It's OK if you don't want to go steady with, or [oh, the horror] marry, your data.

I think the real problem for the EU was when they effectively 'nationalized' Greece's debt. Before all the bailouts, Greece's debt was held by some other government organizations, but also a bunch of private companies [banks, private companies] that knew Greece was in trouble and charged them high interest rates because of it. Then, when Greece started having problems paying them back, the EU stepped in, just kicking the ball down the field by spending their citizens money to take over Greece's obligations.

This referendum should have happened 5 years ago [it would also have been a smaller problem].

This is really Amazon's fault. For me, it does some stupid constant page refreshing in Firefox, evidently trying desperately to track me harder and harder.

If you are dumb enough to get into a cage match with a robot...

Of course, you do have to worry about becoming homeless...

Sure: "Show me the picture of me and my wife on the beach 10 years ago"

Wife: "Who the hell is that in the picture with you? And when did that happen?"

Are you kidding. You might crib some code from the project, but I GUARANTEE you will strip out any code "that respects customer privacy and choice".

Right now, interoperability just means that more companies have direct, unfettered, access to whatever data is generated by the devices you purchased.

Yes, that IS the reason. We tried the 'free market solves all problems' for this exact thing. Before we came up with medallions and the rest of the taxi regulations, it is what we did.

It wasn't pretty.

We came up with the taxi system BECAUSE of it. We didn't just decide out of the blue to do it.

Uber is counting on you NOT bothering to find out why we came up with the taxi system to begin with.

I'm not claiming the current system is great, or even good, or works well. But it's better than what we WILL get going down Uber's path. Because we've already done it.

sudo rm -rf /

should catch the stragglers

Stupid. Read up on something called "history". We already tried what Uber is doing, only without the "over the internet" part. It didn't work out so well.

It is precisely why the taxi industry is like it is now.

As is not particularly unusual, the title is incorrect.

"Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter"

From Merriam Webster: recoup "to get an equivalent for (as losses) : make up for " or "to make good or make up for something lost"

This coating would not 'recoup' the lost fuel efficiency. Better words to use would be "reduce" or "minimize".

In today's lesson, we will discuss how the same things can have multiple, different uses, depending on the current context.

He's one of the few who really took it to heart.

Just waiting until someone at WSJ googles for funny stuff Siri says. They will be SHOCKED at how rude she can be.

You need to hire a bunch of people who self-identify as black and/or hispanic. I wonder if you still get federal subsidies if you self-identify as blind?