Eyeballs my friend. Eyeballs.

Even though companies complain about ROI (which is a valid argument) it is still an extremely effective way of connecting to consumers. This is not going away any time soon. They are at ~450 million mobile users. Mobile commerce is exploding.

It's great to push people to your blog/website from Facebook but if it's mirroring your website's content you can connect with your users (read:customers) via 1 or 2 clicks instead of 12. You choose the 1 or 2-click method, always.

Amen.

Post this to http://reddit.com/r/atheism and rally the troops. It's a huge, highly-motivated community that delights in challenging these sorts of offenses.

Completely agree sir or madame but I just wanted to correct you. The word you're looking for is RIFE, not RIPE.

until your cat dies of exhaustion.

Just a quick 90-100 minute jaunt in traffic from Manhattan into the heart of one of the least exciting places in all of New York. There is literally NOTHING out there unless you're on your way to the vineyards. I can't see this being a big tourist attraction which something like a Tesla museum deserves. Boo.

A better indicator would be weighted for the frequency a respondent has been subjected to TSA procedures:

I have traveled by airline X times since 2009:

0 times = score 1.00
1 time = score 1.25
2 times = score 1.50
3 times = score 2.00
4 times = score 2.50
5 times = score 3.25

...and so on. Mind you, I am no statistician and I'm sure someone could devise a better spread with a better understanding of the demands of this kind of survey.

As someone who travels via airline +/- 10 times per year I can say that I have had the unpleasant experience of having to be patted down because I refuse to be subjected to as-of-yet questionable and unnecessary amounts of radiation. If the jury's still out on the scanner, I'll be opting out.

I do fully understand that this wasn't the intention of the study and wouldn't you know, it's an outcome that reinforces the status quo and besmirches dissent. I can see this being a headline in USA Today or some other brain-dead rag.

If someone has no frame of reference on a particular matter, why should their opinion be validated? For instance, would my opinion about legislation involved in animal husbandry regulations be considered worth anything? As someone who's never been involved in the insemination of livestock I can say, without hesitation, the answer is a resounding "No."

but when I do, it's because /. posts the worst poll of all time.

a night without stars. -Punjab (Annie - 1982)

I hate to say it, I really, really hate to say it(and most of the time when someone says that it's meant to disguise the fact that they really are enjoying saying it, but honestly, I actually DO hate to say it)but this is just another symptom of the middle and lower class people of the United States getting hosed by large corporations.

Is there any problem, let's say real or overly hyped (global warming, I'm looking your way) that isn't a direct result of the greed of our country?

We're losing ground to China and the EU everyday.

I love capitalism but this cannibalization has got to stop. Only it won't. Our government is designed to pork us just like the corporations do. They are part and parcel.

We have a duopoly that serves none of its electorate save the upper 1%.

China owns our debt. This isn't a recession or a depression it's the end.

First comes the relative financial security of the middle class diminishing. Union jobs? Not anymore. Pensions? Nope. Health/Dental benefits? Not today my friend.

Credit crisis, sub-prime mortgage explosion, inflation, sky-high fuel costs... wonderful. Got an astronomically expensive war in Iraq? Not a problem, we'll just borrow to cover that.

Face it, we're on a sinking ship. There are no life vests, no life boats. We have to accept the fact that we've been suckered by powerful interests in the name of greed and that what we thought was America is gone forever. I just hope the next super power is a democracy.

Bravo upper 1%, bravo.