{"id":5058,"date":"2012-04-02T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:07:14","slug":"links-for-monday-2-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5058","title":{"rendered":"Links for Monday, 2 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gasoline Taxes by State<\/strong><\/a>
\nNothing surprising here… sheesh.<\/p>\n

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Best Buy to close 50 brick and mortar stores<\/strong><\/a>
\nFrom the article,<\/p>\n

\u201dIn order to help make technology work for every one of our customers and transform our business as the consumer electronics industry continues to evolve, we are taking major actions to improve our operating performance,\u201d said Best Buy CEO Brian J. Dunn. \u201dAs part of our multi-channel strategy, we intend to strengthen our portfolio of store formats and footprints \u2014 closing some big box stores, modifying others to our enhanced Connected Store format, and adding Best Buy Mobile stand-alone locations \u2014 all to provide a better shopping environment for our customers across multiple channels while increasing points of presence, and to improve performance and profitability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh? My Google Translator doesn’t have a Corporate Speak -> English option.<\/p>\n

How many of you go to a Best Buy type store to actually buy something? Apart from the occasional cable or power strip, I typically do not make big purchases at these stores. Besides getting lackluster to pitiful service from the sales staff, the prices are too high.<\/p>\n

However, one thing they are good for is to actually view and handle potential purchases. Alas, that may be going by the wayside as well.<\/p>\n

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Geek News:\u00a0 the F-1 engines from the Apollo 11 mission have been found<\/strong><\/a>
\nCan you imagine predicting in July of 1969, when the Apollo 11 mission occurred, that those engines would be found by a private entrepreneur of an internet retail establishment?<\/p>\n

No, neither can I.<\/p>\n

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More Primate Fossils Found, More Digs at Religious Conservatives<\/strong><\/a>
\nFrom More pre-human fossils, more skepticism<\/em>,<\/p>\n

The same day as 3.4 million-year-old human-like fossils have been unveiled, a new study has been released saying that conservatives and church-goers are growing increasingly skeptical of science.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is not necessarily the case that education or knowledge makes you more objective,\u201d said Peter Ditto, who specializes in social psychology at UC Irvine.. \u201cLiberals are biased in their direction and conservatives are biased in their direction. People find holes and problems in arguments where they look for them \u2013 and they look harder when the science offends or just upends their established beliefs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Heh.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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