Well, and think back before 'apps' and mobile/cell phones. Can anyone name a single job on the planet that required you to be radio tagged 24/7, even when off work?

We don't even need new laws to handle this (like 99% of all "new problems" that technology brings up do not require any new laws....just common sense).

This sounds like yet another "problem" that has answers in existing law. People just get all confused when it comes to tech.

It wouldn't be OK for my employer to ask me to call them and let them know where I was every 10 minutes when off work. Well, it would be, if we arranged overtime payments according to state/federal law, and we both agreed to it.

Prior to apps and mobile phones, no employer in their right mind would ask employees to wear radio tags 24/7 (like biologists do animal subjects). This is no different. And a court with any common sense should be able to see this clearly.

And that would account for about 1% of all software in use I would guess....

'work local' is what happens naturally when you work for any small/medium business, even large businesses who's primary focus is not producing software / doesn't specialize in IT.

Work for a school system/ college, hospital, agriculture/fruit warehouse, etc.. and you likely won't get outsourced. Businesses that are not devoted to just churning out software, like a hospital, still have things like "in person meetings between IT and staff":) They want you on site to explain, help, be part of the team, etc..

It isn't even an exaggeration, but a complete falsehood. Every country that is moving faster towards renewables than the US has proven that there is zero economic downsides, and in fact, often an economic stimulus.

Yup hehe http://greenmonk.net/2010/01/07/what-if-we-create-a-better-world-for-nothing/

But this is one of those really important issues that conservatives should feel shamed to ignore just because they have an ingrained distrust of government and a desire to keep government small.

I feel like if we had 95% of scientists saying "hey... we see a comet headed right towards Earth", most of the conservative politicians and media would still be saying stuff like "it is still debatable", "there are two sides to this issue", "must be a conspiracy to sell comet busting tech", "the comet scientists just want more grants", etc...

Well, and none of that debt has anything to do with Government debt. Comparing government debt to household debt is what leads to very misinforming reporting on the subject. https://www.google.com/search?q=difference+between+government+debt+and+household+debt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Lets clarify that: "So in a way she's ideal for winning political campaigns". Because she will say anything, lie, etc..

She is in no way ideal for holding political office.

There is none.

The fact that he turned out to be a middle of the road, don't rock the boat, conservative democrat, hasn't stopped conservative media from describing everything Obama does as causing the end of the world.

A pretty boring presidency if you ask me. Obamacare was....well something. It was helpful to most people, harmful to a smaller number of people, and in the end may help some long term costs, but it isn't the healthcare that most liberals wanted. Obamacare is a Heritage Foundation republican plan after all......

Other than that, he continue the foreign policy as usual, ramped up drone strikes, didn't pull us out of any war zones early, but merely followed along with plans laid down during the Bush years (at least with Iraq).

He did grant some benefits/amnesty to targeted sub-groups of illegal immigrants, but then again so did....every single president for the last 45 years....

Nothing Obama has done is either exceptional or unusual. But the amount of push back from congress and conservative media (most filibustering in history) is phenomenal. Well, there is one thing that is different about him.... hmm.. what could that be.....?

Outside of the US this is already true. I think the last article I read about E-Bikes stated there were something like 400 million E-Bikes in use in China/India/Far east side of Asia.

And round and round we go. Every time a liberal talks about the golden 50's and unions, a conservative talks about ww2 and living in a golden age of no competition.

Both sides have a point. We did have a tremendous advantage over other countries after ww2. However, there are countries right now with much higher taxes, strong unions, and are doing well financially with high standards of living.

Of course with global trade various industries 'race to the bottom' in terms of wages / benefits. But that isn't every industry. Most remaining industries in the US would not be hurt by higher union numbers, especially jobs that cannot be outsourced, like service industry jobs. And most businesses and people would not be hurt by higher taxes around the Germany / Norway rates.

No one is suggesting returning to 90% taxes. But when billionaires have effective tax rates like 12%, yet we can't seemingly find the money to fix crumbling infrastructure, something is wrong.

Ask a poor person if they would be willing to pay 40% tax, but have free health care, free daycare, 9 months of maternity leave, top notch schools where every teaching position is coveted, has a high salary, and requires a masters degree, (See some place like Finland for example) and perhaps the "raising taxes is always bad" mentality of some poorer conservatives might change.

Is the O2 level different on that mountain for some reason? I've been at 14,000 feet on Mount Adams and could breath fairly well.

From wikipedia:

Do you know the racial/ethnic breakdown of the 140,000 voters? I'm curious if it was predominantly non-native Hawaiians.

Or, people gravitate towards the natural state that music has been in for thousands of years: people pay to hear a live performances, not so much copies of the performances.

A copy of a song, just like on the radio, should serve as advertising for the artist. A live show is the work that the artist should get paid for, not an infinitely copy'able digital file.