It's worth noting that most revolutions happen when the only way remaining to provide for and protect one's children is to take up arms or man the barricades.

... And most of them are won by the side most able to protect its children.

Indeed. And besides, compared to the star system in Hollywood, for example, this is downright democratic.

The intellectual penury that comes with serving with a leader in a given field seems to be gladly endured by most young researchers. This story ignores the fact that, although the senior researcher's name may be at the top of the paper, the junior researcher's name is right there below it.

It's a bit like an actor accepting a lesser credit in order to appear in a bigger film.

I dunno. Has Obama come out in favor of it yet?

No, no no. They got waxed.

How about instead of trying to spin it one way or the other, try publishing the facts. No real news entity should be spinning stories, but they obviously do in order to pull in a larger audience, or deliver their agenda (Fox, MSN).

I'm really tired of these crappy stories that I see on local news meant to scare folks, or pull at their heartstrings. They really misguide peoples perceptions of reality.

What people fail to look at during the campaigns is what circles does this guy run in?...who is he going to put in his Cabinet? It's not about electing the figurehead, it's all about who's going to be pushing the agendas.

FWIW, I agree with you on Carter, Bush, and Obama, all incompetent...I'll give Carter the title of nicest guy though.

You've either not seen the polls, or don't believe them, and are quite simply incorrect.

Sounds like you are misinformed and ignorant. And, FWIW, I'm and American, of German heritage.

Funny, I heard this bullshit when I was stationed there ('79-'81 Air Force), and from my landlord's son, to which I responded..."If we're occupying, why am I paying rent to your father?". It's not an occupation anymore when you can be asked/forced to leave, and that was the case even back then.

We can't waste an opportunity to blame America for overreach...stop, just stop.

While I'd like to agree with you, as someone who's hired a lot of engineers, I'll say that there is definite discrimination against those w/o degrees. Unless you're an extremely rare case, you'll never catch up to your peers in regard to earnings. And, you'll have a much more difficult time getting through the HR wickets in the hiring process. Don't care about earnings, or "letting the status quo control you"?...go for it.

Yes, you can. But, you should make sure you're covering all the bases. Often people fall into this without understanding what's really necessary..."you don't know, what you don't know". Not that it takes a lot of research, but people tend to be lazy.

I'm not going to say you're wrong, but everything I've read, as well as my brief search indicated that you're cut off at 26...college or not. Do you have any reference indicating otherwise?

Though in fairness, it should be mentioned that, as with other aspects of the language, Perl also assumes that you are using the right operator, and that you actually mean what you wrote:

perl -e 'print "x" + 1;'
1

Or, even better:

perl -e 'print "x" x 22;'
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The code sneaks a Flash file disguised as a URL into some JSON data and cons the browser into treating it as JavaScript, but on the local machine it acts like an HTML <OBJECT>, and because the browser is executing the Flash code locally now (due to the masquerade), it can run with greater privileges than if it were from a remote site.

Or in layman's terms: Flash totally sucks the suckage, dude. Always did. Still does.