Why Doesn't America Read Anymore?
April 01, 2014

As you might expect, a lot of people commented on that without clicking through.

I consider satire to be something of a public service.
If you don't bother to check the source of your information,
you deserve the embarrassment (or misinformation) that follows.

TLDR: Credulity is not a virtue.

You might have a fixed wireless broadband provider in your area.
That would be the best and cheapest option.

T-Mobile's "unlimited" is actually unlimited 2G + 1/3/5 GB of tethered 4G.
The hotspot/table plans are unlimited 2G + 1/3/5/7/9/11 GB of tethered 4G.

/I happen to live too far away for DSL and in a fixed wireless coverage gap, so I'm stuck with Cable.

Unless you live in a city, in a major market, the odds of there being any competition are almost nil.

You'd still need to process those rare earth metals.
And (for now) you can't do that without the ore passing through a Chinese owned refinery.

The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.
Existing coal plants were grandfathered in, with the assumption that they'd eventually be upgraded or replaced.
Instead, the coal industry has been operating the same dirty plants for >40 years.

The only reason "it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation" is because the EPA has set a date for the closure of this loophole.

Related reading: The Coal Industry Has Been Fear-Mongering for 40 Years Now

An effective law was passed and the regulated companies neutered the law through lobbying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Melatonin isn't a sleeping pill* and you're probably not using it correctly.

The correct** way to use melatonin is in low doses 5~8 hours before bed time.
Melatonin is your brain's way of saying "hey, it's dark out, let's push over the chemical dominoes that will lead to sleep."

On the other end, when you wake up, you either need a light box or some sunshine.
(Ideally you want a light source of at least 10,000 lumens at 480nm (IIRC))
This sets off another chain of chemical reactions that let your brain know that it's time to wake up.
As a result, it prevents your sleep phase from shifting forward by however much your delay is.

*Most of the usage directions you find online are wrong.
**I'm not a sleep doctor but I talked to one recently, you should too.

Elected representatives are already visiting Israel.
Destination by Country: Israel

The trips are almost exclusively paid for by Israeli interest/lobbying groups,
so you can imagine that the agenda isn't the most neutral or nuanced.

I would aggressively punish apps that demand overly broad access to your data.

Most countries that ratified the Bioweapons Convention just moved all their offensive research under the umbrella of defensive programs.

The difference between "we're making this stuff to kill people" and "we're making this stuff to design defenses against killing people" is one of semantics.

A flat tax is only "progressive" if you abuse the word to mean something else and completely ignore how everyone else is using the word progressive.

Here's a letter from the 3rd President of the USA to the 5th President.
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
28 Oct. 1785

That's the author of the Declaration of Independence writing to the "Father of the Constitution" and author of the Bill of Rights.

How did this get modded up.
Everyone has a basic level of consumption: food, water shelter, clothing, transportation.
For the poorest, this basic level of consumption makes up most of their spending.

It's the difference between a 10% tax on 90% of your income or 1% of your income.
That's not progressive, that's not better, that's not fairer.
And the founding fathers thought it was dumb.

The decision has been made and the MBAs are happy to write up a proposal that justifies any corporate goal.

So if you say that you want a "blind" process, they'll come back at you with something about mixed gender and multi-racial/ethnic groups combining synergies to create explosive new innovations yadda yadda yadda.

In the long run, this can only be a good thing, as almost no changes involving women or minorities in the workforce have come about organically.
So this is as close to "organic" as a change gets, compared to the laws and lawsuits that have brought women and minorities to where they are today.

That's not at all good and filtering the body exactly what I want.
Spammers already spoof the from: domain and then link you out to exactly the type of domain that Gmail is now filtering.

There's no reason Gmail can't flag [body] links to domains that use mixed character sets.

The military has been slowly outfitting the entire F-15 C/D/E fleet with new radar and electronic warfare systems.
So yes, the F-15 will have state of the art systems in it.

With avionics upgrades, most of America's older jets are more than capable of meeting today's threats.
With engine upgrades (very unlikely) the F-15 would be competitive with 4.5 and 5th gen airplanes.

Old != bad

Then why does newspaper columnist Marian vos Savant have a recorded IQ of 228?

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