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Perhaps a contractor is defrauding the government, submitting an open source project as their own development work?

The feds didn't negotiate anything, the article the company sponsoring Data Tables is planning to take action against the government.

Actually the shooter initially pled guilty. Dept. of Justice looked at these "questions" and concluded they are junk. http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part2.php#over

Mandarin is not widely spoken in Hong Kong-- locals speak Cantonese and Mandarin was not taught in school while HK was under British rule.

Costco is more concentrated in higher wage, higher cost states on the West Coast. They'd love to extend California wage rates to Walmart's red state operations.

Society's income, or capacity to work, isn't a fixed pie.

It isn't "fear" of change, it is that political systems get captured by status quo interest groups that fight against change.

High marginal tax rates in Europe take away the incentive to create a startup, and the governments there confiscate much more of the winnings from successful companies. That, in tu…

This practice is part of the problem. It is bidding up the cost of apartments for locals who need a place to live.

Here's some more info: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-11/tesla-to-begin-r...

Actually, Daimler-Mercedes bought 10% of Tesla a month before the U.S. government announced the loan. U.S. taxpayers are going to get the downside if the company fails but the Euro…

Look, Tesla is billed as being greener than traditional autos but it is not. Drawing power from the grid is amazingly wasteful, and is often COAL. Trading oil for coal is not an en…

Tesla gets crony capitalist, Solyndra-type loan with the worst terms possible for taxpayers: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=53001&#3... http://techcrunch.com/2…

A wealthy "investor" in a rigged game-- a company backed by half a billion dollars in taxpayer loan guarantees-- gets a new toy car. A car for which there is no market and is worse…

Tesla is a crony capitalist scam, they are burning though nearly half billion in guaranteed loans from the U.S. government. This car is WORSE for the environment than regular autos…

GM is a ward of the U.S. Treasury, Ford never took a bailout. GM's bankrupt GMAC finance arm is another American state-run enterprise, the re-named Ally Bank.

This pathology is NOT caught from eating pork. It can come from any food prepared by someone atypically shedding eggs (most likely someone from Latin America.) In fact you are more…

Congress spends hundreds of billions bailing out banksters and auto unions, while easily solved issues like this are allowed to linger, destroying countless lives worldwide.

Political parties are the weakest they've been in 200 years. The driving factor in American politics are Internet-powered movements like MoveOn.org and the Tea Party...these groups…

Really? Car and housing prices have dropped significantly since 2008. Food prices have dropped steadily for several hundred years (exceptions for misguided policy like the ethanol …

I think US anti-trust law, and various promises that Google has made to the authorities in the past as part of M & A deals, prohibit them from crossing the line.

I've been a Pingdom customer for several years, with no plan to leave. Here's my perspective: 1. Our primary use of Pingdom is to show prospective clients our app uptime, as valida…

Just a reminder, these meals are taxable as fringe benefits for your employees. "Meals provided to improve general morale or goodwill, or to attract prospective employees, are not …