Is it genetics that makes starving children so much cheaper to transport? Everybody is different. It costs more to service some people than others. There's nothing inherently unfair about a business charging a customer a price commensurate with the cost of providing the service to that customer.

Actually, most people make more money on the basis of being tall. Studies have shown that tall men get hired before shorter men with the same qualifications. Should be dock your pay to adjust for that "unfairness" as well?

It makes no sense to eliminate drugs and alcohol in your statistical analysis. Use of mild-altering substances is part and parcel of being young and experimenting. It's like saying, show me the statistics, but take out those times when young people make bad judgments. Making bad judgments is part of being young. You can't take it out, because the subject group won't until they get older and more experienced.

You can take them out statistically, but it would be irrelevant to the real world.

How many times per minute do those kids get killed in games with HUDs?

Just sayin'....

Do you find any recording "unlistenable" after you've heard them live? Because even your lossless recordings are not a perfect reproduction of having the artist playing it in front of you in person.

That's the most articulate and insightful AC post I've read in a while.

Except that an independent investigation found lots of child labor in factories making Samsung products, more than in similar factories producing Apple products. But that doesn't bring in the clicks, so almost nobody reported it.

"Furthermore, the discovery of these child workers also provides evidence for the ineffectiveness of Samsung’s audit system."

I'm amazed that this very important fact hasn't been mentioned or discussed at all in the comments except by the parent post. Follow the money trail? It probably ends at Samsung, a company that spends more on marketing and advertising than Apple by around a factor of 10.

It also crashed constantly, so frequently that every Treo owner of that generation built muscle memory to perform the following reset:

Flip phone over
Remove battery cover
Lift one side of battery away from its contacts with the phone
Drop battery back down
Replace battery cover
Wait

I performed this maneuver at least 10 times a day, as did most other Treo 600/650 owners I knew.

"The preliminary data for senior citizens is less than definitive. It is based on fewer than 300 people scattered among five states." From their own article. n 300 is pretty weak data. I'd say it's almost insignificantly small when we're talking about something as widely used as the influenza vaccine. Maybe they just sampled badly or just got unlucky with their sample, and it's really actually quite effective after all? But it only included 5 states, and who knows how they obtained their sample in that 10% of the states in the country.

Tesla says in their blog they inform all their reviewers that the car is being logged and require that they agree to this in advance. So, yes, the NYT retard was informed in advance that the car was being logged and just assumed that he could make up lies anyway.

Yeah, so you've never looked longingly at a female other than your wife/GF, right? Even if you're very happy in your relationship? For some people, "new" is attractive, just like "shiny". Just because some people are attracted to "new" things doesn't mean that the change is a good idea.

The largest part of California's grid is powered by natural gas (40%), which is far, far less polluting than ICE's. About 10% from large hydro plants. Another 14-15% comes from other renewable sources (wind, solar, biogas, etc.). Well less than 10% of California's electricity comes from coal plants.

Actually, he was asked to list all previous cases he was involved in. He was asked if he "ever" had been involved in such a case. He raised his hand and cited his most recent case. Nobody asked him about any previous cases.

Mine hasn't required a case. I've had a few drops (including on concrete), and the phone has survived just fine. Never broken a screen yet.

Umm... no. But really lousy try at trolling. The original iPhone was the first device to bring Gorilla Glass to a consumer product, and they have used it ever since. Up until the iPhone was introduced, Gorilla Glass was shelved technology at Corning that they thought would never have a commercial application. Jobs approached the president of Corning because he was unhappy with the prototype screens that were so easily scratched. You can thank Jobs for introducing Gorilla Glass to ALL mobile phones.