they're certainly not going to go through the effort to rebuild their social networks just because Facebook has gone commercial.
And really, why should they? It's not like Facebook was some sort of idealistic, let's-be-counter-culture site. It was always a social networking site, albeit smaller and more specialized than others. I don't think it has a lot of things that will be ruined by it going commercial.
Americans can arrange their vacation vs. work time quite easily.
Depends highly on where you work, and what field you're in. Granted, If you're in a tech job, you can arrange vacations fairly easily. Any other area? Not so much. Most companies aren't all that flexible about days off, and even if you have enough vacatioin time stored up, it can be a hassle to arrange it with higher-ups.
Actually, plenty of schools do. No school should deny office phones to kids who need rides, but in reality, many public schools are suspicious of students (usually with no good reason, but that's another topic) and won't let them use office phones without a huge hassle. Also, if a child plays sports or is involved in other after-school activities, chances are that by the time he or she needs a ride home, any office that would have had a phone is now closed.
Granted, this is the action of a local municipal police department. However, stories like this pop up fairly frequently, from widely varied "Local municiple police departments," and have been increasing in frequency. Whether this is due to an actual increase in frequency or simply an increase in reporting, I don't know, but the fact is, one sees far more stories of police abusing their powers now than in years past. I don't think this is representative of a police state or anything like that, but clearly, there is some sort of a problem here.
Man, pop psychology is frustrating. I wish they'd link to the actual study...or are they afraid we'd find out that they did the experiment early in the morning and the non-caffeine group was too sleepy to pay attention, or something equally silly?
I'm also surprised that the age of the data doesn't seem to bug people. I mean, I don't know exactly what other data the researchers collected, but I can think of other things that might correlate with both coffee intake and developing liver problems. Perhaps the heavy coffee drinkers were generally wealthier, or maybe they were more social and had a better support system and that somehow correlated...there are any number of things that would do it.
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Because people should be punished for choosing to buy something you don't want to buy? Honestly, now.
That, and the URL looks deceptively legit.
Perhaps part of the point is that with GMail, you don't have to pay to not see ads, except for the text ones.
No, if you actually speak Russian, the sound is somewhere between the two, and "vodka" is a more accurate presentation of the word.
Actually, plenty of schools do. No school should deny office phones to kids who need rides, but in reality, many public schools are suspicious of students (usually with no good reason, but that's another topic) and won't let them use office phones without a huge hassle. Also, if a child plays sports or is involved in other after-school activities, chances are that by the time he or she needs a ride home, any office that would have had a phone is now closed.
Granted, this is the action of a local municipal police department. However, stories like this pop up fairly frequently, from widely varied "Local municiple police departments," and have been increasing in frequency. Whether this is due to an actual increase in frequency or simply an increase in reporting, I don't know, but the fact is, one sees far more stories of police abusing their powers now than in years past. I don't think this is representative of a police state or anything like that, but clearly, there is some sort of a problem here.
Not to be nitpicky, but if you're going to be sarcastic, you might want to spell it right. Non sequitur, with a "u" and not an "o."
Man, pop psychology is frustrating. I wish they'd link to the actual study...or are they afraid we'd find out that they did the experiment early in the morning and the non-caffeine group was too sleepy to pay attention, or something equally silly?
I'm also surprised that the age of the data doesn't seem to bug people. I mean, I don't know exactly what other data the researchers collected, but I can think of other things that might correlate with both coffee intake and developing liver problems. Perhaps the heavy coffee drinkers were generally wealthier, or maybe they were more social and had a better support system and that somehow correlated...there are any number of things that would do it.
See, adding a warning where users could see it and follow it would be too logical and infused with common sense, and we can't have that, now can we?
Haven't gotten anything in gmail, nor have any of my friends who use it. Maybe it's just a coincidence?