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How can you eliminate competition that does not exist? By definition, what the cable companies are doing now is eliminating competition, because there is none. Any change is an imp…

Google is generally capable of thinking long term. The major broadband providers in America are incapable of thinking beyond the next few quarterly statements--otherwise they would…

You don't just let the Japanese get away with bombing Pearl Harbor, because that sends a message in and of itself.

Oh, joy-a fully automated caste system.

Please tell me exactly what the person streaming Netflix is taking away from the little old lady checking Facebook.

As long as all actions are logged and reviewed by an independent ethics committee (with anonymized data if needed), I like it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the way we do thin…

Ah, right, we wouldn't want Atlas to Shrug now would we.

Come on, if Target can predict when a teenager is going to get pregnant, then we can easily keep track of politician's financial lives in however much detail we want. If you want t…

Lots of executives around the world make huge profits for their companies and employees, without collecting multimillion dollar salaries for themselves. Since being a millionaire i…

I can't imagine the government needs anything more than HTML 1.0.

It's true. Once an email hits a certain point where managers get CC'd--that's usually the point where creativity shuts down.

Not useless, just not deserving of more pay than the engineers. Same goes for the executives.

Then the samurai should behead the king and redistribute all of the fine luxuries that the samurai earned for the king to his samurai buddies. Then simply find a clerk to do the ki…

On the other hand, without all of the actual programmers you would have no product and no profits at all. Neither group can function without the other, and pay should reflect that …

How can you possibly believe that? The NSA will just go to the private company and subpeona all the data that it's illegal for them to collect. They can and have done this. Citizen…

Blame yourself? No, I'll blame the people who have more than 1/360,000,000th of a unit of political power in the country, i.e. the actual rich people and politicians who actually d…

What about the fact that they colluded with Apple and other companies to keep their engineer salaries as low as possible?

What agenda? Google sucks, NDAs suck, etc?

After reading that article, I actually came away with a very positive view of the field of parapsychology in general. Of course psychics aren't real, but the Flying Spaghetti Monst…

My friend, if you do not consult the mystical Tomes of Economycs on Wikipedia, then the ghostly Vapours will consume you with the aspyct of Mercury.

Your government maybe. What about North Korea's government?

0 day exploit kills 300 in a pileup on the freeway...

This is Step A, where Step Z is one of "save the planet from a world-killing asteroid" or "everyone gets a solid gold toilet" (or "a few people get solid gold toilets larger than t…

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaI78K_rgA