For me, it's always been 9.8 m/s^2 underneath various laptops and phones I've owned.

The one (microscopically tiny) thing APK isn't batshit crazy about:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com facebook.com
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127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com login.facebook.com
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127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com static.ak.connect.facebook.com
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Funny how they're against Big Gubment - unless it's supplying pork to their districts.

If companies act like evil fucks, customers will go elsewhere.</sarcasm>

Remember back in the 70's & 80's when HP was one of the top 10 companies in the world (including the then invincible Japanese) to work for?

Carly would probably lay off Congress and ship all their jobs to India, spend 13 trazillion dollars to buy Somalia, end all federal highway and other infrastructure funds; and drive the dollar down to 1$ == 12 slices of bread.

OK, you win the interwebs for today...

Well, I still have an "Ameritech.net" email address, and certainly they're not a monopoly...

So you're suggesting that a bill co-sponsored by 16 House Republicans (including 6 from Texas, home of JSC) rah-rahing manned space exploration and defunding Earth observations might somehow have ulterior motives?

I presume you know that "mandatory" doesn't mean anything* when bankers of any ilk are involved?

*Actually, it means "tell me the rules, so I can get around them".

I'm not so sure that's true. I think that wearing an Apple watch even though it doesn't work, due to your rad ink might even make it hipper.

If you're running a TOR node and don't think you're on several government watch lists, then you haven't been paying attention.

Personally, I think that there are far more corrupt cops and corrupt politicians and so on who would abuse their authority than there are terrorists who can attack us.

Nice job, asshole. You're letting the terrists win. If WE say THEY are The Bad Guys(TM), then they're The Bad Guys, end of discussion. We have to keep data on everyone, just to keep The Bad Guys in check, and to keep YOU safe. Also, we need to be able to drone-strike any civilian at any point on the planet to protect your children and puppies and kittens from being indiscriminately killed by religious extremists living a Middle Ages lifestyle on the other side of the planet.

I was not arguing for teacher diversity* from a perspective of political correctness, I'm simply saying that we should not reject out-of-hand the notion that some groups learn better/more effectively from a member of their own race*.

* Whatever that may mean.

Can you explain how third-generation Mexican-Americans speak English with a Spanish accent? Some cultures are more clannish than others, and outsiders will always BE outsiders.