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"If you are one of the lucky 125,000 people who live in Olathe, Kansas, the rest of us congratulate you on your new amazing $70.00/month, 1 GB Google fiber service.

They can afford it.

The median income for a household was $61,111, and the median income for a family was $68,498 (these figures had risen to $72,634 and $82,747 respectively as of a 2007 estimate. Males had a median income of $45,699 versus $30,217 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,498. About 2.4% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.1% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over.

The median age in the city was 32.9 years. 30% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 32.1% were from 25 to 44; 23.1% were from 45 to 64; and 7.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.[2010 Census Data]

Olathe, Kansas

The 2012 Median Income of US households was $45,018 per annum.

Household income in the United States

Olathe is 20 miles southwest of Kansas City.

In Kansas City, Google offers three tiers of service. The baseline fiber installation fee is $300, or $25 per month for 12 months. After paying that amount, Kansas City residents are guaranteed seven years of free broadband Internet service at current national âoeaverageâ speeds. The second tier costs $70 per month for the super-fast Internet service, and the top tier, which includes Google's TV service, costs $120 per month. The $300 installation fee is waived for the top two tiers.

Google Fiber Expanding Superfast Internet Service to Olathe, Kansas

The drumbeat of Climate Change driving Malthusian Eugenics in governmental policy has been unrelenting for my entire life. Even during the 1970s when it was "pollution will cause a new ice age" for a few years, the co-opting of science for Malthusian Eugenics has been pretty darn steady, claiming we need to drastically reduce our population.

It isn't a problem because mammals existed in the Miocene Climatic Optimum 15 million years ago, when CO2 levels were much much higher and the Earth a good 10 degrees warmer, and sea levels were 80-120 feet higher. It is a matter for adaptation, not panic. Plant food (and take advantage of atmospheric CO2 fertilization to raise more food) further north, move the cities inland, fixes the "problem". It just isn't the catastrophe that so many have made it out to be.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1929238,00.html

Where all new gadgets go when they die, the trashcan in the sky

That's in China, right?

Stuxnet, discovered in 2010, was hardly the first salvo to be fired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961-1,00.html

But those are examples of espionage, not warfare.

Stuxnet wasn't espionage, it was an attempt to destroy things.

Stuxnet, discovered in 2010, was hardly the first salvo to be fired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961-1,00.html

No - equal rights regardless of difference has not been achieved:

• Women are typically paid less than men for the same work.
• Homosexual people can't get married in most states

• • The list goes on and on and on.

So you think that non-profits can't make a profit, nor benefit from the power they have in the community and government that comes with having a lot of money? http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

The American health care system is expensive because we demand expensive health care.

It is expensive because of extreme corruption. Here is a good summary: Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. As the article says, health care organizations often charge 10 or 100 times what things cost.

I just hope that it isn't Muslims practising to bring down another aircraft

It was actually a Christian Arab who invented hijacking as terrorism. The Islamist groups like Hamas are more recent.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1707366,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine

This while she was building a nursery in her office so she could spend time with her kid at work.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/how-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-building-a-nursery-by-her-office-and-dissing-working-moms/

If that's not her giving her workforce the finger then I don't know what is.

Just wait until someone mentions Apple automatically scanning and censoring iCloud messages for bad words...

Oh, I just did. New, mobile, post-PC era Godwin's law?

http://science.time.com/2012/06/28/epas-co2-regulation-upheld-as-unambiguously-correct/

Correct me if I'm wrong but the EPA insists that CO2 is a regulated pollutant.

Emitters of such need to be regulated, and there needs to be calculations to determine their carbon-offset, no?

And did you read your citation? You might be missing some history from just that. Your "democratically elected" Prime Minister was ruling by decree. Also, notice who he appoints as Speaker of the House - from a party he then proceeds to antagonize, and undermine.

. . .Mosaddegh convinced parliament to grant him emergency powers for six months "to decree any law he felt necessary for obtaining not only financial solvency, but also electoral, judicial, and educational reforms".[37] Mosaddegh appointed Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani as house speaker. Kashani's Islamic scholars, as well as the Tudeh Party, proved to be two of Mosaddegh's key political allies, although relations with both were often strained.

With his emergency powers, Mosaddegh tried to strengthen the democratic political institutions by limiting the monarchy's unconstitutional powers,[38] cutting Shah's personal budget, forbidding him to communicate directly with foreign diplomats, transferring royal lands back to the state and expelling his politically active sister Ashraf Pahlavi.[36]

In January 1953 Mosaddegh successfully pressed Parliament to extend "emergency powers for another 12 months". With these powers, he decreed a land reform law that established village councils and increased the peasants' share of production.[37] This weakened the landed aristocracy, abolishing Iran's centuries-old feudal agriculture sector, replacing it with a system of collective farming and government land ownership. Mosaddegh saw these reforms as a means of checking the power of the Tudeh Party, which had been agitating for general land reform among the peasants. --- Mohammad Mosaddegh

So, he was ruling by decree, interfering with the affairs of the head of state, using his power to undermine other political parties.... getting a sense of things yet?

To prevent things from going against him, he usurped the Shah's power by dissolving the parliament - an act that only the Shah could legally perform - and extended his powers indefinitely. He tried to wash the stink off that with a fraudulent vote.

IRAN: 99.93% Pure - Monday, Aug. 17, 1953

Hitler's best as a vote-getter was 99.81% Ja's in 1936; Stalin's peak was 99.73% Da's in 1946. Last week Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, the man in the iron cot, topped them all with 99.93%.

This is the way he did it. Having unconstitutionally dissolved the Majlis, Mossadegh ordered a national referendum to judge his act, crying: "The will of the people is above law."

---

On Saturday 15 August, Colonel Nematollah Nassiri, the commander of the Imperial Guard, delivered to Mosaddegh a firman from the Shah dismissing him. Mosaddegh, . . . rejected the firman as a forgery and had Nassiri arrested.[52] --- 1953 Iranian coup d'etat

After the unconstitutional dismissal of parliament and the fraudulent vote, the Shah signed a decree dismissing Mossadegh as Prime Minister, as was his power and right as monarch. The officer sent to remove Mossadegh was arrested by Mossadegh's men.

A Prime Minister that rules by degree, unconstitutionally dissolves parliament, ignores the constitution, and refuses dismissal from lawful authority is no longer a simple "democratically elected" Prime Minister, but a tyrant. Usurping the power of the Shah and refusing dismissal was overthrowing the head of state - coup d'etat.

The Shah fled the country for his safety until Mossadegh the tyrant could be overthrown.

The data is there, you just have to know where to look. Interesting the way the information is partitioned in Wikipedia, almost as if it was designed to obscure instead of enlighten.

Mohammad Mos

"Germany (much like Spain) had a chronic unemployment problem, a result of a labor market that was too highly regulated and offered too much protection for workers. German policymakers began to change the system back in 2003 with a series of measures that made the labor market more flexible and encouraged greater participation in the workforce."
TRANSLATION: They weakened the unions....

"Germany is making BMWs, not Chevys. If you’re making a BMW and charging so much for it, you can manufacture in a high-cost environment and still make a nifty profit. If you’re making a Chevy, which to a greater degree competes on price and doesn’t have a strong brand reputation"
TRANSLATION: They manufacture high-profit margin stuff.

"German management also just seems more determined to find ways of staying profitable while still manufacturing in Germany. The chairman of power-tool maker Stihl, Bertram Kandziora, told me that U.S. companies “don’t try hard enough to keep production inside the country.”"
TRANSLATION: Germans try NOT to reward offshoring.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2011/02/25/does-germany-know-the-secret-to-creating-jobs/

how do you eliminate food from china?

See Tainted Chinese Honey May Be on U.S. Store Shelves

From the article:

Chinese honey might contain lead or chloramphenicol. It might contain fillers with the honey, or it might contain just sweeteners with no honey at all.

Some Chinese honey goes to Los Angeles through an Indian exporter called Little Bee Honey. So if you want to eliminate food from China, apparently one step is to not eat Little Bee Honey.

In 2011, 85% of college students moved back in with their parents.

Politifact disagrees

That's just not true any more in the US. It's true for the top 10 colleges, and maybe the top 50, but as you go further down, the return on investment of a college degree goes negative now

Please provide a source on this. I'll provide one showing a nice table the level of educational attainment is a more significant factor for median income.

My SO and I graduated from two well known public universities. On ranks in the 100-200 range according to Forbes, the other in the 200-300 range. We currently are in the top 5% income bracket. I would beg to differ that our combined ~$100,000 "investment" over 4 years (read: $12.5k per year per person) has resulted in a negative return.

A college education is the single greatest value in the modern world. Nothing else even comes close. Dollar-for-dollar, nothing else delivers more quality of life to the individual -- nothing. People who complain about its cost have no idea what they are talking about.

That's just not true any more in the US. It's true for the top 10 colleges, and maybe the top 50, but as you go further down, the return on investment of a college degree goes negative now. In 2011, 85% of college students moved back in with their parents.

In it, they report uninsured patients get charged 11x what would be allowed if the patient qualified for Medicare. It used to be health insurance companies would be able to get rates 20% to 30% over the Medicare rate. Now, because of hospital consolidation, the insurance companies are being forced to pay 5x the Medicare rate. The author wasn't able to find any actual financial reason for the markup. (Things like, $1.50 for an acetaminophen pill, when a bottle of 100 costs $1.50. Or a blood glucose test strip costing $18, when supermarkets sell them for $0.60.)
Here's the article.

Funnily enough, The doctor mentioned in the article deliberately infected himself with a stomach parasite for Channel 4's "Embarrassing Bodies" TV show last year.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/18/doctor-infects-himself-with-parasites-for-health-experiment/

Cleared up his allergies no end

The problem is that humans of today aren't any different than the ones from 2000 years ago (or even more)

Actually, some claim that we are. I think that the story might also have been on slashdot a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, but I'm referring to the use of geese as guard animals at US military bases. They're less expensive than dogs, and quite effective, and they *can* break your arms with their wings.

                            http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961483,00.html

Yeah, they'll shoot if threatened. Liberals will imagine, foster, and sieze on threats, and demand that somebody with guns take those dangerous threats away. Much more, um, manly.

Speaking of gender, this is old, but given His Sagacity's grand, new, and, oh-so-reassuring government-run Brain Mapping moonrace, here's one for the ladies:

Men Locate the Clitoris: The Female Erotic Brain Is Mapped | TIME.com :Contrast and compare (sic)

Really this case has a lot more depth to it than just the old Apple/Aamazon angle. Everyone shoudl read more details as to what this is all about.

It was about the publishers (and Apple) trying to keep the market more open to competition - an excerpt:

"While the deal caused prices to go up for some new releases and bestsellers, according to Schumer, the average ebook price actually went down from $9 to $7....It was actually Amazon - not Apple or the publishers - that held too much market power and was using a predatory pricing to drive the publishers out of business. In a comment on the settlement filed by Barnes & Noble, the company argues that without the shift in pricing strategy from the publishers, it would have been unable to develop its own competing e-reader. "

Give me PCs and emulators and go fuck yourself...

Right, because PC games never require always online connections, right?

There are some very interesting articles on the "bribes-for-PhD" scam in Germany: In 2008 Time Magazine reported on an investigation into around 100 cases of bribes for PhDs: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919339,00.html. One blogger claims 500 to 700 PhD's are illegitimately "purchased" each year by aggressive career-climbing German lawyers, managers and politicians. The blogger provides numerous citations: http://ktwop.wordpress.com/tag/guttenberg-fraud/. In 2011, the DW German news outlet called some German PhD's "cut and paste": http://www.dw.de/academic-consultants-target-phd-wannabes/a-14852460-1.

He was there because his family moved there. He was participating in a barbecue when he was murdered. He had been trying to find his dad for some time because he missed him.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2097899,00.html
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/

News reports, based on government sources, originally claimed that Awlaki's son was 21 years old and an Al Qaeda fighter (needless to say, as Terrorist often means: "anyone killed by the U.S."), but a birth certificate published by The Washington Post proved that he was born only 16 years ago in Denver. As The New Yorker's Amy Davidson wrote: "Looking at his birth certificate, one wonders what those assertions say either about the the quality of the government's evidence -- or the honesty of its claims -- and about our own capacity for self-deception."

And of Al Awlaki himself? He was killed because of his youtube postings. Freedom of speech, so long as you don't say stuff the Feds hate. That list of things the Feds hate? Sure to grow.

Its a 'scratch monkey'

In case someone (probably young) doesn't get the reference... here you go:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html

Then he became Secretary of Energy and it became inconvenient and he retracted it.

thanks for confirming my point.

Some of the other ideas Chu proposed were a glucose economy as part of a progressive, diverse, alternate energy plan, and was decried for practical ideas such as smart grids and painting house roofs and pavements white to reduce heating and cooling costs.

Sure the sudden increase in low air pressure might put out an onboard fire, along with a few of the passengers inside.

Here's a reference from appropriately-named ALOHA airlines: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,149181,00.html

I've read that you're not worried about climate change as you believe transhumanism will prevail and we will shed this 'natural' world like a used husk by 2045.

So what happens if we don't actually achieve the lofty heights that futurism promises us? What happens if those extrapolations I've seen actually reach a dead end instead of allowing us to last forever and there is no distinction between man and machine? What if we ultimately turn out to be forever mortal individuals and now depend on a decrepit husk we left for ourselves? What then?

I don't care if it's onerous. And I don't really care why TWC decided not to peer with Netflix. None of that should affect how Netflix interacts with me as a customer. All I should have to care about is "is my pipe wide enough to receive the stream". If it is, Netflix should send me the stream. If not, Netflix should not send me the stream. The rest of it is none of my concern.

Netflix is the one changing the game, here. They are really the first B2C entity telling customers that they will treat them differently based on the topological structure of the internet between the customer and the business. That's really unprecedented.

What if Apple said "we're not going to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us" or "we're going to charge an extra _% to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us". People would go BALLISTIC. So why is it OK for Netflix to do that?

Would you rather have them turn it on and charge everyone more, probably loosing customers in the process? Maybe they should just charge TWC customers? As much as you don't like their decision, it is not some arbitrary position. Netflix is barely holding on. Their net income went from 226 million in 2011 to 17 million in 2012 in the face of skyrocketing content licensing costs. Compare that to TWC with a net income of 1.7 billion for 2012. Netflix could turn on Super HD for everyone, but they would have to raise prices and would end up loosing customers. Or, they could just charge extra to people on ISPs who won't or can't peer with them. Which would be better? Or would you rather have Netflix just go out of business? No business, not even an Internet based business, has a moral obligation to provide a service at a loss.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANFLX&fstype=ii&ei=9KAGUcDzGPCy0QGc7QE
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWC&fstype=ii&ei=caAGUejWObGh0AGoRw

Treating customers differently based on Internet geography is not unprecedented. I'd bet that it happens a lot but just isn't publicized. Comcast already started doing this. First, Comcast had their spat with Level 3 where they wanted L3 to pay Comcast for delivering data that Comcast subscribers were downloading. Then Comcast followed up by exempting their in-house video streaming service from the data caps. According to surveys, 64% of US broadband customers are under a data cap. Time Warner Cable is not currently under a cap, but that is because the customer base went into open revolt when they tried it in Texas. Netflix is not changing the game, it is responding to conditions on the field.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/29/level-3-vs-comcast-more-than-a-peering-spat/
http://techland.time.com/2012/04/16/netflix-ceo-takes-swing-at-comcast-xfinity-over-net-neutrality/
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/01/data-caps-chart/

Oh, and the reason Apple could not get away with a similar scheme is because Apple is the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Size makes a difference, and Netflix really is not a very big company.

You might want to educate yourself on the real reasons for the differences between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. None of which has anything to say about Cuba.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953959,00.html

That is not true. You merely have to accept the contract to be bound by it. What you are thinking at the time you accepted it is immaterial. The so called "meeting of the minds" is no longer used as a test for contract acceptance because it was too hard - impossible - for the courts to know what the parties were really thinking. Instead the courts determine whether a contract is formed by how the parties act. For example if you are sending me work and I am doing it the courts will hold we have a contract, even if there was never any written or even oral agreement. http://e-lawresources.co.uk/Offer-and-acceptance.php

Once you accept the contract you are bound by it even if at the time of accepting it you do not intend to adhere to it or were not acting in good faith. For example, if you are selling me a Picasso for $5 because you don't know what it is, and I do know and intend to screw you over big time, the courts will uphold that contract in my favor. US Courts do take consider good faith, but not like that. Other Common Law countries don't place any weight on good faith at all.

If you use an alias on a contract, you're still bound by it. You can even have a contract without either party knowing who the other party is. You can still legally use an alias - suppose you want to get away from bad people - though thanks to new laws against identity theft it now means you can accidentally end up on the wrong side of the law - even when no identity was stolen and even when there was no criminal intent. This is a big change in the US that people need to be aware of:
http://news.cnet.com/police-blotter-is-it-legal-to-use-an-alias-anymore/2100-7348_3-6213284.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/nov/17/silverglate-three-felonies-book

> If they furnished false information, eg a fake name, when a real name was required, then they have committed a criminal act that goes far beyond simple breach of contract.

"Fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual." Aaron didn't do what he did for personal gain, or with the intention of damaging JSTOR.

> In most cases a ToS will not be a contract, because nothing prevents you from accessing the site without verifiably agreeing to it. The ToS is something else.

For a contract to be formed it has to be offered to you and you have to accept. If you are presented with the ToS beforehand as a condition of accessing a site, yes, it is a contract and you are bound by it.

> A ToS is more like a "No trespassing" sign; or more like a "No trespassing; No admittance, except if you follow these rules ...." In the event, you don't follow the rules, then you committed the crime of trespass.

If it was never offered to you, then there never was any contract. Also as @Mitreya points out: If they are changing the contract and not telling you let alone getting your agreement, then that's no contract. Civil Law puts a very big emphasis on "reasonable". It's not reasonable to expect consumers to go and check the TOS of every company they buy from every day and sift through thousand work legalese agreements trying to spot changes.

BTW any good lawyer will come up with half a dozen ways to get out of a contract. An easy one with TOS and shrinkwrap agreements is the companies that offer them know most people don't read them and most people wouldn't understand them even if they read them. A lawyer could argue a client didn't know what they were agreeing too and so claim the contract never existed. http://busines

One of the more troubling things, in my opinion.. related to this were the actions of USA Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood..

Only hours before the FAA issued its order [to ground the 787], Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reiterated to reporters that he considers the plane safe and wouldnâ(TM)t hesitate to fly one. LaHood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta unequivocally declared the plane safe at a news conference last week even while they ordered a safety review of the aircraft.

So, in this guys opinion.. knowing what we all know.. he tells everyone is safe and he wouldnt hesitate to fly one?!

On Jan. 7, it took firefighters 40 minutes to put out a blaze centered in an auxiliary power unit of a Japan Airlines 787 ..that doesnt sound like a perfectly save thing to me!

I have to wonder why he sees the need to save face. I know Boeing plays a big part in our economy and that the govt needs to keep them appearing as a great company.....but shouldnt his job to be anything but misdirecting attention from the possible dangers here?!

Why isnt he running the feet of boeing and the FAA over the coals instead of acting like the
  local cop saying NOTHING TO SEE HERE?!

(source: http://business.time.com/2013/01/17/lithium-batteries-central-to-boeings-787-woes/ )

Sawed off shotguns get used quite often --- the difference is a felon isn't required to fill out the paperwork..

No they don't. Unless the shotgun on this list is frequently sawed off. The article does not mention that. Either way, 90% of the list is handguns. And absolutely no rifles, which is the bone I was picking in the first place. Why the hell are the anti-gun people going after weapons that aren't even on this list? I believe that they are doing it to score easy political points with their base, rather than have any meaningful reform.

The poor should not be allowed to concealed carry? Discrimination.

At no point in this discussion did I make that argument. I do think that making guns more expensive would increase their scarcity (duh), but at no point did I advocate forbidding the poor from having them. Unless they live in an urban area, where I don't think concealed carry should exist at all. You might convince me that hollow points are safe enough to use in an urban environment, but certainly a normal round is not. And definitely not by someone without firearms training.

The kinds of regulations I think are needed would definitely increase the cost of weapons, but we're still talking smartphone territory.

Visual reference
Knids: http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/charglasknids.php
Clippy: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991755,00.html

He's loveable, cuddly and his extensible architecture allowed attackers in 2001 to inject malware with a single click. But Clippy is not the only gadget phenomenon with unintended features. The world is full of crappy and predatory engineering.

Predatory Engineering: underrated power supplies that run hot; expensive computers with glass bezel displays under tension snapped together with no screws which crack if one attempt to open them; automobiles where software action can cause acceleration; software (not hardwired discrete component) ABS braking or shift management; personal accessories such as headsets with thin wound-foil cords that have no strain relief whatsoever and fail at the slightest jerk; $600 TVs which wind up in the trash because of malfunctioning half cent click-buttons or 5 cent IR receivers; trapezoid shaped mini-USB connectors which actively participate in their own destruction on every attempt to plug them in upside down; and more.

Crappy Engineering, such as power windows in cars with no crank or even provision for one. Parents love power windows and the assurance that comes from disabling the master button, they'll love their power windows all the way to the bottom of the lake as the screaming family tries to beat out the windows with their bare hands. The trick is to wait until the entire vehicle fills with water, then the pressure equalizes and you can open the door and tow your drowned kids to the surface. Good luck.

I love writing about modern technology.

http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/

Well that was informative, but I was looking for something that shows how vastly different US and Swiss gun laws are. US gun owners would probably consider Swiss-style gun controls reason for revolt. They include a government gun registry, regulated private sales, safe storage requirements and a total ban on concealed carry and full-auto weapons.

Some good articles I found, but I want something well-referenced since so much bullshit flies from both sides in the debate:

http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-gun-control-debate-what-can-we-learn-switzerland-732104

or raid our mansions. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/09/police-raid-on-kim-dotcoms-mansion-sports-hollywood-theatrics/

Oh, you are WAY behind on the times, aren't you? Android toilet will be released in February: http://techland.time.com/2012/12/17/android-controlled-toilet-makes-your-non-android-toilet-seem-like-a-throne-of-spikes-sandpaper-and-lameness/. Don't you have your pre-order in yet??

[news.com.au]
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There is just too much misinformation about this post.

State College is no in "Western Pennsylvania". And neither is any part of Ohio. .

True, but very few people live in the center of Pennsylvania. Penn State's membership is largely people from the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas, where the vast majority of the people in the state live. Ohio people tend to go to Ohio State.

I can't speak about Eastern Pa as I travel there only rarely; but for the entirety of Western and Central Pennsylvania, GP's words are quite true. "football trumps justice"

The system you have detailed could be inadequate. But I just read that the development system will have this:

The development-stage system in question is known as “Piston,” and it’s based on Xi3s X7A modular system. That system has a quad-core processor, up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, up to a terabyte of solid state storage and support for three monitors. The starting price for the X7A is $999. Again, those specs don’t necessarily reflect what’s inside of Piston, or what the price would be if it hit the market.

http://techland.time.com/2013/01/08/xi3s-piston-a-steam-box-emerges-sort-of/

Because people will take out more than they put in with all of those systems. No, enough interest is not earned to make up the difference.

Not anymore: Social Security Now Takes More Than it Gives (or Google: SSI return on investment)

The simplest fix is to raise the retirement age so that the boomers have less time to claim it before they die. Congress doesn't want to do that of course, since it will be incredibly unpopular with the segment of the population most likely to vote, but it is the financially- and actuarially-correct fix.

It's the boomers' fault, their collective failure; they didn't pop out enough kids or persuade their children to do that.

Because people will take out more than they put in with all of those systems. No, enough interest is not earned to make up the difference.

Not anymore: Social Security Now Takes More Than it Gives (or Google: SSI return on investment)

Looking at numbers from an Urban Institute study, the AP found that a married couple retiring in 2011 after both spouses earned average income during their lives paid total Social Security taxes of $598,000. They can expect to collect $556,000 in benefits, if the man lives to 82 and the woman lives to 85.

On the other hand, Medicare: (or Google: Medicare return on investment)

his typical person paid around $64,971 in Medicare payroll taxes over his lifetime. Likewise, after netting out Medicare premiums, he’ll receive around $173,886 in lifetime Medicare benefits. The net? He can expect to receive around $108,915 more in benefits than he paid in taxes over his lifetime.

So the times, they are a changing.

I'm not American, have no more than a passing interest in American politics, but even I got where the 47% came from.

Oh, and whoosh!

So what Romney feels is fact now?

I'm not American, have no more than a passing interest in American politics, but even I got where the 47% came from.

Oh, and whoosh!

They called it Wilding in NYC like when the central park jogger was raped and beaten

... as if that was a real thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_Jogger_case#Convictions_vacated

I guess I fail to see your point: while those five were wrongfully convicted of this particular assault, some of the "reasonable doubt" seems to stem from...

Perhaps more important, eyewitness testimony from other victims that night seems to suggest that at the time the jogger was being attacked, the boys were involved in muggings elsewhere in the park.

...and let's not neglect that the central park jogger was indeed raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. It's not like she fabricated a story and backed it up by sending herself into a coma, causing the removal of her left eyeball, etc. Her case was infamous, but she's certainly not the only example of horrific violence in NYC.

Finally, the term seems to be legitimately coined at this point: ‘Wilding’ leaves four wounded in N.Y.

So, yeah, the "wilding" term is a real thing, describes real events, and your point about the wrongful convictions is a non sequitur.

Seriously, You know this? How?

As recently as 2007 this was clearly not the case.

Because I've worked in a facility like this before. Not Los Alamos, but with classified data.

It was only after several years on the job that she was caught with bomb designs in her trailer and fired. But the investigation reveals that Quintana had taken her cell phone into a vault filled with secret documents where she worked — another major security violation. She also had access to a high-speed classified printer, even though such access was "not required by her job," and used the device to run off hundreds of copies of classified documents that she also brought home.

See? She violated security protocol by bringing her phone into the vault. It says so right there in your own quote. So as I said there should be 0 iPhones around there. Whether people actually follow the rules is up to the site security officer, but the rules clearly state no cell phones.

See: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1612912,00.html

Seriously, You know this? How?

As recently as 2007 this was clearly not the case.

It was only after several years on the job that she was caught with bomb designs in her trailer and fired. But the investigation reveals that Quintana had taken her cell phone into a vault filled with secret documents where she worked — another major security violation. She also had access to a high-speed classified printer, even though such access was "not required by her job," and used the device to run off hundreds of copies of classified documents that she also brought home.

See: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1612912,00.html