Yes. Exactly. Studies show that a strong middle class helps the economy grow much faster than any other scenario. Go all the way back to Ford. He paid his employees enough to afford one of his cars, and started a trend that helped build America with a strong middle class. There was a point in America were employees were slaves. Then there was a point in America where employees were seen as partners, rather than slaves (the good ol' days, when you could work for one company all your life and retire from it.). The trend now is a move back toward slavery, with the future outlook being, "hey, we don't even need to employee anyone any more. Look at our profit margins!"

Our robot-wielding rich, are killing jobs for short-term gains. It's mutually assured destruction, for *everyone.*

I do see from some of the other comments, they are looking even further down the line to some type of Star Trek economy. Sounds nice, but good luck with that.

One fork in the eye of the Uber Rich is that the process is somewhat self-correcting. Nobody will have money to buy their stuff if nobody has jobs, or there are some jobs but they pay squat.

Carnivorous animals usually feed on grazing animals (not that they don't "eat their own" from time to time, they *usually* don't have a steady diet of eating other carnivorous animals). I've seen this explained that these animals are instinctively choosing foods that contain nutrients they need. In this case, they are getting the nutrients second hand through animals that eat lots of grass.

Why so negative about lab grown meat? Because meat is more than just proteins. There are other nutrients in it. What the animal eats that you eat, makes a difference, believe it or not.

With the finding of vitamins, it was thought that diet didn't really matter; we can just take a pill if our food is missing some nutrient. How is that working out for us?:

Vitamins and supplements could do more harm than good in some cases, according to a new report in Consumer Reports.

The report, in Consumer Reports' September issue, investigates 10 unknown dangers associated with taking vitamins, minerals, herbs, and nutritional supplements. More than half of all Americans take supplements, and the supplement industry has grown to a $27 billion industry.

But supplements aren't necessarily risk-free, according to Dr. Jose Mosquera, medical adviser for Consumer Reports. While patients may believe supplements are safe because they are natural, he says not all supplements are truly all-natural.

My understanding is this can be turned off. It is less Windows and more Windows Defender:

"Windows 8, set for release on 26 October, automatically deletes entries in the HOSTS file for specific domains. Try, for example, to prevent attempts to access Facebook.com, Twitter.com or ad servers such as ad.doubleclick.net by rerouting them to 127.0.0.1 by adding entries to the HOSTS file and the relevant entries will soon disappear from the HOSTS file as if by magic, leaving nothing but an empty line."

This behavior is due to Windows Defender in Windows 8 thinking it has discovered malicious modification of the Hosts file. Windows Defender is enabled by default in Windows 8. Users who would like to continue using the Hosts file as a simple, albeit effective method of blocking certain sites, can do so by adding the Hosts file to Defender's exceptions list. Of course, that means that Defender will never be able to notice any actual malicious changes to the Hosts file.

Windows 8 seems to be rather prejudicial about which entries in the Hosts file Defender will automatically delete. It automatically deletes Twitter, Facebook, doubleclick and other ad sites but other domains such as "heise.de" it leaves intact.

www.h-online.com/security/news/i927.html

> Most devices like the one you describe won't ever get any OS upgrade anytime soon

Yeah, so how is that different from any other Android phone found here in America? I could probably root my phone and upgrade it...but get an update from my carrier or its manufacturer? Pfft.

Microsoft tried everything possible to add proprietary hooks into the web as a form of vendor lock-in. So instead of writing apps that would work on any browser, developers targeted these proprietary hooks. And the vendor lock-in worked so well, that MS locked businesses into an older version of Windows, screwing itself in the process, since they make money only from new versions of Windows.

So Microsoft accidentally did to themselves what they have been doing to the rest of the world for all these years. On some level the mess stinks, on some level, it's nice to see Microsoft reap what they sewed.

Are the frames worth any money? Is there any way I mine my own and sell them?

No. Apparently they have charged rape suspects as Juveniles in that area, but a good student who hurt nobody will be tried as an adult??? It will never drop off her record. Freaking insane.

There is a petition to get the charges dropped and it has well over 10k signatures already:

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot?share_id=dFwlXuyxHk&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

> Chewbacca doesn't say stupid things in a phony Jamaican accent.

But he did manage to nail Han Solo's wife. What a wookie.

Interesting, but with some searching, Foxconn does actually make android/chrome devices:

Google Glass project said to be made by Foxconn in California
FoxConn Making An Amazon Phone For 2013
Acer Android phones...made by FoxConn

Granted, it seems to be a small percentage of what they do for Apple, it isn't exactly..."they don't make any"

One thing I don't really understand is this:

> The number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million.

So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?

When I read that, I thought 21 million is not a lot of coins for the whole world to use. It seems screwy to me. You run into the issue that you run into with gold, if that is the case. You can't buy a loaf of bread with gold because it is worth so much.

> While the number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million, the money supply of bitcoins can exceed 21 million due to Fractional-reserve Banking.

I've tried and tried to wrap my head around this, but it makes no sense to me. How can you have fractional-reserve banking if the coins have to match a digital signature? Fractional-reserve banking creates money out of thin air. How can you create bitcoins out of thin air? And if they are just used as backing for a fiat currency, who is to say that someone kept enough bitcoins in stock to cover the fiat money?

Good quality desktop boards and a generous amount of memory will easily run server software these days. Intel makes an artificial barrier to keep server prices higher because it doesn't offer drivers for a server OS if the board is marketed as a desktop. Yes, you can install a server OS on them, but you spend an extra day trying to get chip-set drivers to install and looking for Ethernet card drivers.

So I see that since people can cut corners and save a few dollars, Intel will just solder the CPU on so you can't build high-end machines on the cheap.

I've actually grown to really like Intel chips over the last five - ten years. Crap like you are saying will make me stop buying them real quick.

Another money maker would be a brand new PC with Windows XP SP4 on it, with renewed support. Now that would be a money maker for Microsoft.

Don't forget the Zunes. Whatever their final total was, add +8 to it, so it reflects the Zunes.

But if you are very lucky, they will let you intern for them:

http://theweek.com/article/index/242065/america-is-raising-a-generation-of-interns