...one unintended effect is that workers who are earning the higher wage are asking for fewer hours, so they can remain eligible for low income government benefits like childcare and tax credits.
GAHAHAHAHAHA
These idiots didn't stop to think for a second that unless you make over $70,000 a year, it isn't worth it to emerge from the gutter?
The monarch of Russia rightly sees the threat bureaucracy poses to him. Since bureaucrats are useless people generally, the king is actually acting in the interests of his people as well, albeit coincidentally.
Realize the PR disaster they got from releasing non-isolated systems. Even then, adding a firewall isn't a perfect solution. They should anticipate customer demand for "dumb" vehicles.
Great essay by Dimitri Orlov. It's about time the world quit looking to Uncle Satan for leadership -- maybe, just maybe it will take globocop off the beat and we can have peace in the USA for a little while.
To establish their money printing dreams. Since they didn't control their own treasury (it's run by the ECB), they'd have to resort to extralegal means to print Euros.
