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Comment BAD IDEA fro School (or any employer) (Score 1) 407

Employers should be VERY, VERY careful about how they treat employee's Facebook accounts. An employee's facebook account is likely to have information on the employee's Health Family History Sexuality Marriage Status Religion National Origin Age All of the above could be found on an average facebook account and can be used against an employer in a lawsuit claiming termination based on discrimination. It's really the best idea for employers to make it a clear policy that they DO NOT want to see any of their employees facebook information. If anything, employers should ban their employees from HAVING facebook pages, but that's not likely to make employees very happy.

Comment Re:Electric Charging Stations (Score 1) 284

We don't need new laws right now. This problem will fix itself as more and more people start buying EVs and retail, offices, and restaurants are forced by the market to add more chargers or enforce the EV parking only themselves. When a large enough percentage of a company's customers stop going to a restaurant because they can't plug-in, then the smart businesses are going to help their customers and the ones that don't will be out of business.

Comment Almost Perfect (Score 1) 284

Besides the high "early adopter" price, this car is missing one serious feature that makes EVs truly preactical cars -Level III fast charging. The Leaf and the i both have it standard, and it really should be standard on an EV. I would say that even if it raised the price of the vehicle an extra $3000, it should be standard. Add a fast charger and this guy is the perfect EV.

Comment Author ignorant about Pre-Columbian America (Score 1) 420

The belief that the pre-columbian indians were small in numbers and lived in sparsely populated and isolated tribes is a myth. They were very numerous, had complex economies, and lived in very large cities throughout the Americas. When the first wave of Europeans came to America, half of the worlds population lived in the Americas. Much evidence suggests that deseases that were brought in by the first wave killed over 90% of the Indian population before the second wave ever arrived. By that time, over 40 years later, Forests that largely didn't exist 40 years before had taken over farm lands and entire cities. The only peoples that survived were the small isolated tribes. Thus the myth that we have. So the authors history is completely backwards.

Comment Very bad analysis of the situation (Score 1) 223

Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_capitalization#2011 Now, Apple has moved to the top of that list, and MS has been a mainstay for a few decades now. How many other software companies are there, vs how many oil companies? The news here is not that Apple is the most valuable, it's that Exxon doesn't have the power in the oil markets that it used to have.

Comment Re:Been there, done that, so true. (Score 1) 462

The problem with your thesis is that back then there was the necessary infrastructure to get by without the internet. Today it's almost impossible, hence the problems laced into the 'Digital Divide'. You comment would be like a person saying, "I don't need a car because people in the 1800's lived without one." True, but in the 1800's the majority of people were farmers, cities were much more dense, and there were grocers/butchers/markets on every street corner. And you would probably own a horse anyways.
Science

Submission + - Belief in Climate Change Hinders on World View (npr.org)

DallasMay writes: Article describes an experiment that demonstrates that people don't put as much weight on facts as they do their own belief about how the world is supposed to work.

From the article:
In one experiment, Braman queried these subjects about something unfamiliar to them: nanotechnology — new research into tiny, molecule-sized objects that could lead to novel products.

"These two groups start to polarize as soon as you start to describe some of the potential benefits and harms," Braman says.

The individualists tended to like nanotechnology. The communitarians generally viewed it as dangerous. Both groups made their decisions based on the same information.

"It doesn't matter whether you show them negative or positive information, they reject the information that is contrary to what they would like to believe, and they glom onto the positive information," Braman says.

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