Oh? I have an implicitly cooked egg I'd like to share with you...

NO U

Raised yet again. This is why I love Slashdot. The learning never stops. Neither does the illegal gambling.

Raised again, albeit with a pitiful amount of effort.

I'll see that and raise you a photophone. ;)

This is surely the rise of the machines! THEY'RE IN THE LIGHTS!!! D:

The problem is that the people receiving coverage are the ones whose religious beliefs or lack thereof need protecting. It should be up to the individual paying for THEIR health coverage to decide whether or not contraception options should be included for THEMSELVES. Hobby Lobby should not be allowed to force its religious beliefs onto its employees through taking away legally mandated health coverage OPTIONS.

Ex parte petitions are how the Business Software Alliance (BSA) gets the local sheriff deputies and police to help them conduct jack-booted thug raids on businesses. I agree strongly: the standards for proof should be extremely high.

It might seem awful Reddit of me, but [citation needed]. You can't get away with arguing the regulations protect "the little people" without citing a source that shows that they actually protect said people. Most of the regulations look to me like they're there (A) to erect a huge entry barrier for the taxi industry so the taxicab companies can have an effective monopoly, and (B) to extract extra tax from people who take taxicabs.

Make no mistake, cities fight this so vehemently because it hurts their revenue stream.

I have not read (nor do I ever intend to read) every single peer-reviewed paper on this subject (it's honestly not a very interesting subject). I also have yet to see this paper come up in any of the AGW post discussions on Slashdot. In any case, thanks for bringing it up.

This. I don't understand how it is that in all these discussions, no one ever talks about the problems with the monitoring stations. Something tells me having a grill near a temperature sensor or mounting a temperature sensor above a trash burn barrel or behind a jet aircraft runway just might cause some problems.

But hey, I'm not a climate scientist with a fancy degree, so I suppose my application of fundamental common sense doesn't matter. The science is settled, right? Settled right above tasty seared meat! Anyone want an AGW filet mignon?

You have just done the same individuality-stripping stereotyping that you implicitly denounced.

I'd +1 informative if I could. Thanks for that link!

I appreciate hearing this. I wish more people would listen. And now I'm going to rant about something that it made me think about...

It's really hard to "pay women less than men for the same work" (why wouldn't any good old capitalist company NOT want to take advantage of such if it were actually true?!) when the women are too smart in the first place to fall into the spike-filled pits that are those crummy tech jobs offered by Google et al.

Some people say women aren't interested; I say women see what goes on and have the good sense to avoid the shitty conditions for meager pay that are the modern I.T. jobs, especially since those jobs get to compete with de facto slaves that are crushed under the thumb of the H-1B visas. All this is is an attempt by Google to sucker the ladies in to improve appearances.

Busy box...equals successful hooker? *snork*