That wouldn't be a good idea because, this model relies on getting kindles into the hands of avid readers who are likely to buy enough books to cover the cost of the subsidy. Not every amazon prime user is an avid reader - in fact I'd probably peg it at more like 10-20% are avid readers. But even if its more like…

It's not about 'pushing out more powerful products' being a bad thing, it's about focusing entirely on the hardware side rather than software optimization. Focusing on software would be better for consumers. Just off the top of my head

I use razer mice (I hardly ever game) but mainly cuz after trying a bunch of mice out, including logitech I just prefer them. Logitech make good solid comfortable mice, but I always found them a tad on the heavy side whereas razers, even the lower end diamondback, deathadders etc. feel much lighter and smoother (maybe…

Actually - even to the original post, I always found it kinda insulting to be asked to 'pay in' when being invited to someone's party. My idea is that if you're the host, and you're inviting people over, you should be expected to actually provide everything. (That said, I always bring over a good bottle or two which…

And in this case, I would've kept the system - made the standards more lenient to give school districts more time to ramp up (education results can take a decade or more to truly fix, you may be having failing 10th graders based on what happened in 1st grade education, and isnt something you can fix overnight, and…

That doesn't mean the federal government did anything wrong, the Atlanta School System did. You can't blame the 'fear of losing federal funding' and lifting responsibility from Atlanta. That's like saying the 'fear of paying taxes lead you to evade taxes, therefore you're not to blame taxes are' Or even the 'fear of…

'coopting science to push their political agenda' - you mean like their baffling support for global climate change, which is onlyyy supported by 90% of the scientific populace. They must be doing that just because their life involves around controlling what light-bulbs you use.

caveat - (I'm pretty anti-war, and i do think the iraq war should never have happened, and that the military budget should be severely decreased, and the afghanistan war could probably have been handled cheaper and smarter)

I'm normally on the left side of the aisle on issues, but in this case I see higher education as being just as essential. Because much as the 'average worker' is important - it's still the higher education students, the engineers who 'create' the most jobs. I'm not saying that primary education workers aren't…

But spending less or not spending more isn't going to get us there either. Right-wingers always say that 'reform is needed' - but they take that to mean 'therefore less spending' = reform and spending are not mutually exclusive, reform does not require lower spending, nor does need for reform imply there's…

Most of the time (i'm in la) i notice that cops are never looking for speeders where it actually counts (busy highways, roads with lots of pedestrians in daylight). Those are the situations where speeding actually does cause endangerment - but usually there are no cops in sight and you can easily go 10-20 miles over…

And really AT&T just took away all other choices besides $20 unlimited texting precisely to counteract the 'sms killers' None of the sms Killers so far can cover your texting plan 100% There are always holes where family/friends have dumbphones, don't have the app, forget to use the app etc. So whereas before you…

It's hard to keep friends/people disciplined enough to text on one number and call on another (it's easy to forget) and...imagine trying to give two different numbers and explaining how to use each one to a tipsy person in a loud bar.

well even if you only know 3-4 people without a smart phone (and ok, i probably only have aroundd that many i text frequently) they aree still your friends. Are you going to not communicate with those people just cuz they can't afford 80 bucks a month for a smart phone plan? And of the people I do know with a…

They modify appliances such as fans, tvs, radios etc. to also charge phones (i.e. disconnect the wires and wire it up to a charger)

so..checking to make sure no potential terrorists smuggle bombs and weapons onto a plane is now equivalent to massacreing a village of women and children? Investigating a suspicious, possible bomb before allowing it into a sensitive area is what they have sworn to do, they're following standard expected orders. Like…

But who's the person who's going to be the first to take action (therefore definitely dieing) Even if a terrorist has a fully loaded m4 on board, I'm sure everyone knows that with only 30 bullets, they'll bring him down after 30 people die. But are you going to be the first person to run into a line of automatic rifle…

Well in 9/11 they had 5 people working as a team, and terrorists probably undergo plenty of training too ( I mean that one mission is basically the point of their lives so...it's not like they had other priorities.) So this is more like one well-trained marshal against half a dozen well-trained terrorists who already…

sure if you take the sheep analogy, then you're the sheep who complains about the extra time it takes to open the gate in the pen, then leaves the gate open and complains when the wolves come in and eat your kids.

well the real 'problem' is how to stop terrorists from hijacking planes. Do you have any better suggestions? I like how people always complain about the scanners without offering any better suggestions. All they say is 'there's gotta be a better way' i.e. some magical, free, foolproof way that doesn't inconvenience…