GM had met the terms required of it from the bailout - some of which was paying back in cash, and some of which was paying in stock. The government decided to sell the stock at a loss. That's not GM's fault.

Here is my question - what happened to GM stock when that many shares suddenly flooded the market? Wouldn't that make stock prices go DOWN? Ironically, though, the stock price went up considerably as investors are happy the government no longer holds a part of GM.

In any case, whether GM benefited from this or not, the point is that 1)GM fulfilled its obligation and 2) the government sold stock at a loss. Maybe this lesson will force the government to make better financial decisions. Okay, probably not, but one could hope

This was actually one of Amazon's big selling points a couple of years ago - if you purchase a digital video through Amazon, you are not suppose to loose access to it. HOWEVER, this statement is not what Amazon's Terms of Use says:

Vudu seems to have clearer Terms of Service, which seem to favor the viewer - from Vudu's Terms of Service:

You think the latency is bad, this will be the slowest deployment roleout in history

Sounds more like some cops need to be fired. They have also said to the country that if you want a place to hide your stolen vehicles, Boston is the place to go

Maybe the law should read that only local groups can put up monuments. That way, they represent the community, not some politically-correctness thing. The Satanist group is from New York - they shouldn't have any sayso as to what happens in Oklahoma. Now, if they have a branch in Tulsa, and the branch wants to put up a monument, that is different.

Problem is, when you let outside groups dictate what can or cannot be put up, then no one is going to be happy. I could go around the country demanding that all government and public education places that have statues or names of Chris Columbus on them change because I am offended that some idiot who doesn't even understand the science of his own time and then goes and starts slave trade, paprticipates in human trafficing of children, did horrible acts against humanity and was actually stripped of his office and title by his own government for these reasons. I could sue the entire city of Columbus, Ohio, sue the District of Columbia, sue CBS, etc.

Let's stick though with seperation of Church and State. Does anyone know what the First Ammendment actually says?

This speaks to the United States Congress and the federal government. The issue in place is about an Oklahoma State Building on state land. First Ammendment doesn't apply (although some Supreme Court decisions may state otherwise - I honestly do not know every court decision ever made, I am not a law student). By extension, the first Ammendment does not apply to schools or city governments.

However, in 1947, there was a Supreme Court decision. Justice Hugo Black wrote, 'The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another ... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and State' ... That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."'

This did extend the first Ammendment to include states, and, from my brief research, is where the term "seperation of church and state" appear.

So governments cannot establish a church, and by this ammendment, a state or federal government cannot setup their own religious monuments (this does not apply to cities). But, likewise they cannot prevent a private entity from setting up a monument because to do so would show preference to one religion or another (or lack of religion). So they cannot stop a group from doing this.....

EXCEPT.....

and it doesn't say this, but you could go back to this - this is STATE land, so a New York group really should have no say. If it was federal land, that would be different.

This is just a badly designed business model. The most successful companies I have worked for have managers and VPs who have risen through their IT departments and know how things work. They are the best at understanding the ups and downs of workloads, so understand the concept of having periods of down time, they understand the concept of on-call and will work to either try to minimize how often a person is on-call or try to work in some kind of compensation, they understand technologies and actually listen to their teams when making business decisions, they are good at dealing with the end-users because they can set realistic expectations, and when researching new technologies, they ask the teams who will be implementing it to research products rather than putting out a general call to vendors.... I honestly do not understand why companies will put someone with no IT background over different IT departments or over the IT department as a whole. You wouldn't go grab a random Congressman with no military experience and give him the rank of General in the armed forces, yet this is exactly what many companies do with their IT departments.

http://www.jimkarpen.com/cloudsecurity.html

They also allow you to manage your own encryption keys

http://www.carbonite.com/online-backup/home/safe-and-secure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonite_(online_backup)#Product_details

Works for me - better than what I have going on at home, and cheaper than I could set up something like this. And anyways, I still have my External HDD backups as well. Its just another level of backup to keep me from data loss.

I have been going through this issue myself. In a single weekend of photo and video taking, I can easily fill up a 16 gig memory card, sometimes a 32 gig. About 10 years ago I lost about two years worth of pictures due to bitrot (ie my primary failed, and the backup DVD-Rs were unreadable after only a year - I was able to recover only a handfull of photos using disc-recovery software). Since then, I kept at least three backups, and reburning discs every couple of years. But if I can fill up two BD-Rs in a weekend, and given the high price of media, that wasn't an option. Extra harddrives?

I finally realized the best way was just to get a Carbonite account. They are about $70 a year for unlimited encrypted storage space (if you are really anal, I guess you could always put things into TrueCrypt encrypted file containers and upload them). The worst part is how long it takes to do a backup on a residental broadband line (it would also suck if your ISP has data caps). It has taken me about 2 weeks to do half a terrabyte.

The deal is, the peace of mind that comes from this is huge, and it is cheaper than buying another harddrive.

Yes, I know that is not the question you asked, but I feel like it is a much more practical alternative. I mean, as I continue backing stuff up, I am sure I will pass a terrabyte. How much are you going to pay for discs, for harddrives? Then trying to keep them safe and secure, and having to worry about bitrot?

Seriously, I've lost family pictures and videos before even though I had backups, and it sucked. Do yourself a favor and get a cloud backup. Yeah, it may take a while to do your backups and restorations, but it is worth it.

Yes, but we were not recommending tablets for you, we were recommending tablets for this guy's father who is in his 70s.

Your links are not to Kindle Fires.

I was talking about something with an easy interface. I know there are Android tablets bigger than 13 inches. Those were not what I was endorsing.

You know, I get associated with right-winged conservatives all the time (probably for good reason), but I found this article stupid, and just another effort to blame the Obama Administration for something else.

Do you have any idea how many wind turbines there are in California alone? Add to that all the wind turbines in Texas, plus all those strung out over the other 37 states that have wind power, and the fact that ONLY 85 eagles have been killed by them over 15 years is a pretty darn low number. I was expecting to read something like 100 per year. (Okay, granted, Texas isn't really the home of bald eagles)

I get it, I am a patriot, and the hearing that any eagle are killed doesn't sit too well with me. But seriously, 85 over 15 years?

How about an article saying how many animals are ALIVE from us going to windpower and reducing the amount of pollutant in the enviornment?

The Obama Administration issuing permits to wind power companies protecting them from prosecution because a bird is stupid enough to fly into a turbine sounds like a logical move to me.

Now if we were talking hundred or more birds killed a year in the same area, the argument could be made to disassemble some turbines in a given area. But these incidents sound pretty remote. The Altaria Wind Farm in California has 490 turbines. (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States ). I am too lazy to go and look at how many turbines there are total near eagle nesting area, but once again, the numbers reported are really low. (The article does state though that not all deaths are reported, so I can accept that hese numbers may be higher).

Now if the poster can think of a way to get clean energy without any side effects, please tell us, and we will consider you for a Nobel Prize.

You may have to help him go through the initial setup, but the GUI is pretty self-explanitory. Its pretty minamalist, easy access to what is needed, etc.

If you want a bigger tablet, though, you may be stuck going with an iPad. But if you want to save a couple hundred bucks and stick with Android, go Kindle Fire.

And don't wine about it not having full Google Apps or access to the play store or anything. You said you wanted something simple. This is simple.

We got one for my dad a couple of years ago who is in his 60s, and he loves it.

I think the officer will have a hard time proving this in court, though. Unless someone who works for the school or the district made a complaint, it would be hard to prove that 1) that he did not have permission from someone or 2) the school even saw it as theft. This is like someone saying that you stole wifi from an open wireless router.

In many states you can legally shoot someone if they are on your property (wouldn't at all be surprised if Georgia is one of those states). I know its illegal to carry firearms onto school grounds in many states, but the man could have been perfectly justified if he came back to his car, saw someone strange sitting in it, and opened fire.

Also, if the officer cannot prove the theft charge, he can be charged with either illegal searches or breaking and entering. If any judge is in his right mind, the man will get off, and the officer will be disciplined.

*Pretty cabling. :-) The idea of raised floors is that you can still run cabling. I should learn to proofread before hitting submit.