Odd it this pdf doesn't also have, the state covered cost of expanding roads/streetlights/lanes/watershed run off into rivers, or the crazy tax breaks states like Michigan gave, even though it was in direct competition with local companies like Meijer to build a new store, which Meijer never got. All though some of this is being addressed its spotty, non consistant, and generally doesn't cover the cost of most of the employees not making enough so the local schools and cities get the added burden of low tax residents. Loss of local revenue from businesses that dried up that also paid taxes on buildings and sales.
We should also figure in the lack of tarrifs and crazy expanding middle class, who manufacture so many goods in the US now.
Follow the money, its like footprints in the snow, and it leads right up to the Mercedes door of your elected officials.

Do we have a map of which states cover mental health care with autism spectrum children?

The idea makes me think of BeekCake 9000.

yes, its clearly Obama's fault, or your not correct. Hmm.....

Not really, because robots do not attend meetings, or take crazy and poorly worded ideas and make servers/systems/requests happen.
Cloud is great, but you just asked the developer to become the defacto expert in a whole slew of other things. I hope he is a superstar with extra time to burn because in less than 2 years, he will have to relearn it all again.
I agree it takes less people to manage more servers, but 0 people is so expensive that its cheaper to just keep the 2 people or 4 from before.
Perhaps in 20 years it will be simpler but in the last 30 the tech has changes every 2 years, right now if you count mobile its every 6-12 months. Its moving so fast, the leading trait I look for in new employee's during interviews is how fast can you learn something new and hit the ground running and keep the older stuff running till the tax depreciation is done.
At some point management will wake up and realize how much it cost to move to the cloud. Cloud is great for startups, its a tougher sale as the business gets bigger.

In layoffs like this, the bottom is cut, but the top leaves because of the lack of security for the next wave. The only way to compensate for this is to raise the wages of the top 20percent, which immediately puts them on the hit list for the next round.
Either way the company can't get the experience and training they just lost back without incurring a huge expense. So its a tumble down the hill unless they find a way to make more products with a 300% profit margin to pay for the upper managements salaries, bonuses, and stock options.

The new Power8 core prices and performance are amazing, but they have no marketing genius to make the sales. Wonder where that went.
I do a lot of business with IBM.

I made a case a few weeks ago that this constant hiring of foreign nationals that are "Easy to manage and cheap". Means you just hired a crap ton of half baked yessmen. In 10 years at the company when the American perspective is gone, all you have left is to promote these folks with "experience". You end up with yes men all through the development and engineering teams, all very pleasant people mind you. In the end, just like with the Commador Amiga management, you get mediocre, not quite good enough, and definitely not innovative next versions or high demand items.
The idea that we will just hire experts in our speciality employee from somebody else, is just asinine, but after moving around quite a bit through this economy, I've discovered most managers either do not care or do not understand the core issues.

Russia isn't capitalist, its a kleptocracy. Please watch PBS frontline - Putin's Way.
Putin has no place to hide his stolen goods he might take the world down with him. He has littered the ground behind him with so many dead journalists and prosecutors. No real country would take him at this point. The FSB is holding the world hostage. The USA isn't guilt free in this but invading yet another country puts him on the boarder with NATO again. Stop him in Ukraine or in Poland, make a choice.
Russia has never been a Capitalist society. Read ‘Red Notice’ by Bill Browder, he is morally questionable but his book has some interesting info.
Saudi Arabia is trying to shut down fracking companies in the US so they can buy them cheap, or just put them out of business. They have a HUGE cash reserve and an average salary of $50K. Where Russia is much Lower like $10k, and Pensioners fully support anybody that keeps the vodka flowing.
Russia is already financially broken. In a large economy it takes a while for the pain from the tail to reach the brain. Its already too late for them.
Best the West can hope for at this point is to mitigate the failures, which Putin won't, because it would be asking him to kill himself.

Is it clear bias in computer gender?

or

Is it clear need for cheap programmers even if its a lot of hard work and they wont enjoy it?

or

Or perhaps if a girl wants into computers she just has to want into computer class and try?

or

Are we keeping minorities from getting into computer class? clearly this is the issue, right?

or

What are we solving here other than creating more programmers, that will have insecure jobs as they are ready to be replaced with foreign workers who will always work cheaper because they are more desperate than an American?

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Sigh, code.org showed such potential, but I think I forgot who funded it. :(

Repubs fear her for sure. I heard from one friend of mine that they want her to run so they can chase the "why did you check American Indian on your college forms?!" Which in the late 70's meant college discount and not illegal I believe.
I'm waiting for someone to look under the rug on farm subsidies, but that's probably a pipe dream also.
Or actually tax repatriated money at a reasonable rate, no loopholes.
Or at least someone put back in the laws that stop multiple news agencies being owned by the same company/person in the same area. :(

Are you telling me a politician lied, stood on a podium and actually lied, to get that job? Noooo..... Perhaps he was just too ignorant to understand the problem?

2 External HDs and Blue Ray/dvd disks.
You keep one HD, you get other HD to your mom/bro/close friend to store for you.
Encrypt all data as files, not hd encrypt.
Put tool used to encrypt data on disk with data blobs.
Remember your own password/keys, don't put those on the drives.
Things that don't change like pictures also go on Blue ray or DVD in case grandma wants to see them.
I also have close family friends we exchange family picture backups.
Update at least twice a year if possible.

1 house fire and you lose everything so keep that in mind. Fireproof safe would be nice but I do not think the heat would leave much working either way.
Cloud services only work as long as you pay for them and someone knows where to find them if your hit by the plane that crashed into your house.

Amazing Modded to 0 right away with no response, very nice!!!

http://news.firedoglake.com/20...
The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks and has thus been dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” by activists who oppose the biotech giant. President Barack Obama signed the spending bill, including the provision, into law on Tuesday
Since the act’s passing, more than 250,000 people have signed a petition opposing the provision and a rally, consisting largely of farmers organized by the Food Democracy Now network, protested outside the White House Wednesday. Not only has anger been directed at the Monsanto Protection Act’s content, but the way in which the provision was passed through Congress without appropriate review by the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees. The biotech rider instead was introduced anonymously as the larger bill progressed — little wonder food activists are accusing lobbyists and Congress members of backroom dealings.

Quick someone send it the command to roll over!!

I've recently seen this same mistake at much larger company. Generally having checks and accept prompts in scripts when deleting anything, but especially when deleting recursively, is a good thing. Its one of the first things I expect a level 1 Admin to make a mistake on, and later never do again.
Its also a good plan to make sure your backup drives unmount after the backups. Leaving them mounted is asking for trouble. Actually online backups are a bad idea anyway but its cheap so we do it.