The biggest difference between ebook readers and mp3 players is that one can stuff existing CDs into their mp3 player and use content they already own.

If I could do that easily with all of my books, I'd pay a hell of a lot more than $30 or even $300 dollars for a reader.

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According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_11_30th.html the Apollo 11 flag was knocked over.

It sounds like your position is based on your own anecdotal evidence, supported by factoids.

We're probably going to have to just agree to disagree. It's worth a PhD thesis for each of us to argue the point well enough to satisfy the other.

"Everyone else either works in some local service industry or isn't in the work force. That would make the statement "NJ is a state of 2 suburbs" true."

That statement doesn't leave room for "less than 50%"

I'm basing my observations on actual observations. I've lived in the state for a while. I'd still like to know where you're getting your 4-5 million number from and why you think that they represent only highly-educated people. I know quite a few people that work in Manhattan, live in NJ, and who are not highly educated.

I hope you're not drawing your conclusions by how many people travel into Manhattan daily.

It sounds like you've either never been there or have never been outside of northern New Jersey if you have been there.

Many New Jersey residents who work for Rutgers, Princeton, Seton Hall, J&J, Pfizer, Merck, AT&T, Lucent, and Verizon would probably qualify as highly educated. Those are not "local service industries."

Not even close to true.

Did you read the heartland.org article? It doesn't say that "New Jersey has the worst business climate," it says that "New Jersey has the worst business TAX climate."

Big difference. This statement is based primarily on the breadth of the sales tax base.

NJ doesn't tax toilet paper, food, or clothing. This places more of a tax burden on people buying TVs and cars, and less on people buying things like cereal for their kids. If that means NJ has a bad business tax climate, so what?

Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper.

One interesting trend I'm seeing here (as people flock to fight "their" revolution on the Iran story a couple of posts below), is that while the vocal minority that is the Internet connected America keeps worrying about other countries affairs, the government does what it is supposed to do: legislate on internal matters.

It is more positive for USA and the world when their government does its homework and clean up their house, much better than when they try to fix the world and accomplish neither the former nor the latter.

Steve, please do it. And better still, please keep telling everyone you're going to do it. You know what, how about starting a blog and telling everyone exactly how you think the American public and the world at large should make life better for the M$ shareholders.

Please, we want to know.

Crap! That's just what my doctor said to me this morning! Is it serious???

Yah, I know, but I meant explicit in 2009 terms, which means showing penetration for sex and blood spray for violence.

Really, there was a whole episode about Spock needing to get laid. And in it Spock and Kirk fight to the death. How is that not sex and violence, right?

There was a decent amount of sex and violence in the original trek. It just wasn't explicit.