It is the replicator in Star Trek that makes money and exchange for goods ridiculous, not the starships. Starships in and of themselves no more do away with trade than do jet airplanes. A starship economy would likely make central bank money ridiculous or at least highly problematic in all new ways.

RTFA - The state the company is located in is one of the few with the madness to tax manufacturing equipment. There's a policy guaranteed to help lower unemployment! /sarcasm. In this particular case they're not surviving on taxpayer money - they're getting a sensible exemption from an absurd policy.

Charge them a tidy sum for rent and require they contract physical security to the CIA/NSA/NRO. Why not in that case?

I've never been told to do someone else's work to make THEM look good; I've been asked to help out and it reflected on ME at bonus time. Lumpy is probably over sensitive.

Yes, well, China is all on one time zone because the people in Beijing want to let everyone in the wider parts of the realm know who is in charge.

The problem is that the basic text of any given act is just the tip of the iceberg. The department of health and human services will be writing regulation to enforce and clarify the act for decades to come.

I thought the Penny Arcade guys were the Siskel and Ebert of software reviews.

Yes, except we've both given examples of circular or self-referential statements. A tautology would be "I've worked in many different time zones because I've worked in places separated by enough distance so that the time was different between them."

Ah, but it depends on how you parse the question. I've worked in all the time zones I've worked in.

Because traffic lights go on and off and on and off all day long. They're a terrible idea for LED because the ballasts wear out doing that. The actual LED built into the thing is still perfectly OK actually. Your local government (and many others) have been scammed by clueless but well meaning greenies on the city council over the traffic light LED thing. Streetlights that come on and stay on all night long are a much better use.

The single dose flu vaccines, which is all the nasal type, do not contain thermisol/mercury.

You assume the gp is doing the "body fight it off" at work. I do the same while staying home and resting, just not going to the Dr.

Except that health information should be covered by HIPAA. Users should have expectation of total privacy of their data.

I looked at the requirements of the Starbucks app and declined to install it: needs permission to make calls, needs to track your location, needs to read your contact list, etc. Using it to payment for a drink is not worth all that. Same goes for any of these others.

Bananas have more nutritional value than coconuts so the banana grower just has to wait a bit and before long the coconut grower is going to be writing '1/4' on them.