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Actually, they wanted to fluoridate the water to 0.7 ppm.

about 14 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 recommend

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Um, actually, I think that was 0.7 ppm.

about 14 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 recommend

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Most cases of fluorosis occur outside the US, and they’re prevalent inside the US largely in rural areas where people are drinking untreated well water.

about 14 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 reply

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“…only a relative decrease of 18-40%”

Only up to 40%? Yeah, that hardly sounds worth it.

So without it, we get an increase of 18-40%, in exchange for… what?

about 14 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 reply

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Not that you’re an idiot… but, yeah. There you go.

As I recall, they were going to fluoridate the water to the tune of 7 parts per million. Not exactly “wasteful”.

And besides, you probably already have weed killer and pesticide and phosphates in your water. You get water from the river, right? It’s filtered, “treated” (with chemicals), and then sent down the pipes.

But you probably think it’s “natural”.

about 14 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 reply

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You realize that eating chunks of copper, zinc, iron, and so on would also be bad for you, but your body needs trace amounts of all of those things in order to survive? Heck, as far as that goes, too much oxygen and water is bad for you.

In trace amounts, fluoride is not toxic, and your body actually needs it.

Simple fact.

about 15 hours ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 reply

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I went to see Star Trek this weekend at an AMC theater and during the “First Look” previews a Jonathan Ive wannabe spent about five minutes extolling the metal shell of the HTC One, and went on and on about how it has one and mine doesn’t.

Which is odd, ’cause I have an iPhone 5 and thought it did….

about 17 hours ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 recommend

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For most small companies that can’t afford to double-dutch, the 5% effective tax payments would be equal to the current 35% income tax rate and as such it would be a wash. (Not to mention simplified compliance costs in legal fess and tax accounting.)

The gain would be in the larger corporations who’re attempting (and succeeding) in gaming the system.

3 days ago on Apple denies avoiding taxes, calls for reform in Senate testimony

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Or as I wrote below, drop corporate tax rates down as low as 5%… on revenue.

Every dollar you take in here gets taxed at 5%. Buy $100 in parts to make a $200 wholesale product that Target sells for $300… and Target owes $15 and the manufacturer owes $10 and the parts people owe $5.

No credits, subsidies, or deductions. Period.

3 days ago on Apple denies avoiding taxes, calls for reform in Senate testimony 1 reply

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I’d have to run the numbers, but I’d be willing to drop corporate tax rates down as low as 5%… on revenue.

Every dollar you take in gets taxed at 5%. Buy $100 in parts to make a $200 wholesale product that Target sells for $300… and Target owes $15 and the manufacturer owes $10 and the parts people owe $5.

No credits, subsidies, or deductions. Period.

3 days ago on Apple denies avoiding taxes, calls for reform in Senate testimony 1 reply

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“Imagine standing with your arms outstretched in front of you for 7hrs a day, 5 days a week, in a normal workday scenario.”

Right. I mean, it’s not like we have people who stand and hold their arms up doing work on assembly lines, shelving books, restocking shelves, writing on blackboards, construction, painting, and so on.

Now, it “might” be a hassle for those who never get their butts off the sofa…

4 days ago on The man behind famous 'Minority Report' interface is back for 'Star Trek Into Darkness' 1 reply

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Sigh. You’re lucky that it’s software, and you’re not in some capital-intensive business where you have to buy new trucks every year at $100,000/pop.

17 days ago on Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only products

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Office is going subscription too, $15/mo.

Not to mention that with last few versions of Office MS has been basically reduced to moving around the deck chairs, icons, and menus.

17 days ago on Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only products 1 reply

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If you’re doing CYMK for printing, etc., then bite the bullet for professional tools. Not to mention that a mere $600 for everything in the suite is a bargain, or the minor fact that the software used in business to tax deductible.

17 days ago on Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only products

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Agreed. Before the internet, one could read, play games, watch TV, or hang out in a bar. Or you could, in fact, write the great American novel. Invent something. Volunteer your time.

It comes down to the simple choices one makes every day. Go with the flow? Or not?

Too many people, myself included, follow the path of least resistance.

22 days ago on I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet

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NetFlix is pretty good, but it’s too dominated by “B” (and even “C”, “D”, and “F”) grade movies. A lot of the stuff wasn’t even direct-to-video, but direct-to-trash-can.

They need to figure out how to get the studios on board.

28 days ago on Netflix details its vision for the future: a world without traditional TV 2 recommends

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“Why? Mostly because it’s dirt cheap to add these features… so why not?”

Physics? Two objects can’t reside in the same space at the same time. Ergo, space taken up by feature “A” is space not available for feature “B”. Throw in space for a card, and that’s space not available for, say, a larger battery.

You can make the whole package bigger, but that’s now increasing size, weight, and cost. All tradeoffs.

29 days ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 review

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Is that millions or billions? And was that spent on actual advertising, or hiring legions of people to spam message boards promoting Samsung and down-voting Apple, HTC, and everyone else?

29 days ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 review