Unemployment stats have always been manipulated heavily for 30+ years. This last month is a good example. 320k jobs created by the "birth / death" model. That model is completely based on bullshit and pro-government fantasy and has been chronically wrong (tens or sometimes even 100k numbers completely reversed) for years now. It's completely ridiculous to use those statistics at all. The household survey (which shows realistic job losses this month, not a huge surplus) is much more reliable historically. I also expect the government to, very soon now, stop even issuing the (huge) corrections they've been doing lately.

... I'm not a California driver. I guess this means GM won't be selling my data.

Now Iran knows what to target.

You should have said that the cables were all connected to a node located under Vladimir Putin's palace.

So, cloud hosting is out. Got it.

... is investing in the supply bottlenecks. Hoping that scarcity will lead to profits.

That's not always the case in the event these lower tier suppliers can't handle the demand surge.

What's a mouse? (I wonder as I sit pecking on my tablet.)

I'm going to fool you all and start tabbing around in my web browser.

Perhaps E.U. organizations will just rack up their own servers. There's really nothing magic about the cloud. Unless putting all your eggs in one basket has some advantage to other than hackers or the NSA. Sure, it may look expensive to us. But E.U. tax rules differ subtly from the U.S. in terms of depreciation and capital vs expense. Data centers are huge loss-generating machines that look more profitable than reality.

That assumes that the vibrations themselves didn't have some salient impact on their germination. Still, it's cool in either case.

I fix my taxes so I always have to send some money to them on the Ides of April. I think things would be worse if I signed up for online service and then it was intercepted. At least without doing so, I can claim that any online correspondence must be bogus. Prove otherwise.

The Internet is for cat videos. Not real business.

That really no longer exists.

"Call with your zip code ... zip code ... zip code. And we'll find some loophole to enroll you any time of the year."

That's basically the zip code they keep bugging you about. And maybe a few details they can collect over the phone. The rest of the stuff, by mail*, is exactly how I signed up.

*I like mail. Because we have had decades of legal precedent around mail fraud formed. Wire fraud, as it applies to the Internet, not so much. Insurance brokers' attorneys will probably argue that wire fraud applies only to twisted wire pairs. And there's some fiber optics in there.

If they don't know where I'm getting it, how can they cut me off?

Whoo hoo! No more income taxes.

Fine for grade school. But in middle/high school, those desks belong to whoever is seated in them next period.

Republicans. So out of touch. It's not a sweater vest. It's a hoodie, sagging jeans and a puffy jacket. Just like the other fent dealers in the parking lot wear. Sweater vests are for undercover FBI agents. All the smart kids know this.

Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting.

Kids, you ever think about why your parents want to ring your phone when there's a nut running around with a gun and you are hiding in a closet?