As a not-so-proud UofA grad, let me tell you, weird racial issues are their specialty.
I can't imagine Gawker would glean so many items from American tabloid crap. Does the fact that this and the Daily Mail outrage of the day come from England really make it that much classier? Enough already!
Denton, it may win you that bet, but is constant sourcing of tabloid crap from the Daily Fail really the best way to do it?
The fact that the top three are either dead or demented does not say much for the power of the rest of us.
@cmd: Seriously! "San Francisco proper is very,very white" but New York has "intensely rich areas of cross-cultural ferment"? I call bullshit.
Annoying and irrelevant - like most Google product launches these days.
Wait a minute - are we actually taking Katherine Albrecht seriously on this? She's campaigning against RFID tags because she thinks they're the mark of the beast and a sign of the end times. I kid you not.
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Wait - when did Gawker become Parade?
@DustyButt™: No legislation here - it's the FTC regulating all that they're allowed to under their mandate. They CAN'T regulate banks, so they DON'T, or they run the risk of their regulations being invalidated by the courts.
No conspiracy theories necessary here. The FTC doesn't have the jurisdiction to regulate banks, phone companies, churches, politicians or charities. They are only authorized by Congress to regulate commercial entities that are not otherwise regulated by another federal agency, like the SEC (i.e., financial institutions) or the FCC (i.e., telecommunications companies).
The fact that the top 10% pay 72.4% of the taxes is a meaningless figure without knowing what percentage of the income they make. Anyone have that figure?
No one needs an expensive (or even a cheap) gadget to make coffee concentrate. Like we've been doing back home for decades: 1 clean milk jug, one coffee filter, one mason jar for the end product. It'll keep in your fridge forever, and New Orleans Iced Coffee is just about the best tasting stuff on the planet.
@Lonetree: We've got it too, and they didn't try to make it hard to set up. But try checking your account online or making a payment with anything other than a check in the mail - are you having any success with that?
We've tried to set up an autopay three times, and each time one CS rep has said it was up and running and another has said their systems aren't set up to offer it for dry loop. I think they're trying to recoup through late fees what they don't get in bundled services. You can't get into their online systems because they won't recognize an account number that isn't a phone number (e.g., ours starts with 000 instead of an area code).
So far, our experiences with ATT and their dry loop has been abysmal. We've even tried complaining to the state PUC and the FCC, but gotten no responses from either.
Those numbers are so high because Iceland's economy is in the sh*tter right now:
"This year, though, the country's currency, the króna, has fallen twenty-two per cent against the euro; the economy has stagnated; and a global rating agency has put the nation's three major banks on a credit watch. Now analysts are wondering whether the new Nordic Tiger will end up, instead, as 'the Bear Stearns of the North Atlantic.'"
Not exactly a great time to invest there.
What are all those new employees doing? Anti-fraud, something they wouldn't have to be doing but for their size. Somebody who was there at the beginning wouldn't even begin to be able to understand that.
Um - elbees? Anyone else dying to know what those are?
Ugh - flew VA SFO-IAD for the first time a few weeks ago. 32 inches of seat pitch in coach is the worst! Their vaunted entertainment system crashes constantly, and they'll nickel and dime you for everything. I'm sticking with Jet Blue next time.
Oh come on, that's a pretty one-sided analysis of this bill. Have you seen it? It's perfectly drafted to really attack the issues raised by internet advertising circa 1999.
And do you really want any individual state legislature legislating the whole of the internet? Last I checked, the dormant commerce clause had something to say about individual states legislating so far outside their bounds.
Having been to the Chairman's Dinner many times (as part of one of those law firm tables), I can tell you there's no chance in hell of filet mignon. Try overcooked chicken. Believe me, the food is not the reason you go.
What about the advertisers (like Overstock) who participated in Beacon knowing that it would be opt out? They're the ones that chose to share the information with Facebook in the first place. A little late of them to express outrage and push for changes now, don't you think?
