1st - the grocery store provides a free scale which is pretty consistent
2nd - seeing how much I weigh before I walk in helps keep my purchases healthier in nature by the time I leave
3rd - because I'm too lazy to buy a scale for at home.

I only truly grocery shop every 3 weeks or so, and many times I forget to check the scale if it's a quick trip.

It's fun and reasonably priced. You might find one on Think Geek.

... if I tell you.... then you'll know.

Interesting read, and a bit scary.

Here is a list of reasons people still go into work sick....
    * Fear of losing their job
    * Management scrutinizes number of sick days taken and what days of the week they are taken, too many that bump up against a weekend are considered suspicious. They forget that people pick up bugs over the weekend because that's when someone's out in public getting personal errands run, so Monday sick days are frown upon. Being bogged down with piles of work due to thin workforce causes a stress level increase and after so much time of being stressed and over-worked, by Friday you're exhausted, and those days are frowned upon for being missed.
    * Teams are cut to the bone so by missing a day of work unexpectedly means that when you do go back to work you have to catch up on the work you didn't do when you were sick.
    * People don't go to the doctor until too late and go into work contagious without realizing they are contagious.
    * Many companies are combining Vacation and Sick time to save company money and call it PTO time (Paid Time Off). Most people try to save their PTO time for fun vacations, not lying in be sick.
    * Some companies that offer sick time still have earned sick time, so if you haven't earned sick time, you are expected to use vacation time. Employees see this as unfair and come into work sick.
    * Some companies say there's an arbitrary number of allowed sick days a year, even though it's not in the employee hand-book, and you get dinged on year-end reviews if you used or exceed this arbitrary number
    * Since some companies are in states where Unions prevail in the workforce, the companies are always at battle with those few employees who abuse the sick time policies of a company. I saw this personally when living in a Pro-Union state. There were union employees who would take 20-30 sick days a year and be caught taking trips and vacations when claiming sick. This happened with non-union employees also, but in my experience the union employees abused sick time more often than non-union.
    * Sick time use appears to be more accepted by Parents with children than Child-less employees, but this is only an observation.

I'm sure there are many more reasons.

.... and took it upon themselves to post information about me on-line. So as a non-FB user, I have every right to be forgotten when I never gave them (the user or Facebook) permission to put information about me out there. I didn't create an account. I tell everyone I know to not put information about me on Facebook or on any social network, but when someone else takes it upon themselves to post info about me, now FB claims that they own that data.

This is where I have big issues with Privacy laws and companies who data mine and then sell that data.

Don't I have every right to be forgotten, since I went out of my way to avoid being "remembered"?

I like anyone else hate taxes on levied upon me, but I also understand taxes are necessary. The United States is a very large country with many governments: local, state, and federal. While I'm sick to death of our tax dollars being wasted by our leadership, I also believe that if our tax dollars weren't wasted people tax rates would be much smaller and this would be a non-issue.

If I pick up the phone and call a company and purchase a product from that business in another state other than the one I live in, I'm expected to pay their sales taxes, which may include local and state taxes. So why would this tax assessment be any different for a product I purchased via the internet? It should not be different. If by using the web to make my purchase, I am not taxed, the is discrimination against those who make phone transactions. Now, the State from which I reside is not entitled to tax me for the product I purchased. The product was not bought in my state. If this is where this proposed bill is going then it's wrong and I oppose it at it's very core.

If this is an issue that cannot be resolved without double-taxing the consumer then this would provide support for a different tax system. I've heard of the flat-tax system, and I am not horribly opposed to this, as long as everyone pays the same % of tax and all loopholes are gone. But someone else has mentioned to me a straight up Consumer Tax plan. No more income taxes, but taxes exist on any and everything we consume. That plan has some merit to it's structure also, but I think this would be more likely because people will always find away to avoid taxes.

This of course it only one person's opinion, and with limited facts. I'm sure with more facts I'd have a different opinion.

This sounds like a form of Bait and Switch, but alas I think I'm wrong by that definition. Most assuredly this move on the part of Microsoft is a full on Greed move.

You sell some group a license to your product and you define it at a specific rate, and then when you don't get the market share you want, you jack up the prices to those who have purchased your product. While a minimal increase in licensing fees may be legit, an extreme price jack sounds like a sure fire way to lose your customers and in a hurry.

Microsoft (or any other company with this model) get corporations tied to their products by making them so that the customer builds an infrastructure around the tools that were licensed, and then the company jacks the price up to some absurd fee price. The company believes the customer will pay because it would hurt their customer's business not to. So the mistake here is assuming your customers will stand for this more then once. They likely won't especially if it affects the customer's bottom line. Sadly it is this corporate mentality to never see profits dip in the financial world. Stock / Share holders want the biggest bang for their buck (unrealistic dividends), Boards try to meet those demands, and eventually you have one company's bottom line against another company's bottom line. One will lose.

I've long since had a problem with a doctor or doctor's office claiming they own my health data. I pay them for a service, and thus what they tell me should be between my provider and myself. Once I'm finished with my appointment. I should be leaving the office with a copy of the diagnosis and treatment suggested. If I make an agreement with my doctor to receive medical payment from my insurance company, then my doctor may send a copy of that visit information to my insurance company. And if I feel it is important for my doctor to have some sort of running history, then I agree that my doctor (or his practice) may retain a copy for the life of my partnership with him. Should I leave that partnership, then after x years, my doctor must destroy his copy of my medical information.

I should never hear that my doctor had his notes transcribed by anyone other then one of his physically present staff.

Other than that, I should be the only one to own my medical (health) data. No if, ands, or buts about it. I paid for the diagnosis.

McDonald's french fries that do not spoil.

/sorry for the bad pun.

It is unfortunate, but some of my family members emails end up caught by spam filters, probably because they aren't careful with their pc's and have been used as SPAM bots.

Or Nuke-Pop genre.

Couldn't a Dictionary making company claim Prior Art?
and...
How is this any different then Apple stealing the name Apple from the Music label Apple?

.... so men don't get them. /wink

They really do sell Blue Buckyballs. So now when I play with them, blue buckyballs, and I roll them around you blue balls won't feel all alone. /wink

Sorry, it was just so easy....