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To be fair, while he hasn't proposed concentration camps yet, neither did Hitler when he was first rising to power.

But he hasn't exactly opposed the Japanese internment camps. Instead he says that "would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer". IMHO, a decent human being would have said there were a disgrace and we should never do that again.

bottom line: i'm done with her. she lies and lies even more to cover up those lies. thought she had a chance. no more.

Curiously, she seems to be polling higher than the lead republican candidate (Trump).

Every time she speaks, she mentions how "there should be a tax deduction for $x", where $x is tailored to the audience. There should be a deduction for college tuition, a deduction for caring for elderly parents, an individual deduction for health care costs, and so on.

It would appear she's "buying" votes with tax incentives.

Of course, these are just campaign promises, and she's going to pay for it by raising taxes on the rich. Go figure.

If we just put all the Muslims in Planned Parenthood clinics, then our homegrown terrorists will become the homegrown solution.

http://time.com/3934980/right-...

http://content.time.com/time/m...

"In a preview of what the U.S. may one day face with cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid, Ivan Nechepurenko reports at the NY Times that power lines in southern Ukraine that supply Crimea have been knocked down by saboteurs, leaving millions without electricity."

Except the power supply was knocked out by explosives blowing up the pylons and cyberattacks were not involved. And who in this day and age still connects their SCADA units directly to the Internet. Have a look at this from 2003. I do realize bureaucracy moves slowly but this is ridiculous.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://time.com/3949986/1977-b...

In all, 1,616 stores were damaged in looting and rioting. A total of 1,037 fires were responded to, including 14 multiple-alarm fires. In the largest mass arrest in city history, 3,776 people were arrested. Many had to be stuffed into overcrowded cells, precinct basements and other makeshift holding pens. A congressional study estimated that the cost of damages amounted to a little over $300 million.

The blackout ultimately shone a spotlight on some of the city’s long-overlooked shortcomings, from glaring flaws in the power network to the much deeper-rooted issues of racial inequality and the suffering of the “American underclass,” as TIME dubbed it. Some saw the worsening circumstances — and institutional neglect — of this group of people as the key to the differences between the two New York blackouts. The ’77 blackout presented a rare opportunity for the powerless minority to suddenly seize power, TIME concluded, quoting the head of the National Urban League as saying, “[The underclass] in a crisis feels no compulsion to abide by the rules of the game because they find that the normal rules do not apply to them.”

Music streaming service Spotify announced it will offer six months of paid parental leave to full-time employees.

Guess which country spawned Spotify?

http://time.com/4120828/spotif...

According to this, a lot of countries have mandated paternity leave, but none or almost none give as much as maternity leave. It may have changed since June, but if that's your definition of "advanced country", then I don't think there are any. I agree with you that both should be offered, though.

Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/...

Look at the times though....both of those phones were charged to ~50% in five minutes. That's some fast charging. (Why didn't they report the time to a total charge? I don't know).

Because we now have an attention span less than a goldfish

http://time.com/3858309/attent...

5 minutes is inconceivable to today's smartphone addicted. A total charge? Might as well be to the end of the universe. Call them back when charging time is 5 seconds, and they might comprehend (5 seconds is within the thought focusing of 8 seconds the modern person has)

The White House provided the banner:
http://content.time.com/time/n...
Every time the carrier comes into port from it's six month (?) tour, it flies the Mission Accomplished banner.
Not true.

I wonder if they are going to learn from the Swiss that a Gun Free zone is a target zone. People should be trained and armed when there are valid threats in the area. Why just be victims? They have had one mass shooting. Want to guess how it ended?

http://world.time.com/2012/12/...

You think guns are the solution just because your sick, twisted little brain is too small to comprehend that some people don't feel the need to be armed at all times.

Oh, wait, you are just a sick twisted little sh*t that repeats everything Fox News and the NRA tells you to repeat. My bad. Now, just STFU.

Indeed, the effort to blacklist homeopathy is entirely thanks to Marsh and the rest of the Good Thinking Society. Please consider donating to them so they can continue their fight against wasteful and dangerous pseudoscience. Homeopathic owl isn't cheap you know.

Maybe they can join the fight to stop wasting money for unnecessary mammography and prostate exams while they are at it. And of course the bogus annual physical too...

Unfortunately, that might be too non-PC?

I wonder if they are going to learn from the Swiss that a Gun Free zone is a target zone. People should be trained and armed when there are valid threats in the area. Why just be victims? They have had one mass shooting. Want to guess how it ended?

http://world.time.com/2012/12/...

TSA agents continue to grope and oogle women through their clothing
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a...
http://time.com/3822487/tsa-se...

Bored people in the airline reservation system who pre-screen passenger names for security using, in part , known pictures of them continuer to amuse themselves by seating "twin strangers" right next to each other then laughing as the internet loses its shit at the crazy coincidence. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

No US citizen was murdered by a drone, they were killed, legally. The law of war permits that. When you fight with the enemy in an armed conflict against the US you are part of the enemy and can be killed just like any other enemy combatant. That is what those US citizens had done, and it cost them.

Wrong.

Some of the Americans killed were fighting with the enemy. "Some" is not the same as "all".

http://www.motherjones.com/kev...
http://content.time.com/time/w...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.aclu.org/video/acl...

Then tell me, what makes $70,000 specifically a better idea than $71,000, or $69,000? What makes it better than $200,000, or the current minimum which is near $15,000?

Can't answer your first question, but the value was probably chosen because it's near the "$75K happiness number".

http://content.time.com/time/m...

This actually doesn't hold as well for humans as it does for mice - overall, humans tend to live longer if they're moderately overweight. This - http://healthland.time.com/201... - is kind of a fluffy article, but it's a good summary of the research.

Nothing in diet/health is simple (despite 95% of the comments in this thread saying that "it's obviously X").

Some eastern sea ports are trying to deepen themselves by 5 feet or so to accomodate "Superpanamax" ships, the next size up that the Panama Canal expansion can handle.

Best of luck with that. Guess what? It's not just el nino. They've been having trouble with water in Panama, due to massive deforestation. Panama is perpetually on fire due to land clearing by the cheapest means possible. You go across the border between Panama and Costa Rica and the difference is dramatic.

• The impact on the environment
• The impact on your body for certain kinds of meat
• Objections to killing and consuming animal flesh

I eat (and enjoy) meat myself, but if there's a way to get that texture and flavor (texture is the most important part, I think) in a healthier and more sustainable way - I'd love to see it happen so long as the final result is actually more efficient to produce and healthier to eat. As you say, many artificial foods have ended up being worse than what they were meant to replace.

It seems to me that Adobe Systems is no longer a well-managed company, and hasn't been since Bruce Chizen got tired of managing Adobe, which was well before he resigned in 2007. Here is a story from 2007 about that: Bruce Chizen's legacy.

This is a comment from a reader of that story who called himself Tidewind: "I might be in the minority on this, but under Bruce Chizen, I felt Adobe became, well, arrogant." That was my experience, also.

Part of the attraction of Flash has been that it is used to violate the privacy provisions of browsers. Flash can be used to generate what are called Flash-cookies, Local Shared Objects (LSOs), or Super-Cookies, which are files placed on a visitor's computer by the Flash plug-in.

(To avoid permanent tracking: In Firefox, use the BetterPrivacy add-on.)

Now Adobe is trying to make money by making its very expensive products even more expensive by charging monthly for them.

Microsoft followed that monthly business model with Office 365: Pay every day, 365 days each year, even if some of those days you don't have internet access. (Read the comments about Microsoft's other methods of abuse, such as restricting each copy to one country.)

Flash is either VERY buggy, or deliberately buggy. Possibly one way Adobe Systems makes money is by allowing vulnerabilities supplied by secret government agencies. Those agencies can spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money without public oversight.

The new software company business model is apparently "Be abusive".

If you RTFA you will find a link to a 2013 article about it: linky

I am sure there might of been a slashdot entry but alot of the eroctica section got nerfed. Then almost as soon as it happened it was back. Like almost no point to the whole thing. More likely not because of the outrage but because of the lawsuits on an undefined policy.

That's what the cloud fire guy is talking about. Companies arbitrarily deciding whats good or bad on their networks. He makes probery the best quote out of the whole thing:

"I'm somewhat skeptical of slippery slope arguments. But, if you ban books that depict sex with dinosaurs, it doesn't take much before you ban books." - CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince

Can anybody articulate more the motivations behind this hacking all the surrounding drama? I see some comments about gamer gate and social justice warriors, but I don't understand the whole picture.

A unethical journalist tried to blame the hack on Gamergate, despite the fact that the apparent hacker has made many anti-Gamergate statements. The journalist then went to a popular pro-Gamergate hub to make a show of doing the due diligence and research he should have done before publishing his inaccurate article, and got deservedly ripped to shreds in the comments.

The bottom line is the hacker appears to be third-party troll, so you should take any motivations he voices (pro- or anti- GG or SJW) with a boulder of salt.

Note that both pro-Gamergate and SJW content creators make money from Patreon, but IMO this hack has very little to do with the usual animosity between the two groups.

Some of the comments that confuse you are probably AmiMojo's, because he is trying to conflate unrelated issues and shoehorn the hack into long-running false narrative that Gamergate is a harrassment campaign against women, so he can justify censoring its voices.

For those who didn't hear about it a week ago (there was strangely no Slashdot story), a recent event pusshing that narrative was the presentation of the "Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls" report to (by?) an offshoot of the UN (UN Women). The most ridiculous (and most widely publicized) assertion in the report was that "cyber-violence" exists and is similar to actual, physical violence:
http://time.com/4049106/un-cyb...

The U.N. defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts.” The report notes that cyber violence is an extension of that definition, that includes acts like trolling, hacking, spamming, and harassment. The report also argues that “cyber touch is recognized as equally as harmful as physical touch,” suggesting that online harassment might be just as lethal as domestic violence or sexual abuse.

It's a such a blatant attempt to redefine criticism and disagreement as harassment and threats, to demonize free speech as a pretense to censorship.

The report also attacks video games by citing ridiculous sources (all at least a decade old) which say "Nintendo of America, Inc.: Manufactures Pokémon, Game-Boys, and equipment for satanic video games" and references Jack Thompson himself.

So it should come as no surprise that two of the invited the speakers (Quinn and Sarkeesian) were "SJWs" best known as prominent opponents of the Gamergate movement. Yep, Gamergate, the customer revolt demanding more ethical game journalism, whose criticism of and disagreement with the demonstrably unethical gaming press was mischaracterized as (you guessed it) "harrassment" and "threats" and widely censored in an attempt to protect the corrupt journalists, all because those journalists expressed the right politics.

Gamergate (and the FTC, responding to Gamergate pressure) succeeded in forcing many corrupt websites to update their ethics policies and start disclosing personal (and financial) relationships to the subjects of their articles, which is why you always see so many disingenuous and corrupt individuals shitting a brick over it. Two outlets that anti-Gamergate was notoriously unsuccessful at shutting down were tweets and youtube videos, which is why you saw Quinn issuing a false DMCA (against youtuber MundaneMatt) a year ago, and Sarkeesian whi

ah yes, that orthodox leftist creed of keeping drugs safe

there's no need for it, it's a severe authoritarian need to control people, right? like a cartoon movie script: "ooh, i'm a lefty, i'm here to destroy your rights {insert manaical laugh}. why? i dunno. it's just what we do since central casting by joe mccarthy in the 1950s"

you need a cartoon villain to have your cartoon belief system

because these problems don't exist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09...

http://time.com/4043511/peanut...

http://www.timesfreepress.com/...

that's just from last week

how many millions of more examples do you want you ignorant asshole before you try matching your beliefs to reality?

that is the actual threat. that is why we have government regulations like the FDA: to protect us from the actual fucking real threat: industry

meanwhile, you want to whine about "orthodox leftist creeds"

that's not the actual threat, that's your uneducated delusion you ignorant piece of shit

did i make up executives who will kill you and poison you to make $1 more? am i making that shit up? do you read the fucking news? there's 3 links above from last week. do you want some more you shitbag before you try the slightest bit of intellectual honesty for the first time in your low iq life?

you imagine regulation as the threat, when the fucking story you are commenting under shows the real threat is industry. reality

why do you persist with a belief that fucking contradicts simple facts and simple reality around you

what the fuck is the source of your colossal ignorance you useless propagandized piece of shit?

you're a zombie. walking through the world blind, unable to see or understand anything. just regurgitating the same tired wrong ignorance, without the slightest effort to accept facts. prideful ignorance

Is doing good things, that's not malware.

If I walk into your house through the unlocked front door while you are not home, does it protect me from trespassing charges if while I am there I made your bed and did your dishes?

Like this woman: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/...

Except she was asking for money after cleaning the house.

http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...

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

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

http://healthland.time.com/201... Go see a doctor, Jim, it may not be too late.

Hey, we're Americans, not some kind of progressive island nation with 10 million people. We're a huge moving ship of 300 million and it takes time to change things, chip + signature is a huge step in the right direction. Why? Most of the scams involving purchases with stolen credit cards involve "carding", or simply stealing the magnetic strip data and reusing it online and on duplicated cards.

The chip eliminates this as the chip can't be skimmed in practice. The big credit card folks (EMV) would love to have you typing a PIN as a second factor, but realistically the chip alone will dramatically reduce credit card fraud. It's really going to be important after Oct 1st for retailers to support chip cards (Many readers now ask you to insert the chip portion of the card in the reader after a magnetic swipe... http://time.com/money/4040808/...

Things like Apple Pay and (soon?) Android pay help with this as well, as skimming a tokenized version of your card is nearly impossible and not reusable.

I recently (last week) had a Amex card compromised, the carders first tried a $1 transaction on a whatever site, it passed, then a few hours later they took the card to nordstrom and tried to buy $1000 worth of crap. The Amex app on my iPhone notified me of a "potentially fraudulent transaction" and gave me a yes/no to accept the transaction. I clicked No of course, which caused them to call me right away and cancel the card. The Amex card that was used for my Apple Pay (which I use frequently) was *not* affected (as it is a tokenized version of the card)

These carder folks use legitimate websites to "test" the card, I read about this case here: http://www.candyjapan.com/cand... which nearly crippled this small business when thousands of "tests" for small orders came through.

For the record, I'm guessing my card was stolen at a gas station, which they are exempt from the new EMV laws until 2016 (according to the time article above)

I don't even need designer shoes, or a special car.

Driving around in a 1984 Renault doesn't sound all that special to me. And this Pope doesn't wear designer shoes.

A lot of parolees are placed at a serioius disadvantage though.
- Have trouble getting a job due to a record.
- Often have to pay ridiculously high fines and "fees" related to their processing and incarceration
- Rarely get good medical treatment for addictions.
- Were often forced into the system by a plea deal

If we are serious about preventing recidivism, we would lay better foundations for helping these people become productive members of society.

Sadly, the reality is that our society prays upon those least able to defend themselves. No one wants to stand up for a convicted ______.

Here's a link about the "fees" http://nation.time.com/2013/08...

What the hell are you on about? All current VW diesel vehicles in the US are using urea exhaust treatment.

Uh, no they weren't. Thus VW's cheating, and this scandal.

As of this week, though, current VW diesel vehicles use urea injection...as the others are have been banned from sales.

The Apple Car will be more like the Apple Watch than the iPhone.

I don't see Main Street lining up to buy the iWatch.

Also: I notice you said 'an entire spectrum' rather than 'the full spectrum.' Wise choice.

Yeah, the Apple Watch is SUCH a failure that they sold 2.8 Million units in two months.

I want to hear from ANYONE reading these words that has had a "failure" like that.

Like Dawkins? Too bad he backpedaled after the inevitable media backlash:

But Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and noted writer, scholar and contrarian, found something in Ahmed's story to take issue with -- the use of the word "invention" to describe Mohamed's work. Dawkins went so far as to suggest that describing his clock as such was "fraud" and a "hoax."

    Disassembling & reassembling is great. But you shouldn't then claim it was your "invention". http://t.co/bBcaWoJpbd

        -- Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) September 20, 2015

        If the reassembled components did something more than the original clock, that's creative. If not, it looks like hoax http://t.co/bBcaWoJpbd

        -- Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) September 20, 2015

Dawkins faced intense backlash for his remarks and repeatedly noted that he believes the teen's arrest was wrong.

        Yes, I completely agree with that. He should most certainly NOT have been arrested, handcuffed etc. https://t.co/B2yvE00Db9

        -- Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) September 20, 2015

        I'm not putting down the child. I'm putting down myself & the rest of us for being fooled. And the police for arresting him for nothing.

        -- Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) September 20, 2015

He later apologized and retweeted the President's White House invitation.

Frankly there is a famous Time cover in the 70s talking about Iceball earth where the fear was we were going to enter into a new ice age. Guess that one didn't pan out.

Frankly there isn't, and you have admirably demonstrated one of the problems - you have believed an utter fabrication by the denialists. There was no such Time cover. Read Time about it here:

http://science.time.com/2013/0...

Getting the idea?

That I think is more like what you see in the studies that show doodling helps concentration. Its just enough extra work to keep the mind from truly drifting. I don't think its necessarily related to the technology you are using. I believe the doodling thing, I used to do it a lot during classes and meetings.

http://content.time.com/time/h...

Where is the ratio of males to females 1:3? Have you already passed into heaven?

Apparently the Mormon community is nearly at that level, and young Mormon men are playing at it like kids in a candy store. There was an article about this that was kind of interesting: http://time.com/dateonomics/

"there are now 150 Mormon women for every 100 Mormon men in the state of Utah—a 50 percent oversupply of women"

Unfortunately, they're Mormon women....so dating them is likely to be an exercise in frustration for any normal man.

I thought the courts already ruled that an IP Address cannot be used it identify a person... http://techland.time.com/2012/...

I was indeed mistaken, but the F35 has already been declared 'ready for combat': http://time.com/3980838/marine...

Yup, playing to the unwashed masses. Same as Hillary saying the Republican party is a "terrorist group".

I have been living in Malaysia / Singapore since 2012, on a work-related assignment.

My previous assignment took me to Israel, for a 3-year contract.

As a Brit I have to say that racism does occur in both countries, albeit with a not-so-subtle difference:

In Israel, the laws do not favor any one race ...
 
... while in Malaysia the laws are stacked against the minorities ,

Every conceivable law and regulation favors the majority Malay race ---

From the issuance of Taxi Permit to the paying of income taxes ...

From the purchasing of houses, to university enrollment...
 
... the minorities, be it the Indians, the real indigenous (locally known as "Orang Asli"), the Chinese, and the mixed races, bear the brunt of legal discrimination.

But please, do not take my word for it ...

http://world.time.com/2013/09/...

It's also the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Bob but I don't see Slashdot commemorating it. Oh, the unfairness :-)

Everyone is pretty upset about this, and maybe rightfully so, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here and apply a little of my economics education to see if I can argue the other perspective.

Demand for printer ink is going to be widely different in different regions. Consumers might have more or less need to print, or they might have less disposable income for printing things. The company wants to find the "equilibrium price" for their product, the price at which they make the most profit based on the level of demand at various prices and profit margins. The equilibrium price might be different in different regions, so this might allow them to offer the printer ink at a lower price in regions where consumers have less ability to buy the ink. If they couldn't regionally restrict the cartridges, they'd need to determine the equilibrium price for all the regions combined and sell the ink at that price everywhere, which might make it prohibitively expensive for consumers in regions with lower income.

For a similar example, see regional prices for textbooks that are labeled as "not to be sold" in certain regions, allowing textbook publishers to distribute textbooks to developing economies at lower prices than usual.

So you see, this regional restriction is actually a way of providing printer ink to developing economies and low-income households who would not otherwise be able to afford it, therefore providing a social service and better serving their customers.

Today I heard yet another bonehead talking about the alleged "Rape Culture" at college which uses a 40 year old bullshit study for it's statistics. Not because we can't do better studies, but because the numbers in that particular study favor the bullshit they want you to believe.

There is a possibility that people who want to do those studies actually CAN'T do better studies.

CDC did a phone survey study on rape. Spent tens of thousands of work hours and several million dollars on it.
http://www.cdc.gov/violencepre...
And got "rates of sexual violence in the United States...comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo".
Their methodology was tainted at several steps, from framing the questions, through all survey takers being female (which totally can't alter their approach to asking questions after first couple of cases of women reporting rape), to paying for answers (paying more for taking part in the rape-related part of the "health" survey).

So, they did another one.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss...
This one not only had numbers once again shooting through the roof, this time you didn't even have to look up methodology to see glaring errors.

Results: In the United States, an estimated 19.3% of women and 1.7% of men have been raped during their lifetimes; an estimated 1.6% of women reported that they were raped in the 12 months preceding the survey.
The case count for men reporting rape in the preceding 12 months was too small to produce a statistically reliable prevalence estimate.
An estimated 43.9% of women and 23.4% of men experienced other forms of sexual violence during their lifetimes, including being made to penetrate, sexual coercion, unwanted sexual contact, and noncontact unwanted sexual experiences.

If dad forces mom to have sex - that's rape.
If dad forces dad to have sex - that's also rape.
If mom forces dad to have sex... that's not rape. That's "other forms of sexual violence".

It's the old "It's only the guy who's GIVING the blowjob that's gay" logic.
Along with the "men can only be raped by other men" logic - i.e. "women can't rape".
I.e. All rapists are men.

Could it be that people doing these studies simply can't give up their confirmation biases, and that they are taking existence of "rape culture" as a foregone conclusion?

When about 1 in 5 (or more) of population reports being raped... which is about 63 million people in USA...
That either means that there are tens of millions of rapists out there, working overtime to meet their rape quotas while everyone, INCLUDING VICTIMS, is just going with it and shrugging their shoulders without a care for themselves or others - or that the people doing the studies have serious issues with the methodology of their studies.

Are you kidding? Popcorn Time has been well known for a while, though its heyday was last year before the original version came down under MPAA pressure.

What a hostile response. Sounds like I'm speaking to the pope. I'm sorry I upset your religious worldview. Put down your bible for a minute, and I'll go through your points:

1) Life is theorized to have arisen multiple times on early Earth, in between giant catastrophic impacts. Once the solar system was quieter, it "stuck" and here we are.

Maybe, but there's also very compelling evidence that says otherwise:

http://science.slashdot.org/st...

2) The Sun is nearly 100 million miles from the Earth, and has been as long as they have both been in existence. Any other star coming in between would have utterly destroyed the solar system. It has been theorized that the solar system's Oort cloud was shaped by close encounters with other stars at a distance of around a light year but that's pointless to even measure in miles.

Except when Earth was a protoplanet. Earth has only fully cleared its orbital position of meteors somewhat recently. Now, I'm not saying that the edge of another star system came within a hundred million miles, rather likely somewhere under a billion.

It's entirely likely that all of our planets received ejecta containing this material, but remember that Earth is the only planet to truly be within the Goldilocks zone.

3) Microbes "thriving" in space have never been detected, so we clearly don't "know" that. In any case, it's much more likely for life to evolve on a planet than for life to evolve on a planet, then magically survive transportation through space and arrive on another planet where it can also magically survive.

I'm sorry that wasn't mentioned in your bible, but it is mentioned here:

http://gizmodo.com/why-do-bact...

And here:

http://content.time.com/time/h...

And a lot of other places, if you just looked up from your bible. I know, I know, it's hard to get past a self inflicted dogmatic view, but all I ask is that you try.

What kind of bubble have you lived in that with a Slashdot id that low you still put any faith in this crap?

As Kidpro pointed out, you're making an incorrect assumption. I don't think smartphone credit card readers are secure. I think that all of the other types of card readers are insecure, too. There have been many cases of them being compromised.

I didn't realize that anyone signed up for Prime for their streaming video, their catalog is subpar to Netflix, I just treat it as a value-add to their Prime shipping.

If Prime Instant Video were free then a poor service might be justifiable, although even then it couldn't be considered an asset if it's poor. But Amazon actually increased the cost of Prime membership when they added Prime Instant Video so in no way can it be considered free.

Prime Instant Video was announced in Feb, 2011, but they didn't increase the cost of Prime membership until March 2014.

When they announced the price increase, one analyst said: he was surprised that no additional services were announced as part of the price hike, but noted that Prime’s “value to consumers has risen greatly over the past nine years, as the price has been held flat.

Apparently you can cure peanut allergies by eating peanuts
http://time.com/3719341/peanut...

Can someone explain to me why none of the great apes that supposedly share so much with humans in terms of cognitive ability can be taught how to read and to write, not merely as a parlor trick that the creature utilizes so that it will receive some reward that might satisfy an immediate physiological craving such as hunger, but as a technique that the animal might use to communicate its own thoughts and ideas to others (can an ape write a creative story with a beginning, middle, and end, for example?), and in particular, be able to teach this ability to successive generations of apes who may then even surpass the ability of their own instructor? An ape that could read could then teach itself how to do many more things than what it currently knows simply by reading about them, rather than having to be explicitly instructed by someone else... it could learn the rules to a game like chess, for example.

Language is not the only indicator of intelligence. Fu Manchu (the chimp, not the movie character) not only figured out how to use a tool to pick a lock and escape from his exhibit, but also was intelligent enough to realize that he needed to keep his escape tool concealed from humans. In other words, he intentionally and deliberately deceived them. Nobody intentionally taught him to do that. Some animals do practice deception, but not usually in regards to unnatural (manmade) constructs like locks and lockpicks. Children are incapable of deception until they are about 3 years old. Children under 3 also generally can't pick a lock unless they see someone else do it first.

Monkeys aren't people, but some of them are genuinely more intelligent than a 3 year old human.