Not in the same shape though.

It might not impact you much if you are going to one conference, but if you fly to multiple destinations within a week, it will build up. Your back/joint pain, stress level, lack of sleep will show. It might mean that you will save 5k on the boarding passes of your exec but then pay millions for the bad decision she makes.

You went overboard with this statement.

You don't show each and every element of a crime to get a conviction. There's means, motive and opportunity. Often proving just two of those can get a guilty verdict.

Also there is collecting stamps and there is trying to legislate stamp collecting as mandatory in schools, going to war in the name of stamps, giving medical advice based on stamps etc.

No. If they measured correlation between exposure to light and *reduction* of BMI, I wouldn't mind, but as it is, interpreting that statement that way is some snake oil salesman level of dishonesty (why not say "Weight can influence the amount of exposure to the sunlight people get"?).

You are wrong in this case. If they just wanted to determine the correlation, they shouldn't have put the following statement in their abstract:

That's way beyond saying 'there's a correlation'

Didn't all this happen 5 years ago? Why bring it up now and call it "The dark side of social media"?

How does this even make sense within the topic of gay relationships? Can you criticize homosexuality without aiming at the homosexuals? Because that's what Eich is doing. And it's way past just 'raising an objection', it's about coming up with a law that directly affects the lives of the target group Eich disagrees with. So the pragmatic thing is to retaliate with the same - aim at the people doing this and affect *their* lives as well.

Let's not pretend Proposition 8 is harmless for the gays. The fact is that homosexuality is fairly common in populations (not just human ones). The proponents of Prop. 8 say it's unnatural and that's why they want gay marriage banned. As long as the society puts this stigma on the gays and even institutionalizes it, they will have a harder life. Where's the fairness in that?

Are you suggesting that OKCupid should ask its users not to use WordPerfect? That would be laughable at best. OKCupid just picks a fight in their domain, where it makes sense. Plus, the message should be that any support for Prop. 8 is despicable.

I get a strong sense of the bovine fecal matter just from reading the texts on the packaging. That stuff is quite potent!

Well written. I'd say that any job that does not require creativity or empathy is on the line. There are a couple of jobs that don't require much skills that will stay, like waiters, babysitters and receptionists - everything where the very fact that the customer is interacting with a human being is valuable. But there are nearly not enough of jobs like that and too many people who can't even do those. I doubt that anybody will entrust their toddler to Swen, the oil rig worker.

This is not a story about bank bailouts but about job automation.

You vastly underestimate the need for demand. If all people in the US decided to cut their expenses in half and stuff their money into their mattresses today and do so for the next 5 years, the economy would shrink and a lot of people would lose their jobs. There wouldn't be enough money circulating in the economy to support all the jobs. Not bullshit artificial jobs created just so people would have something to do, but real ones. The economy would have the *potential* to do much more, but wouldn't because of the missing demand.

Automation of all low skill jobs has the potential to create a situation like described above - if a large percentage of population is replaced by automation, there will not be enough demand for the goods and services - even though the economy would have enough capacity to build and provide all the stuff (through automation), it could not sell all of it.

Sooner or later the helicopter drops will have to come.

You mean to the one where the US sent in troops without any insignia with the goal of annexing Iraq as the 51st state?

All of these comparisons are ridiculous.

There were 80 - 100 protesters and you want to compare that to Kristallnacht and the French Revolution?

The closest that you could compare them to is Westboro Baptist Church - a small number of people that make the news because their cause is weird and while on one hand you understand where they're coming from, they are also spectacularly wrong.

That means you have double the workforce competing for the same jobs. Except even that's not accurate enough. There's 50% more population, so even more than double the work force and low skill jobs are disappearing due to technological advances and outsourcing.

If you suddenly dumped 100 million people into the workforce in 1975, the society would collapse. So the fact that the economy in 2014 can support such numbers means we are better off than in 1975

Very little, maybe none. The stock was not bought from the shareholders. The company had to emit new stock, meaning the value of the existing stock went down. Pretty drastically. So the owners of GM were hurt by the "bailout".

That might sound like a great way to punish the people who own the company who messed up - until you look at who the people are. In 2008 the greatest shareholders were the US and Canadian governments. The second greatest were the GM employees. The rich people are not stupid, they got rid of the stock before everything went down the drain.

If the company's liquidated assets total to less then it's outstanding debt, then yes, even the top preferred shareholders get zero money back. Back in 2008 when GM was bailed out the asset to debt ratio was about 1/2...