Frameworks come with a considerable cost. As do off the shelf libraries for every occasion.

Nope, Dopey did that one.

BUT... BUT.... It's SAFE in the Cloud!

That "free" money is charged to the vendor who processed the credit card, so the vendor raises prices to cover the extra expense. You are paying yourself, and others, and considering it to be "free" money.

Some people have money to burn for convenience. My DirecTV bill was similar, dropped it and converted to Plex and Philo. I changed my viewing habits a bit, and get by much cheaper.

We are moving to a global economy, problem with that is that wages in the US are well above global rates. So, as other countries come up, the US will go down. Pretty much everyone in the US makes more than the average globally.

Your's only doubled? I was paying $100 a month for insurance pre-ACA, now it is $660 a month. The new, more expensive, insurance has a higher deductible and out of pocket limit. The insurance companies lobbied and payed the politicians plenty to get it passed.

Because the homeowners installed the wiretap themselves. They paid money for it and plugged it up. Now, did they realize they were installing a listening device in their own home? Nah, they were stupid, like most the people buying these things.

Sounds like my system. Every month or so the Windows update messes up my wifi or my display driver. Generally takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours to get my computer back to working correctly.

Suppose for the sake of argument, that Facebook's fact checking were like nothing ever seen in history. Relentless pursuit of absolute, unbiased truth. We'd still see comments like the above... and worse, we'd see people who begin watching for the Facebook "not a fact" ruling in order to proudly believe and promote those articles more.

Facebook would then label anything posted by ANY media source as false then. CNN, Fox, ABC, NY Times, etc. They all put their own spin on news to get attention.

That's debatable, it generally takes me 1-2 hours to get my computer back on the internet after a major update from them. I am sure this update will be no different.

I live in the north east part of town currently, I lived over in Lexington before that. There is a huge difference in how the voting is handled on each side of town. The major reason for that is the elections are run by a local commission, and that commission is appointed by the local politicians. Over in Lexington, the election commission was appointed by Republicans, over in Richland it was appointed by Democrats. Even worse, after the HUGE issue in the 2012 election in Richland, the person in charge, Lillian McBride, resigned and was re-hired at nearly the same salary in another position. Corruption is rampant in Richland, the polling places that were for the penny sales tax had plenty of machines, the ones against it were short. It's all about the money.

I prepare taxes for a living, and I can assure you that my client's data is as secure as data can be made. However once the data is sent to the IRS all bets are off. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ir...

While I generally disagree with software patents in general, using these as an example may be a poor choice. Looking at the 3 patents in question this seems more an example of how overworked the patent system as a whole is. There are numerous cases of prior art of these patents, which all seem variations on a single patent just as reissues. This is an example of patents that never should have been granted in the first place based on the prior art in place. Only someone totally out of touch would think sandboxing was a novel concept in 2009 when the original patent was issued.

It would likely be a more dramatic difference once you eliminate the time cable subscribers are watching local programming they could get for free with an antenna. Jacking the cost of those cable channels up even more.