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"My sense is that the people who make these policies really are "Beyond Elections". They are constants in our government."

Yes, these people are our fellow citizens. There is no conspiracy, merely functioning democracy.

Amazon collects sales tax here in Texas and it hasn't changed my buying habits at all as far as I can tell.

They write some great ads over there at O'Reilly.

I think he was only off by a year - http://www.milanworldsfair.com/

This puts you against Thoreau, Gandhi, and King among others. Are you sure you'd like to hold this position?

Just the first one that popped into my head. I'm not really a word processor kind of guy, so I am not surprised I picked the wrong one. :)

Give her Abiword, or one of the many other FLOSS word preocessors. - http://www.abisource.com/

"Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one."

Are you folks willing to hire people from the US, too?

Seconded, especially with Calendar sharing with specific other people.

Tell it to Aaron Swartz.

On some days, I wish companies like Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio would just voluntarily shut down. If the music industry thinks streaming companies are ripping them off, the music industry is welcome to build their own streaming business and show everyone how it's done.

Musicians were complaining about royalties and payment long before the internet was invented and they'll be complaining long after we're all gone. Keep that in mind when they act like streaming is the new scourge of music.

> Oracle, your engineers know exactly what will happen. Why don't you?

I think Oracle knows what they're doing. Oracle likes paying customers and I suspect that they don't make much, if anything, on MySQL users. I've been using MySQL for years and I've never knowingly paid Oracle a dime.

I think Amazon.com has a similar authentication scheme, where lots of stuff is accessible while logged in, but destructive stuff, like making a purchase, requires another log-in. It's a great model, especially when you think of it more like keeping safe things easy rather than making dangerous things hard.

"The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that..."

The United States, like the past, is a different country. We do things differently here.

Fear is the mind killer.

Furthermore, Mapquest has an Open Street Map layer, if that suits you - http://open.mapquest.com/

Thank you.

What are the names of those funds?

Neither is everything about safety or land use efficiency.

It's a convenient way to regulate an industry without having to pass any additional laws.

I have been very happy for the past few years using fastmail.fm.

How does it work out when you figure in State, County, and Local spending?

I opened an account about a year ago and did nothing with it. I had my account suspended about a week ago, after not really touching it that whole year. When I asked Dwolla about it, they couldn't tell me why it had been suspended, so I just closed the account. Very unprofessional, all around, I was very glad I never attached any real accounts to it.

I wonder if this will help push Google to start serving AdSense over SSL?

Anybody know if the SendGrid Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked? Considering they're under DDOS attack, I would be skeptical of these posts.

I've been using this on and off for the past few months. Frankly, I prefer Google Reader to Fever, but I strongly prefer Fever to any of the other feed readers I've tried. I especially like that I can count on the server staying up and the service not shutting down.

I bet it came as a big surprise to the Harvard faculty that the same asshole stuff everybody else's boss does is the sort of thing their boss does, too.

How can a natural monopoly have competition?

I hate to be "that guy" and I hope this isn't unbearably naive, but why doesn't free software seem to even be mentioned in this discussion?

Although, you should notice that the bug specifies "only free software".