Yes, some badly run businesses may go out of business, but that is a regular occurrence anyway. A substantial increase in the minimum wage means poor employees have more money to spend in their local economies, which of course can lead to more jobs.

I personally think that there is an obvious overall benefit to the economy and crime is also likely to fall as some people no longer feel the need to commit crime to make ends meet. Having a high minimum wage is worth it because it takes people out of poverty and benefits the taxman with more taxes and means that other tax payers can pay less because they don't need to support poor people who are so badly paid that they are still claiming benefits whilst they work.

Why should tax-payers subsidise corporations like Walmart who pay low wages?

About 5% of workers are on minimum wage in the first place, out of those 5%, some will not be rehired

That doesn't make any sense, businesses don't hire people on a whim, they hire people because they have roles that need doing, minimum wage doesn't change that. Many European countries have a minimum wage, I've seen no evidence showing that is has a detrimental effect, including where I live where it was put in place over a decade ago.

Any business that doesn't hire the people it needs is cutting off it's nose to spite it's face, or shooting itself in the foot, take your pick.

Minimum wage comparison of countries chart Here

Australia's minimum wage is approx $17.50 USD, it doesn't seem to be wrecking their economy.

No operating heavy machinery or participation in traffic while intoxicated.

It doesn't matter whether drugs are legal/illegal, medicinal or recreational, if they impair skill or judgement then there should be laws to prevent people from driving / operating machinery whilst taking them.

You shouldn't follow the traffic laws because...?

At which point, anyone in the world could very very easily DOS your car.

That could be done with a jammer, no amount of fancy security would stop that... except you know, a car door key.

The British Government has had to produce an emergency surveillance Bill

No, it didn't have to, EU just told it not to do this and many organisations and people strongly protested against such a move.

EU court just told UK that the data retention law is illegal - so what did they do? make another law to do exactly the same thing, WTF?

"In my world view", bollocks, don't go assuming that you know what my world view is, if you did know then you wouldn't come up with crap like "Yeah, the US military really hates a straight-up fight."

Actually these days they do hate a straight up fight, if the US entered a war now and as many US soldiers died as did enemy soldiers, the US public would hate it.

Oops, the parent link disappears when you're replying to a post, didn't know that.

Because after you hear the same drum beat with the lack of substance, you start getting tired of it.

Set up an irrelevant straw man and knock it down why don't you.

But I would hardly consider what I responded to intellectual or hard evidence. It was little more than a look over here suggestion implying there was some fact that the NSA was doing something bad because some other country had.

You seem to need some caffeine, that is gibberish considering there is no parent post to yours.

This article of course does not lack substance, the source is NSAs own data.

Did the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have a choice when US and UK went to war with them and bombed them (drones - Pakistan), after Tony Blair and George Bush had waited for the media to ready the public for war and the intelligence to be 'fixed' (WMDs).

'Downing street memo'

1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don't discuss it -- especially if you are a public figure, news anchor , etc. If it's not reported, it didn't happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.

I don't think people appreciate the degree to which this is happening. The BBC denying that white phosphorus is used as a chemical weapon by the west is a classic example of propaganda.

Handy in places where reflections are bad though such as telescopes and high end camera internals perhaps.

Unfortunately only very rich ninjas will be able to afford this material. (Pirates will just steal or copy it of course)

If this stuff where painted around the entrance of a curved tunnel and sun light shone on to it, if you you could only see the painted material then you would most 100% definitively see sunlight shining off of it.

Bright daylight being 10,000 foot candles and 1 candle light being something that we can see, 0.035% = 2,857 to 1 ratio.

So, if a fire's too hot then what's stopping you from making the fire smaller and distributing the heat a bit?

2.6Mb = 325KB = half a web page, not very useful.

100Gb/s / 3 billion = 33b/s or 4 Bytes per second each.

100Gb / 10Mibt = 10,000, factor in 250/1 contention ratio and there's maybe enough bandwidth for 2.5million people, not bad but 99.9% short of 3 billion.