In the Facebook context, note that it's very difficult to get a job with them that doesn't involve being on-site in the silly valley, which limits the pool to single people who already live there.

How many of those people can afford to live in houses?

My previous employer, for whom I worked diligently and above the call of duty for years, came to treat me that way. They assumed that because I need flexibility because of my family situation I would put up with bullying and stay forever as a mohawked asshole moved in and played empire builder. They were wrong.

My current company is rife with contractors, more than I've ever seen before. I suspect that there are multiple reasons for this, including 1) The hiring process is massively ossified: people extended FTE positions have often given up and gone elsewhere by the time the company gets around to making the offer. but likely even more 2) Contractors don't get benefits, insurance, bonus. which is a convenient dodge around discriminatory hiring laws, effectively avoiding people with families or souls, those over 25, and citizens. Re expectations of working unpaid overtime: exactly the opposite in my department, contractors work 40 / week, period. Overtime has to be approved by management and is not common. [quote]As a contractor, you get higher pay which more than compensates the additional taxes you need to pay and your health care costs. Unless you are stupid[/quote] ... right after someone noted that this may have once been true, but no longer is. Even back in the 1980's the contracting rates I saw did not compensate for the lack of benefits. Add in the 2+ weeks of vacation you don't get, the cost of non-token healthcare for one's family, no 401k matching, etc. and for most people it doesn't compensate.

Service people, including teachers, do not withhold services, they just spend increasing amounts of time and money commuting. Can you get your toilets scrubbed in Cupertino? Sure, no matter that Inez commutes two hours each way to do it.

If you were ass-raping your daughter, would I be uncaring to say that's a bad thing?

By staying next to the student throughout the school day?? Think about it. Also think about kids who are very young or otherwise not able to look after themselves.

^would^wouldn't

If the humans in CA valued themselves they would live there.

Caucasians were uninvited.

I must admit thinking "Why weren't you putting all this on a wiki as you went"? Which would be simple to have set up.

This. You have done your due diligence.

A Sharp 60" is less than a grand. Forget the 3D bullshit, yellow pixels, and 240hz refresh bullshit that serves only to sell into a saturated market. For real pissing away of $, skip the meat, tobacco, booze, weed, and other drugs.

There's something to that. After my son's diagnosis I got snipped partly for this reason.

Maybe his bat-shit crazy abusive ex bled him dry. Maybe one of his kids has special needs. Plus he obviously lives in NYC or the Silly Valley where housing leeches $5k/mo or more. You don't don't his situation, you don't know that he doesn't have half a million in a 401k that he can't touch in any viable way until retirement. Think before you judge.

From organizations that aren't large enough to warrant the dedicated in-house resources necessary for effectively being one's own hardware vendor, and the volumes to warrant a direct relationship with Quanta / Foxconn. Have a problem with iLO? Ask the Google or better yet HP's forums. Have a problem with generic beige-box hardware? Better have in-house resources and a Cantonese phrasebook.