Yet another illustration that in cases such at these there should be a ban on settlements that include confidentially agreements.

Quote: There’s an easy way to ensure that this charade doesn’t happen: a federal law banning these kinds of state and local subsidies to private businesses.

Jeff Bezos’s behavior is hardly surprising. When I lived in North Seattle, I met someone in my neighborhood who was holding a moving sale. She told me she was moving to California and explained why.

Why spend $20 and up for a fire extinguisher when a handful of baking soda costing almost nothing will serve as well. It’s even recommended for small electrical fires.

You’re right, fellow customers (and the staff) can be helpful. You can also use your smartphone to check reviews and prices to see if that bargain really is a bargain.

Not the first week—the first few weeks. The purging and thrift store stocking takes time.

Not so. It’d be more correct to say “Use Amazon Prime Now to Create People in Need.” Amazon destroys local retail jobs. If Jeff Bezos gets his way, those good-paying UPS and FedEx jobs will disappear too.

Do what’s done to look for bugs in offices. Send a strong radio signal on one frequency and look for a second or third harmonic return. That’d tell if there are non-linear junction devices there, aka transistors. I quote from bugsweeps.com

Pre-order an app? Why would I want to do that? I’ll wait until it comes out and look at the reviews. I don’t have an attention deficit disorder. I can survive a delay of a few hours.

Pre-order an app? Why would I want to do that? I’ll wait until it comes out and look at the reviews. I don’t have an attention deficit disorder. I can survive a delay of a few hours.

So loving parents teaching reading will make kids hate reading but a teacher in a large classroom following the latest teaching fad won’t? That makes no sense.

Quote: “They’re not the impenetrable shield you think they are.”

Hopefully, you’ll never be sued, but some business arrangements will protect your personal property, such as you home, from a legal settlement. They can only get your business assets.

Actually these tax changes screw the rich really badly. No more tax-breaks for those buying expensive homes. No more deductions for state and local taxes, a provision that almost exclusively benefits rich people in rich communities. And the business benefits go mostly to smaller or medium-sized ones that create jobs…

This is hardly surprising. Apple was once so tech-savvy it made Unix user-friendly. Now it thinks the hottest feature of its latest macOS is a unicorn emoticon.

I’d recommend not just saying you have something fragile—actually do. Find something light but easily broken around your house and pack it. You might even use that to indicate whether you suitcase was roughly handled when your laptop acts oddly after the fight. .

I fail to see why this needed science to establish. Rolling off the top is simply easier.

Quote: Apparently, when Apple realized that its chief of diversity didn’t actually know what the hell the word “diversity” meant...

Hitting me hard? I voted for neither, but was happy to see Trump carry my state. I’ve also found the neuroticism of Hillary’s supporters most amusing. Why?

In Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford on Avon, I simply walked out of town and found a field with a ditch between it and the road deep enough to stop a car. I toss down my sleeping bag in the thick grass and went to sleep. Ditto in Victoria, B.C. except that I found a haystack.