Comment Square Miles? (Score 1) 323
It's like people that harp on Antarctic ice increasing, when most of that's because it's warm enough to snow and that new ice coverage is not very thick.
Dell tech support found that many people did not know what "Ubuntu" is when ordering their laptops. If you've ever worked a consumer helpdesk, this will not surprise you. Keeping the option available over the phone will improve the chance that people ordering Linux computers understand that Windows is not included.
Texas buys the most textbooks, and thus has undue influence on the industry.
Don't think that's entirely accurate. Texas buys a lot of text books and they buy the same ones for all the schools, so they may be the largest purchaser of a single volume.
California buys the most text books (has the largest population). California stating they won't buy any TX tainted text books is therefore a big deal.
Many years ago when I was in TX by population it was 4th or 5th. A bunch of people have moved there (plus abstinence only in place of sex ex), but CA still has them beat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
'food additives require premarket approval based on data demonstrating safety submitted to the agency' -- and caffeine is a food additive
Requiring premarket approval does not mean it is banned, just that you need approval. Before you market it.
If they were not a minority, these laws would not be passed and existing ones would be overturned
A founding principle of our republic is minority rights and majority rule. I think that gets overlooked at times.
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman