Exactly this. They already watered down their 5-star rating system and this is another step away from showcasing what you'll actually like most. Ever notice how you can't get a sorted list of content "most highly recommended for me"? If they gave us that it'd be harder to shovel their own content at us.

Well said! Don't trade a fairly transparent (excluding security/military) government for a closed and inaccessible corporation. Not to mention the profit motive!

Here in Northern California too. They are used on the tiniest if lawns and even on urban sidewalks, when there is so little dirt and debris it would be far more effective to use a push broom. And a lot of time I just see the 'gardeners' blowing dust and dirt into the street, which of course will blow back eventually. Job security I guess.

Star trek won for Best Makeup. Nothing about the directing, screenplay, and not Best Picture. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07...

Once in a rare while there's an AC post that I really wish I could mod up :)

I don't think squeamishness is the sole reason for having fake meat. I don't mind eating bugs (I've had fried grubs, cricket tacos, and other insects) but fake meat still has a role to play. I try to be vegetarian as much as possible, but because I used to eat a lot of meat, I end up missing meat dishes that I used to love.

Fake meat allows those who give up meat (for any reason, but for me it is due to the negative ecological impacts of meat eating) to continue to enjoy certain foods that are similar to what we used to enjoy.

+1 for Mother Jones, there aren't nearly as many organizations doing deep investigative reporting as there used to be.

What's wrong with a little tritium? We'll just have to produce more betalights.

Not only is it less green, but it seems most people don't think about the fact that these machines inject hot water through cheap disposable plastic cups. Lots of coffee machines have plastic parts that the hot water passes through, leaching endocrine-disrupting phthalates as it heats the plastic, right into your coffee cup. I'll stick with my metal water kettle and glass French press.

Not unethical maybe, but immoral. Taxes are necessary for the healthy functioning of our society. It is a shared burden, and it is selfish to willingly look for loopholes to avoid paying your share. Especially if you had benefited from the very services that your are trying to avoid paying for with a direct tax like this.

More of the usual evils: greed, selfishness, and entitlement...

I can't be the only one who thinks that the headlights on certain luxury cars are already annoyingly bright to other drivers. Now we get to be blinded by lasers, great...

Oh and beta sucks.

It'd be preferable if they just rebuilt the same UI but with newer, faster code and fixed the issues that exist.

Same Classic look & feel and features, but with some optimizations and improvements. The Beta site is so soulless; Slashdot Classic has Web 1.0 Charm that can't be replaced.

Software developers (especially at Google and Apple) do not make "at, or less, than minimum wage"; this is absolutely absurd. According to sfgate.com the average salary in San Francisco right is $110,950 for application developers and slightly higher for systems developers.

According to the same link, food service workers make and average of $22,180 a year in San Francisco. That's a very wide income gap, indeed.

So engineers at some companies work long hours, so what? Most engineers (myself included) love the work they do, and it's a far cry from working multiple jobs with little or no benefits to barely be able to feed your family and be unable to afford a nice place to live.

The time and place for activism: somewhere with a lot of impact and that probably means it should be extremely disruptive to a lot people. Sure it's a pain in the ass to have your commute screwed up by striking transit employees or something like this bus protest. But that's a cost of democracy, and we're all better off if people are free to protest and to be disruptive. Without disruption, protests are too easily ignored and the power of the masses is too easily constrained. To hell with "free speech zones" and protest permits. I agree that protestors shouldn't overdo it, or they'll lose the support of the masses. Unfortunately in the US, they rarely get any support at all. People cling to their sense of entitlement and have no willingness to stomach some inconvenience for the sake of the greater good.

I agree wholeheartedly. This program was a joke as a piece of journalism. It was just an extended advertisement for the NSA, with no counterpoints to anything that they presented. 60 Minutes has noticeably gone downhill.