But if they let this take root, it's their last for me.

Every species becomes extinct, eventually. Human arrogance doesn't want to hear it, but rest assured, some day it will all end.

As link points out, it's the difference between a 3% drop and 33% drop.

Just barely within the margin of error required for moonshots.

a 33% dip in their online traffic

Horseshit. Netflix traffic dipped down to a 33% share. You really can't screw up a writeup much worse than that.

Yeah, it might be kinda nice to have a view of the road in case the AI happens to miss that approaching tornado ahead.

those pyramid shaped pills . Almost as bad as the suppositories.

These guys think they invented the equipment rental business in 2010?

Seriously, contractors have been renting and trading equipment since, forever.

"Sources also indicated that Apple offered to pay YouTube’s music licensing fee to Universal Music Group if the label stopped allowing its songs on YouTube. Apple is seemingly trying to clear a path before its streaming service launches, which is expected to debut at WWDC in June. If Apple convinces the labels to stop licensing freemium services from Spotify and YouTube, it could take out a significant portion of business from its two largest music competitors."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5...

And if you are under anesthesia how do you prove what was or wasn't done?

A couple years ago i had a 'scope ACL reconstruction from a volleyball injury. The MRI showed a clean break and undamaged meniscus, and after surgery the doc said the meniscus was clean, so great..... Then the bill. Right at the top there was a $5000+ charge for a meniscectomy. When I inquired about the charge the doc said he saw a 'frayed edge" while he was in there and trimmed it off. Insurance codes make no distinction between a quick trim and a complete radical reconstruction. So, no doubt he trims every patient. So to speak.

There's no question what this is really about. When you don't like the results kill the studies.

Exactly. People seem to forget that labor is also a market. If people are unwilling to perform the job at a given pay rate, then the rate is then too low and must be adjusted.

For some reason we have allowed the creation of a permanent immigrant underclass in the US and convinced ourselves that no one else here is willing to do the job. Horseshit. No one is willing to do it at the artificially low wage that agribusiness wishes to pay. Supply and demand has been legislated out of the equation and has flipped the labor market upside down.

“Just about every adult human being back then had a brain weighing about three kilogrammes! There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn't imagine and execute.

So I raise this question, although there is nobody around to answer it: Can it be doubted that three-kilogramme brains were once nearly fatal defects in the evolution of the human race?”
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

Pretty sure my comment is clear: Both side do it. Nowhere did I say it was 'okay'.

This really isn't a partisan issue.

"Stop being such shills and realize that if you accept this then the republicans are going to start doing it"

This practice first came to light in the Bush administration, where official email was found to be routed through Republican National Committee servers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

I assumed Hillary was just taking notes from the Bushies. Besides, it's quite common now, all the cool kids are doing it. I know Governor Jeb's email was on a private server. I believe Walker's were too.