What are these ads you speak of? Chrome with AdBlock makes for a beautiful (not to mention useable) internet.

It sure as shit does not. Urban property taxes are many times higher than rural.

Pedants are far more annoying. At least dipshits are fun to make fun of.

This lawsuit makes no business sense whatsoever. Why the hell don't Apple and Samsung settle with a cross-licensing agreement?

This suit is making a bunch of lawyers very rich, which in this case I'm OK with. If the two companies don't come to their senses and settle, I will enjoy seeing them get milked by their lawyers.

Shit dude, just pay the extra $62 a month and move out of the ghetto. Or just stop paying the extra $38. I bet nothing happens. Especially if your management tolerates the antics of Section 8 freeloaders.

How can Cox get away with this? Disney is famous for saying "carry all of our channels or none". That means that all of the ESPN channels, Disney channels, ABC, and every other channel that Disney owns must be included with all of a cable company's packages (and charged accordingly) or Disney will refuse to deal with that cable company at all. How can Cox (whoever they are) get away with a deal that no other cable or satellite provider has managed to get?

The money was almost certainly sent via Western Union, gift cards, or some other non-electronic-trail means. Good luck tracing that.

It's military pricing. Nothing costs less than $100k. Hell, it costs the vendor $10k just to process the required government paperwork.

Lets just call this what it really is: Make Al Gore even richer!

In the case of your ex-father in law, the police did the right thing. The money would have been untraceable, and they weren't about to waste time on crime that essentially only victimizes the stupid.

In the United States, Police (and schools for that matter) have huge budgets, but too little of that money makes it to the front lines. Administrators soak most of it up, and any further funding increases go straight to the top. Only the bare minimum flows to the bottom where it's needed most. This is the problem with the "more money for police" and "more money for education" crowd.

Google should just get the hell out of France.I can't imagine its profitable to put up with the French government bullshit. Besides, French citizens could still use Google services. No way would the French government be able to figure out how to block them.

Funny how my company is going in the opposite direction. They want to get developers out of the production environment completely, and have an ops team do all of the support and maintenance. I for one am glad to see this happening.

Right, all those San Francisco Republicans... Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

Rent control is the CAUSE of housing shortages. Notice that all American cities with perpetual housing shortages have rent control, and heinous building regulations. What developer in their right mind would build something in this environment? You never hear about Chicago having citywide housing shortages. Why? Because there's no rent control. And rents are a hell of a lot cheaper than "market rent" in cities with a lot of rent controlled apartments.