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Turn of javascript when loading the economist website and you can read all the article with no subscription. You miss out on the audio version though, which is excellent.

The microprocessor became available in 1971, that's what happened.

This was not a special emergency power, this is simply a case of failing to comply with a court order the same as refusing to comply with a search warrant.

If the information was in his head and not on a thumb drive then yes, but it was on a piece of physical evidence, therefore the password is the same as a key to a storage locker or…

It does not matter. It's the same as refusing to allow police to search your home when they have a warrant. You can be held in contempt and be throw in jail for it. This is not dif…

Not only do they have lids but one of the main functions of buckets for contractors is to mix things. The non uniform bottom and non circular shape make this prohibitive. While thi…

Sorry, did you say you pay $10 for a 50g bag of coffee?

All of that info is in the write up. It's not nicely laid out in a table but the read is a lot of fun.

The answer is actually no Q. Where can I use Coin? A. You can use a Coin everywhere cards are accepted including dip-style card readers and ATMs. Use a Coin just like you use your …

The undrewriters don't always come out doing so well. Take a look at the Facebbok IPO as an example. They didn't end up selling all of the stock that was issued in the IPO and had …

Tried to check your sources, and for the first could not find anything talking about CO2 levels going back 20 million years, and the second links to a non existent article.

Thank you for this bringing this up. It was the first thing I thought about when reading the article. I also recommend the book.

Snowden made it very clear weeks ago that there was a dead man switch for the release of documents. Greenwald was just restating it with some sensationalism. Just trying to get mor…

Base load. Please look this up when talking about using renewable energy sources for our electricity. Without things like nuclear power, coal, and natural gas plants we cannot main…

Frank Stronach, of Magna International, held a voting majority for over 30 years, despite actually owning a minority share of the company.

What does the Nexus One have to do with the iPhone's antenna issue? There is no oversite body that is 'requiring' anyone to do anything. It's not Nexus One owners that are complain…

Go ahead, I'm waiting to hear why you think it sucks, facts and all. I'm not asking whether one system is better than the other, but why Canada's and the UK's suck.

Well if you don't want to get into a debate about someone else's healthcare system, of which you have provided no information of, then maybe you shouldn't tell them it sucks.

Could you elaborate on why the UK's and Canada's health care systems suck?

This is a really cool graph to see. The gold medal hockey game was the most watched television event in Canadian history by far with 80% (26.5 million people) of the country watchi…

This reminded me of the same game concept that was supposedly under development a few years ago when Guitar Hero and Rockband came out. The game was to be called Guitar Rising and …

Have you looked into the American Apparel wholesale pricing? I bought from them a few years ago (only tshirts) and yes, their prices were higher than Hanes, and while the quality w…

Some stores calculate the the value of gift cards very carefully to be below or above the mean/mode (depending on stores and price distribution) to ensure that either money is left…

Unused Gift Cards is a real thing, although not so much a problem. At one of the places I work, we are about to introduce gift cards, and from a business standpoint they are awesom…

And so the cycle would continue until sales fall enough that the company goes under. At the same time, assuming people will stop buying DRM'd products, the companies not using DRM …