I could be wrong but he's likely talking about the 39% of the welfare recipients who are white (and clearly poor).

http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/

You are correct but you're still an idiot. Now that you are unemployed and have no healthcare and potentially have pre-existing conditions, you better hope and pray for a change in attitude from the remainder of the House majority. A few days of slow business didn't get you layed off - it was going to happen anyways, this just happened to be a convenient time to do so.

So where does that leave you? COBRA for a few months if you're lucky under existing law and then you get to be a single person (or family) negotiating with a multinational insurance corporation. Have you done that before? If not I'll tell you a trick, lube up real good before you go begging, cause you're going to need it.

OTOH come Jan 1st, you'll get to join up with millions of others just like you and with your combined negotiating power you will be able to get a much much better deal, better in fact than any Corporate plan. Better because you will be paying less than what you plus the Corp would pay (yes they pay for some percentage of the policy, the individual typically pays less than 50%, depending on the size of the group).

Don't be an idiot. Realize that economies of scale are real and that group plans are better than individual plans, regardless of who manages the group enrollment policy.

So you plan to ignore all books written in the future? 65k sounds like a lot but really unless you have no preferences and read simply to kill time, there are maybe 2k titles in there (and a lot of stuff you won't like but someone else will). Good luck with that.

They both make sense in that there is redundancy. Add the Soyuz with its human transport and escape pod and you've got a pretty good justification for keeping the ISS going. Without all three the ISS becomes a liability rather than an asset.

Sounds like a thesis. Go get a grant.

#firstworldproblems

I actually think this is awesome. If they can license leap motions tech as well, even better. Yes hot keys could do some of this but some things like scrolling and zooming would be better as gestures. Lots of people don't keep hands on keyboard at all times either for legitimate reasons. Many many people use a mouse as their primary input and only type when necessary. If this could replace the mouse as a general pointer like a virtual track pointer (aka nipple), it would be great.

This version of gestures actually looks very usable. Just map the gestures to what makes sense for your workflow. Unless you have a clenching fist tick it won't get in the way.

This is way better than touchscreen for desktop. No gorilla arm syndrome for daily use but could be extended to LeapMotion like controls for when you do want fine control (maybe use a gesture to turn that on/off or stick with a hot key if it is too easy to do by chance).

It's awful when you start with one thought and end with another.

Five times mass rather than size. A planet five times bigger could be less dense eg have less mass for a given volume and therefore have a similar gravity to earth.

Five times the density, not size. Gravity results from mass rather than volume.

You must be in your 40s or 50s. It's like music tastes, people always prefer the music they listened to in high school and college, anything newer is crap to them and anything older is their parents music.

If you can build autonomous cars you can build autonomous robots ( at what point are they the same thing?).

She has a duty to the shareholders of Yahoo to do what is best for them.

Right now at this time it appears that the best interests are served by complying.

If you want corporations to fight, buy shares - get a group together to buy more shares, buy up all of the companies that run the infrastructure of the country, then use them to fight a proxy war with the current federal government.

Vote with your wallets. Vote with organization. Just hope that the new masters (whomever ends up with controlling interest) are better than what we have now.

Disney, whom Apple has a great relationship with, demonstrated a technology recently that may change your mind about this.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128715-disney-touche-turns-everyday-objects-into-multi-touch-gesture-recognizing-interfaces

This may not be available for an iWatch yet but it's on the horizon.

Here's a thought. While you are speaking English to your counterpart who speaks both English and a local language - he/she is telling the other people in the room how ignorant you are and why you deserve to lose the job as you are clearly unprepared for even basic communication.

Now I'm not saying that is happening, but it might be and you'd never know.