after having manipulated energy prices in California and Michigan. Officials have accused her of rigging prices, and they also accuse JP Morgan Chase of trying to cover up the evidence. Strangely, the recommendation was for a civil case, not a criminal case, against Ms. Masters.

The link to ny times should be

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html

All this banter about the NSA = bad or Echelon = bad or the requirement of warrant is entirely missing the point. The truth is that this fundamental lack of privacy is guaranteed to happen. We live in an era when recording data is so cheap and so easy that it's happening accidentally, automatically, as a daily part of living life. Last time I had contact with the police, my phone recorded the entire thing from my pocket. Audio quality was quite good, too. With 32 GB of space on my phone, I could literally record my entire day, every day, and keep days worth of audio on hand in case something "interesting" happened. Oops! What happened to the privacy of those around me?

But, the problem isn't the computers recording your every move, it's the secrecy with which it's being done and the lack of accountability that secrecy gives rise to.

This was predicted years and years ago and the brilliant, understandable answer to avoid abuse is simple: transparency .

I don't think that cops should have the option of wearing cameras; I think that no arrest should ever be done without them, and simply lacking the arrest footage should be enough to dismiss the case. Any and all public places should be open to be recorded without further notice. And all recordings of public places or of public officers in the performance of their duties should also be public. (with an appropriate time delay)

Some areas are already experimenting with these ideas and the result is nearly 90% reduction in police misconduct complaints. The privacy of our actions is far less important than the abuse of the information collected.

On the internet, it's 4.74 degrees of separation.

Hey, I have an idea...why don't all of the luddites come out of the woodwork on Slashdot, the direct implication of their ideas which can only be that government must be restricted from using certain technology because it "could be abused". I have news for you: technology will ALWAYS make the job of government -- or anyone who uses it -- easier. That is why it is the LAW, not the technology, that is paramount. If you still want to believe the government is going to ignore the law and "do what it wants to do anyway", then there is no rational debate that can be had.

Also, you are completely, totally, 100% wrong about NSA, in two major ways:

1. NSA's mission, to the exclusion of nearly everything else, is FOREIGN signals intelligence. I know you think they're doing a lot of other things, but they're not. They would never get involved in anything like this. (I realize you may have been making the comment tongue-in-cheek.) If ANY federal agency would be involved, it would be the FBI -- and they are, in fact, because they're the ones who keep the national databases that many state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies use.

2. NSA cannot use contractors to "claim it isn't doing something." I have no idea where this completely false trope started, but it can't use contractors, second party nations, or anyone else to do things it can't do itself. This fact is extensively enshrined in law and policy, the chief guidance being USSID SP0018. (An older version is available for reading.)

Warrants are meaningless.

1. the feds just go to their secret rubberstamp court to get them
2. this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_v._Gates made them a joke since an LEO can get one by claiming an anonymous tip.

It is sufficient if a "psychic" claims to have sensed bodies on your ground.

Being too scientific for the sake of science is turning lots of interested people away.

Alan Alda (yes, Hawkeye Pierce) has said almost the exact same thing in this article. Essentially, he wants the science folks to be more clear when describing something without the technical terms.

This does not mean dumb down the science, just explain more clearly what is taking place.

You are correct, a large portion of their income is from ads.

But the ad revenue is in a steep 2-year decline, including a 12% decline in the most recent quarter (compared to 1 year ago).

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/technology/companies/yahoos-profit-rises-but-revenue-slips.html?_r=0

So it's mostly the China cash windfall that's keeping them afloat. And that's just temporary!

The NYPD arrested 700 protesters for exercising their first amendment rights in Oct 2011.

We want to know how not to be a mosquito magnet. Like using a fan or eating garlic.

"politeness" in the corporate IT world amounts to accepting practices which result in the worst security problems you can think of. Later the management muppets will be "completely stunned" by their data being sucked off by 127 Chinese, 67 American, 17 Nork and 23 Israeli hacksters,

Keep calling out the frauds as frauds, Linus !

Read this and see how "politeness" and "polticial correctness" (read. MONEY) corrupts the mind almost totally:

Corrupt RSA

Hack of Lockheed Martin

We need MORE people to tell the blunt truth than people like this Intel dumbo-corporate-chick who wants to sweep problems under the carpet.

Kind regars to all the corruptos

Dipl.-Ing.(BA) Frank Gerlach

I'm not going to look them up,

You never did, why start now?

but there are statistics to show that black people who kill white people are more likely to get the death penalty than vice versa.

There are also statistics that show blacks are twice as likely to commit a hate crime as whites. FBI.gov, DOJ.gov... whats your point?

Here's a case where a black man who thought his family's life was in danger killed a white teenager who was threatening him -- and got convicted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

And here is a pic of NPH and a rainbow. http://fukung.net/v/30962/3b9f4dce9e25ffe63f8cc3eb7a0a72de.jpg

Florida was a slave state.

Mauritania still practices slavery today (hint: thats in Africa) even though they outlawed it waaay back in 1981.

There were 6 white jurors in the Zimmerman trial. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors?

Pretty good in the Sanford area as the jury pools are comprised of locals... aka "peers".

What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

I don't know off hand. But I'm sure it can be calculated fairly quickly. What are the odds of a quarter having 27 white sides, 7 black sides, 3 hispanic sides, 3 "mixed" sides, and a prosecution & defense team interviewing each side to determine their impartiality and knowledge of the coin flip?

P.S., if somebody wants to answer the all-white jury pool question while ignoring such things as jury pools being comprised of people that voted in the last election or the jury being interviewed by the prosecution & defense teams... the 40 strong pool was racially broken down as above: 27, 7, 3, 3.

I'm not going to look them up,

You never did, why start now?

but there are statistics to show that black people who kill white people are more likely to get the death penalty than vice versa.

There are also statistics that show blacks are twice as likely to commit a hate crime as whites. FBI.gov, DOJ.gov... whats your point?

Here's a case where a black man who thought his family's life was in danger killed a white teenager who was threatening him -- and got convicted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

And here is a pic of NPH and a rainbow. http://fukung.net/v/30962/3b9f4dce9e25ffe63f8cc3eb7a0a72de.jpg

Florida was a slave state.

Mauritania still practices slavery today (hint: thats in Africa) even though they outlawed it waaay back in 1981.

There were 6 white jurors in the Zimmerman trial. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors?

Pretty good in the Sanford area as the jury pools are comprised of locals... aka "peers".

What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

I don't know off hand. But I'm sure it can be calculated fairly quickly. What are the odds of a quarter having 27 white sides, 7 black sides, 3 hispanic sides, 3 "mixed" sides, and a prosecution & defense team interviewing each side to determine their impartiality and knowledge of the coin flip?

P.S., if somebody wants to answer the all-white jury pool question while ignoring such things as jury pools being comprised of people that voted in the last election or the jury being interviewed by the prosecution & defense teams... the 40 strong pool was racially broken down as above: 27, 7, 3, 3.

Anybody who is actively and successfully evading the CIA/NSA probably has a lot more insight into just what is required to do so then either of us.

Yes, but remember, the courier is the weak link (haha).

Iowa supreme court recently upheld decision that dentist was within his right to fire assistant because he was "too attracted" to her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/us/iowa-court-reaffirms-dentists-firing-of-woman-he-found-too-attractive.html?_r=0

... because Ballmer has a stiffie for the iPhone yet doesn't have a damned clue about what makes an iPhone an iPhone! News Flash, Jobs spent more than 3 decades slowly but surely building up Apple to be a high end boutique brand, refused to cut prices even in the 90s when they were on the ropes, because for his entire strategy to work it NEEDED to be expensive!

A perfect analogy would be slapping a new coat of paint on a Pinto and expecting to get Porsche money for it, because MSFT slaughtered the competition precisely because they were NOT expensive, they were the Walmart to Apple's Macy's and there is NO WAY IN HELL they are gonna suddenly flip that and get people to pay more than for an Apple to buy WinPhones and Wintabs, its NEVER gonna happen, it will NEVER work, the MSFT stores are ghost towns, all the little shops like mine have "Yes we have Win 7!" signs in the window, he is burning the damned company to the ground trying to force a strategy that has less of a chance of succeeding than Heaven's Gate II has a chance of being made!

...

And Apple execs too can destroy a company trying to make it the "next Apple".

Former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson, confident in his extreme brilliance that had made Apple incredibly profitable (of course, why share credit with Steve Jobs or anyone else?), extended the benefits of his genius to J.C. Penney's, attempting to run it like an Apple store: dumping value priced merchandise for boutique items; no discounts, not ever; simply throwing away unread a huge consumer study just completed declaring that "just like at Apple, customers don’t always know what they want”.

Chief’s Silicon Valley Stardom Quickly Clashed at J.C. Penney.

Former Apple retail chief presides over JC Penney's lowest sales in 20 Years.

Apple exec fired after 17 months.

I used to write for legal magazines, and I often interviewed lawyers about how they select juries, which, they say, is where you win or lose the case.

It is well known among lawyers that prosecutors, especially in the South, try to keep blacks off juries, especially when the defendant is black.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/texas-reaches-death-penalty-milestone/

In 1963, a manual of the office instructed that prosecutors should not take “Jews, Negroes, Dagos, Mexicans, or a member of any minority race on a jury, no matter how rich or how well educated.” In 1986, the Dallas Morning News reported that county prosecutors were still trying to keep almost all blacks off juries by using peremptory challenges.

They took it out of the manuals but if you look at the voir dire they're still doing it.

It is well known among lawyers that there are ways to manipulate jury selection. In the South, the first step is to keep blacks out of the jury pool in the first place. In Florida, they use the voter rolls, and they exclude anyone who has been convicted of a "crime". For example, a black guy was arrested and convicted for falling asleep at a bus stop while waiting for the bus. He was excluded from the jury pool.

If the prosecutor wants to throw the case, he can simply make no effort to avoid an all-white jury. In Florida, they have this peculiar 6-man jury, which makes it even easier to get an all-white jury.

If you have any black friends, you should have noticed that black and white people perceive some things differently. That's because their experience of discrimination is different. Throughout the South, if black people violated the racial code, there were gangs of self-appointed vigilantes who would kidnap and kill them. Trayvon Martin was certainly aware of that when he saw George Zimmerman following him.

Every lawyer knows that you can get a different result with white people or black people on the jury (especially in a case like this). That's why Southern prosecutors usually try so hard to keep blacks off the jury.

If I'm a defendant -- or if I'm the family of the victim -- I have a right not to be tried by a jury of all white jurors or all black jurors. I have a right to be tried by a jury that's randomly and fairly selected from the population. This jury looks very suspicious to me. They couldn't find one acceptable black juror in a racially-charged case like this?

I hear a lot of bullshit now about that's what the jury decided and we have to accept it. If you wanted me to accept it, you should have had a jury I can trust. I don't trust an all-white jury in the South.

Yes, the system has been racist for 300 years. And it still is. Zimmerman was acquitted by a white racist jury.

Indeed, a state can not and should not be expected to live by the same rules as an individual. For instance, an individual enjoys freedom of thought.

But We're working on that.

Not all. I just quoted four. How you can extrapolate that to all when I specifically said they are not to be trusted as much as reliable ones?

How can you extrapolate that if your sources are right this time, they are always right? And they were not always right. One source said the re-org would happen July 1. That wasn't entirely correct.

The difference should be obvious if you have any background in journalism. It is that reputable organizations like the ones I have listed vet their sources and don't post everything from every anonymous email or tip they get. They spend a minimum time and effort to make sure their reputation stays intact. You can add Reuters and AP to the list I quoted. Most other news organizations just print anything regardless of the reliability of their sources.

Again, you are assuming the source was given all the correct information. The source isn't lying to the reporter but the information they were given may not have been correct. That's why reputable news organization specifically word their articles as coming from a source.

Everyone? Care to reference a couple from WSJ, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, Washington Post, NYT that say "from our sources"? Or are you making up things as you go ?

WSJ: Apple Moves Closer to Making TV Set
New York Times: What’s Really Next for Apple in Television
Business Insider: Apple Could Announce New TV This December, Says Top Apple Analyst

Satisfied or do you need more?

That made me laugh, you're clutching at straws here. The whole point of the reorg is to have new divisions and heads. Ballmer need not name the head of every small subdivision. Is there even a Xbox division anymore?

That's as idiotic as saying Apple doesn't need someone in charge of iPhones. GE doesn't need anyone in charge of jet engines. Larson-Greene will oversee everything involving Xbox, Windows Phone, Surface, third party developers, and studios. She's never going to eat or sleep again right?

Not this again, I got tired of it because you were not willing to concede the point after losing it. In one post you claimed Microsoft had a option not to let go of Mattrick. I replied no they cannot. After a couple of posts you changed your tune saying that Microsoft can't prevent him from leaving if he pays his way out. I am tired of arguing this again and again.

Since you can't or won't bother to look it up: Wikipedia

A contract of employment usually defined to mean the same as a "contract of service".[2] A contract of service has historically been distinguished from a "contract for services", the expression altered to imply the dividing line between a person who is "employed" and someone who is "self-employed". The purpose of the dividing line is to attribute rights to some kinds of people who work for others. This could be the right to a minimum wage, holiday pay, sick leave, fair dismissal, a written statement of the contract, the right to organize in a union, and so on. The assumption is that genuinely self-employed people should be able to look after their own affairs, and therefore work they do for others should not carry with it an obligation to look after these rights.

or About.com

An employment contract is a written legal document that lays out binding terms and conditions of employment between an employee and an employer. . .

I'm not going to look them up, but there are statistics to show that black people who kill white people are more likely to get the death penalty than vice versa.

Here's a case where a black man who thought his family's life was in danger killed a white teenager who was threatening him -- and got convicted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

Florida was a slave state.

In 2000, they falsely identified about 10,000 black people as felons and prevented them from voting.

There were 6 white jurors in the Zimmerman trial. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors? What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

I'm not going to look them up, but there are statistics to show that black people who kill white people are more likely to get the death penalty than vice versa.

Here's a case where a black man who thought his family's life was in danger killed a white teenager who was threatening him -- and got convicted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

Florida was a slave state.

In 2000, they falsely identified about 10,000 black people as felons and prevented them from voting.

There were 6 white jurors in the Zimmerman trial. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors? What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

Zimmerman's case was entirely based off of normal self-defense laws that exist even in the most anti-gun state. He was pinned to the ground and was having his head bashed into the pavement - that's attempted murder. Even in your most anti-gun area, that's still full grounds for using deadly force to protect yourself.

You have a right to use deadly force if you're in immediate danger of life-threatening injury. Getting your head bashed into the pavement isn't life-threatening injury, as the prosecutor's expert witness testified. When I was younger, I got into a few fights. If I got on top of the other guy, I bashed his head against the pavement. If the other guy got on top of me, he bashed my head against the pavement. That was street fighting rules in Brooklyn. Sure, it's not pleasant to get your head bashed against the pavement, and maybe it's an assault, but it doesn't justify killing the other guy with a gun.

Whether Zimmerman was in enough danger to use deadly force is a jury question. If I were on the jury, I would have decided that he wasn't.

George Zimmerman joined (or apparently created) a neighborhood watch. If you choose to go around your neighborhood at night, alone, following strangers and confronting them, ignoring the advice of people who know better (like the 911 operators), and ignoring the neighborhood watch rules, you're looking for trouble. You better be prepared to have one of those strangers decide that you're a threat, and bash your head against the pavement. If your prepared response in that situation is to carry a gun and shoot the stranger, you better be prepared to have the jury find you guilty of some degree of homicide.

There's obviously a racial issue here. When white people kill black in the South (or even in the North) they get acquitted. When black people kill white people, they get convicted. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

There were 6 white jurors. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors by chance? What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

Zimmerman's case was entirely based off of normal self-defense laws that exist even in the most anti-gun state. He was pinned to the ground and was having his head bashed into the pavement - that's attempted murder. Even in your most anti-gun area, that's still full grounds for using deadly force to protect yourself.

You have a right to use deadly force if you're in immediate danger of life-threatening injury. Getting your head bashed into the pavement isn't life-threatening injury, as the prosecutor's expert witness testified. When I was younger, I got into a few fights. If I got on top of the other guy, I bashed his head against the pavement. If the other guy got on top of me, he bashed my head against the pavement. That was street fighting rules in Brooklyn. Sure, it's not pleasant to get your head bashed against the pavement, and maybe it's an assault, but it doesn't justify killing the other guy with a gun.

Whether Zimmerman was in enough danger to use deadly force is a jury question. If I were on the jury, I would have decided that he wasn't.

George Zimmerman joined (or apparently created) a neighborhood watch. If you choose to go around your neighborhood at night, alone, following strangers and confronting them, ignoring the advice of people who know better (like the 911 operators), and ignoring the neighborhood watch rules, you're looking for trouble. You better be prepared to have one of those strangers decide that you're a threat, and bash your head against the pavement. If your prepared response in that situation is to carry a gun and shoot the stranger, you better be prepared to have the jury find you guilty of some degree of homicide.

There's obviously a racial issue here. When white people kill black in the South (or even in the North) they get acquitted. When black people kill white people, they get convicted. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/nyregion/30white.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html

There were 6 white jurors. What are the odds of getting 6 white jurors by chance? What are the odds of getting heads 6 times in a row?

Thanks to the Southern Strategy, conservatism and racism now go hand-in-hand in this country.

Rubbish.

The “Southern Strategy” Debunked Again

It is the Left that promotes racial tribalism in America, not the right. The only place where you hear the subject of race traitors in "respectable" company in America is among progressives when they refer to black or Hispanic conservatives. Hatred of "Zionists" or "Zionism" is often a fig leaf for hatred of Israelis, if not in fact Jews. In this the American Left is coming ever closer to resembling the European Left.

The European Left and Its Trouble With Jews

I think there are very few Americans who actually cheered the death of Trayvon Martin.

Re your link to the 2006 "It’s Legal - The solid legal basis for the administration's surveillance program"
The joys of “inherent authority” for accepted foreign vs domestic intelligence thats drifts in as warrantless searches seem to be back in the news again.
It is no longer 2006 or 2008 and the ability to pull another "state secrets" defense wrt spying in American will be legal fun.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/state-secrets-defense/
The US could go for a legal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora solution with some new domestic cover via rubber stamped case-by-case “special needs” efforts. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Indeed, a state can not and should not be expected to live by the same rules as an individual. For instance, an individual enjoys freedom of thought

But the loss of privacy doesn’t just threaten political freedom. Return for a moment to our thought experiment where I telepathically know all your thoughts whether you like it or not From my perspective, the perspective of the knower — your existence as a distinct person would begin to shrink. Our relationship would be so lopsided that there might cease to be, at least to me, anything subjective about you. As I learn what reactions you will have to stimuli, why you do what you do, you will become like any other object to be manipulated. You would be, as we say, dehumanized

But a democratic state exists solely to be manipulated by those that it governs. If it enjoyed freedom of thought, it would lose legitimacy.

Obama claims broccoli is his favorite food

Quite a contrast to President George HW Bush: 'I'm President,' So No More Broccoli!

It was a proclamation that every child, and many adults, have dreamed of making.

President Bush declared today that he never, ever, wants to see another sprig of broccoli on his plate, whether he is on Air Force One or at the White House or anywhere else in the land.

''I do not like broccoli,'' the President said, responding to queries about a broccoli ban he has imposed aboard Air Force One, first reported this week in U.S. News and World Report. ''And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!''

See here.

Here's an updated link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/us/In-Los-Angeles-Where-Car-Is-King-Smartphones-May-Cut-Traffic.html

Boeing has had other recent problems in quality and reliability, with some recent Boeing-managed programs being cancelled, because they were going so badly.

In 2005, FIA (run by Boeing) was canceled. The New York Times called it "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects. ... A torrent of defective parts, like gyroscopes and electric cables, repeatedly stalled work. Even an elementary rule of spacecraft construction — never use tin because it deforms in space and can short-circuit electronic components — was violated by parts suppliers. By the time the project, known by its initials, F.I.A., was killed in September 2005 — a year after the first satellite was originally to have been delivered — cost estimates ran as high as $18 billion."

From space.com, "But Boeing quickly ran into troubles on the highly ambitious and complex FIA program, which fell years behind schedule and overran its budget by billions of dollars. In 2005, having concluded that Boeing’s problems were intractable, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence directed the NRO to terminate the optical portion of the contract."

In 2011, the Boeing-run SBI Net program was canceled, because it was going so badly. From stltoday.com, "It was originally envisioned to stretch the 1,969-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico but initial phases of the $1 billion project took longer than anticipated to complete and covered just a small portion, 53 miles, since the project began."

In 2011, the "Joint Tactical Radio System’s Ground Mobile Radios (GMR)" project, run by Boeing, was canceled. From a Bloomberg article: "Based on growth in the unit procurement costs, I am terminating the program," Frank Kendall wrote in a letter to Congress. "... The GMR program last year was estimated to cost $19.5 billion."

And a USA Today article tells about other recent problems with Boeing. For example, "V-22 Osprey. The tilt-rotor aircraft, made in partnership with Bell Helicopter, is under congressional scrutiny because of concerns about its high cost of operation, reliability and safety". And "Joint Tactical Radio System Cluster 1. Boeing's management of the project for the military was so bad it received a stop-work order from the Defense Department. Eventually, the program was restructured rather than canceled but with Boeing in a diminished role."

The climate is piddly.

Humans have changed the rotational speed of the earth:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/news/dams-for-water-supply-are-altering-earth-s-orbit-expert-says.html

No doubt that was the deal that W/neo-cons made with them. They just love that welfare for businesses.

Yep, lots ow welfare for the rich, nothing for the working poor.

Why did you write "working poor"? There is no work requirement for food stamps.

No doubt that was the deal that W/neo-cons made with them. They just love that welfare for businesses.

Yep, lots ow welfare for the rich, nothing for the working poor.

What people inherently like are the endorphins they're getting when "runner's high" get's triggered. Personally, I can recall sometimes where slogging through math and science excited me enough that I may have been producing a similar effect*, but that was only when I got what I was reading. If the teacher lost me/ the subject matter became over my head I was more like the runner's who feel nauseous after a run.

*Purely anecdotal

Targeting US citizens does require an individual warrant

Right, and how do they determine if the person is a US citizen or not? They have a program (Prism) to analyze various things they know about that person, and if the person is 51% or more likely to be foreign, then they tap them. So it's like a coin toss, plus 1%. This is according to James Clapper. From here:

The government knows that it regularly obtains Americans’ protected communications. The Washington Post reported that Prism is designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness” — as John Oliver of “The Daily Show” put it, “a coin flip plus 1 percent.” By turning a blind eye to the fact that 49-plus percent of the communications might be purely among Americans, the N.S.A. has intentionally acquired information it is not allowed to have, even under the terrifyingly broad auspices of the FISA Amendments Act.

Take a look at the Guardian (US version);

http://www.guardiannews.com/

Then take a look at RT News:

http://rt.com/

Then take a look at CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/

Or even the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/

Notice a pattern? Apparently, the Zimmerman trial is all we Americans care about. The media is as complicit as Microsoft, et al. I start with the foreign news outlets, then head to CNN and other mainstream US media for comparison--what is missing from mainstream US media is the real news.

I fully expect "Cold Fjord" to be spewing his disinformation--with earnest--after the latest Prism revelations. If Microsoft is fucked, so is the NSA.

Julie Larson-Green, also in charge of Surface and games.

Mother of Metro.

Champion of Ribbon.