US sales tax which doesn't exceed 10% anywhere.

No individual location has a state tax exceeding 10%, but depending on what is being purchased and where it's being purchased, there may be an additional tax beyond just the general sales tax that applies, driving the price up. Local governments usually can add a percent or two to the state rate. Alcohol, tobacco also get a "sin tax" added, as does lodging, transportation rentals, and restaurants pushing them well above 10%.

What stops a BYOD from using multipath? It will have to use the 4G connection when it isn't on the corporate wifi, so what keeps it from using both?

But that's the point: it doesn't have to.

Say you have a phone on corporate WiFi and 4G. The phone handles MPTCP, but the corporate firewall only sees the part of traffic that goes over WiFi.

20 euros is inclusive of taxes. France taxes are not super heavy, but still on the upper side, and I'd bet US taxes are lower overall.

When I lived in France I had Free. Excellent service, very disruptive market strategy. I'm very excited with the news. I'd switch in an eyelash.

I don't see how Israel could respond better. If a rocket was launched from a rooftop, I think it is justified to surgically bomb that roof. Hamas is intentionally doing that to garner higher casualties, and therefore support. Hamas is lucky the US hasn't ever decided to step in and "help" defend Israel from the rockets.

That said, I totally agree that the settlements (especially the systematic takeover of water sources), treatment of Palestinians (blockades, cutting off supplies like food and concrete, etc..), and the general attitude of Israel toward a peaceful solution has been horrible.

But I don't fault a country for responding to being attacked. And I doubly don't fault the Israeli military for striking at spots that rockets were fired from earlier. Correct me if I'm wrong if that isn't what is happening.

the warzone is so small and densely packed with civilians that there is nowhere that Hamas can attack from that isn't near, more or less, civilian installations

Which is another very good reason why Hamas shouldn't attack Israel. (In addition to, you know, basic human decency.) Your fixation on the idea that Hamas should attack Israel, in spite of the certain misery this will bring upon its own citizens, reveals unsavory things about you.

It seems that you are able to come to illogical conclusions based on nothing but what you would like to be true.

I have repeatedly said in my posts that I do not support Hamas or their methods. I have never at any point either said or implied that they should be attacking Israel and I do not believe that they should attack Israel. My criticism of Israel's methods does not in any way require or indicate approval or support of Hamas.

Israel attacks anything, anytime, anywhere and doesn't care about the civilian casualties caused

You make that assertion with a straigt face even though you know Israel has dropped leaflets begging civilians to get away from military targets. Congratulations, you have just utterly ruined your credibility. (The men whom Tom Brokaw dubbed "The Greatest Generation" tried to maximize civilian casualties, and this leaflet campaign tries to minimize civilian casualties. A little application of logic would lead Brokaw to say the IDF is "greater than the Greatest Generation," but I won't hold my breath for that.)

A million is nothing to a corporation that needs to know what governments are capable of.

Right, because someone who knows all the nation's secrets (and everybody else's) should be selling that information to private corporations.

Brilliant idea.

If this information is classified, how the hell can he provide it without breaking the law?

I do a lot of technical interviewing, and that is the whole point of a technical interview, to verify that you actually do possess the skills that you have claimed to possess.

It's not because you're black. It's because you're interviewing. I could tell so many stories of wild resume claims, you'd laugh.

Here's one from today, for an interviewee who was an "expert in J2EE".

Q: What are some different types of EJBs and how do they differ from one another?
A: [uncomfortable silence].
Q: Sorry, let's back up a bit. Tell me about your role in your last project that used J2EE.
A: Uhh, I think I made a JSP once in college before I left to go work at a startup.

As you might expect, his resume got filed away in the recycling bin.

Jesse Jackson is not a Black leader. He does not and never has spoken for Black people. He is self serving and always has been.
However!
As one of the few Black men in IT, I have to say it is prejudicial almost every time I interview for a position. I have over 15 years in IT. I have done Software Engineering; SQA Engineering; Systems Engineering and Technical Project Management. There have been questions of my ability to do what is on my resume that are legit. But I have had more than a few instances where it was obvious to me that the questions "all of a sudden" take a weird turn. I applied for a Systems Admin position, did really well on the phone technical screen. Came in for a face to face and things took a turn. Under the guise of "I just want to see how you think" questions that are usually asked to potential Software Developers are being asked. I handled the questions with ease (a good education AND experience as a Developer). The surprise on the face of interviewer was disheartening. I knew what was being attempted. So now questions like, "How does one measure the amount of water passing a particular point in a river?" or "Why can you not see the Moon during the day?" are being asked. I've asked more than a few of my IT colleagues if they have had these situations and not one has. The assumption that all Blacks are from the "Inner City" "the ghetto" or "Urban" and lack education is so wrong. There are many of us that are twice as good and make half as much because of the Supremacist entitlement that pervades this culture.

http://www.militaryfactory.com...

Military pay grades are in the public record. Many sites (the above is just one) publish them.

I remember when Reagan was making a million a speech as a former President, and thinking There's no fucking way he's worth it.

A million is worth admittedly less these days, I get that, but I have the same feeling now.

You have the right to make the analogy less realistic, but I don't see how that's helpful. The reality is not a mere suspicion of rockets in a school, it's actual rockets in at least three actual schools:

(Reuters) - UNRWA said it found a rocket cache in one of its central Gaza schools on Tuesday, the third such incident.

There are - there are *occasional* corporations that actually seem to be driven by the desire to share their love of a great product and delivering that product to their customers. It's rare, but I can think of a few. Granted, they tend to also be much smaller corporations than the Comcasts of the world, but that doesn't mean they have to be tiny local companies.

Assessment of "Ability to pay" is how the economy currently works. Did you instead mean "beyond the cash on hand"?