I would posit that the decrease in quality of education in the formative years could be responsible for the verbal reasoning drop.. and we all know how much all mathematical abilities have plummeted in society.. However, the increase in the spatiial reasonong could well be due to the current craze in video gaming.

Although it feels a bit "unnatural" to be eating factory grown meat, I'm sure I could get over any reservations I have if it would mean the end of current poultry farming practices . It's that or give up meat altogether.. which I've already been considering.

OK.. hires a robot called "DoNotPay" for cut rate services .. and *3 times* as well so he must have been happy the first 2 times.. but then complains that he got what he paid for .. I'm not sure that an app created to fight parking tickets would ever be described as a lawyer..
But they're not selling it as one either.. Anybody else would have sussed that out!

Well, there'd probably be more evidence but while the chinese were stalling the world they were , apparently, shredding tons of documents at the lab.

Yeah, OK.. So thieves will benefit if the owner neglects to report the Macbook stolen. So how is this a problem? If the owner is too stupid, or lazy, to bother reporting it then it's their own fault for what follows. I doubt that this would happen very often, though...

I completely agree. and I guess that's why there's a case against them in the first place, if that's how they deal with the public. This is poor public relations.

I've never heard of the "Nothing" phone, actually. So my guess is it's been promoted by the "nowhere" promotions agency...

They call it " the healthiest consumer lending environment on record" simply because more people who can't afford to borrow money have been taking out loans? Excuse me but that sounds like "the STUPIDEST consumer lending environment on record". If those people were so poor that they couldn't afford to borrow money they should have been given funds to get by, not loaned them.. unless they borrowed it for something like a flashy car or a trip to Vegas, in which case they get whatever bad karma comes their way.. Also needs to be said that because the lending industry bypassed biblical principles like the 7 year relief of all debts, they're also going to suffer.. Just saying..

Yeah.. of course it won't pass. What Disney wants, and all the other big corps.. is eternal copyright.. that will *never* expire.. They'll never give away *anything*. Anything less is unacceptable to them. I'd say it's a moot point anyways.. all the search engines now block music and movie sharing sites. Think maybe the "good ol days" are good an gone....

Wish I could mod this up, but it's already as high as it'll go.. and with good reason. It understands the requirements of the various components, and also realizes that a corporation has to start somewhere to clean up it's image. It's better than nothing, and it's a start..

This is absolutely true, I had hoped that the end of communism would have made the Russian soldiers mellow down a bit, but we haven't seen the army in action , really. since WW2 and Afghanistan, so I guess we now know...

Wow.. does *anyone* even use Altavista anymore? I thought it was gone a long time ago.. like yahoo and askjeeves etc.. I got to check it out, then, to see if it's still relevant at all..

Well, he did a good job pretending to support democracy over the previous years... had a lot of us fooled.. but now it's pretty clear he's reintroducing his brand of communism back again...
If so he not only made fools of us but of all those who believed the Marian prophecies where "Russia would be converted and be the light of the world".
Clearly that's never going to happen... OK so maybe y'all don't believe religious prophecies but millions around the world do. And they're all wrong now.. I wonder how this will all play out.

Really? The US has done it many many times .. Remember Khadafy? And obviously against several high level terrists.. or is it not assassination if it's a terrorist? I doubt it's ever been followed, once, if there really is such an executive prohibition..

Since when did loyalty to the US constitution deem one as a "far right militant" ? As far as I understand the principle of Oath Keepers, it was basically soldiers and officers who made an oath to not obey *illegal* orders, or ones that violate the constitution.. If in fact that is now considered subversive, then y'all down there are in a whole lot more trouble than you claim. I think that action on the capitol was just plumb dumb, but that shouldn't tar the basic tenets of the oath keepers.
  Ask any durvivor of a communist country what he sees happening in America, and they'll agree it's exactly how it was at the start of totalitariism in their country.
Just saying..