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once the sony-bashing boulder has started going, there's no stopping it.

Sony worked hard to deserve it. Next one slithering down that path is Apple.

Jeez, when I want to get to work a little faster, I'm risking a fine that's equivalent to several hours of pay, and I only get paid 2000 hours a year... Google gives federal investigators a hard time and they only propose to fine them about 3 seconds of gross profit?

"My family is eating stir-fried dandelions out of yards to keep from starving.."

"I add oatmeal to many of my dishes to extend the idea of 'beef'"

These quotes could come unedited from Western anti-DPRK propoganda. yet this is is what USA has come3 down to, all of this while you are spending trillions on foreign wars.

fredrated demanded:

The French were using english words?

OP here. If you read Borenstein's AP article, you'd know that the French researchers chose to use English words, because, in the words of Jonathan Grainger, the lead researcher, "English is the international language of science."

Grainger did not express and opinion on whether that rationale makes sense to the baboons.

Well... that's debatable too.
http://news.yahoo.com/top-chinese-wealthys-wish-list-leave-china-065826880.html
Search for this line:
" A millionaire who works in the coal industry, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the main push behind his plans to emigrate is China's test-centric school system, often criticized for producing students who can pass exams but who lack skills for the world of work. "

The term you are looking for is "Sons of Obama"

Looks like Al Shapton is even abandoning Team Tray Tray: http://news.yahoo.com/sharpton-breaks-promise-trayvon-supporters-fails-show-sanford-182403592.html

Android is finding it tough to even spread to tablets.

What? Did you just write that in all seriousness? Samsung is selling a shit-ton of Android tablets of various form-factors, and there are a large number sold by B&N, Asus and Amazon. Sure, Apple sells more tablets than any other single manufacturer, but Android tablet sales outpaced iPads by 3 to 2 in 2011! Source: Associated Press

Why would I ever buy a Volt when, for the same price, I can get a VW Passat TDI (different version for us US folks) that gets comparable fuel economy and way more interior space?

(figured from Edmunds.com)
MSRP
Volt: $39,145
Passat TDI: $25,995

5 year average cost per mile
Volt: $0.54
Passat TDI: $0.55

True Cost To Own
Volt: $40,244
Passat TDI: $41,095

The Passat has 50% more trunk space, more per-passenger volume, seats 5 instead of 4 in the Volt, doesn't require a home charger, and (despite being a much larger car) is faster 0 to 60. There is almost no quantifiable metric that makes the Volt look like a good idea, and taken together (performance, price, utility) it just seems like only brain-dead folk would opt for the Volt.

Why do you think they shut down the Volt plant for a few weeks? VW is adding people at their Passat plant in Tennessee to boost production. You tell me which car makes more sense?

You might have been whooshed.

There was this craze a while back (not sure who it started with) to label everything "My ___". My Documents in Windows, MySpace, My____

So of course Yahoo followed suit with a My Yahoo section. http://my.yahoo.com/

Normally you would be right.. but Yahoo isn't a weak company. It just hasn't kept up with Google.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO+Key+Statistics

5 billion in revenue
1 billion in net income
2 billion in cash (1.3 billion in operating cash flow)
no debt

They have a problem with falling revenues, and as a result, falling profits. Their profits declined 5.3% yoy -- so instead of 1.10 billion, they only made 1.05 billion.

Yahoo has the resources to build their company.. they just don't have a vision. And this guy... he doesn't have a vision either.

He is slashing and burning... he is not going to lead Yahoo anywhere.. he's just destroying the company further.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/trayvon-martin-police-report-reveals-crime-scene-details-175656087.html

These tax breaks. Other benefits include minimum parking requirements that encourage people to use oil, and external costs of oil use (such as air pollution) that are not recovered in the price of oil.

Check this out to feel better

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/bhutan-leaders-pain-bringing-global-happiness-213931602.html

GWB introduced the extra ordinary concept of fear, and now the judiciary and legislature is acting as an army against the US citizens. Zimmerman is an example, Strip searching by a robot might be ok, but not by someone of the same sex. -- Do they say that women can search men, and vice-versa.

Oh, and here you go: video evidence of an injury to the back of Zimmerman's head.

In a case like this, I'd trust the statements of anyone who didn't have a motive to lie... which to me means anyone but George Zimmerman we can assume to be completely honest with what they believe they saw or heard. Mr Zimmerman's statements must be corroborated by facts.

Regarding the injuries to Mr Zimmerman, police and medical reports indicate a broken nose and gash on the back of his head. Video can be seen of officers examining the back of his head, and images released by abcnews seem to confirm that. Unless completely destroyed, a broken nose could very well be hard to see in that video. Nothing seems to contradict the injury claims in my opinion.

Regarding the voice fingerprinting claiming that the voice was not Mr Zimmerman, I find those claims suspect at best. The results show a 48% match based on background noise in 911 calls vs 911 calls made by Mr Zimmerman himself. A more apt comparison might be made by setting those results side by side against results from samples of Mr Martin's voice. But given the distortion in both sources of audio, the level of background noise, the distance from the event, the types of speech (screaming vs speaking... note the trouble voice identification software when it comes to identifying singers) and the state of voice wreckognition, I doubt we can pull meaningful evidence from computer recognition results.

Regarding the girlfriend of Mr Martin's phone conversation, I believe her factual statements are credible. She basically says that Travon saw a guy following him, lost him, and there was a confrontation where Trayvon asks "why are you following me?" and Zimmerman asks "what are you doing here?", followed by the start of a fight. There obviously is no clear way to determine who threw the first punch from those tapes.

Regarding the eye witnesses to the fight, one eye witness couldn't see much because it was so dark, but he thought he saw a man in red on the ground (zimmerman was wearing red). Media reports are sketchy, but a possible second eye witness in the same story backs Zimmerman's version of events. The bodily injuries, police reports indicating that Zimmerman appeared to be wet with grass stains, like he had been lying down with his back on the ground, and limited witness accounts seem to support the Zimmerman version, at least at some point during the confrontation.

What can we say with some level of certainty? Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious person, and began to follow him. At some point, Trayvon recognized that some random guy is following him, tells his girlfriend as much, and loses him around a corner. This is also confirmed on the police tape of the call that Mr Zimmerman made. Zimmerman is heard telling the police where to meet him, and he doesn't want to give out his full address while he doesn't know where Martin is. Martin tells the cops to call him when they arrive. At some point, Martin asks the guy why he is following him, and Zimmerman asks him what hes doing around there, and a fight breaks out, ending the call with Martin's girlfriend. The background audio in a 911 call picks up, we can hear a

Joke is probably right - Here's the best they can do until DNT is 'fully' implemented... http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html

The press release is from March 29. A company acting kind of sensibly? Here's hoping it's true.

Here's an article on how Walmart is dealing with Amazon: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-wal-mart-is-worried-about-amazon.html "The company has spent more than $300 million acquiring five tech firms since May and hired more than 300 engineers and code writers in the U.S. and India. Wal-Mart is also launching a program to allow the 20 percent of its customers without credit cards or bank accounts to make online purchases. Wal-Mart’s acquisitions include Kosmix, a social-media firm, and iPhone app creator Small Society. The company hopes the newcomers can find a way to stop shoppers from engaging in scan and scram. That’s when would-be customers use their smartphones in stores to scan an item’s bar code and then buy it online from a rival merchant."

One note is that last week texting stopped working for almost a full 24 hours on all Virgin phones in my area. Neither sending or receiving would work. Then suddenly all the texting flooded both in and out when it started working again. I've never seen that happen with a contract carrier before.

Wasn't just you: http://news.yahoo.com/virgin-mobile-customers-experiencing-nationwide-data-texting-outage-052409079.html

Maybe this is one reason BlackBerry devs make more money.

But does anyone here think Bill Gates or Microsoft stays awake worried about RH? They pulled in 72x more revenue, 159x more profits, and have 63x more cash on hand (50.69b vs 808m) than Red Hat. Microsoft even has a better profit margin than RH (32.5% vs 13.3%).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT+Key+Statistics

But, if RH takes all of MSs market share in areas they compete in, RH will still have lower revenues/profit in that area than MS.

Because the customer is saving.

Revenue comparison is irrelevant here, revenue loss (including potential) by MS and market share are more relevant.

By their actions (adopting open source, when 5 years ago they were attacking it) shows they are worried enough to try and fight it now.

But does anyone here think Bill Gates or Microsoft stays awake worried about RH? They pulled in 72x more revenue, 159x more profits, and have 63x more cash on hand (50.69b vs 808m) than Red Hat. Microsoft even has a better profit margin than RH (32.5% vs 13.3%).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT+Key+Statistics

But, if RH takes all of MSs market share in areas they compete in, RH will still have lower revenues/profit in that area than MS.

Because the customer is saving.

Revenue comparison is irrelevant here, revenue loss (including potential) by MS and market share are more relevant.

By their actions (adopting open source, when 5 years ago they were attacking it) shows they are worried enough to try and fight it now.

And I assume by posting that, you didn't know that IBM is 47% larger (by revenue) than Microsoft?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft

And I assume by posting that, you didn't know that IBM is 47% larger (by revenue) than Microsoft?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft

That's great that RH finally passed that mark... that's on top of the good news they've been announcing for the past few years.. from their revenue growth through the recession (thanks to the subscription model), to their entry into the fortune 500.

But does anyone here think Bill Gates or Microsoft stays awake worried about RH? They pulled in 72x more revenue, 159x more profits, and have 63x more cash on hand (50.69b vs 808m) than Red Hat. Microsoft even has a better profit margin than RH (32.5% vs 13.3%).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT+Key+Statistics

That's great that RH finally passed that mark... that's on top of the good news they've been announcing for the past few years.. from their revenue growth through the recession (thanks to the subscription model), to their entry into the fortune 500.

But does anyone here think Bill Gates or Microsoft stays awake worried about RH? They pulled in 72x more revenue, 159x more profits, and have 63x more cash on hand (50.69b vs 808m) than Red Hat. Microsoft even has a better profit margin than RH (32.5% vs 13.3%).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT+Key+Statistics

By the same method I could patent an electric car that has a 500-mile plus range, top speed of over 90mph and a charge time of under an hour. When the hardware catches up (i.e. other people do the real work) I cash in as having invented it. God, what a stupid system. No wonder people want to be lawyers rather than actually invent something - the lawyers can claim to have "invented" it on paper and take the money and credit.

You could do that yes, but it would cost you a fair amount of money. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070313050823AAND484

But then not all patents stick when they are challenged in court so filing a single patent on your "invention" does not guarantee any return. In order to be sure you actually shaft the real inventor of an electric car you will need to invest probably in the region of $100,000. This is quite a lot of cash to invest, and even then there is a small chance that some bastard will successfully lobby congress to overhaul the patent process and flush all your money down the drain :)

I don't see how your position is any less childish or black-and-white. You make blanket statements about people you couldn't even name and you take complex economic issues and simplify them to the point of "itz all cauzed by teh greedy banksters!". Do you honestly claim to understand the complexities of the events you just listed... or are your "facts" based in populist sentiment? (it's a rhetorical question, the answer is obvious).

You mean, it's obvious that I track economic developments and read economics related news articles?

Good, I was worried you were being a hyperbolic, presumptive ass.

Do we put the government in charge of distributing wealth? If you think that rich greedy people are a problem now, just wait until their money/power is controlled by a bureaucrat who not doesn't care about wasting huge sums of money, and has even less consequences for wrongdoing.

Don't follow the news, do we?

Isn't it interesting that you have so much hatred for people with more money than you...

I don't hate anybody. I hate the way people let their greed blind them to the suffering they cause others, but I don't hate the people themselves.

do you care about the 98% of the worlds population that has far less than you do?

Indeed. I would love to live in a world where those with the most willingly and happily share their excess wealth with the less fortunate so that everyone can live a better life. Did you even read my OP, or were you so amped up about posting your argumentum ad hominem that you didn't bother?

How would you feel if someone told you that you had to give up 75% of your property to make society more fair?

short answer: I'm a survivalist :) material possessions (outside those necessary for survival) mean nothing to me.

Long answer: It wouldn't bother me in the least, although I would question the intent of the person telling me that, as I personally own very little; save the house and the car (which one would assume would be part of the 25% I keep, as we're trying to lessen poverty here, not increase it) might bring a few thousand dollars if you could manage to get retail out of my old, used junk...

I'm not defending the super-rich here, just pointing out that the threshold for how much is too much is conveniently above what *you* think it should be.

And what, precisely, do "I" think it should be?

Oh please, I seriously doubt you understand the true complexity of the world around you.

Considering all the baseless accusations and speculation you've offered thus far, I'm somehow not surprised.

I know it's much easier to understand a half-truth that appeals to emotion than to put in the effort required to really understand something.

See response above.

The idea that the "elites" must be overthrown to get "justice" for the "people" is not new, it has been tried many times but always fails miserably.

Yea, just look what happened in 1776; no good came of that, did it mate?

As soon as group X overthrows group Y, group X then becomes just as greedy and selfish (many times more so) than group Y was.

Change "as soon as" to "eventually" and I have to agree with that one.

The altruistic utopian world view where everyone is equal *and* prosperous is a fantasy that has never existed.

A guy can dream, can't he? (Answer: Yes, b

...and you have a limited amount that you can sell...

The limitations are imagined, otherwise the largest export for the U.S. last year would not have been gasoline.

There's a third thing to consider, that being that last year the U.S.'s largest export was....gasoline! It comes down to the fact that the U.S. is using less gas, and instead of lowering prices to encourage more consumption to increase profit margins, the gas companies sell it off outside the U.S., largely to South America, keeping prices high.

Uhhh...wouldn't that be a trademark and NOT a patent? I mean i'm sure any patents they had for John Deere tractors ran out long ago but because john Deere is a trademark i still can't make a John Deere tractor. i bet Roundup is a trademark as is Roundup ready.

As for the clueless above that are saying "What is the big deal if a few weeds become roundup resistant? let me answer with just one word...Kudzu. Weeds are damned hard to kill as it is, and can grow damned near anywhere so taking away another weapon in our fight against invasive species is a BAD idea with a capital BAD. You don't know what destructive is until you see that shit take over an area, houses, cars, fields, soon that is ALL there is and with it come the big ass snakes and soon the whole area is just unfit for anything. its like how we wasted most of our antibiotics on fattening up livestock and now that we actually need them we are truly fucked. But hey, as long as Monsanto makes a God like profit, right?

Researchers are finally nailing down what you already know intuitively: people are good at perceiving when others are dumber than they are, but terrible at perceiving when others are better/smarter. Extrapolating from that, I'd posit that most people (present company excluded of course) are also terrible at selecting quotations that are much above their level. If that's true, a list of quotes selected by the masses in the manner of Kindle will likely have little to recommend it on a pure "quality of quotation" basis.

See http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html for a bad summary with an even worse title.

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All notions of cause and effect are merely assertions of a faith in statistics

Long-term, if that doesn't change, it will prove to be unsustainable

...this is the exact same rationale people have been using to predict Nintendo's death for over 10 years.

By no means the end of Apple, but the end of Apple as a good investment. To understand this using your own analogy, just look at Nintendo's five year performance:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NTOA.F+Interactive#symbol=ntoa.f;range=5y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

At the end of last year Facebook had about $4bn in cash and a $5bn line of credit. citation
Current market capitalization of Yahoo! is over $17bn citation
So no, Facebook cannot "just buy Yahoo!".

After the IPO things might look different, but that's the way it is right now.

the internet of the late 20th century and the first few years of the last decade was you go find the information you want. Google flourished because they were able to organize it better to make life easier for you.

No, before Adwords Google was a modest sized company with decent growth - no Yahoo! or MSN, but still a rather decent third place. Then, in 2000, came Adwords. And then Google 'flourished', at least in the sense of cash flow... which blinded everyone (even Google itself) to reality - they were still a distant third in terms of eyes on their own pages.

Then along came Facebook, and beat Google and everyone else at their own game. Not only garnering more eyeballs, but also getting more time on the page per eyeballs, *and* gathering more data allowing for more accurate (and more profitable) advertising.

Facebook, twitter and the rest of social is the new internet. You "like" or follow brands and then read the stream of their updates/news feed. sort of like a custom RSS feed. the point is that you no longer find the information, you are fed a stream of data. just like TV of the 20th century where you sit in front of a box and consume the content.

That, fed by geek hubris, is a popular mythperception. It makes the geeks feel better about themselves, and gives the pundits something to holler about to endear themselves to the technorati... but it's bullshit. If you actually watch things like Yahoo Buzz and Google Trends you see the daily ebb and flow of people seeking information. Yeah, the shallow readers will only see the shallow people searching out Hollywood buzz, but discerning readers following them over time will note the searches for more serious information as well.

What you, and other shallow readers miss is that there are two kinds of information people use the web to seek. The first is their 'daily dose'. News on their favorite sports teams, their favorite bloggers latest posting, sales at their favorite stores, following the latest trends etc... etc... That's why (among other things) RSS feeds were invented. One stop for everything. (Hold on, more on that in a minute.) Millions of people search daily for these, and thus they dominate search trends - most of the time. The second is "situational searches", what do if your 1996 Taurus breaks down?, what do these purple spots on your forearm mean?, how to cut a rabbet without a tablesaw?.... Literately an infinity of different detailed searches, with millions of people each searching for millions of different things. These, they don't show up in 'top results', misleading those who mistakenly take top search results for the whole of the search universe. Though the hints have always been there for those with eyes to see... Like the guy who sued google over the ranking of his flower shop. Or JC Penney's being slapped by Google for their misleading methods of getting to the top of their categories.

The other thing missed by the shallow and short of memory is that the portal, one stop for everything, has been the Holy Grail of the commercial internet since practically Day One. Even Google has tried their hand at this early on, first by making their site(s) easy to use by introducing a single username/password for all their services. Later, they introduced Google Homepage (since rebranded as iGoogle) to the great joy of the geek community. ("Now we can use Google instead of Yahoo! or MSN!" Oh, the irony - since much of the same community derided portals.) Alongside that came their RSS reader, Google Sites, Google Business, Picasa, etc... etc... Ever more services and sites trying to keep eyeballs on Google's ads and trying to gain even more personal information to more accurately target those ads.

this is where google is having problems.

It ought to work well as a scarecrow, too.

I also didn't say — or imply — anything which you attribute to me. The simple fact is that other sources of energy — ridiculously and absurdly, even solar — have more deaths per TWh than nuclear. It's a simple fact.

If we're serious about addressing the world's energy needs while moving away from fossil fuels, nuclear MUST be a part of the discussion, because it's not all going to be wind farms, hydro, and solar panels.

It's about energy density. But be my guest and keep vilifying nuclear in the face of the evidence. And speaking of "dense", in case you don't get it, this doesn't mean there shouldn't be safety and oversight. It means we should look at the true risks of nuclear vs. the long term risks from other energy sources, particularly fossil fuels...not only in terms of deaths (which, compared to other energy sources, are minimal), but the risk from unstable geopolitical situations, wars for resources, and so on.

It's not like we're going crazy building new plants in the US; we just approved the first new nuclear plant in three decades. That's ridiculous. Meanwhile, China has at least 25 reactors under construction, with many more planned...

Regards,
V. Shah

they have no desire to get nuked

Fortunately for them Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, just a civilian nuclear energy program. Even Israeli intelligence feels attacking Iran is a bad idea. Though, it'd be real good for the military industrial complex and the financiers.

I'd like to think we'd go along as a show of support

Really, we should kill people in far off lands who don't threaten us because some war-mongers are creating propaganda about fake weapons of mass destruction? Didn't we just learn this lesson?

North Korea recently said they would give up their nuclear program in exchange for a substantial aid package: Story

Now question is whether they are actually giving up the stuff, but they sure said they wish.

This is the new face of nuclear politics, we don't do the whole MAD thing any more, now regimes under international pressure can start a nuclear program and then later use it as a bargaining chip, as in, promise to give up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for something else - in DPRK's case: food.

I really don't believe this to be the case. The chances that the Yahoo! copyright agent who read my counterclaim knew about my day job are slim at best. Just as Flickr/Yahoo! respond the same way to every DMCA takedown they receive, I'm sure they respond to every counter claim the same way too. I've been around the site - and its forums long enough to know that this is the case. Where they fall down - one of the many places they fall down - is in not providing their user with information. The email telling you your content's been deleted assumes you're guilty. It wouldn't hurt for them to have a paragraph in it saying, "If you think this notice has been sent in error, please visit http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/copyright/en-us/ rto find out how you can file a counter claim." They don't. And their customer service response time is now dreadful (well done Yahoo - http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ ) So I think some people write back to flickr full of rage, saying that they do own the copyright _actually_ and how dare they delete it and nobody writes back explaining how to file a DMCA counter claim and so they give up fighting and blame flickr (rightly) for ignoring them. But if you file a proper counter claim they respond as officiously as they do to the initial claim. They pass it on to the claimant and start the clock ticking on your 14 days. They don't ignore a proper counter claim, they're just not very helpful at guiding you to file one. Throughout all of this my views on Degban haven't changed much. Whether they're telling the truth or not about being hacked they're bad. Either they filed a ridiculous DMCA or they didn't protect themselves well enough to prevent someone else from doing so. Either way is bad. And their reaction since has been childish. But my views on flickr have changed. And in part down to information I've gleaned here. I think their way of dealing with takedowns is unnecessarily heavy handed and that in deleting the content rather than hiding it for the duration of the claim/counterclaim process, they actually fail to abide by the terms of the DMCA. Their reaction to this is sluggish. When I received the email telling me I could repost the image it ended with the words "Please contact us if you have any questions or we can further assist you in this matter." I replied asking them for the full contact details of the agent who had filed the claim, advice on what, if anything I could do about it. I asked them if they could tell me how many other takedowns they'd received from Degban and I asked for an explanation as to why they couldn't replace all the content they'd removed. Their reply came 5 days later. On the contact details, they provided an email address. But the rest of my questions were ignored. "We trust that this answers your concerns," they said, knowing full well that it didn't. So much for cache. I don't expect flickr to be able to resolve my particular case properly. I think they probably _can_ put the content back in the original URL but I'm not really expecting them to do so. But I intend to stay on this with them in the hope that they change the way they deal with DMCAs in the future. I understand the need for copyright enforcement, but when someone gets it wrong, they have to give themselves the chance to put things right... and right now they don't do that.

Did you see this article today? Goes right along with what you're saying - getting people informed isn't even the root of the problem - it's that people are incapable of judging competency/quality because they always over-estimate their own abilities. http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html

That is a fat load of bullshit, just like everything else you've said in this thread. Employers are the ones with power, which is why you've seen wages stagnate and drop in the last 30 years.

- you are so stiff in your brain, not even glimmer of hope for you.

1971 - gold shock. Why? Because of massive gov't created inflation. Why? Because gov't got out of hand, out of control. How? By promising the people to give them free lunch, bread and circuses.

So then what? Inflation. Destruction of savings. Destruction of investment capital. Promotion of easy credit. Credit for consumer products, not for businesses generating actual real wealth.

Is that all? No. Growth of gov't based on fake credit creates more departments (as is seen from 1965 and on). This means many new regulations, much higher taxes, various labour laws, price and wage controls.

So what? Manufacturing and agriculture and mining and all sorts of other jobs leave, and you are left with what cannot be exported easily, so you have your so called "service economy".

And? And you have no jobs, because all the stuff you actually use on daily basis is not produced by service economy, it's produced by somebody making it somewhere and importing into your country, while you only export fake currency.

So how will that end? Eventually you won't have anything at all, your money is not good, nobody will trade with you, you won't be able to pay for your exports with anything but most mundane things - like raw energy you can still mine somewhere: oil, coal.

And what about standard of living? It's down the drain. Today a person making 350,000 living in New York, has life style that is no better than his father was able to provide him with on a CARPENTER salary back in the fifties.

Is it going to get better? No. Not if you continue with the same structure - government destroying liberties, money.

We do subsidize our gasoline in the United States, to the tune of $10 Billion in tax breaks a year, with which the Oil Industry did nothing to lower prices, but rather maximized profits with record earnings.

I actually hadn't noticed gas prices going up here in the States. That's probably because my hybrid-electric nerdmobile can go 500 miles on a single 10 gallon tank of gas. In fact, everytime the price of gas goes up, so does the resale value of my car. Must suck to be one of the majority of Americans who didn't pay attention in science or math class growing up. Ignorance is expensive.

The fact that it also covers up government wrong-doing, like spying on American citizens

It is hard to understand why the government would ever engage in surveillance of American citizens, isn't it? You've got to wonder, what are they thinking? Are they stepping over the line?

And that's not all - at times it's almost like they are guided and operating according to something other than criminal law, almost as if they had a body of law that nobody else knows about that lets them do things like shoot dead large numbers of people, en masse, legally, with neither trial nor warrant. How could that be? Does Congress know about this? Does Congress approve?

The recruiter: Anwar al-Awlaki, portrait of an American jihadist CNN: Al-Awlaki threatens Americans
40 Americans Have Joined Al Qaeda Group
U.S.-educated Misunderstander of Islam pleads guilty to jihad war crimes, turns government witness

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization. Full Story

Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center

U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland. Full Story

Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings

Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty to damaging property and to firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010, and to attempting to damage veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Full Story

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012

1.Tampa: Florida Resident Charged with Plotting to Bomb Locations in Tampa

A 25-year-old resident of Pinellas Park, Florida was charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack locations in Tampa with a vehicle bomb, assault rifle, and other explosives. Full Story

2.Baltimore: Former Army Solider Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab

A man who secretly converted to Islam days before he separated from the Army was charged with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, a foreign terrorist organization, and was arrested upon his return to Maryland after traveling to Africa. Full Story

I'd much rather be able to build a custom RSS feed so my RSS feed wouldn't see the stories I'm not interested in.

That's what Yahoo Pipes is for.

Take for example this pipe, clone it, then add one filter for each section you want to take out.

I'd much rather be able to build a custom RSS feed so my RSS feed wouldn't see the stories I'm not interested in.

That's what Yahoo Pipes is for.

Take for example this pipe, clone it, then add one filter for each section you want to take out.

What about divorce?
Sources say that women are initiating divorce in 66% of cases.

Words are easy. Actions are harder. Here's an ABC reporter taking Obama's press secretary to task for using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court again and again.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/wake-reporter-deaths-syria-white-house-grilled-aggressive-154806577.html

Well, then they're 100% good to go. Wait, no they aren't.

Just don't go near the pole man and you'll be alright. Oh and if anything twitches KILL IT!