My first computer was a COMX-35. Good times!

The urban poor can't afford Internet? Every time I drive through "poor" urban areas, I'm always amazed at the forest of DISH/DirecTV dishes on apartments. Half the time I wonder if its not an NSA branch office or occupied by a NASA tracking station.

AFAIK most cities who signed cable franchise agreements required the entire city to be wired. While I'm sure more affluent areas were wired first, I seriously doubt my own city (Minneapolis) isn't universally wired 30 years later.

And 80% of the population is urban, and I would wager that number is slightly higher for African Americans, meaning that most of them live in areas with accessible broadband.

I'm not sure they're that closely related to eels. I've had eel in a Chinese restaurant and I didn't find it as good as squid and octopus.

The article I read say they approximated squid, if less chewy. IMHO squid and octopus don't really have a strong flavor -- they really just represent whatever they are cooked in (the Greeks seem to have a flair for them, oil and herbal seasoning).

In fact, I think a lot of people could be served tripe if you cooked it like squid and never know the difference.

One of the great ironies of our modern era is the simultaneous effort to reduce technology consuming westerners to the level of subsistence farmers in the name of ecology and to turn subsistence farmers into technology consuming westerners in the name of development.

I suspect that much of the crud in a gas tank mostly remains in suspension as the car is driven. The more fuel in the tank and the more it is driven, the greater the dispersion. It can settle out when stopping and a low fuel level can increase the concentration.

They are a delicacy in France and could probably be used as dog food or a protein enhancer for other food stocks.

Are they basically just remanufacturing the recovered cells into some kind of standardized battery pack with a standardized charging and usage interfaces?

I'm curious why this isn't done now if there's value in the cells vs. a more material-based recycling that uses them as input into creating new cells. I'd wager the argument is basically economic -- the cost of some other kind of battery input (new alkaline cells or "good" Li cells or whatever) is cheaper/better than these kinds of cells.

The article mentioned that this was meant for places off the grid, so I'd assume they're using something like solar to charge the cells.

If that's the case, then there's nothing really wasted, since the sun will shine anyway.

Back in the 1980s it occupied a more unique space, offering what seemed to be much more of true centrist position, equally critical of the left and the right. At some point it seemed to slide from that position into a more left wing position and losing the intelligence that the center gave it.

But it's not alone, the National Review has crapped out, too, becoming the print edition of Fox News with a little sophomore-level pseudo intellectualisn sprinkled on top after the death of Buckley.

The reduction in hours is exactly what France did several years ago in an attempt to decrease unemployment and it didn't work. The comment about reductions in hours not increasing unemployment was related to the French experience.

I still think the cost factor for hiring more employees vs. paying overtime is still cheaper for overtime. I think there are a lot aspects in finding and training employees that have second order effects (like, draining a manager's time from management tasks) which have costs associated with them that are hard to measure.

It may work in some simple labor environments and in some specific kinds of firms have a labor structure built around temporary and seasonal labor but it's much harder in white collar environment like IT.

And when it's done, it's very expensive. I work for an IT consultancy -- we're far from "high end" so it's not unusual that when we are called in for a project it's less about the specialized knowledge involved and more about the on site IT not having the time to do the project. But we often bill $180/hr for 40-50 hour projects -- that's more than double (maybe triple even) the overtime pay the onsite would people get if they just worked "overtime" on the project.

Actually, there is no "eternal torture in the fires of hell" for humans in the Bible. A lot of people don't know this.

Exactly this.

There is a good argument for a store like Target not to stock a game like GTA 5 or, indeed, any media rated R. I'll bet you money that Target doesn't carry any Catherine Briellat movies, and their Lars von Trier section is pretty small too. Something else that pretty much everyone on this thread missed was that this was partly in response to an advertising flyer which had GTA5 right next to a Peppa Pig DVD.

That Target decided not to sell GTA5 hurts almost exactly nobody. Game stores will still stock it. It will still be on all the download stores. JB Hi-Fi and EB Games will still sell it, and make it available via game stores. Hell, DVD stores (of which there still are plenty in Australia) will still stock it. Most people in the target audience for GTA 5 will continue playing the copy they got at some point in the last year.

The number of people who were hurt in any way by this decision was almost exactly zero. This is a big whoop over nothing.

But here's what makes me sad about the whole thing:

Target is within its rights not to sell GTA5, but it's hard not to see it as cynical and hypocritical.

Take Two is within its rights to make and sell GTA5, but it's hard not to see it as a symptom of a wider problem with the portrayal of women in media, and video games in particular.

The people who made and signed the petition are within their rights to do so, and certainly had noble motives for doing so, but it's hard not to see it as a symptom of the wider moral panic over video games as being somehow "different" from other artforms.

The gamers who lashed back at the petition (even the non-gators) are within their rights to do so, and even had good reason to do so, but it's hard not to see this as yet more pseudo-victim mentality.

In summary, there is no such thing as "the good guys".

Andrea Dworkin is the new Frances Fox Piven.