Of course not! That would be utterly intolerable!!

You mean the workers on the production lines? because those are the only ones who do any producing.

Rich people allocate capital and if they do it well this is a Good Thing (TM), but certainly on and itself does not produce anything.

The link is between nutrition and brain development, and considering the odds of poor nutrition is higher in poorer families than in wealthier families, the conclusion does not seem bad at all. Nothing says that all families that live in poverty will have children with developmental problems, but it does argue you're much more likely to see the phenomenon in such families.

I can't imagine why anyone would see this as controversial.

And how was a minority population viewed as subhuman, terrorized by both legal and extralegal organizations supposed to participate in the market? Jim Crow was only one aspect of a century of segregation and persecution of southern African Americans. Your perpetuating this fantasy that it was all the legislatures' faults, when every historical indication was that the majority of Americans in the Jim Crow states had absolute no problem with the laws, or with the idea that blacks and whites should not mingle, even in the market square.

Again, I will repeat, business is not some separate entity, some creature that exists in a vacuum. It exhibits the same prejudices that the wider society does, because it is simply a facet of that society. The Jim Crow laws weren't forced upon all southerners, they were forced on blacks by a majority of southerners who wanted to make sure they stayed at the bottom of the pole.

I don't know what is surprising about this. We've known for decades that poor nutrition during the developmental years can lead to poor brain development and permanent cognitive problems.

The only thing more annoying than a computer is a computer that tries to be helpful.

Until ad networks can ensure that EVERY ad they run is 100% free of malware, I will continue to block their ads.

But you feel entitled to tell people how they should act and whether they should grovel in front of your imaginary buddy?

That country is fucked up.

Nope, just that it makes them look for outlets. If legal, great, if not, well, hormones beat laws.

When their privacy is violated, it makes headlines.

When they violate ours, it's business as usual.

"Business" is not some entity that exists in a vacuum. The Jim Crow laws were passed with the consent of the majority of white southerners, and were maintained for decades. There's little or no evidence of any dissatisfaction on the part of the majority of Southerners to such laws, and indeed every indication that Segregation was viewed as right and proper.

I'm sorry you have a hard time accepting this, but Antebellum society until recently was fundamentally racist, and the businesses and legislatures of those states merely reflected the public mood. You will note that there was virtually no Southern civil rights movement, and that the pressure, and ultimately the solution, to Segregation and Jim Crow came from outside.

Who the fuck was talking about smartwatches? AC wasn't in the original sneering post, I haven't been throughout and you weren't when you started wittering on about $12 casio watches.

So no, I'm not getting a $350 smartwatch, so you're welcome not to tell me anything. Probably for the best, I'm unlikely to give you any credence anyway.

"Now I want you all to imagine the perfect DARPA robot. What would it be like?"

"It should be soft and cuddly."

"Yeah, with lots of firepower."

"Its eyes should be telescopes! No, periscopes! No, microscopes! Can you come back to me?"

"It should be full of surprises."

"It should never stop dancing."

"It should need accessories."

"Speaking as someone who wants to see the NSA dismantled, I hope these shooters died painfully if they were doing it as a political statement."
Yea and since both statements are pretty much crazy we can now dismiss you.

To hope for someone to die painfully in this case is unethical at best. These people had to be stopped. The best result would have been for no one to be injured but to seek others to die painfully is nothing but revenge and in this case unwarranted.