So eating salads and vegetables works.

I tried that with rice cakes once. It didn't work.

RTFA, it's also FIOS they're getting out of non wireless infrastructure in those states.

First the Good, Yeah I won't have to deal with their fucked up customer service anymore. Here that Verizon? You suck donkey balls!
The baby bells became too big and with too much consolidation. If they want to take their ball and go home crying fine. Maybe I can now buy my set top boxes because your network is built out now and being sold. I'm tired of paying fucking fees just because "you're building your network out" It's been over 5 years now, let me buy the box or get Tivo without it costing me an arm and a leg.

The Bad, I don't know who this other company is or how it treats its customers but I'll find out. I also can assume that they'll jack up the rates to pay the $10 Billion it'll cost them to buy this infrastructure from VZ. If they don't work out I can always go to TW/Comcast...Oh shit I'm screwed.

It was complicated long before Intuit came into being.

You know we have to stop using SSN's for everything. It's time to have a different system. The Anthem hacking is now another example of how vulnerable we are and how we let these companies skate when caught. It's time that PII needs to be held in strictest confidence and with financial penalties awarded to the victims of these stupid attacks. Right now if the FTC slaps them on the wrists and fines them it all goes to the Feds. Fuck that! If I'm a victim of your mishandling of my PII you owe me bitches! Pay Up!

You know I don't always like what any news outlet puts out these days but I have to agree with you on this point.

For Real

This is why you see older equipment on farms. First because some of the new high tech gear is too complex and most importantly it's really, really expensive. There are still farmers (granted less than 1000 acres) that are still farming with equipment made in the 40s and 50s.

Do both and lower our taxes even more. Better Idea.

Bloat also means more vectors for security problems and privacy loss. If I stay with the factory ROM, I can always root it and get rid of those afterwards but then more often than not I lose the update channel and have to unroot to get the next release. It's not efficient, unroot, reflash to factory, update, root.. Flashing a custom ROM keeps me current at least within an O/S release and without the bloat. It's not just a badge, it makes owning the device easier.

Naw we'd rather spot the folks who want to abuse power and create needless bureaucracies that do nothing but suck in more resources and deliver no value to taxpayers.

So I can grow by getting more of the tax pie. The bigger the budget, the bigger the boost.

1) Raise the Gas Tax $.25 / gal. On a 20 gal fill-up that's $5.
2) Get rid of the DOT as it exists now. It should be a coordinating organization and encourage investment, not making investments.
3) Return 90% of Gax Taxes collected to the States where they were collected for transportation infrastructure projects, ending the bait and switch tactics used to re-allocate funds based on unfunded mandates. If California wants to invest billions in High Speed Rail, here's the money. This would also stop using fuel taxes for funding other federal projects.
4) Privatize Amtrak, get rid of interstate rail services where it's not profitable.
5) Re-establish the rules whereby railroads were required to have passenger service. This was part of the deal in return for vast land grants and rights of way that all the major railroads benefit from today.
6) Stop federal subsidies for airports, this includes smaller run airports.

I don't think there's any evidence that companies are better run with women vs. men. I do know that when companies are run poorly it doesn't matter the gender of the CEO and usually the Board of Directors has the same plight.

But since this is a news for nerds site, I'll put these names out there. Before somebody puts me on blast mode, we're talking tech firms, ones that are publicly traded as well. None of these ladies has experienced anywhere near 18% higher revenue per employee.

1) Meg Whitman
2) Ginni Rommety
3) Carly Fiorina
4) Marissa Mayer

Of the four I hold out hope for Marissa she seems to have better business sense than the other three combined.

Discuss amongst yourselves.