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    • California Gets $1.2B in Foreclosure Help [Housing Tracker] [view article]
      "Realtor" is a trademark and shouldn't be used as a generic term for "real estate salesperson".

      That said: real estate salespersons are opportunistic shysters?

      I'm shocked. Shocked!       Aug 18 08:47 AM
    • Apple's 3G iPhone Has Some Kinks to Resolve [view article]
      Leave the hyphen issue as it is as long as it truncates rants that make little sense with or without the omitted content. Folding chairs. Riiiight. Jul 28 08:44 AM
    • CEO Concerns at Apple and Microsoft Illustrate the Need for Succession Plans [view article]
      The guy is a vegan, for cripe's sake. He eats grass.

      This article goes on like it was "Weekend at Bernie's" or something. I expect to see this kind of stuff at the checkout counter, not on SA.       Jun 19 10:20 AM
    • A Closer Look at the Impact of Higher Gasoline Prices on Driving [view article]
      It won't be too good in Mexico if we keep diverting corn from their tortillas to our gas tanks. Ethanol is folly. Drill here, drill now, and save a taco. Jun 15 10:55 AM
    • Why Tax Credits for Health Insurance Won't Work [view article]
      I thought the "job creation" graph looked a bit biased. Then it occurred to me that you probably counted "B-jobs".

      What happened during the first September of the Bush presidency?       Jun 15 09:05 AM
    • Is the Long Commute Still Worth It? [view article]
      Well, telecommute! Or buy a condo downtown. All manner of creative alternatives exist.

      Not enough money? Change jobs! I hear they're looking for people to alphabetize M&Ms. Can't outsource that.       Jun 12 10:15 AM
    • A Closer Look at Obamanomics [view article]
      You can disparage this guy all you want, but the reality is that he is poised to take the reins, and he'll have a democrat majority in both houses. There will be toast, and it might be us. Jun 10 08:59 AM
    • 3G iPhone: What Has Apple Got Against Cameras? [view article]
      A cellphone without a camera is like a wristwatch without a potato peeler. Jun 10 08:42 AM
    • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
      Iatola: the illegitimate offspring of an Iranian theocrat and the former Chairman of the Chrysler Corporation.

      I guess...       May 27 11:44 AM
    • Baby Boomers Retire: Health Care Spiders Surge [view article]
      My apologies for off-topic. I posted to the wrong form. May 14 12:37 PM
    • Baby Boomers Retire: Health Care Spiders Surge [view article]
      The problem with the retirement of the Baby Boomers is that this includes Baby Boomer healthcare providers. The healthcare workforce is aging. New entrants into the healthcare workforce are more focused on lifestyle and flexible scheduling than in the past. This isn't to denigrate newer workers; it's just a fact. The shortage of primary care providers is just the tip of the iceberg.

      Another issue is the affordability of healthcare. Traditionally, healthcare employers got by offering benefits packages that were in all ways inferior to those offered by other industries. Before reforms in hiring eliminated this inequity, it was said that a girl graduating from high school had limited career options. As for professions, her choices were limited to nursing and teaching. The teachers have already retired with the full government benefits offered as incentives to teach. But the nurses are still laboring away, in many cases with comfortable retirements growing further out of reach with each passing year.

      It will be interesting to see how well the retiring Baby Boomers are served by our strained healthcare system.       May 14 10:18 AM
    • Housing Data: Crybabies and Deceivers [view article]
      Not to be pedantic, but the MEAN, and not the median, is the measure of central tendency that is more susceptible to extreme values on either end of the distribution. If the distribution is negatively skewed (distorted by values outlying on the low side) then the mean is less than the median; the opposite obtains if the outliers are on the high side.

      The median is less susceptible to extreme values, describing that value which has half of the values less than and half greater than it is.
      May 04 08:46 AM
    • Graydon Carter, Child Pornographer [view article]
      Yawn... Apr 29 04:52 PM
    • Microsoft Should Fire Steve Ballmer, or Hire SuperNanny. Or Both. [view article]
      Has anyone ever seen Steve Ballmer and Homer Simpson in the same room? Apr 29 04:49 PM
    • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
      As always, thank you for putting together a quick, cogent and productive read. Apr 07 11:22 AM
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