One could argue that he and his State are competing in a free market against other states. There are obviously benefits to having these business operate in your state. If the people of his State didn't support these deals they would almost certainly discontinue electing assembly people and governors who support it.

To play devils advocate the person whom you are accusing of fraudulently making charges on to your account is innocent until it can be proven that they are guilty. You're reporting a crime; you're not being accused of a crime and thus the state of your guilt is not in question. A more "appropriate" statement would be "I thought the customer was always right". However, I think we both know that isn't always true either :/

Amazon is responding by offering some affected customers refunded shipping costs and provide gift cards. http://nation.time.com/2013/12/26/ups-blames-bad-weather-more-packages-and-online-shopping-for-delays/

But then the government will know who I associate with!

You may only want to be able to get the variable but not set the variable. Plus you can do data checking in the Set function and what not.

In the case of his example it was probably a little weak because you're right he could've just used a public int member variable to the same affect. A better example would be public int MyField { get; private set; }

I use to do some contract development work in my spare time (Scripting and putting together Winamp3/5 skins) and would get a 1099-MISC form at the end of the year. It was pretty darn legitimate. Wasn't constant work and was on a per-skin basis.

4K Ultra high definition television 3840 × 2160 which is, as I'm sure you can figure out, double the resolution of current HD content. That said, I will agree that calling it "4K Ultra HD" is kind of misleading :) See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

Winamp has supported gapless playback for a decade now. I honestly can't understand how gapless playback isn't a default feature/setting in any music playing software.

Congress authorized both Military Actions. Use the whole quote, "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"

It's not just about visuals, it's also about performance. It is now much cheaper (GPU utilization wise) to do today what was done yesterday. Also, keep in mind that a lot of games don't have that great of visuals because they limit themselves to match consoles. The Call of Duty franchise is a perfect example of this. Anyway, take a look at this to see what is new. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh404562(v=vs.85).aspx Also, this is what games could be doing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSIE2TkpH4

Honest to god that is the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. 3

When the FCC first got involved they gave them a provisional approval which required LightSquared to prove that it would not affect GPS devices. LightSquared was unable to prove it. Ars Technica explains it pretty well here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/why-lightsquared-failed.ars