What about the cover-up?

What coverup? Oh, the one that has to be there so the GOP can blame Obama for something. Fuck, people talk about "BDS" but "ODS" is damn near a clinical diagnosis in the reactionary population here.

I think you made a typo:

Mozilla 2015: We want to continue to exist, and are currently dependent on a competitor.

(Handful of noisy) Users 2015: WAHT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING! You can't survive, you have the stay unchanging and do exactly as we want without ever bothering us even if that means you go out of business. Oh fuck it I don't want you SPYING on me, you terrible people. I'm going to use Chrome!

Why do you rape us with this kind of shit?

This is the sort of unhinged bullshit that makes me disregard the criticism directed towards Mozilla these days.

Not much, but the disappointment is that it isn't an Intel GPU.

Nah. The real threat wasn't anything overtly violent or traitorous.

The nerds had agreed to stop reproducing by not having sex.

This is the follow-up experiment to one run in the Netherlands over 20 years ago with LPG cars. (Did you know you can convert your car to run on natural gas, and have a switch to flip between the that and gasoline, for about $3000? Who knew?)

But rather than drive adoption of this by letting the much cheaper natural gas work its magic, they slapped a huge annual tax on said cars, so you would have to drive the equivalent of ~20,000 miles just to break even.

From that observation, pointing out how government concern for the environment was just lip service compared to its voracious desire for money, I predicted similar things for other developments in the future.

Well, here we are. Note in both cases they do this before, not after, achieving the ostensible goal of getting most, or even many, people on board such cars.

"They just want your money" -- 89,768-0 in predictive analysis of government action.

He also ignores that officials, happy to buy votes by spending taxes, will tax what the market can provide, so to speak, rather than what is needed.

This is why they mentally tie spending, taxing, and borrowing to the GDP rather than population or necessity. They want to be as high a fraction of that as possible. There's always more votes to buy.

It has nothing to do with necessity or population.

Crappy used laptops are cheap. You don't need 16. You need 4. The first one will be about done by the time you get the 4th one started.

To believe this meme you see lately that somehow ebil corporations are forcing us to pick up part of the tab for their employees, you'd have to believe nobody would work there if Medicaid and other social services didn't exist. Which is idiotic. No, the problem is there are lots of people who don't produce enough value for their labor to live the minimum lifestyle we consider acceptable.

So apparently the solution is to force them out of their jobs entirely. What do you think the response is going to be from businesses? "Oh well. I guess we just won't make as much money"? Were you born yesterday?

I love seeing this crap in American articles. "Oh Noes! If we pay people more, it will cost businesses more!"

That's not what people are saying. What we're syaing is if we pay people more, the people whose labor isn't worth the new minimum won't have a job at all. The progressives in the US have succeeded in turning the US into a European country. I hope they own it when youth unemployment is at 25% in a normal economy, and minimum wage isn't enough to pay for increases in the cost of living.

I didn't mind interacting with tellers before ATMs, and I don't mind using ATMs. I won't mind when I use automated ordering machines at McDonalds and eat machine-made burgers, either. But I think it's stupid for the government to force people out of their jobs.

The original vision of Apple (and Microsoft) of screen-oriented but Internet-derived entertainment was correct; they just found it better to make feeder devices for the big iron screens, which at least 3 other guys are doing, too.

I would like to see Game of Thrones and Orphan Black thru Netflix rather than having to subscribe to those packages through cable. Cable only, like HBO Go is a step in the right direction.

AMC for Walking Dead, online watch, the thru-cable-company unlock was designed by a chimpanzee.

As long as the medallion and similar limiting systems continue to exist, all gloves are off as far as I'm concerned.

There's more to freedom than freedom of speech -- freedom to pursue your own business, and nobody has thr right to restrict entry for the purpose of limiting co.petition. "This here town ain't big enough to support two companies" should be left on the scrap heap of disreputable history.