Still different pots at different tax rates.

You can make a serious discussion out of which income groups are hurt more or less by federal versus state expenditure in different places.

Every major country in the world has various levels of government, even the UK which is relatively centralized still has city, county and now the national but sub national parliaments in wales and scotland.

The feds pay the state, the state pays the county, the county pays the city. Yes, if you're a taxpayer from anywhere outside of Utah or one of the areas attached to their grid it doesn't really matter to you where exactly the money is being spent. But if you're the poor dude in area of this facility where you'd be asked to subsidize a federal facility because it's in your district (including potentially the employees who work there), you'd much rather it be spread around to more people.

In general though a private company will have guaranteed deals, they will have a contract controlling the price increases they could face for some period of time, and they (like the feds) can always leave. The federal government like a megacorporation can also play political hardball, and say you know what, we're willing to spend 20 or 30 million dollars (or 300 million or 1.5 billion) to relocate this facility to save 2.4 million a year and we'll take all those jobs and all the development you got and leave you with nothing.

You are free to ignore a congressional subpoena and tell us about the experience.

It does go through the attorney general and a grand jury, so you can try and defend yourself though.

Congress has lawful subpoena power in the US.

Failure to comply would be a contempt of congress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

Tell that to the thousands of people walking around with them. Not released to the general public, not released at a price for the general public, still in a prototype phase they are still in the wild and could pose a threat to public safety. Imagine if they had a serious risk of catching fire for example.

Congress can still compel them to provide anything they ask for as part of their powers to make laws.

Drone strikes aren't any place.

They're any place that won't shoot back, either because they are unable or have agreed not to. Drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have to this point been done with the (sometimes secretive) consent of the host country.

If the US tried to launch drone strikes in Saudi or India or the like they might get one off, before the Saudi's or Indians started shooting the drones down.

I need a robot to help me proof read my forum posting.

depends how much more crap we have.

Not just design, but sales too. Think about the narrow world of video games. There are more video games than you have time to play, if you want to play video games at all. There's huge potential in having lots of sales expertise on aggregating what kind of game(s) you personally might want to play. What kind of car/toast/dishwasher/clothes etc. to buy.

I think I am actually.

Design.

Value added is in telling the robots what to make and that would suit other peoples needs. The less labour we need per thing made the more things we have per person, the more time we need invested in buying the right things for us and for servicing them.

And I'm sure my grandparents found them very delicious.

in the US, in 1900 41% of the labour was involved in agriculture, in 1930 it was 21.5%. Today it's between 2 and 3%. Europe is something similar.

And that's to say nothing of the 10's of millions of farm animals that worked in the same period and were replaced as well.

To an extent you're right though, people are still needed to oversee the robots, to replace and repair robots etc. The modern car factory even though it may have thousands of workers is very different than a car factory of thousands of workers before. That doesn't mean an end to work, it just means an end to a lot more manual work.

With opens then next possible revolution in industry. Customization. Rather than 10 different models of cars you can have 10 000 all for the same price and only a tiny marginal cost in deciding which one is best for you. That certainly happens now with cars, the marginal cost is just too high for a lot of it. But that will apply to a lot more goods likely, a lot more 'service' jobs that are are about deciding what you want the robots to do, and telling them how to do it, and fixing them when they fail.

Any company that does business in europe would have to try and find a way to comply though.

And the thing is, if most instances of 'the video' are actually links to a small number of hosted copies of the video on say google and facebook servers then it may not actually be that hard to hunt down on the big companies servers.

One of the things Megaupload did was it ran some sort of a hash on uploaded files, and if they already had the file they just created a new symbolic link to the same file. I would not be surprised if google and facebook have similar technology. Sure you can re-encode it or modify the file and have a different hash, so there will be several versions of the same basic file. But it's not going to do google or facebook or yahoo any harm to try and figure out if they actually can be rid of it.

We're not sure yet, preview releases are due out next month, but as with past preview releases they can also change things up quite a lot between first MSDN and Technet previews and release.

There are leaked builds available, but I'm always skeptical of leaked builds, because if the company wanted it released they would have. They're still at the stages of trying things and deciding what they want it to be.

They already have one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)

Paul Allen actually has a second one that is almost 100m long as well. He's a fan of big yachts.

Sad but true.

I think the problem is more one of advocating for both sides of an issue, or advocating for a side that your supporters disagree with. You can't be for arctic drilling and against it at the same time, but you can be for spending lavishly and offering cushy 'jobs' to politicians from both sides of the political isle.

Take some courses on how to use word.

It has a lot of powerful features that are worth using, that are in no way obvious what they do, or how they work, and you don't even know what it's capable of unless someone shows you.

We (a university) offer a first year course that covers the basics of Word and Excel for just this reason, and it's narrowly focused on the academic world.

Because it's a yearly traditional parade and they want to show something. The civilian populace being 'asked' to line the streets and cheer aren't going to know differently.

For the westerners watching the brigades of RPG armed infantry are far more interesting than a bunch of missiles. Those show the DPRK has been paying attention to what has been working in Iraq and Afghanistan and a few other places. The missiles thing is mostly a theatrical deterrent for the moment anyway. Eventually yes, they will have nuclear armed missiles targeted on Washington DC, New York, Los Angles and anywhere else, and 15 years after that someone (the chinese likely) will give up on bitching about it and just open up trade relations with them and everyone will be happy. Until they get to that point it's a lot of theatre to make sure no one gets any crazy ideas about the DRPK not actually having a working deterrent. They don't need a lot of missiles (even just conventional ones) to be a really serious menace to Japan and South Korea.