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The concept behind corporations as "people" is that people don't lose rights just because they are engaging in their right of free association. The corporate entity only "has right…

> at best it leads to a big useless unanalyzed database For me, rigorously tracking my caloric intake by weighting nearly everything I've eaten with a food scale and recording it i…

'Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprud…

0.001% of 365 days = 5.26 minutes ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.001%25+of+365+days )

If you use VMware Player (and/or presumably Workstation) in "Unity" mode, you can alt-left drag to move and resize the virtualized-Windows-windows. Sometimes it gets a little wonky…

+1 for Virtual Desktops and key mappings for each. I do 3x3, mapped to + +[1-9] on the keypad.

Would you be saying the same about "it's OK for companies like Google to have the courage to have an opinion" if Google was taking the opposite stand? I'd prefer mega corporations …

I wondered the same thing. "No, you can't mix data types, that's stupid" leaves it ambiguous. If you parse the outer array as just "array of arrays" (as each element is an array), …

... or the kid's parents believe in creation but don't fit some ignoramus stereotype, and the kid comes to believe that the creation reveals the glory of a Creator (eg. Psalm 19), …

For a probably-different point of view on this - I'm a person of faith, who takes his faith seriously, and who's faith teaches that homosexual conduct is immoral. I think this puts…

At the risk of troll feeding, it's inaccurate to say state recognized incestual relationships and state recognized gay relationships are "completely separate issues." At the heart …

Counter-point. Public (gov't) spending "counts" in GDP, not because it's "expansionary", but because it's an expenditure on final goods and services. Even if government spending wa…

FWIW, I think the true Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see other comments on this page) is a much better reference.

Hrm; I read that as "Oh ho - so the TSA strategy comes to light, _molestation_ plans are implemented"

Not how I remember it ... Dodd was intimately involved with the government's actions that contributed to the Housing Crisis and was the top recipient of campaign contributions from…

FWIW, this page does not render at all on my Galaxy Nexus. Comes up as a black box in a grey box in the corner of the screen. Does it look OK on other mobile browsers? Seems like m…

Mentioned at the end of the article: http://sopastrike.com/

It's been supported in Ubuntu since at least 10.10, which isn't ancient, but I'm not sure it counts as a "very recent version".

Inaccurate. Romney opposes SOPA ( http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/video-mitt-romney-slams-... ). Others may too.

Particularly if you find Eastman's life and accomplishments interesting, I second the article's suggestion that if you're ever in Rochester, NY you should stop by the George Eastma…

Works fine (I presume slower than on a desktop; but certainly doesn't crash!) on my Galaxy Nexus.

Done: "In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB"

I'm late to the discussion, but want to add a few things. First, is there really a large group of people who think that teachers a.) are whom to blame for the state of American edu…

quoting: What Services does Pageforest Provide? Cloud-based Document Storage - Each Pageforest user is given storage for their own document collection in the Cloud. When a user aut…

What a nonsense article. I expect better from HN, frankly. It's not as though the wealthy aren't paying their fair share. Breaking down the amount of total federal income taxes by …