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.

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.

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.

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.

but how about an option for "I am capable of suspension of disbelief"?

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.

Be sure to check out their other hit articles including: "Second Hand Smoke: Science Says It's Healthy So Blow Some My Way" and "Freedom of Education: Science Says Your Sixth Grader Should Get a Job and Stop Leaching Off the System."

"James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute" Oh. Yeah, I figured something like that was coming.

... pissed that he got ripped off of his monopoly again. I can picture it: A poorly shaven SJ sitting in a chair made of solid gold, with a whiskey bottle in his hand. Just mumbling....

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.

Really? You consider screwing a hooker to be better than looking a porn? Interesting...

Another thing is that B&N is the class A example of the "Big Guy that Crushes the little guy". This is the company that the movie "You Got Mail" was based on. Why are we sad to see it go again?

'Cause it looks like they might just be useful in the future after all.