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  1. Re: Communism is the only way forward on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 2

    A lot of Made in America clothing was actually made in the Northern Mariana Islands which is a US Commonwealth like Puerto Rico. The minimum wage from 1997 to 2007 was $3.05 making it cost effective to produce clothing there. The minimum wage was raised in 2007 and is currently $5.05 with plans to make it equal with the US federal minimum wage by 2015. Unfortunately when the minimum wage was raised, the Northern Marianas were no longer able to complete with China and by 2009 the island's garment industry went caput.

  2. Re:That isn't what they want. on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    They do need our help to the tune of £3.8 million thus far. ("Our" in this case being the British taxpayer.)

  3. GeoCities on Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr · · Score: 1

    I never thought of Geocities as a blogging network. It was just the place where I put up my first ever webpage (for free which was awesome back then) somewhere around 1996. It was on the South Beach (if people recall the various neighborhoods and addresses within each where your site would go).

  4. Re:I'll die happy on Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is not an option according to the research. You will die at the same time as the skinny guy but will acquire age related diseases sooner so the skinny guy will enjoy a larger percentage of his life outside the nursing home, hospital and doctor's office.

  5. Re:Not Forced on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Verizon issued a clarification to The New York Times today, noting that the loss of grandfathered unlimited plans will be limited to those customers purchasing new subsidized devices for use on the carrier. Users who do not upgrade their devices or who choose to upgrade at unsubsidized prices will be able to keep their unlimited data plans. Still, the change would appear to be set to affect the majority of Verizon's current unlimited data customers, as most customers are interested in regular handset upgrades at subsidized prices. - Customers will not be automatically moved to new shared data plans. If a 3G or 4G smartphone customer is on an unlimited plan now and they do not want to change their plan, they will not have to do so. - When we introduce our new shared data plans, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to customers when purchasing handsets at discounted pricing. - Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan. - The same pricing and policies will be applied to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones."

  6. Not Forced on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Actually those of us with grandfathered unlimited plans will not be forced into this bucket of ripoffs plan when we upgrade UNLESS we want a subsidized phone. From here on out, I'll be getting slightly older unsubsidized phones.

  7. Re:Irony alert! on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 1

    It would be cheaper to buy 2 full seasons of your favorite show on DVD every month than it would be to have DirecTV.

  8. Re:religious implications? on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    There is no eternal hell. The wicked suffer the "second death" as it clearly states in Revelation. "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:14,15. God isn't keeping anyone around just to torture them forever. "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them." Malachi 4:1. They will be stubble, not living on and on to be tortured.

  9. Re:religious implications? on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    The truth is that the doctrine of the eternal soul is a heresy that unfortunately worked its way into Christianity. The Bible says that only God hath immortality. The soul that sinneth dies. What Solomon was speaking of is the time period existing from death until the resurrection. It's not until Christ returns that the righteous are raised to eternal life as it states in I Thessalonians 4:16, 17. It's the same belief as held by Martha, the sister of Lazarus as found in John 11:23, 24. Jesus referred to the period Solomon speaks of as "sleep" for He told his disciples He was going to awake Lazarus out of sleep which would be nonsensical if Lazarus was conscious in the afterlife.

  10. Re:Big on Huge Jurassic Fleas May Have Fed On Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    There were giants in the earth in those days [antediluvian]; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:4

  11. Re:LOL! on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 1

    Whatever benefits that vinyl offers over CD, DVD-Audio does as well as or better than vinyl.

  12. Re:So, treating 4000 people on Cystic Fibrosis Gene Correction Drug Approved by the FDA · · Score: 1

    My question is how many people with a salary of approximately $150k do not have health insurance?

  13. Re:That is not a robot on Crab Robot Helps Remove Stomach Cancer · · Score: 2

    I am quite certain that Waldo is a guy with a bad fashion sense that likes to hide out in big crowds.

  14. Re:Uh, a robot crab that crawls down your throat? on Crab Robot Helps Remove Stomach Cancer · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about lymphoma, that cannot be treated with surgical resection. Radiation and chemotherapy are the methods of choice.

  15. Taxis are the way to go. on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    The last time I was in San Francisco, it took about 30 minutes to find a parking spot within a 30 minute walk of a small Asian restaurant I wanted to eat at. And if you've been to San Francisco, you know that you will encounter lots of sketchy characters on that walk. The next time we ate out, we found a parking spot on the wharf and then took a taxi from there to where we wanted to eat. If they are really thinking of charging $20 or $30 an hour for parking, the economics will greatly favor catching a cab.

  16. Re: Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Not almost entirely. Entirely. Even the Indians came here at some point in the past.

  17. It's true on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    As a physician, I agree with the article.

  18. E-Cat on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    I thought the E-Cat was about to solve all our energy needs.

  19. Blu-Ray Anyone on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    I guess everyone out there is pleased with the video quality available from downloadable movies. I prefer to watch everything in Blu-Ray and refuse to download movies until such time as the quality exceeds Blu-Ray. Now, I understand in the case of Apple that none of their computers support Blu-Ray which is why I will stick with a Windows machine.

  20. It's true on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    I can confirm this as true because every single person responding to this thread is actually me. Getting everyone's password was a breeze. Logging into everyone of them and posting something different....... that was a pain.

  21. Re:how they know on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    Actually you're wrong about that making no sense. In the official account, Paul Revere referred to his people as Americans. "I observed a wood at a small distance, and made for that. When I got there, out started six officers on horseback, and ordered me to dismount. One of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me where I came from and what my name was: I told him. He asked if I was an express: I answered in the affirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston: I told him; and added that their troops had catched aground in passing the river, and that there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the country all the way up."

  22. What about reddit? on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    What about reddit? Are we to seriously believe that 99% of the population is liberal? I don't think I've ever seen a right leaning article make the front page on reddit yet there are consistently far left leaning articles and openly Obama worshiping articles that make the front page. Many of these articles could not possibly make the front page with the help of even your average Democrat.

  23. Re:Good on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 1

    I find it funny when old people assume only the music from their youth is good and that the music from the next generation's youth sucks.

  24. HLA Matching = Better Spouse on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    I personally would like to marry someone who shared my HLA markers (assuming they're not my sibling) so they could donate their kidney to me someday if the need arose.

  25. Re:Democratic? on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 1

    Instead of being a race baiter, how about reading a textbook? Mexico lost the Southwest fair and square in a war they instigated and lost. Not only that but the United States still paid $15,000,000 ($298,310,309 in 2005) for the land, and agreed to assume $3.25 million in debts to US citizens.