All we really need to know is that the labor force is the smallest since 1984, and is shrinking (which is what gives the false impression the unemployment rate is dropping).

U6 is still above 16%. It was under 12% before TARP and it was under 14% when Our Great Leader was sworn in.

All our efforts to fix this have been demonstrable failures despte doubling our debt in just two years, and yet he wants us to double down.
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Sorry Mr. Lacy, we require a license to complain about non-compliance to ignorant bureaucratic rules.

I received an e-reader (not Kindle) as a gift, and I read a lot of print books still.

For one, I'd rather have the physical book to pass along to others for free when I'm done.

Secondly, the cost of e-books doesn't represent much (or any) savings over new paperbacks.

Third, I never buy new books - amazon itself clears jillions of used/like new books so almost all my reading is already basically free.

Because the mods here are just awesome at only selecting things that are newsworthy.

Next up in the firehose... "the paper clip turns 73"

Exactly, the issue isn't that people are unhappy with the online delivery methods that exist, it's that the ones that do exist are free.

Most people will not pay for something they can get for free, even if the pay version is just of moderately higher quality. It has to be much, much higher quality.

Since this is just plain text articles, basically - I don't see many people paying for the service when bookmarks work just as well, even on the iPad.

That would be true, if media only generated revenue on a subscription basis.

Color me shocked that the writer for another website, marketing itself as a "macrosite for news", predicts the failure of another news aggregator.

brings new meaning to the term "dogfooding"

More importantly, they admittedly drive a lot of this from opt-in customer data.

Draw your own conclusions about who really opts in to help Bing, how their behavior online might differ from that of rational Bing users (or internet users as a whole), how this information is gathered, etc etc.

So the excuse is "We don't copy Google, we collect and store browsing information about our users." (as if that's better)

Sources say: firstrow is now . http://www.soccertvlive.net/

atdhe uses .me instead of .net

The mobile strategy is pretty lame, after all - setting themselves up as a low-rent copy of Apple.

Combine this with no tablet presence at all, and you have MSFT positioning itself as trying to hold onto the shrinking desktop market.

I DIP YOU DIP WE DIP

(into someone else's IP)