Compared to the 2012 elections. The rate started lower but it's been accelerating. You can find the details with google.

This is nonsense. In 1982, the Internet was almost entirely government funded and run, and there were rather severe restrictions on what it could be used for, and what type of speech was allowed. For instance, any sort of commercial speech was restricted, it was difficult to be anonymous or even pseudonymous, and people could lose their connections, with little recourse, for being offensive. As usual, the "good 'ole days" where not as good as you falsely remember.

People have been predicting for years that self-driving cars will cause car ownership to plummet, as renting a car becomes cheaper than owning one. But that is not what Foxconn is doing. They are just renting normal electric cars. You still have to drive them. This doesn't really compete with taxis. It just competes with gas powered rental cars. It isn't even news, since they have been renting electric cars for a few years already. They are just expanding to some additional cities.

Lithium is not particularly toxic. It occurs naturally in seawater, and it is a necessary trace element for human life. Most people would benefit from having a little more in their diet and/or drinking water, and their have been proposals to add small amounts to drinking water to improve health.

This isn't 2009. Companies are desperate for talent, and they would be foolish to push away qualified applicants over something so silly.

I have sat on both sides of the interview table. I have never been asked for a paystub. I have never asked for one. I always ask "what are your salary expectations?" If I think it is a low ball, and I want to hire you, I will offer you ~10% more, and maybe another bump after 90 days, if you are good. If your salary expectation is reasonable, I will make a matching offer. If it is high, I will offer the low side of what I think you are worth, expecting you to negotiate up from there.

I don't believe in making techs negotiate for their salary, because my experience is that being able to negotiate well, and being a good coder, are not positively correlated. When hiring a salesperson, I negotiate hard, and expect them to push back equally hard, because a timid person is not right for the job.

Does your TV have the necessary hardware and software to decode encrypted digital cable signals without having a piece of shit set top box that they charge you a rental fee for?

My HTPC does.

I always ride my bicycle to car dealerships. Why would you buy a new car if your old one is still running?

Oh, so they are finishing the job of destroying Media Center that they started with 8 by making Xbox 360 / One the only Media Center Extenders that work. Considering Time Warner's abuse of CCI / Broadcast flagging that results in me compulsively using Microsoft's ReadyPlay DRM in order for my CableCARD to actually be something other than an inert lump of metals, guess that's staying on Win7 for the forseeable future.

This is where I get off the bus.

Vista was fine only in this sense.

I found that argument to be completely false a couple weeks ago. I just built an Intel-X99 based system, with two SSDs inside - one for Ubuntu, one for Windows. I was able to download and create the Ubuntu USB installer on an iMac, install it, and be up and running in about 30 minutes.

You can't get the Windows 8.1 installer without already having Windows on something, because all of Microsoft's downloaders are EXEs. What the hell is that. It took me an hour to get it downloaded and the USB installer made, then plug it in and install (another 20 minutes), and then screw around with getting drivers and crap installed.

Ubuntu was way easier and faster than Windows.

Because in order to get a free upgrade, you have to already have a version of Windows with a valid license. There are people out there that don't.

Then do nothing?

Nobody uses multi-megaton weapons anymore (except for keeping around some old stock for bunker-buster type applications) because of the inverse-cube law of expanding spheres. It takes a shload more power to do the same damage as several smaller lighter warheads. Thus, MIRV was born. Less fallout (less fissile material being used in the bomb that blows itself to bits before the material can be fissioned), spread over less distance (cloud doesn't rise as high, injecting radioactive crap into the upper atmosphere), less weight to throw on the top of a rocket, etc.

In fact, the US [reportedly] uses "dial-a-yield" where they can actually electronically tune the warhead from somewhere in the Hiroshima range to 300kt depending on need. The big-dick 15 Mt thermonuclear weapons of the 1950s that required a booster capable of putting a Gemini capsule in orbit are no more.

Nope. It's asynchronous - less power comes back north when it's reversed in the winter. But it's definitely DC, thus the name "Pacific DC Intertie"

You are going to have a rough time with current demographic trends plus the entire "republican party leadership seems to all be bisexual or gay" explosion taking place right now. Seriously- the republican party is starting to look like the catholic church.

Currently, conservative voters are dying over 1 million per year faster than replacement. It's a shift of almost 3 million votes for the 2016 elections.

liberals can be softheaded- but conservatives can be short sighted. Unchecked conservatism often leads to bloody revolution.