The first, legitimate, photo first appeared on newsmax.com after several stories describing Kerry's anti-war activities had already appeared. The photo was not a discovery but a confirmation of the Kerry-Fonda connection, just like the Dean scream was a confirmation of known instability. I could write one thousand words about their connection, but the picture takes up less space.
The only time I've seen the fake on any right-wing website was on Drudge showing
the photo as a fake. None of the standard conservative sites got fooled by or used the fake photo. That the NY Times would use the fake photo is... predictable.
Really, 3000 deaths and $100B damage is not cause for a significant response yet 2 citizens held as enemy combatants and 0 citizens whose rights have been found to have been violated by the PATRIOT Act is cause for urgent action?
People are paranoid that they if they come up as a false positive on some search they are going to go to jail for the rest of their life. The first thing the Feds will do if they get a positive is to start surveillance to try to discover the network and catch the rest of the cell and other cells. It should take them about 2 seconds to discover your porn collection, etc, and determine that you are not a terrorist and drop the tap. The question is would you want to know if you were a false positive?
What scares me is all the politicians who go to Washington to claim that Ashcroft is going to turn the country into a police state, then go home and say that they need more money for more police to get more boots on the street. Computers don't violate your civil liberties, people do. In all the spy TV shows, a half dozen agents with perfect information save the world every week. Having fewer police with better information is the best way to both secure our defense and protect our civil liberties.
I don't like the fact that everyone else wants to listen to remotely
programmed top 40 junk, but that is what other people choose to
listen to. We don't get to control what other people choose to listen to.
If there were enough loud-mouthed Clear Channel critics
to support profitable locally programmed stations there would be more
locally programmed stations.
We are losing independent media voices at a record pace while the
total number of independent voices available is at a record high
and increasing. It's called competition. The space that needs
more competition is newspapers. The local Clear Channel (AM) radio station that I listen to has the best local news in my market, much
better than the remotely owned monopoly local newspaper. I would
love them to open a newspaper, but then they would cross-own multiple
media types. If we want existing media to compete against monopoly
newspapers then we must allow for companies to cross-own newspaper,
TV, and radio stations.
I think he really means left-wing Christian fundamentalists.
Fundamentalism, having the church=state in charge of everyone's lives
and the means of production, is a left-wing notion.
The taliban, pre-reformation church, etc. are all left-wing entities.
It is right-wing Christians who wrote the constitution,
believe that we are all endowed by the Creator with unalienable Rights of
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, believe in the free expression
of religion, and oppose the establishment of a state religion.
Right-wingers believe that no king, state, or religion
should come between an individual and his faith in God.
The left-wing influence on science is very troubling.
It is the left-wing fundamentalist influence on the administration that troubles the UCS.
However, the general left-wing environment scare, junk science,
anti-business, and anti-humanity rhetoric should be far more troubling to scientists and the public.
Other posters here have described those more troubling UCS biases on science.
The problem is that we are not teaching science (or anything else) very
well in our schools. If we taught science (and math, economics, and everything
else) properly the public would be able to see through all the left-wing
(religious and socialist) rhetoric.
Our right wing administration has liberated 50 million people from left-wing
fundamentalism and fascism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We are constructing a model of freedom and democracy that is already having
a large positive influence on the rest of the left-wing middle-east and
other totalitarian dictatorships.
There was no evidence that Saddam had disarmed Iraq of WMD's, he simply
won the game of hide-and-seed with the UN and US. The cease-fire and
UN resolutions were not about hide-and-seek.
It has been found that the right-wing administration has trampled on 0
peoples civil liberties via the PATRIOT act.
Compare this to 100+ millions killed last century by left-wing regimes.
There is no constitutional separation of church and state.
Christians (both left and right) are fighting the judges who are trying
to abolish the free expression of religion on public property.
Abstinence just needs to be taught properly.
The more sex you have outside of marriage, on average, the less time you will
spend in marriage.
Abstinence is actually a long-term sex-maximizing strategy.
The BLS household survey shows over a 1.5M employment increase in 2003, and
496K increase in January.
The lagging payroll job stats only show that big corporations are not
taking over everything.
The previous grid-locked out-of control president and congress spent the
tech bubble proceeds buying bonds (surplus), while neglecting the
common defense and national infrastructure.
We paid heavily for this grid-lock. Hopefully, this won't happen again.
You have this completely backwards. The rich spend a far smaller percentage of their income on land than the middle class. The middle and lower class have to mortgage heavily to buy property, the rich usually do not. The poor are the biggest bargain shoppers, and are most likely to buy cheap imported goods. The rich don't shop at Walmart very often, and can afford to pay higher prices to buy American. Luxury goods create the most jobs, since most luxury items are actively in the design-phase. Design jobs pay very well and are the jobs least likely to leave the USA. The poor mostly purchase more mundane items that have been in the competitive marketplace for a long time. Margins for these products are slim and productivity for these products has been maximized, so few new jobs are needed to produce more.
A flat income distribution is an indication of economic stagnation. We just found a group trying to escape socialist flat-income Cuba paddling a '50s Buick because they have not produced any new products there since the revolution.
The more important a product is to the middle and lower class, the higher the productivity is to produce these products, and the fewer jobs needed to produce them.
The more rich people there are, the more new products are created and more people are required to design these new products. Almost all products available to the middle class were once products that were affordable only by the rich.
The wealthy don't need to spend all of their income. The excess is called capital. It is by investing this capital and labor (read: new jobs) that new products are created and our economy grows. This capital is the most important capital because it is the least risk-averse (no board of directors or bureaucracy controlling it) and is more likely to fund the most risky, innovative new products. Cutting tax rates increases the amount of this high-risk capital. Higher risk on average creates the highest expected rate of return. The lower tax rates on the higher expected profit and labor costs increases total tax revenue collected in the long run.
PS: How many programming jobs would there be in the USA if not for all the cheap imported memory needed to run our massively bloated code.
Krugman is a very poor source of facts (he never has to correct himself when his facts are wrong, unlike the rest of the paper). First, the vast majority of unemployed workers get new jobs either very quickly or just before their benefits run out. Since benefits have been extended repeatedly, due to the Clinton recession and 9/11, the increased length of unemployment is not surprising. If you want to reduce the length of unemployment, reduce the length of benefits. The new (bls.gov) household survey shows employment up 496k in January, far more than population growth. Since November 2001 payroll is down while employment is up 2.3M. Krugman mixes up his facts.
Since June 2003, before the most recent tax cuts, unemployment has fallen from a 6.3 peak to 5.6. The tax cuts specifically reduce personal income tax rates, not corporate tax rates, and increase business-like personal income deductions. This makes self and small business employment more competitive against business establishment employment than before. It is no surprise that the employment has increased significantly since then while payroll job numbers have been flat. This divergence is a good thing. Working for yourself or directly for a small business owner is much preferable than working for pointy-haired-bosses in big corporations.
I guess most slashdotters would prefer to work for PHBs, and so they only pay attention to the establishment payroll statistics.
The Clear Channel talk station here in Los Angeles has an excellent news division. They have local hosts and reporters and are the only local news that is truly independant from our non-locally owned monopoly newspaper. (Can't say anything about their weather coverage, we don't have any weather here). Outsourcing can help smaller media (radio and TV) compete against newspapers to produce independant local news.
I would love it if the radio station would partner with an independant TV station and open a competing newspaper. But then the new group would own a newspaper, TV station, and radio station, and that is not allowed under the old FCC rules because we need more media diversity.
Read the text of the bill (SB 186). The law has $1000 per email plus 'Actual damages' (claim that your CEO's valuable time has been wasted by spam) plus 'reasonable attorney's fees and costs' (claim all your time and costs of tracking down the spammer). The new bill is nothing but a massive gift to trial lawyers and is an attack on any California business involved in any sort of email marketing. Spam is annoying but it is not an excuse to pass job-killing legislation. The existing bill is quite adequate and I would rather not have the marketing industry and their jobs and tax revenue fleeing the state.
I normally don't welcome the federal government interfering in state matters but the California Legislature is certifiable.
The socialists never know when it's time to upgrade capacity until after it's too late. In California, the utilities did not build any new generation for about twenty years before de-regulation (and even paid money to not build new generation). The private generators started building capacity only after de-regulation, and were not able to finish before the power was most needed. If CA had deregulated sooner there would have been no problem. Plus the braindead CPUC insisted on charging very low consumer rates when wholesale rates were highest and now are charging very high rates when wholesale rates are very low. California is a great example on how to completely bungle regulation surrounding deregulation.
Getting government involved is the best way to block the next round of expantion necessary. We just need to make sure that companies that are sucessful can expand and take-over those that are unsucessful without disruption.
Despite consolidation, there are now more radio stations then before. Plus it's our fault that we choose to listen to centrally controlled radio rather than locally programmed stations.
Re-Regulation is not the answer. The public sector utilities have never been as good as private utilities at controlling costs.
Selling a government monopoly to a private monopoly and not enforcing any standards is not the best way to deregulate anything. To have competition you must build new lines which generally requires using public land (right-of-way) for transmission. Some people strongly object to any for-profit use of public land. Some people opposed the Nantucket windmills because the developer would be making a profit on public coastal land. They would rather send their money to Mideast terrorists than allow a corporation to make a profit using public land. We must ignore those people and allow industry to build competing transmission paths, using public right-of-way if needed.
Of course, we are the only country that can generate and transmit enough power to air-condition every home even in a bad heat-wave. These billions spent are far better then having thousands of people die in a heat wave from a lack of air-conditioning. It seems the rest of the world is also stuck with a thirld-world electricity grid.
Certainly a sales tax includes use tax since you use an item the same whether you buy on or off line. But when states set use tax = sales tax this implies that the sales tax portion is zero. This implies that all the traffic infrastructure, security, and other services provided by local government to support merchants costs nothing. (Not to mention the tax breaks that government gives to merchants to get them to locate in their jurisdiction so that they can collect the sales tax from that merchant.)
There is money in e-commerce, so states demands to take a cut, even if they provide no services to support e-commerce that are not already taxed. (Gas tax for delivery trucks, airport taxes) Government's need for money gives them no right to collect use tax. Sales tax on online, catalog, and other remote sales should be zero even when the merchant has a state presence.
The government is not a racket. If government does not collect a tax on a transaction that money is still there and will become a part of taxable profit or income. Tax revenue will still be collected... by some other government entity. Government should not be greedy by taxing everything in sight. It should be patient and let capital by used for growth until it is consumed as taxable income.
If you want to let the Middle East remain a hellhole untill every last american is out of poverty than you can wait FOREVER. Poverty will never completely disappear in America, especially if the Middle East remains a hellhole and a threat to our national security. Would you rather Iraq spend $100B of oil money on black market arms or on world market products. Iraq can be the best US investment since the Louisiana purchace.
Welcome to California. You have to look at the full history to see what is really going on in this bill.
This bill is an example of "Gut and amend" where the legislature completely rewrites unrelated bills after the deadline to introduce legislation has passed.
Introduced 02/12/2003 - Video and biometric surveillance systems.
Amended 03/17/2003 - "Gut and amend" as a spam bill.
Amended 05/06/2003 - Department of Consumer Affairs no longer enforcing, now anyone can enforce. (lawsuit)
Amended 06/26/2003 - Original $1000 limit increased to actual damages plus $1K per spam up to $1M plus attorney's fees and costs.
Amended 07/09/2003 - Adds prohibiting collection of e-mail addresses and advertiser changed to person or entity.
Amended 07/10/2003 - No longer need to 'reasonably know' that e-mail address is in California.
This bill is one of about 500 bills passed hastily mostly without debate to get on Grey Davis's desk before he is recalled. The Slashdot community has probably spent far more time examining this bill than the California legislature.
California trial lawyers will be delighted with this legislation (I would guess that they are probably responsible for this). The legislature must think they can close the budget hole by suing spammers. This bill is almost certainly a violation of interstate commerce law.
This is pandering to voters who think they are getting spam protection but this bill will be superceded by federal law currently in congress.
Depleted Uranium rounds quickly disable enemy tanks so that they don't have to be fired at any more. Without DU, far more lives would be lost on the battlefield than would be lost by the toxicity of DU. One-sided use of DU actually reduces the number of lives lost in war.
Nuclear weapons also reduce the number of lives that would be lost on the battlefield when they cause an immediate surrender.
They could not have said it any better.
If you implement this the obvious way you will
infringe on our patent, therefore our patent is
clearly obvious.
Do they intend to licence the technology or just
permission to do the obvious.
Anyone conducting computer-to-computer international trades over the Internet without the permission of DE Technology....
We have a new class of patents, not about licensing technology, or business methods, but about permission. This, Amazon's, and other patents basically require licensing permission from the patent holder to use your own technology.
For one-click, paying for downloading music, and similar patents, you would not even want to license the technology if they offered it. It would be far easier to extend your own technology into infringement than to integrate their technology with your technology.
The only thing they are offering and the only thing licensees are looking for with these patents is permission.
Patents are supposed to be about creating technology. Any patent granted should contain technology worth licensing. We do not need to reward applicants whose patents have nothing to offer but permission.
This statement looks like they are declaring computerized international trading to be their 'turf', and you cannot do business on their turf without permission.
The patent does have technology that might be worth licensing because it automates a 'tedious' business process. The requirements for implementing this process can be found in the code of law governing international trade. Similar technology has been independently created by others, so this should not be considered 'non-obvious'.
We do not need the patent office granting any legalized rackets on the internet.
areas within five miles of a college is a pretty funny definition for near a college. 5 miles is well beyond walking distance. How many people live within 5 miles of a college, especially in NY and LA. There are probably many more people who live near a college than the total college student enrollment. The general population migration (especially the rich) from cities to urban sprawl areas could be a bigger cause of the reported decline in sales than napster usage.
Why did they choose 5 miles? What do sales look like for other distance and time parameters? How do sales compare to total income living within 5 miles of colleges? What percentage of new stores opened within 5 miles of colleges? The study and its conclusions does not look valid to me.
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The only time I've seen the fake on any right-wing website was on Drudge showing the photo as a fake. None of the standard conservative sites got fooled by or used the fake photo. That the NY Times would use the fake photo is ... predictable.
People are paranoid that they if they come up as a false positive on some search they are going to go to jail for the rest of their life. The first thing the Feds will do if they get a positive is to start surveillance to try to discover the network and catch the rest of the cell and other cells. It should take them about 2 seconds to discover your porn collection, etc, and determine that you are not a terrorist and drop the tap. The question is would you want to know if you were a false positive?
What scares me is all the politicians who go to Washington to claim that Ashcroft is going to turn the country into a police state, then go home and say that they need more money for more police to get more boots on the street. Computers don't violate your civil liberties, people do. In all the spy TV shows, a half dozen agents with perfect information save the world every week. Having fewer police with better information is the best way to both secure our defense and protect our civil liberties.
We are losing independent media voices at a record pace while the total number of independent voices available is at a record high and increasing. It's called competition. The space that needs more competition is newspapers. The local Clear Channel (AM) radio station that I listen to has the best local news in my market, much better than the remotely owned monopoly local newspaper. I would love them to open a newspaper, but then they would cross-own multiple media types. If we want existing media to compete against monopoly newspapers then we must allow for companies to cross-own newspaper, TV, and radio stations.
The left-wing influence on science is very troubling. It is the left-wing fundamentalist influence on the administration that troubles the UCS. However, the general left-wing environment scare, junk science, anti-business, and anti-humanity rhetoric should be far more troubling to scientists and the public. Other posters here have described those more troubling UCS biases on science.
The problem is that we are not teaching science (or anything else) very well in our schools. If we taught science (and math, economics, and everything else) properly the public would be able to see through all the left-wing (religious and socialist) rhetoric.
Our right wing administration has liberated 50 million people from left-wing fundamentalism and fascism in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are constructing a model of freedom and democracy that is already having a large positive influence on the rest of the left-wing middle-east and other totalitarian dictatorships.
There was no evidence that Saddam had disarmed Iraq of WMD's, he simply won the game of hide-and-seed with the UN and US. The cease-fire and UN resolutions were not about hide-and-seek.
It has been found that the right-wing administration has trampled on 0 peoples civil liberties via the PATRIOT act. Compare this to 100+ millions killed last century by left-wing regimes.
There is no constitutional separation of church and state. Christians (both left and right) are fighting the judges who are trying to abolish the free expression of religion on public property.
Abstinence just needs to be taught properly. The more sex you have outside of marriage, on average, the less time you will spend in marriage. Abstinence is actually a long-term sex-maximizing strategy.
The BLS household survey shows over a 1.5M employment increase in 2003, and 496K increase in January. The lagging payroll job stats only show that big corporations are not taking over everything.
The previous grid-locked out-of control president and congress spent the tech bubble proceeds buying bonds (surplus), while neglecting the common defense and national infrastructure. We paid heavily for this grid-lock. Hopefully, this won't happen again.
A flat income distribution is an indication of economic stagnation. We just found a group trying to escape socialist flat-income Cuba paddling a '50s Buick because they have not produced any new products there since the revolution. The more important a product is to the middle and lower class, the higher the productivity is to produce these products, and the fewer jobs needed to produce them. The more rich people there are, the more new products are created and more people are required to design these new products. Almost all products available to the middle class were once products that were affordable only by the rich.
The wealthy don't need to spend all of their income. The excess is called capital. It is by investing this capital and labor (read: new jobs) that new products are created and our economy grows. This capital is the most important capital because it is the least risk-averse (no board of directors or bureaucracy controlling it) and is more likely to fund the most risky, innovative new products. Cutting tax rates increases the amount of this high-risk capital. Higher risk on average creates the highest expected rate of return. The lower tax rates on the higher expected profit and labor costs increases total tax revenue collected in the long run.
PS: How many programming jobs would there be in the USA if not for all the cheap imported memory needed to run our massively bloated code.
Since June 2003, before the most recent tax cuts, unemployment has fallen from a 6.3 peak to 5.6. The tax cuts specifically reduce personal income tax rates, not corporate tax rates, and increase business-like personal income deductions. This makes self and small business employment more competitive against business establishment employment than before. It is no surprise that the employment has increased significantly since then while payroll job numbers have been flat. This divergence is a good thing. Working for yourself or directly for a small business owner is much preferable than working for pointy-haired-bosses in big corporations. I guess most slashdotters would prefer to work for PHBs, and so they only pay attention to the establishment payroll statistics.
The Clear Channel talk station here in Los Angeles has an excellent news division. They have local hosts and reporters and are the only local news that is truly independant from our non-locally owned monopoly newspaper. (Can't say anything about their weather coverage, we don't have any weather here). Outsourcing can help smaller media (radio and TV) compete against newspapers to produce independant local news.
I would love it if the radio station would partner with an independant TV station and open a competing newspaper. But then the new group would own a newspaper, TV station, and radio station, and that is not allowed under the old FCC rules because we need more media diversity.
Read the text of the bill (SB 186). The law has $1000 per email plus 'Actual damages' (claim that your CEO's valuable time has been wasted by spam) plus 'reasonable attorney's fees and costs' (claim all your time and costs of tracking down the spammer). The new bill is nothing but a massive gift to trial lawyers and is an attack on any California business involved in any sort of email marketing. Spam is annoying but it is not an excuse to pass job-killing legislation. The existing bill is quite adequate and I would rather not have the marketing industry and their jobs and tax revenue fleeing the state.
I normally don't welcome the federal government interfering in state matters but the California Legislature is certifiable.
The socialists never know when it's time to upgrade capacity until after it's too late. In California, the utilities did not build any new generation for about twenty years before de-regulation (and even paid money to not build new generation). The private generators started building capacity only after de-regulation, and were not able to finish before the power was most needed. If CA had deregulated sooner there would have been no problem. Plus the braindead CPUC insisted on charging very low consumer rates when wholesale rates were highest and now are charging very high rates when wholesale rates are very low. California is a great example on how to completely bungle regulation surrounding deregulation.
Getting government involved is the best way to block the next round of expantion necessary. We just need to make sure that companies that are sucessful can expand and take-over those that are unsucessful without disruption.
Despite consolidation, there are now more radio stations then before. Plus it's our fault that we choose to listen to centrally controlled radio rather than locally programmed stations.
Re-Regulation is not the answer. The public sector utilities have never been as good as private utilities at controlling costs.
Selling a government monopoly to a private monopoly and not enforcing any standards is not the best way to deregulate anything. To have competition you must build new lines which generally requires using public land (right-of-way) for transmission. Some people strongly object to any for-profit use of public land. Some people opposed the Nantucket windmills because the developer would be making a profit on public coastal land. They would rather send their money to Mideast terrorists than allow a corporation to make a profit using public land. We must ignore those people and allow industry to build competing transmission paths, using public right-of-way if needed.
Of course, we are the only country that can generate and transmit enough power to air-condition every home even in a bad heat-wave. These billions spent are far better then having thousands of people die in a heat wave from a lack of air-conditioning. It seems the rest of the world is also stuck with a thirld-world electricity grid.
Certainly a sales tax includes use tax since you use an item the same whether you buy on or off line. But when states set use tax = sales tax this implies that the sales tax portion is zero. This implies that all the traffic infrastructure, security, and other services provided by local government to support merchants costs nothing. (Not to mention the tax breaks that government gives to merchants to get them to locate in their jurisdiction so that they can collect the sales tax from that merchant.)
There is money in e-commerce, so states demands to take a cut, even if they provide no services to support e-commerce that are not already taxed. (Gas tax for delivery trucks, airport taxes) Government's need for money gives them no right to collect use tax. Sales tax on online, catalog, and other remote sales should be zero even when the merchant has a state presence.
The government is not a racket. If government does not collect a tax on a transaction that money is still there and will become a part of taxable profit or income. Tax revenue will still be collected ... by some other government entity. Government should not be greedy by taxing everything in sight. It should be patient and let capital by used for growth until it is consumed as taxable income.
If you want to let the Middle East remain a hellhole untill every last american is out of poverty than you can wait FOREVER. Poverty will never completely disappear in America, especially if the Middle East remains a hellhole and a threat to our national security. Would you rather Iraq spend $100B of oil money on black market arms or on world market products. Iraq can be the best US investment since the Louisiana purchace.
Welcome to California. You have to look at the full history to see what is really going on in this bill.
This bill is an example of "Gut and amend" where the legislature completely rewrites unrelated bills after the deadline to introduce legislation has passed.
Introduced 02/12/2003 - Video and biometric surveillance systems.
Amended 03/17/2003 - "Gut and amend" as a spam bill.
Amended 05/06/2003 - Department of Consumer Affairs no longer enforcing, now anyone can enforce. (lawsuit)
Amended 06/26/2003 - Original $1000 limit increased to actual damages plus $1K per spam up to $1M plus attorney's fees and costs.
Amended 07/09/2003 - Adds prohibiting collection of e-mail addresses and advertiser changed to person or entity.
Amended 07/10/2003 - No longer need to 'reasonably know' that e-mail address is in California.
This bill is one of about 500 bills passed hastily mostly without debate to get on Grey Davis's desk before he is recalled. The Slashdot community has probably spent far more time examining this bill than the California legislature.
California trial lawyers will be delighted with this legislation (I would guess that they are probably responsible for this). The legislature must think they can close the budget hole by suing spammers. This bill is almost certainly a violation of interstate commerce law.
This is pandering to voters who think they are getting spam protection but this bill will be superceded by federal law currently in congress.
This is what we in California have to live with.
Depleted Uranium rounds quickly disable enemy tanks so that they don't have to be fired at any more. Without DU, far more lives would be lost on the battlefield than would be lost by the toxicity of DU. One-sided use of DU actually reduces the number of lives lost in war.
Nuclear weapons also reduce the number of lives that would be lost on the battlefield when they cause an immediate surrender.
They could not have said it any better. If you implement this the obvious way you will infringe on our patent, therefore our patent is clearly obvious. Do they intend to licence the technology or just permission to do the obvious.
We have a new class of patents, not about licensing technology, or business methods, but about permission. This, Amazon's, and other patents basically require licensing permission from the patent holder to use your own technology. For one-click, paying for downloading music, and similar patents, you would not even want to license the technology if they offered it. It would be far easier to extend your own technology into infringement than to integrate their technology with your technology. The only thing they are offering and the only thing licensees are looking for with these patents is permission. Patents are supposed to be about creating technology. Any patent granted should contain technology worth licensing. We do not need to reward applicants whose patents have nothing to offer but permission.
This statement looks like they are declaring computerized international trading to be their 'turf', and you cannot do business on their turf without permission. The patent does have technology that might be worth licensing because it automates a 'tedious' business process. The requirements for implementing this process can be found in the code of law governing international trade. Similar technology has been independently created by others, so this should not be considered 'non-obvious'. We do not need the patent office granting any legalized rackets on the internet.
> Relax; it'll never be more than a minor
> language, so there'll be only 4 sharps.
And the most famous piece written in the key of
c# minor is the Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven).
Moonlight is just reflected sunlight.
Java comes to us directly from the SUN.
Why did they choose 5 miles? What do sales look like for other distance and time parameters? How do sales compare to total income living within 5 miles of colleges? What percentage of new stores opened within 5 miles of colleges? The study and its conclusions does not look valid to me.