While both Connecticut and Texas are relatively rich states and contribute more to the federal treasury than they take, people in Connecticut contribute about 3x as much toward the treasury compared with Texans... Only Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey pay more into the treasury per capita versus what they take out. That's part of the reason the people in NJ were so upset when congress initially balked at Sandy relief.

It is, but it would probably exceed the value of the 15-year-old car!

Oh boy, the unintended incentives!

No, it isn't. First of all, the fine for offering no health care whatsoever is $2000. If the employer offers crappy healthcare and employees instead elect for their own plan from the new exchanges, then the employer is fined $3000 per employee who opts for the exchange plan. You can get weak coverage for around $600/worker that would satisfy the $2000 fine. If a bunch of your workers start to opt for exchange plans, then you might need to consider upping your plan to avoid the $3000 penalty.

The AC explained it well. If I have a system on my deck and a system in my family room and a system in my dining room/kitchen, I'd like to stream to all 3 at once during, say, a party. With Airplay or Sonos, this works perfectly. With UPnP and other streaming solutions, the speakers get out of sync and you'd be surprised how bad that sounds. Like you are in an old echoey stadium.

I have only been able to find two systems that play synchronous music, both proprietary. The first is Airplay and the second is Sonos. Everything else that I've tried plays out-of-sync to multiple speakers. Airplay has been cracked and there are Android clients for it. Airport Express wall warts are under $100, so I have gone that route for now. I am excited by the potential here with an open competitor. I believe some people have experimented with making UPnP synchronous, but have not run into any practical implementations.

It's not the quantity, it's the behavior. I use so many tabs that I feel the need to run "Tree Style Tabs" (on Chrome there used to be a similar built-in, though hidden, feature). Every few days, Firefox bloats to such a large footprint that a quit takes about 10 minutes.

I could be using a "metric ton of bad addons". But the fact is, without the addons I'd be using Chrome. So whether it is Firefox's fault or not, Mozilla gets the blame.

The "making phone calls" part of my phone is the least interesting aspect.

I hate that backspace thing, too. They aped it from IE.

I don't have a problem on Windows, but on the Mac it definitely leaks. Not only that, once it has leaked, it takes perhaps 10 minutes to shut down when you've decided to quit it. It could be the plugins or the extensions - but I don't really care because those are the only reason I use Firefox, so I'm not going to disable them.

Right, but when people sue McDonald's for spilling hot coffee on themselves, they sue McDonald's Corporation and not the lady who sold them the coffee or Donald Thomson.

Note that I'm not endorsing that kind of nonsense. I agree that warning labels on hair dryers saying not to use them in the tub goes too far. Every plastic bag I've ever gotten says "not a toy" or some such nonsense on it. Except my expensive Ziplock sandwich bags... what the hell?

Same here. It can get so large and complicated in memory that it takes 10 minutes to quit. This seems to be mostly limited to the Mac version. I'm a slave to vertical tabs, though, so I haven't used Chrome since they abandoned that feature.

Firefox has addons, several of which will let you disable js if that is your thing. NoScript is a popular one.

They like it for the same reason non-geeks do: it is very fast and stable, and it doesn't seem to leak memory like Firefox.

That said, I abandoned it because they got rid of their support for vertical tabs.

This is a problem in NYC as well. Bus Bunching.