I tried reading one of these. They were horrible; I couldn't get through the first one.

But it does in every other place in the world with the population the US has, which is more than most places. The larger the population, the larger the disparity. Comparing economic disparity of people in, say, Sweden, to the entire US is pretty silly when you realize Sweden's population is less than that of L.A county.

The intentional homicide rate in the 1930s in the US was more than twice what it is today. So, yes.

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They are worth 700billion dollars. What would you consider a not dead company?

Competitors gonna compete! I built my app for a competitor first and now they won't talk to me? Oh noes!

That's some grade-A whining right there.

Why does the San Jose Water company care about this at all?

Surprisingly, this is not accurate. If you look closely, part of northern Montana is antipodal to the northwestern tip of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands islands.

You learn something new every day.

yes, so what''s your point?

...it innovates better than almost any place else, and failure is (sometimes) OK.

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It has very little to do with employees not being able to go anywhere else...many of the people who work there come in from other countries where this isn't even an issue.

Surely you jest.

He is literally an anonymous coward. Literally.

Except you don't twiddle your thumbs. In fact the vast majority of ads download mostly instantly if you have a decent browser and connection, and if they don't it's often because of the issues with the site you are on and not the ad itself.

I'm not an employee of Dice.com, Slashdot Shill. .00007 cents is pretty much worthless in the grand scheme of things, yet people continually gripe about ANY ad that shows up on free sites and install Adblock so they don't see them. Pretty stupid if you ask me

Why do you not want Dice or an advertiser on Dice to receive .000007 cents for your click? It's not even your .000007 cents they would be getting. Why would you care?

This is a distinction without a difference. You recklessly incited panic through your words, your speech. If you are fined for that by the government, then it's not free speech, and in essence you are not "free" to shout fire in a theater.