If your privacy is in the hands of government at least you have the chance of getting something better next election. With big business only the rich have that option.

Oh? Do tell.

He knows that, he's one of them. Are you implying that Ask Slashdot isn't the place to get free advice on how to do work you're being paid for?

Taking tax dollars from 49 states and using it to undercut local providers isn't competition. It appears that this legislation is simply preventing WiscNet from receiving public funds from UW-Madison, which it is doing in order to do an end-run around the existing state-supported network, Badgernet.

If WiscNet, a non-profit organization, can't provide service at lower prices than a for-profit corporation like AT&T without forced revenue from tax subsidies, then I'd say that AT&T is competitive.

All they are doing is crying "Thanks to the tax money we take from you we can give away more service than we could otherwise pay for. If you take that away, then we'll need to charge market rates for the service we are providing!"

Ok, he was warning people that an invading force (actually not, they were military forces of the legitimate government) was on the way to take their guns.

Does that ratchet up the accuracy factor a bit? It's true, read up on the Powder Alarms.

What does "powder alarm" mean to you? If you're drawing a blank, it's linked in the RTFA. It was a strategy to remove arms and powder from the region surrounding Boston in order to prevent an uprising. Taking their guns is exactly what the regulars were out doing that night.

Uh, except that edit appears to be deliberately adding in a contemporary quote (attributed to Palin in the text of the update) in what is likely an attempt to sensationalize the issue. That quote, if anything, should be on the Palin page as it adds nothing to the historical account of the event. Huffington Post, Little Green Fooseball or whatever other sites are getting page views from this are just as likely to have made the edit to create the story as anything else.

Fact is that Palin was correct -- the Powder Alarms (of which Lexington and Concord were one) were about removing powder and arms from the surrounding countryside, so that disarmed towns could not rebel. Paul Revere had two missions, the most important to warn Hancock and Adams, but only in that their capture was one of the objectives of the of the powder alarm.

When every decision you and your management team make has profit implications of $100,000 or more, you get paid a lot if people think you'll make the right decisions.

Not true, I heard a P220 (.45) with a can on it about two weeks ago -- the impact of the bullet 50 yards away was louder than the pistol itself.

Most, if not all .45 ACP rounds are subsonic.

The same can be said of the "4 year college degree" bit as well. Windows degree = 28.08%, Mac degree = 16.75, Windows !degree = 23.92%, Mac !degree = 8.25%, with the rest, again, being "other". This data is even less useful than the political alignment as it can be pretty much be written off by the fact that Windows is extremely dominant in market share (i.e. the masses generally use Windows) and that, generally speaking, Windows computers are cheaper than the equivalent Macs (degree = higher chance of high payed job -> more likely to be willing to spend a lot of money on a computer).

Yet of those educated, presumably affluent individuals who can make the non-economically driven choice, only 37.4% identify as Macs vs. PC users.

Also, paid.

Nobody with less than 30 education years does!

They surveyed 202 thousand PC users.
They surveyed 97 thousand Mac users.

Of PC users, 109 thousand had completed a four year degree and 93 thousand had not.
Of Mac users, 65 thousand had completed a four year degree and 32 thousand had not.

Conclusion: PC users have more combined education years than Mac users do. PC use is more egalitarian in that it reaches more deeply into the less educated among us.

And what kind of statement is this?
52 percent of Mac people live in a city, while PC people are 18 percent more likely than Mac people to live in the suburbs and 21 percent live in rural areas

My interpretation: 52% of Mac people live in a city, 48% of Mac people live ex-Urbana. PC people have a 52*1.18 = 61% chance of being suburbanites, with a 21% Rural component, leaving only 18% of all PC people living in a city. Put into sample sizes, there were 36 thousand Urban PC users and 50 thousand Urban Mac users. This versus 166 thousand PC users outside the city and 47 thousand Mac users.

While I think the proportional representation of Mac users is consistent with my expectations, I'm very surprised by the HUGE swing in market share from an urban to ex-urban market...surprise supporting a strong degree of skepticism that they've actually interpreted their own data correctly.

Wait, Leisure Suit Larry wasn't a quiz game? I can't believe dad lied to me like that.

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Was this part a joke, or were they just testing you?

It was so short that astronomers were reluctant to accept the possibility without solid proof.

What about very hot, plasmatic proof?