From when WOOT Shirts were a new thing. I can't remember If I actually went through airport security with it on, but it sounds like something I would do. The security personnel at my air port never seem all that observant or bright, but I don't fit the profile.

We do get sick time back from vacation at some companies, but long work weeks are very common for a lot of jobs.

Control has swung to far to the Corporate side here in the US and I am afraid that the Citizens Vs United case has made it so that its still going that direction.

Does not matter, the point is that it will taste horrible!

[sarcasm]But we will be safe from Terrorists.[/sarcasm]

Haven't you seen is infomercials for the Total Gym? He is a real dude and he is going to break your face.

We don't let other countries contribute because they should not get a say in who our leaders are. Why should it be any different between states or congressional districts.

The elected officials are supposed to be by the people and for the people. The outside money is making the representative be for the corporations/special interests and not the local people. Money can be used for free speech but it is fundamentally different because of the influence that it has over the politician.

Essentially I am saying that the system is corrupt. Corporations are buying votes and there not just one vote that is local to them their buying as many as they can afford because it pays off in the legislation that gets passed. Most individuals can't afford to do that and its not fair that our representative is representing some company or industry group that is based in some other state on the other side of the country. We have lost our equal representation.

Money buys the means to allow millions of people see/hear your free speech, but it does so much more than that. There is no right to Money.

Anonymous Coward does not live in his district either.

I have as a semi fix for campaign finance by corporations/special interests: No funding sources from outside of the applicable district. So if you live outside of Mr. Grayson's District then you can't contribute to his or his opponents campaign and only companies that are headquartered there could contribute either.

The book: The End Of Overeating Details how the food industry manipulates the physical and physiological aspects of eating to get us to come back for more food (there product). Very, Very interesting how complex food design and marketing is.

... and triangles are easier to eat. You always eat from the corners not from the center of the side of the slice.

One of the sought after features of a food for the producer is being faster to eat. The quicker you eat something the less it satisfy, causing you to eat more.

When I worked at a pizza place we would cut the "by the slice" 24inch pizza into 10 slices... the personals (mini pizza) 8 inch into 6 slices... everything in between 12", 14", 16" were 8 slices unless requested otherwise. Pizza slice count is determined by size of the pie and number of people your feeding per pizza.

It is easier for the server to put up a busy page... the busy HTML is cached where the redirect requires a query to the database. If the Database is down or congested then the server returns a busy signal rather than telling the user were broken or timing out.

We agree. They are not the cause of the problem, but they should have taken reasonable precautions. Unlike the a random act they had opportunity to take reasonable precautions to protect there interests.

They should have seen it coming since everything else gets repeatedly hacked/Unlocked and its not hard to see some capability that would enable given the devices specs. Yes you can expect it to be broken. If you know that its highly likely that you will get stabbed in the face, maybe you should wear a steel mask. There is only so much you can do on the device, but the network is a different story.

yes, companies lobby for unbalance regulation and congress plays along for campaign contributions and that is part of the problem... most politicians are in the pockets of the big corporations.

But that does not mean that we should remove all the regulations. That would not change anything... The big companies would still have a giant advantage and would probably get even more dominance in the market.

We need that market to shifted in the favor of competition. We need to require honest and fair business practices because consumers in general can't always protect them selves when corporations are trying to fleece them.

Why do you trust your dentist to only fix the tooth that needs and not one that is fine. The regulations and standards are there to protect the consumer.

re evaluate the regulations we have... get ridde of the bad and add new ones only if needed to create the "Fair Market" that we need for competition.

No, because they each use different encryption so nobody is going to be able to produce a device that will work reliably with any one cable providers network encoding or set of features.

Free market is a great concept, but it only works if the competition is fair and balanced. Your never going to have that for long in an industry like cable/phones lines with out regulation and standards. In Free markets companies always strive for advantage over there competitors, witch inevitability ends up as unfair practices.

I do think that there is bad regulation, but that does not mean that its all bad. We just need to re-balance the market so that the consumers can benefit from the positive aspects of capitalism like lower prices, better quality and more choices. The same goes for health care insurance and banking/credit.

With out regulation the Free market stops being a "Free Market" and instead becomes a rigged market.