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Maybe I haven't visited the right ones, but none of the 7-Eleven (or FamilyMart, Lawson, OKmart, or CU) stores I visited in South Korea, Taiwan, or Japan had selections that close to those of the Dollar General stores I've patronized. In my subjective judgement, the difference is pretty big. This is not a knock on them, of course, just difference in business model, and as you say, regional/market context.

Dollar General has a much larger selection than an Asian 7-Eleven. It has "real groceries" (albeit a small selection) and many non-food goods like detergent, toys, shampoo, even cell phones and a small variety of clothing. It's kind of like they got a list of the top 10% best-selling items at Wal-Mart and made a store out of it.

Dollar Tree (and Family Dollar IIRC) are a bit different because unlike Dollar General each item is actually a dollar. They're a bit more akin to Daiso, if you visited any of those in Thailand, though again with a bit more food (though less than Dollar General, and in smaller packages).

The average is weighted by GDP (another reason it is important to examine the rankings).

The quoted statement is highly deceptive. It is backed up with "Our average effective tax rate is 27.1% compared with 27.7% for the other 30 OECD countries, according to CRS", but 27.7% is the rate including the US, which is not a sensible comparison. According to the cited CRS report, the average excluding the US is 23.3% [edit, see below: note that these are GDP-weighted averages].

Additionally, the PwC study the CRS uses [1] provides a full list and ranking. The only OECD countries with higher effective rates are Japan, Germany, and Italy. So, the US effective rate is lower than that of only 3 of "our competitors" and higher than that of the other 26.

[1] http://businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/Effective_...

> Or Movie Theaters owning Hollywood Studios??

Wanda Group, majority owner of AMC Theatres, also owns Legendary Entertainment. And AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group co-own Open Road Films.

Stepping back in time, infamous low-budget studio Cannon Films owned hundreds of theaters.

> Like car factory owning dealerships?

Plenty of folks think that would be a good thing, e.g., [1] [2]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/atr/economic-effects-state-bans-dire...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/competition-matters/20...

Cruz and other Republicans have been raising concerns over this matter for over two years now [1]. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Sanders.

[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2014/04/02/35-senators-demand-answ...

They only had a simple majority in the Senate.

Not quite, looking at the slides.

It finishes up with two slides of "tough lessons" basically explaining why it failed as a phone OS, and then "what's next?" containing connected device plans. So it's pretty well in line with the announcement.

The title is not accurate. Regardless of whether "people" (excluding me, it seems) think of Firefox OS as a phone OS, Mozilla has been using the name in TV usage for two years [1].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/01/06/mozilla-and-partner...

> It's not an unreasonable position for a municipality to chose lose money on a stadium. They typically lose money on symphony orchestras, ballets and performing arts centers. That one is considered low culture and the other considered high culture is not relevant is we assume that the people are being ably represented.

This rests on the premise that is is reasonable for taxpayer money to fund any cultural activities at all, "high" or "low".

In any case, even accepting this premise, the difference is that the examples of "high" culture you cite are, unlike professional sports stadiums, generally not promoted on the basis of claims that they will contribute to the economic development of their communities; rather, they are generally promoted on the basis of unfalsifiable claims that they will have a positive cultural and educational impact.

> if you have a secure enough content security policy (and the browser in question supports it properly) it will be impossible for an attacker to execute their inserted Javascript

I don't follow your reasoning. Why wouldn't an MITM attacker modifying an HTTP response body to insert rogue Javascript also be able to modify the response headers to strip or alter the Content Security Policy?

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications is a good complement.

One response to this piece (not by me, to be clear): http://marketurbanism.com/2015/12/26/a-response-to-interflui...

For instance, do you refer to a particular group of uninhabited islands as "Senkaku Islands, Japan", "Diaoyu Islands, People's Republic of China", or "Diaoyutai Islands, Republic of China"? Some people are very passionate about the answer.

Is the political entity on Formosa "Taiwan", "Taiwan Province, Republic of China", "Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China", or "Taiwan, Province of China"?

A quick look at their source suggests that they are using something called BLOX CMS, and their nameservers are run by TownNews, which is apparently the company behind BLOX.

BLOX is advertised as "Cloud-based" with "No hardware or software to install & maintain".

This all suggests that they actually cannot make such a change, by virtue of using an SaaS solution they have no control over.

Part 1) This is according merely to an FBI affidavit [1] applying for a search warrant, much less a charge or conviction. Roberts has claimed he was misrepresented, albeit understandably coyly [2]. "Yes" is an uncritical answer.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chris-Robert...

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/EC-Council/a-funny-thing-happened-... (slide 10; apropos nothing, this was a very boring and actually mildly annoying talk)

> Again, libel is a crime in the US.

There is no criminal defamation in the U.S. at a federal level, and only a minority of states have such an offense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#C...

According to the Wikipedia page said laws are rarely used, though I cannot speak to that myself.

From the article: "The top 1 percent on average already pay roughly a third of their incomes to the federal government, according to a Treasury Department analysis that takes into account the entire menu of taxes — including income tax, payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security, estate and gift taxes, excise and custom duties as well as investors’ share of corporate taxes."

Given the context, mtgx is most likely referring to Facebook-owned WhatsApp's (somewhat opaque) support for end-to-end encryption.

> The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (a government agency) explicitly exists to bail out private sector pensions with tax dollars.

Are you sure? From what I'm reading it draws the money it uses for payouts from premiums and the assumed assets of failed plans.

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/publications/facts/0107fact.pdf http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/66xx...

If my understanding of the term is correct, NPMaxwell's comparison to a helicopter drop is a poor one. However, not only is it an established term of art, but he/she provided a reference for background. The glibness of your response is entirely unwarranted.

Maybe the DNS ANY or reverse DNS datasets on scans.io? (the former, I presume, ultimately covering more domain names but containing more extraneous information)

He didn't sound like a "nut", just ornery. I would be too.

I read the article too.

sooheon, who suggested that he/she lives in Korea, made no such stipulation. Of note, distribution (and maybe possession -- I am not sure) of porn is illegal in Korea in general -- not just for those under 18.

"the downright Fascist porn restrictions (no I'm not bitter)" doesn't say anything about teenagers specifically.

With respect to that "canonical example": http://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackney...

Actually, the everyday meaning of censorship quite clearly includes the private suppression of speech. Them having the right to engage in it is independent of that.

Not only did AOL and Time Warner split, but Time Warner Cable is a separate company from Time Warner.

(Not the person you were asking)

It depends on your heritage (I am of northwestern European and American descent, so my records are very good) but Ancestry makes it very easy, to their credit. A few minutes after you've added a new family member, Ancestry begins suggesting historical records and public trees (I try to avoid relying on the latter) that may reveal additional information about them, including who their family members are. You then mark which information to import.

So essentially you would start by inputting the family history you know, and then let Ancestry start making suggestions. It still takes plenty of manual intervention but I've taken their suggestions back to the 1500s in some cases.

I did a site search on Google and it has been pasted on their forums a few times now. The following thread quotes what appears to be the first mention: http://liberland.org/en/forum/?threadID=2120825992553118a8c4... (CTRL-F roman94)

I surmise from the other posts in the thread that a troll signed up with the username "admin" and posted that; the post no longer appears to be extant. Note, of course, the disclaimer on top of the board:

> Purpose of this forum is to allow communication between registered users on Liberland.org. Liberland officials don't make statements in this forum. Entries pretending to be official statements are all fake.