Noise-blocking headphones and/or listening to white noise can provide an experience closer to quiet than a cubicle.

The USA did it in Nevada as well, but has used a lot more varied testing locations.

If Ukraine had an advanced economy, 300 million people and oceans and friendly countries on all borders, it'd be working out great.

In the USA, the poverty level is about $14,000 per year for single persons.

As a Californian making $10-$15K/year, excuse me if I don't think we need to donate charity handouts to people making $70K, which by the way is well above the median income.

Anyone who owns a home, other than perhaps a total shack they inherited, is not poor. Not even close. As usual, this is a giveaway to the upper middle class.

Since India + China are half the world's population, they tend to be around the world average on things. Remove them and the rest of the world's average would probably be ~1.05.

The observable universe is actually about 92 billion light years across (radius 45 billion).

While I agree that domestic violence is a bigger problem for women and am not supported the grandparent poster, I think the higher arrest rates are likely to be a function of men only reporting the more severe incidents to the police due to the humiliation/emasculation factor. If men wait to only call the police when they have visible bruises/cuts, that makes it a lot more likely that the police visit will result in an arrest than when there's no readily obvious physical evidence. This is likely a factor in why 62% of female perpetrators were only reported once as well.

You've probably been in a prolonged coma. because the budget deficit problem was solved many years ago. Even when it was a problem, it was a problem because only because a combination of laws and court rulings requiring certain amounts of money to be spent on things while simultaneously forbidding (or making impractical by need for 2/3 public vote etc) most ways to collect revenue to pay for it.

The most quick and humane execution method is North Korea's execution by anti-aircraft missile.

The market decides what the primary product is. 99% of us want the adobe backdoors and patents and don't want to be forced to work for them.

If you don't call much and don't need a great network, t-mobile's $3 a month for 30 minutes (+10 cents/min beyond that) is a lot cheaper.

If you never use mobile internet or games, it's not that hard to get 5 days charge out of a smartphone. I probably charge my smartphone every 5 days or so because I don't use it much.

Based on your lack of empathy and desire to see innocent people suffer to protect you, I project you as having a 50% chance of committing a crime in the future. I therefore propose locking you up for life in prison right now so you won't have the chance.