The sentiment that raising the minimum wage will "instantly" result in job loss is highly refutable on the grounds that the majority of workers at or near minimum wage are already making more than the new national minimum wage. I highly suspect that Silversmok3 read a pamphlet on Econ 101 one day, and decided he understood the national job market.

I'm not saying its causal, but contrary to traditional economic theory, increasing the local minimum wage did not destroy the low-end job market, or cripple consumer spending, or create a welfare state of unemployed. As tlia415 said, her in San Francisco, the minimum wage is $9.14. Practically everyone that I know, even people working entry-level retail make more than this. Food service positions also make more than this. So, I dont really know what role a national minimum wage plays, but it is meaningless for all Californians, and people in the 28 other states that have a higher min. already.

George built his house new with a lot of great eco-enhancements, and that's a wonderful thing. Al Gore had to retrofit them in, and it took years to complete.

100% of his power consumption is from green power sources, such as solar, wind, and methane. All of the excess emissions from his lifestyle (I'm assuming to the best he can calculate) are offset by green credits, so that his consumption is carbon-neutral.

We kind of stopped eating fast food for a few years, then, after moving to california, and some really long work days and being too tired to think of anything better to eat, we went to Wendy's a few times. The stuff was unbearable. I really don't think I've changed that much in terms of my taste preferences, I think the Wendy's here is just awful.

But then, for about 6 weeks during the summer, I had the "Mulan meal" which was something like a small drink, fries, and 4 nuggets for a ridiculously low price (no toy). I'd supplement with another 4x nuggets for $1, and its was still getting lunch for like $3.18 per day.

- She insisted that we get a larger TV
- Loves anime
- Reads comic books
- Plays video games
- Works for Apple

Not only does she like gadgets, she's usually where I get them from.

Positioned as a game between Sims and SimCity, it was deemed to micromanagey, and Maxis ultimately decided that it wasn't fun enough.

Of course, we'll never know since the project was axed and never released.

Show me a phone with a flash, and I will make fun of it.

All your 'camera phones' take shitty pictures, even the ones with a flash. They look worse than my 11 year old digital camera, and my 2 year old digital camera (which now costs like $100) blows them away completely.

Sony was the one that promised 100% backwards compatibility, said it a million times, and paraded it around as a key selling point over the X360. Then they couldn't deliver it, then pulled the hardware that made it possible and stated that it wasn't important.

I plan on taking the HDDVD drive apart at some point to make a blue laser pointer.

Every one I've seen has a janky DVD ROM drive that sounds like a jet engine. I'm convinced that they don't read correctly in the vertical position, as that seems to just beg for a disc read error.

If only it didn't have the best games of any system out there.

And, it is REALLY hard to take a picture of your penis with the iPhone.

Peripherals? You're doing it wrong, or you got the wrong laptop.

I use mine to cut cake as well.

KPs? Again, you're doing it wrong.

Apparently, this guy doesn't know much about fixing computers. How many Dell/HP/Lenovo laptop parts can you get at BestBuy Circuit City etc.? Oh yeah. None. How many AASP and Apple retail stores can you take your MBA to to get repairs? Hundreds.

You might just say "Continuing Apple's reinvention of computer service by providing you a support network of thousands of trained technicians in retail locations across the country, something that no other PC maker does."

@Jetgirly: Apes are omnivores. Not only do they possess the metabolic tools for processing meat, but they are known to hunt.

There are a lot of different ways/reasons to be a vegetarian, which in turn affects how you execute your own restrictions

1) There's the ethical "animals have souls" reason.
2) There's the nutritional "meat is unhealthy" reason.
3) There's the environmental "meat consumes too many resources" reason.
4) There's the personal "Meat is icky, I'm a douche" reason.
5) There's the religions "God told me not to eat that" reason.

and I'm sure many more.

The worst are people who refuse to eat things that have trace amounts of something that contained animal near it, or that previously were used to prepare animal products before undergoing industrial sterilization. It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of reality.

But this article is also junk. What the hell kind of Vegan would go to a Chicken Restaurant for any reason? Vegans shouldn't eat any prepared foods that came from any non-vegan establishment.

Yes, I've got the 200/month package. Yes, I can easily afford their unlimited plans. No, I will NOT pay more for unlimited texting. The per kb charge of SMS is outrageously beyond obscene and I will not fuel that market. But, I will game the hell out of it using my AIM app if I can.

I used to think these things were cool. Good thing I never sprang for one. I'd probably have cancer, or be sterile, or both, or worse!

Since moving to California 2 years ago, I've become lactose intolerant. I have no idea why. I blame it on a lack of Maine milk products.

All those fantastic butters and cheeses that they make in Europe are from grass-fed cows, so the flavors become specific to the kind of flora that are in a particular region.

In Maine, the milk there was just exceptionally good. There was the normal brand, Oakhurst, which was so good that the first thing my GF and I would do when we got back from grocery shopping was drop all the bags, break open the milk and down a tall glass of "New Milk".

For special occasions, when you needed to raise the bar (like making icecream), we'd get Smiling Hill Farm's milk. Oakhurst was good, but Smiling Hill was unbelievably good. It was expensive, and came in glass bottles you had to wash and return, but you got what you paid for.

I tip at restaurants, but I don't see the point for counter-based fastfood joints like Starbucks. They don't have a tip-based wage, and are subject to normal minimum wage. I know minimum wage sucks, but the tip-based minimum wage is like 1/4 as much here, which is an entirely different matter.

Conventional logic would dictate that you'd have ended up with double cheese, or a helplessly inedible mess of melted orange plastic.

- It costs too much.
- It touts features like Cell and BluRay which are irrelevant to this generation of gaming.
- It is a pain to develop for
- Sony made 10^2834992348 promises about the PS3 which they could not keep.
- It took a year longer to get to market than X360, with no perceivable gaming benefit.

It's a refreshing change from the usual "Impenetrable Wall of Arrogance" that is Sony's PR.