some VC guys like Khosla...

("Like" above is used as "for example".)

I like Khosla, but some people, including a judge, didn't agree with him doing what he wanted with his property:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla#Martin.27s_Beach_dispute

And companies like Lockheed Martin rely almost completely on government military subsidies.

Wait, what do you mean? The government simply buying a product at an agreed upon price (e.g. weapons) is not a subsidy.

Remember Bush choking on a pretzel?

That was supposedly due to vagus nerve stimulation.

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

I'm not even a huge fan of old movies, but I do think it's very worth seeing. Even if I didn't enjoy it (I did), I would think it's worth seeing for a cultural awareness "take your medicine" reason. (I should take my own advice and see "Citizen Kane" someday.)

Yes, I know, I was simply providing information about what he ACTUALLY said.

(Since I was/am too lazy to look the rest of it up for sure, the full line was something close to "You played it for her, so play it for me. Play it, Sam.")

Bogart's character said "Play it, Sam".

Your same question applies to ANY union.

(Yes, you could call me a union buster.)

You don't need a car payment - save up for whatever car you get . Get an old car, for a thousand or two... You can go even cheaper than that, but at that level, you might be spending more on repairs (or replacement heaps) than spending a bit more in the first place.

I use plenty of web sites, and some even mimic desktop apps vaguely well..

But even a native app that *uses HTML* for much of its UI often has a better overall experience -- better drag & drop, keyboard navigation, interaction with other apps..

What specific "rights"?

They have a right to make their machine work the way they want, you have the right to not buy it.

BTW, the video at keurighack is hilarious, mostly because of the music.

I always forget that I can't run my microwave and my electric kettle at the same time because they're both on the same circuit and combined it's too much power consumption.

Lisa Douglas, is that you?

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058808/combined)

It's good for a long term homeowner, but messed up lots of other things.. As a kid, I remember tons of after school activities and such that _older_ kids had suddenly went away after Prop 13 went in. (Probably more than after school activities, but that's what I remembered at the time...)

(I bought a few years ago, so I have a high purchase price, but will "benefit" from Prop 13 if values go up higher and I thus don't have to pay hugely increased property tax.. But I do think things should be more even across the board.. NOT wealth distribution, but I would do away with subsidies, even ones I benefit from, like mortgage tax deduction -- that would simply get me to pay off my mortgage rather than make more investing the money, like I can do now.)

She should have been happy. There's typically no reason to want your property to increase in value unless you plan to sell it. It just increases your property taxes.

The post you're replying to was in Silicon Valley, obviously in CA. So the property tax is (mostly) based on the purchase price + some small growth allowed each year. That was due to Prop 13. So just because the value goes up, doesn't make the property tax go up... unless something happens to cause it to get reassessed (I think major improvements to the house can do this). But simply living in it doesn't.

(Some transfers, e.g. between some family members, don't cause reassessed value too..)

Well I agree with that. Doctors are well-paid, and deservedly so.

The national data at
http://www1.salary.com/Physici... gives $185,194 as the median.

For a job requiring SO much education, and them likely having huuuuuge college loans to pay back, that really doesn't seem like a *TON* of money. (Plus, they have to spend a lot on medical insurance, due to sue-happy people.)

Unless your app is MUCH MUCH cheaper than the other one, I'll choose the one with the better UI, which almost always would mean the native UI one.