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Thanks to zoning laws, in suburban neighborhoods, it's generally illegal to tear down a house and replace it with cheap apartments, or to convert a garage into a granny flat. People simply don't want those poorer than them living in their neighborhoods.

Another tragedy is that it's often illegal to build housing in industrial zones where land is cheap and close to jobs.

So with so much resistance to economic and racial integration codified in our laws, it can't be surprising when poor areas remain poor and people in those neighborhoods have trouble summoning an Uber or Lyft cab.

US Government has over 300 million smallpox vaccines in its current stockpile, all of which were purchased after 2001.

The term disposable income keeps getting tossed around, and it's never made any sense to me, and the linked graph doesn't provide any explanation. So I looked it up.
Turns out, the economic definition of disposable income is : " total personal income minus personal current taxes." Nothing at all about cost of living. All the chart shows is that tax rates have gone down, especially for those with more money. I think we already knew that.

In short, the chart linked above is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

The fact is, about 1 in 8 American families can afford what, a generations ago, was considered a middle class lifestyle. I don't think an iPhone and an occassional Starbucks coffess is tipping the scale here.

Well, yeah, the percentage of American families that can actually afford a "middle class" lifestyle is about 12%.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I suspect the percentage of American families who grew up living that lifestyle, and are trying to live it themselves, is quite a bit higher.

A surprising number of posters here seem to be OK with there being fewer Americans capable of living at or above a middle class lifestyle than a generation ago. Maybe it makes them feel better about themselves. I hope not, because then they're just dicks.

Are doctors exempt?

No, they aren't. And people die because of it, along with their mandatory vacation time..

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

stop acting like your opinion is the one true enlightened path

I never said that, you did.

Just because you think you're older than me. Is time what's gonna cure my ignorance? Another decade or two is gonna overwrite everything I've learned up to now and suddenly I'm gonna agree

Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

- who's trying his absolute best to come across as the smuggest blowhard in the entire slashdot comment section?

- I can clearly see you are striving to uphold a longstanding tradition of

Not sure you're a qualified psychic to know my intentions.

I've also been here for years, and while I don't think you deserve that title yet,

1999, HAY?

- The non-anglosphere world doesnt get so desperate to pig out on crappy mystery meat hot dogs.

- I'm still waiting for you to explain how you could only afford cheap shitty food and not cheap healthy food like the rest of the world tries to eat.

http://www.npr.org/sections/th...

http://journalistsresource.org...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://jn.nutrition.org/conten...

Let Google be your Guide.

My parents told me they ate cat before i was born! I hope I never have to

I have eaten Dog, it was the most delicious thing I had eaten in months. Would I again? If I ever got that hungry again you betcha. You would be amazed at what you would eat when you're hungry.

You just dont get it. You think you have all the answers because you've had a tough life and you're so old. You have no wisdom, only bitterness.

Nope, I have been there, and done that. I have the answers for some of the questions life has posed of me, and when you get old there are new questions. You are one of them.

So are you using an alt account to upvote all of your comments here? I'm pretty sure nobody else is following us this deep into a personal discussion, so it must be all you

Nope, I wasn't even paying attention TBH.

That's probably why you make sure to smugly get the last word over and over.

I participated in a workshop in Los Angeles when I was 19 to help find ways to help ease hunger in the area and the majority of the participants couldn't even identify a homeless person. My effort here is to hopefully educate you, or others that may be lurking in this thread to understand how people really are not getting proper nutrition and how it's a very real issue that needs attention, not dismissal 'This has all been settled, it doesn't happen in America'. There's starving children in Africa, AND America. There are people that don't believe or understand this, and then there's the people that dismiss the claims.

Smug has nothing to do with it. Nobody should have to suffer for the sake of ignorance of the topic.

Happy reading.

Why didn't one of those "over 1000 followers" call the police to try to stop it?

Who knows. Maybe they did, and no one could get there in time. I came across and tuned into the drunk driving chick while she was doing her thing, and several people did contact the police, eventually guiding them to her based on streets and landmarks. I also watched while a suicidal guy in Texas drove around threatening to shoot up Wal-Marts and several viewers were keeping the county sheriff updated as to his whereabouts. They sent a chopper up to find him eventually, at least an hour into his escapade, then he holed up inside his truck occasionally speaking to officers while threatening suicide; I had to give up listening to the scanner and go to sleep before I learned the outcome of that one.

In both of these cases, even with people calling police, it took awhile to get authorities to the correct place because the vast majority of the people watching didn't live anywhere nearby, weren't familiar with the area, weren't necessarily sure how to contact law enforcement there (or where "there" even was), etc. If you tune into a live stream and you see a lady standing in front of some train tracks, what exactly are you going to do? It's not like her GPS coordinates are embedded in the video stream.

Responding to myself to provide citations and additional details, since there's some (perfectly understandable) incredulity in response to my comment.

Regarding the weld, it's a variety of friction welding that SpaceX developed:
http://electrek.co/2015/05/24/...
http://gas2.org/2015/05/29/spa...

Regarding the crush test breaking the machine:
http://www.wired.com/2013/08/t...
http://www.roadandtrack.com/ne...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

It's also worth noting that Tesla claimed they had achieved a NHTSA safety rating score of 5.4, which was utter and complete nonsense since the scoring is capped at 5 stars. Tesla apparently arrived at that number by totaling up each of the subcategories and ignoring the fact that the total score is capped by design. The NHTSA rightly slapped Tesla for saying they had achieved a score beyond the max, and by no means should my previous comment be taken as an endorsement of Tesla or everything they've claimed regarding their safety record over the years. I was simply sharing a neat tidbit that seemed relevant. Nothing more.

That winning team includes three Asian names, and a head coach and assistant coach each with an Asian name.

That such a coach became a teacher and got into this position — despite the lingering anti-Asian bigotry — may itself be thanks to increases in accountability... School-principals and fellow teachers may still dislike them, but have to weight that dislike against their school quantifiably falling behind in Math.

Same may be true about the pupils themselves. They are still bullied, but, maybe, not as much now that school employees need them to help keep their school's averages higher.

I don't think that the team is winning because educational standards went up.

Well, you certainly aren't substantiating your opinion. No, I do not either... But I make a better effort...

No fanboy, you didn't actually hear that. [...] I assure you, no Tesla 'broke the machine'.

A) So you're saying that Wired, Road and Track, USA Today, and a number of other news outlets fabricated a story that I never read? That seems like a bit much conspiracy for me.

B) I'm no Tesla fanboy. I'm glad that they're pushing a stagnant industry forward at a faster pace, but that's about it. I don't think Musk is the second coming of either Jesus or Steve Jobs, I have very little interest in their cars as they exist today, and I strongly believe that they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater in a number of instances where they've tried to distance themselves from traditional aspects of cars (e.g. the touchscreen in their cars is ludicrous and unsafe).

Watch one season of NASCAR and get a clue.

This thread was discussing the relative safety of luxury cars and my comment was clearly constrained to them, given that I explicitly referred to them. But I'll let you take my comment out of context if it'll help you feel better about being so wrong about everything else.

Some official statistics may look decent, but the labor-force participation (a figure not prone to fudging like politically redefined unemployment) is the lowest it has been since 1978.

With over 94 million not even looking for work — and thus not included in the unemployment statistics — we can afford less and less non-necessities.

With the constantly rising food-prices and the incomes of those still working stalling, expect further declines.

Socialism — measured as the part of the GDP spent by government — sucks.

See, in the hipster narrative, Apple is not Halliburton. It is a great company that is socially aware and does all the right things for all the right people at all the right times. In their telling, Apple, unlike the "evil Halliburton, is environmentally friendly....except that whole annoying thing about making their computers un-upgradable, which decreases the lifespan of their devices. Oh, and pay no head to the fact that these devices are created using some of the most noxious chemicals around.

Or, Apple is about diversity!.... except chemical engineering companies actually have a higher diversity rates than Silicon Valley, as famously discussed in these forums. http://www.usatoday.com/topic/... and http://www.calvert.com/NRC/lit...

Or, how about Apple is socially conscious! They are about giving things to the downtrodden....except they maintain a high profit margin and offer no low end products. And, worse, for all their talk about curing social ills, they don't seem to want to pay for it.

Now, most of the apologetic posts seem to point out that ALL companies do this, so it is ok. But, the thing that bothers me (and it should bother you) is that Apple claims it is not like those companies. They are ever so sanctimonious about pointing out their superiority in these matters. You can't be socially aware or lets face it, socialist, and then bitch about tax rates and try to find ways to subvert them. You either think the rich need to pay more, or not. It is very easy to talk about change, hard to live it. I am so fucking sick of the hypocrisy of Apple, and all people like them. Funny how these guys love to be generous, so long as it is with someone else's money.

In fact, I think Halliburton is by far a less evil company because they pretty much come out and say, we get energy from the ground, and we make money doing it. At least it is honest.

It's obvious that she's taking a year off only because it's a presidential election year. I'd want to avoid being part of a circus as well

America's princesses have Secret Service protection even after daddy leaves White House. And the children are not part of the "circus" — unless they place themselves there — it is considered very bad form to target them otherwise. Not that Democrats haven't, but a Democratic princess is safe.

In other words, your excuse for her is not.

http://content.usatoday.com/co... Then he backpedalled and said "Mostly ice free"

What's that in MALE failed CEO dollars? 71 mil?

Not quite. Since according to that bastion of conservative propaganda USA Today, female CEO average pay in fiscal year 2015 was about 50% higher than male average CEO pay (18.8 vs 12.7 million), it looks like that would be something like 47.3 million male failed CEO dollars.

Most of what's been pinned on Trump supporters has actually been paid and planted people from the Hillary camp, and in a couple of cases Cruz/"establishment" people.

You are delusional.

https://img.washingtonpost.com...

How does that picture refute what he says? False flag operations are part and parcel of the looney left. Hell, this just came across the wire today:

http://college.usatoday.com/20...

Given that the news two days ago was about the new alliance of Tesla competitors, which includes both Ford and Volvo, I can't imagine why a Volvo engineer might be biased..

I would feel better if the people that were so against abortions were also pro-contraception. Unfortunately, the same people that want to keep women from having abortions seem hell-bent in making it more difficult to prevent the pregnancy in the first place. See this

Keeping scores of people on payroll to advance your propaganda worked — and continues to work — for Putin (with whom Secretary Clinton has "an interesting" relationship).

No surprise, she is among the first to adopt his methods, and even the more prudent politicians will soon have to do it just to remain competitive. It already happened to TV make-up, robo-callers, and teleprompters...

Maybe, there will be a silver-lining in this for the perpetually-struggling "established" journalists — their having been bought may be harder to conceal/easier to prove than the same for tens and hundreds of anonymous nobodies.

You seem to underestimate the damage that porn is doing to people's lives. The only significant difference between being addicted to porn and being addicted to alcohol is that one can still watch porn and then drive without getting in trouble.

Well now, first off we have to define addiction I know of people who got ethanol intoxicted once, and decided they were an alcoholic, seriously you are a counselor, and equivocate porn with alcoholism?

As well with the definition, there are some spouses who consider looking at any porn as a betrayal equivalent to infidelity. Hell I was told by one of my confirmation instructors that masturbation meant you were a homosexual since you were stimulating a male genital to orgasm.

So while there are cases where it is plenty obvious, like a husband or wife who alllows their marriage to disintegrate while having plenty f time to spend watching porn, what of say, the woman who finds a playboy, considers it a betrayal, and demands that her husband go into treatment. Or those who consider any nudity as pornographic?

Or even bigger. In my area around 25 years ago, there was a "pornography awareness league" who defined pornography as anything that aroused a male sexually. Nudity? Oh only the beginning. They did include the lingerie section of the Sears and Penny's catalog. I dunno, I've looke dat those, and they do have some pretty nice ladies in them.

And while you might call that an outlier of no importance, our District attorney did, and went on a witch hunt of the porn shop 10 miles out of town.

The trial was of Scopish nature, and ended in a five minute recess where the jury declared him innocent, and had some words foro the DA as well.

Maybe the difficulty that you are having is that you are equating nudity with pornography. They are synonymous.

Did you men "Not" synonymous? As with so many of these things, it's interpretative. They did not go around putting fig leaves on ancient statues during victorian times because of the fig leaf advertising counsel. They considered any display of genitals as pornographic.

John Ashcroft disagrees with you as well http://usatoday30.usatoday.com... and http://unitedstatesgovernment....

And therein lies the problem.

Videos that graphical show gang rape or exploitation of children.

Not to mention, illegal, at least in the case of children. That's an illustration of the problem. It tends to cast people into "being" kiddie diddlers if they enjoy looking at naked ladies.

A 20 year old, made up to look like she is sixteen and watching the high school baseball practice, whereupon she is then assualted by the team and coaches and has a baseball bat inserted in various orifices, is they type of pornography the governor is refering to, not somebody looking at Penthouse.

I do not believe that for a second. If he does, it will be the absolute first time I have ever seen an anti-porn crusader ever have such a limited agenda. Ever.

The latter may be obscene, but it is not pornographic.

Generally, anti-porn crusaders consider obscenity as pornography. In fact, most of us do. Your interpretation is completely backwards.

Pornography is rampant and extremely harmful to one's psyche and seriously impacts the life of those obsessed with it.

Of course, we must protect people at all costs. Next we work on water intoxication. Did you know that people, somet9i9mes innocent children, get intoxicated by drinking copious amounts of water? People hae died from it ,We must eliminate this evil substance and now, before any more of oour precious future is destroyed .

It's time for me to get a deep dark secret off my back. When I was young

Any news yet on the massive Verizon employee strike and protest?

There's also a large protest in DC that few media outlets are covering... I wonder if its sponsored by George Soros, like #BlackLivesMatter?

Citation: "It was a fiery, catastrophic attempt at a launch that was unsuccessful,"

Should we now call every exploded - and most importantly unmanned - U.S. military or commercial launch failiure also a fiery catastrophic attempt?

You must be new at this. Even the people who LAUNCHED the failed Antares that blew up at Wallops recently referred to it as a "castrophic" failure. It's a word people actually use to describe things like giant exploding rockets.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Apple declined to comment on how much it cost to build Liam.

Ask yourself why?... The same article adds:

While Liam makes up the entire system, its 29 robotic helpers do the handy work. [...] It's clear this is a well-oiled operation; after all, it took years to perfect

Do you honestly believe, this required less than a $100 mln dollar initial investment? The 30 robots plus facility itself cost more — not counting the research, that has gone into it. For comparison, Intel's new chip-making plant in Arizona cost $5 bln just to build — fifty times more... Maybe, now that they have it, the marginal costs of running it can be paid off by the extracted materials themselves? Maybe... But, if this were actually true — or even close to being true — Apple would've been the first to point it out. For it would've looked much better to both the customers and the investors than the current secrecy.

Stop making up stuff, boy.

Talk decent, young lady, or you'll find yourself conversing with a mirror...

Maybe it depends on your age or your country, but I asked my friends about it and there's only three of them who use Facebook and none use Twitter.

Speaking just about the US (internationally the numbers vary for lots of reasons).

Fifty-eight percent of the entire adult population have an account, a study released Friday found. Looking only at adults who use the Internet — 81% of all Americans — Facebook's numbers are much higher. Almost three-quarters of online adults used Facebook, the survey by the Pew Research Center found. link

You (and your group) are definitely an outlier. I can count on two hands the number of people I know (ages 15-60) who don't have a Facebook and have never had one (vs have disabled it or don't use it as much).

Twitter is less common, I'd agree, but for those "highly involved" in politics or who follow news heavily, I'd wager there are similar numbers there. For any sort of Breaking News, there's hardly any substitute.

One, it is pointless because it won't happen.

If you told me 20 years ago, that a self-identified "Democratic Socialist" (and a bona-fide Communist underneath) will soon have a fair shot at becoming President of the US, I would've dismissed it with the same derision... But today's youth does not care any more — the Socialism/Communism's 100 years of failure (and mass-murder) are not taught in schools.

Two, it is a pointless claim because there are no democrats currently in Washington who are willing to propose anything that even slightly resembles an initiative to "give control of healthcare to the government".

Currently is the caveat-emptor, is not it? Look on this very board — numerous people speak in favor of "single payer", and they all vote...

Even the most socialized of all medical systems still give the physicians at least as much autonomy as our system does.

TFA is not about "authority" — it is about incompetence. When doctors become government-employees — as they are in Cuba so beloved by the likes of Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore, and other worker paradises — the healthcare will suck just as it does there.

And we are on our way — by many indications, Obamacare was designed to fail, and is failing as "CO-OPs" go bankrupt, and major commercial insurers threaten to withdraw. It did not "bend the curve" of the costs either — the grows of healthcare costs is accelerating.

It will continue to suck. Which will allow the next "progressive" President to claim "the market approach has failed" — and turn to a government-owned (euphemistically called "single payer") system. Obama himself would've done it — with enthusiastic support from morons like certain anonymous cowards replying to you — but "the nation was not ready" so he simply laid down the ground work for the future:

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House."

In other words, you are just parroting standard slashdot conservative FUD.

You seem like the kind, who'd be trying t

She's not wrong, she just didn't use the PC term for ghetto which is "urban area".

T-Mobile gains traction in urban areas

And now Elvis Presley everybody
elvis presley - in the ghetto

In the ghettooo...

Are you calling CNN Liars then?

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/1...

Or USA Today that mentions Charter a year later.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Interesting lists of acquisitions and mergers in that second one.

You tell me oh wise one, learn me the truth, preach to me the error of my ways and set my foot right apon the digital path.

"The Eich incident tarnished Mozilla's reputation."

That incident showed a shocking lack of social understanding. Mozilla CEO resignation raises free-speech issues.

The most amazingly sad recent action of Mozilla Foundation, in my opinion, is the fact that the 32-bit and 64-bit versions have the same file name!

The correct way to provide constructive criticism:

Make a statement to the contrary, provide supporting evidence. eg:

You are incorrect as to who bought whom. Comcast bought Time-Warner

In 2014:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/1...

In 2015:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

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

Name calling is not constructive and suggests the name caller may be lacking in maturity, or blood sugar.

with the big fat fucking D after her name, the media sweeps it under the rug.

What planet do you live on? A big fat fucking D is a goddamn media target on your back. Swiftboat. Gary Hart. Willie Horton. The Starr Investigation. Scandal does not and can not stay buried, not in this century. If there was anything that could stick to the Hillary wall, Fox (and then the rest of the media, because big-story=money) would have long ago thrown her to the dogs. Roger Ailes would love nothing more than to be the man who scandaled Hillary out the door, but he doesn't because he can't because there ain't nothing there.

Fresh meat does not go uneaten, any more than $100 will sit for long on a park bench. If cold fusion worked, we'd be fucking using it, and if Hillary did anything of any consequence, she'd be gone like Anthony Weiner... remember him? The big fat fucking D didn't do a damn thing for him, so why did the big fat fucking R give Mark Sanford a break?

Let's just hope that new equipment was not intercepted NSA style.

Hard to guard against something like that.

"In one scenario, a user is represented by an African-American female avatar who is being angrily harassed by a white avatar." ref

How would Stanford University’s diversity department deal with this scenario: link

Depends on how a person now or later a legal team with real experts requesting case details understands the term "help", "everything", "requests" Hundreds of requests to unlock phones flood FBI (April 6, 2016)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
"... the agency was being inundated with requests from state and local law enforcement seeking help accessing the contents of hundreds of encrypted or damaged cellphones linked to unrelated criminal investigations scattered across the country."
"Requests involving more than 500 such devices..."
FBI Offers to Help Local Law Enforcement With Locked iPhones (April 2, 2016)
http://time.com/4279841/fbi-un...
"Please know that we will continue to do everything we can to help you consistent with our legal and policy constraints.’’

Don't get Bill Gates' comments on this mixed up with Microsoft's stance on this. Microsoft has stated they back Apple, and even Gates backpedaled on it, saying he only supports breaking that one phone in order to fight terrorism.

The bad news is provisions in the USA FREEDOM Act actually allow the US government to tap digital encrypted communications, They also remove all responsibility from a company complying (so you can only sue the government) and can put a gag order on it, which is why sites like canary watch exist. I'm not exactly sure how this works in detail, but I read about it first on April fools day and wasn't sure if it was serious or a joke, but apparently reddit's canary disappeared that day, meaning they've received a gag order from the US government and are under surveillance. Makes me wonder if Slashdot needs or has one.

> SEC regulations can be maddeningly vague

Many FDA regulations are *insanely* confusing. Try doing *anything* that involves human nervous systems, such as research into sensory nerves or artificial vision, and you run into incredible amounts of what one "cannot" do and no acknowledge of what one *can* do. It's even worse for anything politically sensitive, such as revolution on human/simian comparative physiology, which offends the anti-evolution lobbies in Florida, artificial hearing, which offends the sign language deaf community, or Yahoo-Wahoo forbid, anything that mentions "stem cells", whether fetal or adult stem cells, due to the scare mongering about baby harvesting by these twits http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

You would also not *believe* the regulatory schizophrenia about homeopathy and Scientology. The FDA refuses, under lots of lobbying pressure, to call them outright frauds. But it also refuses to allow them to make medical claims, so practitioners of both frauds make the claims by implication or by "personal testimonial", not by official advertising, and the FDA continues to not act against them.

Last year the average price of a new car was $33,560:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

So, basically, Tesla just introduced an electric model that is the same price as a non-electric car.

I'll go there. Seriously, how many Americans can truly afford to buy a $35k car?

Don't know, but the average new price of a car is $33560 so with inflation to 2017 it's well... average?

A lot of people can *pay* for $35k (new) cars, but I'm not sure a lot of them can *afford* them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't seem to understand that there's a difference.

I'll go there. Seriously, how many Americans can truly afford to buy a $35k car?

Don't know, but the average new price of a car is $33560 so with inflation to 2017 it's well... average? And I'm guessing there's somebody buying them so eventually there's cheaper second hand cars on the market. Of course it comes with the range limitations, but from the prices I've looked at tanking up a Tesla is cheaper than a gas guzzler, the value drop-off because of the aging battery is a bit unknown but overall I don't think it should have a higher total cost of ownership. It's not exactly a bargain either but he only needs mass market appeal, not mass market dominance.

I preordered one but that's mostly due to Norway's crazy high tax rates on ICE cars while EVs get a lot of benefits, but I'll see how much of that stays way until 2018, it might help that 2017 is an election year. If not, well it's a reservation so I can still cancel... but just to give you an idea, with our tax incentives the EV market share is about 15% and hybrids 22% and I think the Tesla 3 is a much better price/performance car than the current crop of Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, Renault Zoe and Tesla S that currently make up most of those 15%. It'll sell real well here.

Here's a fairly recent article that says ~$35k is the average selling price of a new car: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I expect that MANY... very MANY people in the US can afford to buy this car.

Google has a "car payment calculator" (just google that and it will come up). It says the payments will be $600 for a 5 year loan at ~3% interest. That's only $7,200 a year. So anyone making more than that a year can "afford" one (that's the TRUE American way! :-)

Re "preferred to see things settled decisively in our favor: that a legal precedent would be established enshrining the right to encryption."
"Justice Dept. withdraws legal action against Apple over San Bernardino iPhone"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
has the quote ""consistent with standard investigatory procedures.''"
A method that is open court ready with the origins of any new case for any legal team to question in open court for all the other generation of phones?
Ready for a set of state and federal task forces or federal funding to help with devices needing the same method at a city, state and federal level?

In his defense, he can accurately say he has not issued that many 'executive orders'... by issuing 'executive memoranda' instead: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Election of any RethugliKKKan will mean death of privacy and send a chilling signal to all would-be whistle-blowers.

Oh, wait...

You do realize this is propaganda initiated by the Obama administration? A lot of the load is taken up by presidential memoranda or even notices from a department. The latter link mentions a "Treasury Department notice" which put off implementation of the employer mandate of Obamacare.

Sorry, the normal user is really only three steps above an ape banging rocks together.

Windows learned this a long time ago and dumb down the interface as well as hid all the underlying stuff. Linux is just late to the party. It is still Linux, sure the user interface is dumbed down to the point for a monkey could operate it.

As to 2 years old, I chose it because it was not the most recent article. Recently chrome books hit 51% market share in the education market and that is what all the current stuff is about.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

You just appear butt hurt because your tech toy is making inroads to mainstream usage. Keep playing with your Linux distros, the average user wants simple and Linux, with the help of google and others, are providing it. You dont like Chromebook, or android? Then dont run it. Just remember, Linux is the kernel and anything with a Linux kernel is "Linux" it may be be GNU Linux, it may not be a desk top, but it is still Linux whether you like it or not.

Why leave out accidental deaths and murder-suicide and ignore woundings?

You also ignore the possibilities of rehabilitation, wrongful conviction, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, knocking on the wrong door, having one drink too many and all the nuances and mistakes which make up our lives. I've given up with the links - just Google any of the phrases with "gun" (US can usually be assumed) or conversely Google them with "US" where gun can usually be assumed. It must be very cold and hard in your black and white world but real life isn't like the movies, where only the bad guys get hurt and justice rules.

I really wish people like this got booted out of office by the fed up constituency.

The sad thing is this idiot is doing this to get booted IN to office (Rubio's FL Senate seat). Even sadder is that it might actually help.

Drivers (especially male) never feel safe in a vehicle driven by somebody else. Their legs keep twitching and they can barely restrain themselves from grabbing the wheel. I call it drivers' neurosis.

Besides the fact the article is lacking in its method to rank the schools, they forgot about Wheaton College.

While ISIS is threatening Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg is threatening to `investigate' his employees for failing to indulge BLM grievance mongering.

Yup. The little SJW twat Z-man squabbling with minor stupid shit because his employees aren't leftist enough while the leftist's darlings the muslems threaten action against him for not letting them be all terroristy on his leftist web site.

Gonna go make some popcorn and watch it all burn.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Google and Facebook will be among those filing a joint amicus brief in support of Apple's position, according to two people familiar with the plans but who weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Twitter said it will join that brief.

Microsoft said it will also file a brief, though its officials would not comment on whether it would be part of the group.