I think the office returning will mostly be in Seattle. So many Amazon employees who aren't in Seattle are working in different continents, even on the same teams. So even if offices are near them, there won't be much synergy involved in being in the office anyway. I personally expect this drive to get employees to come back is also pushed along by the local Seattle government, either directly or indirectly. Most downtowns are hit hard without having the secondary business that office employees bring, and Seattle has in the past been very accommodating to Amazon in return for the expected benefits a lot of local employees would bring to the city economy.

What I need is a 1-time payment, non-subscription license for iPad. So annoying to have it for every other platform but have to subscribe to edit the same files with the same program on one single platform. I current use another app as a workaround that seems to understand and work with Word files well, so far at least - "WPS Office". But just want one consistent experience across platforms without having to pay subscriptions, which I personally consider to be the devil.

>And he argues that the very people who say Facebook and Google are too powerful are giving them more power by insisting they do more to control hate speech and propaganda

Great! There's a simple solution:
Facebook can stop *selling their user data to hate and propaganda groups*, and "stop accepting ads* from hate speech and propaganda groups.
This way:
1. Facebook is being a vector for less bullshit
2. Facebook is *lessening* it's power
3. Hate groups and propagandists can still spread their vile bullshit through their own shitty websites. Their free speech rights are still secure.

Handled.

I think it's 100% due to the fact that they never even developed a solid plan to *one day* have money.

If ads didn't work for Facebook, they could still charge users $3 a year and be solvent. Reddit is scraping by with subscriptions and gifted "gold". Maybe if Twitter tried $.025 a year they'd be able to stay up.

That would mean that our economy wouldn't be the pot in a high-stakes poker game! Why do you hate our freedom, Hitler? /s

This is usually someone incorrectly claiming "straw man" when disputing someone who's arguing by analogy, followed by "ad hominem" when someone is being insulting to someone else, but that insult isn't the core of their argument. People seem to think that having a categorical knowledge of the names of logical fallacies makes them inherently logical. As opposed to a) staying on a topic and b) acknowledging when contrary evidence and logic is actually valid, and perhaps their own opinion on the topic could stand for some revision.

Looks to me like his job might be reaching a trolling-controversy-for notoriety crisis.

Not a mashup, that leaves you with something more.

...then some theories about German itself falling out of favor. The US leads the world in research spending, while Germany is fourth. No language conspiracy theories needed to explain this. Also, means we better continue outspending China and Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

This is a similar reason as to why the Islamic world fell behind, after having such an early lead in science and math. They simply spent less on research than the other nations around them.

http://www.meforum.org/306/why...

I couldn't find it in the article, and I'm not well versed enough in the science to pull it out of a quick scan of the doc.

Influenced by an earlier comment above, I originally read this as "Dogs have long suspected as much" : ) Perhaps they have. Perhaps they have.

Just RTFA. All the way back to the original NY times article, it isn't specified what Snowden would plead guilty to. Presumably not treason - which he isn't guilty of in any event. He has done the US and even the world a great service.

Sure, there are "political realities" (which should be an oxymoron) dictating that Snowden receives some kind of punishment.

And I would consider letting him run it.

Alternately, and perhaps even better, I would "sentence" him to get together with some very smart people to put together a system which restricts the possibility of these sorts of abuses and the secret rules that make them possible. Then I might put him in charge of a board that oversees the NSA and other agencies, and their uses of their power.

Thank you.

You mean, people at the TOP get paid less, INSTEAD of the peasants below them?? Why do you hate America???

The early stage of wooziness and cloudiness, and then the later stage of alertness because his body has switched to burning fat cells? So the caloric intake doesn't matter, unless and until he hits more than 25g of carb a day?

I'm sure the product keeps him from starving to death; I'm just not seeing how his doctor saw the fat loss and other things as such a mystery. Is there something I'm missing here?