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  1. Re:What BS on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    Companies are foisting the cost of doing business onto there employees.
    So it needs to stop. AS we have seen, many times, corporation will demand more and more and they will all start doing it so you won't actually have a choice.

    The rest of you post is irrelevant to the discussion.

  2. Re:what about unlimited cell phone plans? on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    percentage based.

  3. Re:It depends on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    If they give you the option of using your phone to help them make money, then they are on the hook.
    If they don't want to do that, then don't allow person phones for business.

    Companies are doing this to foist the cost of doing business onto their employees.

  4. Re:Is he a scientist? on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 2

    I disagree. His total experience is with one company, during a unique point in history. You can't teach that because nothing else applies.

  5. Re:Is he a scientist? on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 1

    Anyone in the position he was in would have been able to ride that wave. EVERY product he wanted to happen, and shove through regardless of market, failed.

  6. Re:Lesson one on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 1

    If the thing Steve Jobs pushed failed, then Yes.

  7. Class Titles: on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 1

    101 - How to keep stocks flat.
    102 - Ignoring the market How to spend billion to have a product fail
    103 - The most important class - How to get lucky and land at a company just before the stocks rocket due to nothing you've personally done.

  8. Re:Off topic on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 2

    Holy crap, I turned off ad block. I didn't see any full page ads, but a bunch of other moving ads.
    Yikes, I certainly wouldn't come here if I had to look at those ads.

  9. Re:Better to starve I guess? on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sigh.
    There are many GMOs that do different things. People always talk about herbicides resistant because it sound scary. oooOOOooohhh.

  10. Re:china did it on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 2

    Some fault probably belongs to the countries that don't have those regulations.

  11. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Non of that actually makes any damn sense.

    This stupid scientist make things up for money meme need to really fucking stop when every expert in the field agrees.

    Fuck, you're stupid.

  12. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    Really, if the pubs actually all got together and said, yep, it's real then they whole party would change and they would have little to fear.

  13. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    Well, all the initial groups where created by LBJ, and then Nixon consolidated them
    The clean are act did no such thing and created looser standards.

    please, Please, PLEASE read up on the stuff.

    DDT had never been shown to do what the speculation is SIlent Spring claimed it did. It was pure FUD.

    There is nothing wrong with fracking. Saying Obama is for fracking is like saying Obama is for factual evidence based decisions. I know you can't handle a politician that doesn't just spout nonsense that happen to support your uneducated biases.

  14. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should really read those links. Seriously dude, just linking something you don't actually understand as some sort of proof just mkas you look foolish.

    The first one made it worse:

    The law reduces air pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcement. The Act is opposed by conservationist groups such as the Sierra Club with Henry A. Waxman, a Democratic congressman of California, describing its title as "clear propaganda."

    Among other things, the Clear Skies Act:

    Allows 42 million more tons of pollution emitted than the EPA proposal.
    Weakens the current cap on nitrogen oxide pollution levels from 1.25 million tons to 2.1 million tons, allowing 68% more NOx pollution.
    Delays the improvement of sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution levels compared to the Clean Air Act requirements.
    Delays enforcement of smog-and-soot pollution standards until 2015.
    By 2018, the Clear Skies Act will supposedly allow 3 million tons more NOx through 2012 and 8 million more by 2020, for SO2, 18 million tons more through 2012 and 34 million tons more through 2020. 58 tons more mercury through 2012 and 163 tons more through 2020 would be released into the environment than what would be allowed by enforcement of the Clean Air Act.[2]

    In August 2001, the EPA proposed a version of the Clear Skies Act that contained short timetables and lower emissions caps [3]. It is unknown why this proposal was withdrawn and replaced with the Bush Administration proposal. It is also unclear whether or not the original EPA proposal would have made it out of committee.

    The second one--Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 17, 1963

    The third one-- Nixon combined existing groups into one, for budget reasons.
    However, I would argue the the Pubs of the 60's and 70s are vastly different then the pubs of today. Post religious right control.

  15. Re:Why such paranoia ? on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And, or course, the fact that the phone was bricked for no reason. Also, the video will be recoverable.

    I don't think they are talking about putting a button in every police car that bricks phones.

  16. Re:My phone's already a brick on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 2

    YOU are why IT has such a bad reputation.

  17. The government doesn't need this on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    when they can just have your cell company shut down you service.

  18. Re:Casual reading vs Text Books on Do Readers Absorb Less On Kindles Than On Paper? Not Necessarily · · Score: 1

    You need cover art to remember a plot?
    You're weird..or I"m a SUPER GENIUS! no, no. you're weird.

    You literally can not talk about a book you've been reading unless the book is right there?

  19. Re:Stupid on Do Readers Absorb Less On Kindles Than On Paper? Not Necessarily · · Score: 1

    You don't need a suspicion to do an experiment, just a plausible idea.

  20. Re:Probably has to do with pages. on Do Readers Absorb Less On Kindles Than On Paper? Not Necessarily · · Score: 1

    what? with my kindle, it puts me on the last page I read, regardless of the last device I was reading it on.

    What does knowing about where you where have to do with comprehension?

  21. Re:which turns transport into a monopoly... on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    His rants are often off topic, and factually incorrect, so I WISH he would keep them bottled up! :)

  22. Re:which turns transport into a monopoly... on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    Rent control. Doesn't exist only in cities.

    Project housing - Doesn't only exist in cities
    EBT cards. - Doesn't only happen in cities. There are More SNAP/EBT per capita in suburbs and rural communities. Of courts,e I'm sure you know nothing of the actual numbers and go off misconceptions.

    you are just as dependent on the system as anyone.

  23. Re:which turns transport into a monopoly... on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    "such as sales taxes to finance freeways"
    All of them. In fact I can't find a single city that uses sales tax for roads.

  24. Re:Am I responding to a troll? on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    So you live on a farm, but you community needs sticker reminding the their food comes from farmers? That doesn't speak well for the average intelligence of your area. Everyone I know in the city knows their food comes from farmers and ranchers.

    Anecdote:
    I've never been run out of a city for being an Atheist, but I've been run out of several small communities. Literally.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  25. Re:Living in the country is an anachronism on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "A modern example would be Santa Fe New Mexico."

    Which is a city, last time I checked. So you argument is: City life isn't all that, look at all this cool stuff you can do in the city.

    How much night life is there in Chama, NM? Silver City?