You answered your own question right there. Marginal propensity to spend/marginal propensity to save & compounding interest.

Seems to be right. Kind of like how WOW uses p2p for the distribution of their game updates. By pushing the hosting of software from their own servers onto the customers computer MS would be able to reduce it's bandwidth requirements and hence costs. In an ideal world this would result in cheaper software.

Seriously, an article on some obscure car should include at least one image so we know what the heck it's talking about.

http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/pictures.html

Warren doesn't fund companies from an altruistic job creation goal. He funds companies to get a return on his investment. The actual creation of jobs is far more demand driven than supply driven anyway. He increases his income by investing his money.

Regressive taxes such as sales tax will hit much harder on the poor. When you have to spend 90% of your income on housing & food you'll pay taxes on at least 90% of you're income with a sales tax.

So what you're doing is allowing those who make/have lots of money to make a lot more money, and making it very difficult for those without a lot of money/income to increase their position. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the divide increases.

However, caving to the demands of a business sets a precedent for other businesses. This is much like the bailouts of the financial companies last year. We did it for the good of the country and all that, however it absolved the businesses from their bad choices. Allowing MS tax avoidance in Washington is good in that we keep the jobs here. However, it encourages other businesses to also find creative ways to avoid taxes. So while the short-term result is good, the long-term result is bad.

Also possible that Paltalk offered to settle for some trivially small amount of money, in order to make their claims look more legit. If they can claim they sued MS and settled it may scare others, even if the settlement was $0.02. Just keep the amount confidential and nobody has to know.

Wow, I never thought about that. I'm going to start work on my "finger-twister" game. I'll use pastels to avoid it being a copy of Hasbro's floor mat based game.

People think it's cheap when purchased through an employer because the true cost is hidden. My individual coverage through a previous employer "cost" me $50/month if I opted for it. The portion paid by employer was not disclosed and since it's not taxed it was not included on my W-2. The average American would assume the $50/month is the real cost, or maybe 50% of the real cost. In actuality, my healthcare plan was over $500/month (number acquired from Cobra premium information), and the employer covered by far the majority of the cost.

While gas guzzlers will remain more expensive, the difference as a percentage of total vehicle cost is reduced by implementing flat per mile taxes. For example, two cars - one that gets 15 mpg the other that gets 30 mpg. If gas with taxes is $2 and I drive 10,000 miles per year I'll spend $1,333 on gas at 15mpg or $667 on gas at 30mpg. Paying only 50% as much with the more fuel efficient vehicle. If they add a $0.10 per mile tax, my total gas + tax cost will be $2,333 at 15mpg or $1,667 at 30mpg. Now I'm paying 71% as much with the more fuel efficient vehicle. So the % savings is reduced.

Back when I took gym in highschool we had what amounted to a 1 size fit all program. I'll admit it, I was a fat kid. So every Wednesday when we had aerobics and you had to run around the gym so many times, run up/down the stairs so many times, jump rope so many times, etc... and your grade was based on the number of times you completed the cycle I did terrible and got a bad grade. Assuming they make proper use of this heart rate monitor they could grade based on effective exercising per person instead of trying to fit everyone into one category.

While the code may very well be 15 years old, that does not really matter to the user. What matters is how long ago Microsoft sold the product. If they sell software today that uses some code written 15 years ago you should be able to expect security updates for some period of time. Now, had they decided not to patch software they haven't sold in 15 years that would be totally OK.

I know when I was living on campus at a state university my computer was caught in one of their malware scans. I was running Linux and had firewalled ping requests among other things. Their scanning system automatically assumed if a computer did not respond to ping it was infected.

The education system continues to redefine words in order that their accomplishments appear to be progress. In another 10 years you'll be able to jump high enough to take photos from space.

I know with my Nuvi GPS if I report it stolen (not sure if a police report is required, but I have no issue with that anyway) the new owners will not be able to update it. I also like the security features where you have to enter a code each time it starts. My JVC stereo has a similar feature, if it loses power you have to enter a code to use it. I assume there are ways around these security features, but for the common thief (which seems to be adolescents in my area) I doubt they go through the trouble. Then again, until the majority of devices start using features like this the kids will steal the stuff anyway not knowing they can't use it. The pawn shops might not be smart enough to test the goods before buying either.

I was trying to find out myself... http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775966 That thread seemed to have the most information but I'm still left wondering what the heck it is. Some kind of command queue system that can prioritize?