Because, men need your constant correction. They love that.

Or at least that part of it where the reporter discovers an even more radical group that was trying to outlaw all technology, medicine and engineering so that mankind would rapidly depopulate and devolve into hunter gatherer groups.

From Jared Diamond. Particularly the first third of 'Guns, Germs and Steel'. Except that he portrays neolithic man with an appropriate moral disdain for nature needed to wrap liberal readers in the correct amount of shame and rage. Megafauna were hunted out it's true. Which lead to agriculture, animal domestication and a general ability to stockpile food, form communities and that thing we like to call civilization too.

Anyway in 20 million years the next intelligent species will be saying the same thing. Some thing it will be the Age of the Octopus. And his god will have 8 suckery tentacles.

No actually I'm a native born American citizen who lived a long time there. But thanks for asking if "Anonymous" is really your name.

And, yeah, you're a fucking retard and sad pathetic fool who would rather be hated than ignored. I bet you're most of the comments screaming at people about their taste in comic strips too, because that's like, real important and shit.

Now go away you silly silly angry asshole and please whatever you do, please boycott baseball for the rest of your sad dreary life. Maybe there's an opening for urine tester for the Special Olympics you could do.

News is news and the WSJ does a good job of that. But anyone who reads the WSJ for op-ed pages at the back of A is retarded, insane or under/over medicated. These fuckwits would give de Torquemada a run for his money.

And don't get HBO so I looked it up. Oh it's a soap opera about a surfer dynasty and guess what? They have the obligatory drugs drunks cheaters and losers that threaten to besmirch their 'reputation'.

I truly thought this was a comedy at first.

It isn't really a 100% legit either. It's kinda sorta pushed in one direction or another for the betterment of the league and TV revenue. You know it is, most people know it is. But hey, to each their delusions.

Scold my son who immediately flipped to the last page. Mind, this is a total stranger in public. I almost tore her face off. I really hope all the characters die in a bus crash. Potter fans are bigger assholes than Dead Heads and political bloggers combined.

He closed newspapers and television stations critical of him

He nationalized steel, banking and oil

He reneged on energy deals with Brazil power companies

He redirected his new found wealth into an arms build up made up of the most modern Russian weapons systems available

He declared himself president until at least 2020

He stripped Parliament of all real power and now rules by decree

Rural poverty is still high and stagnant

Unemployment is high

And lest we forget that 2 years ago after years of wrangling with his own Supreme Court about the legitimacy of his last 'election', he lost and then low and behold the warehouse holding all of the ballots for the national referendum to hold a new election mysteriously burned to the ground.

Yep that's a real good job there Hugo. Maybe you can be Dictator of the Free Democratic People's Republic of Salon too. Make Robert Mugabe or Gary Kamiya your minister of information.

Detroit Auto firms endlessly piss and moan that their labor overhead e.g. health benefits and pensions puts them at a disadvantage. True, their hourly costs are about 25% higher than Japanese firms building cars in the US, but you have to look at the total labor component. Today in the US total labor cost input is about 8%. That means that a 25% differential is roughly 2% of the cost to build the car. And equally importantly, the ratio of the cost of manufacturing drops dramatically as the price of the car goes up. It costs perhaps $2000 more to build a $70,000 Escalade as it does a Chevy. And that cost differential is materials not labor. The remainder of the price gap on the retail sale is pure markup. And those at the vehicles that GM actually DOES sell and sell them rather well.

But in the rest of the market Americans aren't not buying American cars not because of a 2% differential of cost of manufacturing. They're not buying American cars not because they're priced too high. They're not buying them because they don't want them.

So the grape pickers finally figured out how to build a machine to do some Mexican high school drop-out's job. Once you absorb the investment costs, it's probably cheaper to keep the machines running and this should normally not result in higher grape prices. If it did then the machine is a failure or the business model that gets the machine to the farmer is a failure. This after all was the same argument impressed on us by the UAW with industrial robotics. And it is equally false. Robots cost less to operated and result in lower total labor pools overall. The terrain of the jobs that are left is changed forever.

I doubt very much that each grape farmer would need to own a machine. It only gets used for one or two short periods of time each year. More typically you've created a market for grape harvesters that are contracted to wheel their robots up to your farm. Just the way combines are operated in the Wheat Belt today.

Seriously if you could design one of these for every fruit and vegetable you'd get more screaming from the Migrant Farm Workers Union than you would from illegal immigrants.