you will find your beagle's battery...difficult to user service...when depleted.

A few doggie treats and a quick nap on the porch is all the user service she needs.

"Sniffing and tracking"? My seven year old beagle does those things and has much longer battery life.

Call me when you're bluetooth device can fetch a tennis ball.

Man, that's horrible. What part of the world has ISPs with 40GB data limits?

- New Zealand.

Yeah, but on the plus side, you get to live in New Zealand. I'm not sure I wouldn't trade my higher data limit for a chance to live over there. I've never been there, but it looks like a wonderful place.

So... that English woman who was Born in 1815 "invented coding"... hmmm.

You really don't know who Ada Lovelace is, do you?

Never mind. I see in a later post that you're in Canada. Do you mind me asking, is this a rural area or a metropolitan area?

Oh, and GO BLACKHAWKS.

And with my monthly data quota of about 40GB

Man, that's horrible. What part of the world has ISPs with 40GB data limits?

coding... yes, its "masculine"!

Funny, nobody told the woman who invented coding.

https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWo...

I can name several women programmers: Ada Lovelace

You mean the first programmer?

It's such a masculine profession that it was started by a woman.

I'm sick of all this social engineering. I just want to barf.

You mean social engineering like this?

http://www.strengthvillain.com...

https://jonathanturley.files.w...

http://thetoydetectives.com/co...

https://alanabeeblog.files.wor...

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnne...

coding... yes, its "masculine"!

Nobody told this silly female: http://boingboing.net/2015/05/...

Coding jobs can be easily outsourced to wherever the going rate for labor is cheapest. Google's "coder shortage" seems completely imaginary.

Not imaginary - a concerted effort to drive down labor costs.

heard this last millennium: little boys want a place to 'perform', while little girls want a place to 'relate'.

Um, yeah. About that: http://boingboing.net/2015/05/...

Utter nonsense. Yes, in some cases that may be the effect, but it's certainly not the design.

The "design" doesn't matter in this case. The biggest companies in the world are ignoring that design.

By design, boards of directors are intended to serve the same role that elected political representatives do for citizens of a nation; to represent the interests of the voters.

Don't we have enough evidence that when the corrupting influence of money gets enough, elected political representatives no longer represent the interest of the voters?

That just indicates that regulators are not making the fines large enough. If regulators want to use financial penalties, they have to make them large enough that bad actions are unprofitable.

That's not going to happen as long as the regulators are former bankers. There's a revolving door between regulatory agencies and the industries they regulate.

We have to evaluate the system we have, not the ideal or the system we wish we had. This is late-stage capitalism and we have to evaluate it on it's merits.

A country, with a finance ministry, is generally held to a higher standard.

Humans is humans. Desperate is desperate. And when you're dealing with the IMF sharks, fucked is fucked.

Example 2: There are 50 auto dealers in a state. The state raises taxes on car dealers 30%. Now all dealers raise their prices 30%.

Now I ask you "Who is paying that 30% increase?"

God, can your math really be that bad? If the state raises taxes on car dealers by 30%, as you say, and the tax goes from 3% to 4%, why would that require the car dealers to raise the prices of their cars 30%?

That's the first problem with your comment.

Second is the fact that some of the car dealers may choose to let their profits fall the additional 1% (from the taxes being raised from 3% to 4%) and they'll keep their prices lower than the dealers who chose to raise prices and end up being the most successful dealer in the state.

When their competition, and when there's not market consolidation to the extent that it causes concentrated pricing power, taxes will not raise prices significantly.

Let's let Bruce Bartlett, a former economic adviser to Ronald Fucking Reagan explain why "corporations don't pay taxes" is a myth:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes....