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Music streaming disservices

dimanche 12 juillet 2015 à 14:00

With music streaming disservices such as Apple Play, the major record companies and Apple are arranging for suckers to pay a substantial amount every month to keep listening to the same music.

If the sucker ever stops paying, all the music will become inaccessible.

Don't be a sucker.

The goal of giving people a better life

dimanche 12 juillet 2015 à 14:00

Clinton supports giving Puerto Rico's public agencies the right to declare bankruptcy.

Bernie Sanders supports this too, but reminds us that the underlying problem is austerity and that the real goal is to give Puerto Rico's inhabitants a better life.

Using robots to inspect oil pipes

dimanche 12 juillet 2015 à 14:00

Robots make it possible to inspect narrow oil pipes for cracks, but that doesn't mean the cracks will receive prompt repair.

Mexican immigrants

dimanche 12 juillet 2015 à 14:00

Notwithstanding Donald Trump, Mexican immigrants in the US tend to be less criminal than average Americans.

Loan sharks

dimanche 12 juillet 2015 à 14:00

"Shark Week" targets the predators that attack poor humans in American cities: loan sharks.

The high expense of using "payday lending" is a secondary problem; the primary problem is that many Americans are paid so little they can't save any money and can barely get by. Other Americans use credit cards for the same thing. It's a bad practice, but but poverty puts people under stress that makes it hard for them to think clearly.