There was a time when I got more Beats By Dre comment spam on my blog than any other single spam subject...
A danger to their profits.
Just another government-sanctioned monopoly seeing their monopoly profits destroyed by a free market that treats them as damage to route around...
You know, the pact to outlaw war. Signed in 1928.
Didn't work out so well.
And even if it were signed by a significant number of nations, we could be sure the non-democratic ones would be violating the ban before the ink was even dry.
Unenforceable treaties are actually worse than worthless: they constrain good actors without deterring bad ones.
Visual information controlling physical action without conscious thought. Think of it as a higher level of autonomous nervous system.
Peter Watts wrote a very depressing novel involving the idea which explores the possibility that consciousness is not necessary for intelligent life, and, indeed, may ultimately turn out to be an evolutionary dead end...
...of how to cook hard-to-obtain Sudafed by starting with readily available methamphetamine...
Each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me....
Monty Python Reference
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This is an Ex-Monty Python reference!
Did I miss any?
This will be a little easier to view.
Not seeing anything groundbreaking off the top of my head...
Well, it will buy you a pretty nice home in Texas, anyway. California? Not so much.
Especially with California's much higher tax rates, including a rate of 9.3% that kicks for all those millionaires making more than $49,774 a year.
...we're seeing that, when push comes to shove and certain people are in charge, the "promise" of the United States doesn't mean squat.
Nukes in the hand are worth an infinite number of promises and strongly-worded letters...
Compared to when The Great Recession Started.
"California, with just under 12% of the nation's population, has 22.43% of the nation's homeless population, giving it a homelessness quotient of 0.88. Quite high, in other words. Almost double the number of homeless people one would predict, given its population."
"Texas, which has roughly 8.2% of the nation's population, only has 4.85% of the nation's homeless population (meaning: Texas has a quite low homelessness quotient of -0.41)."
Growing economy = less homeless, contracting economy = more homeless.
Go look at the statistics if you doubt it.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison