The US is a country where people with an interest in STEM disciplines are mocked as nerds, geeks, and losers.

The US is a country where American engineers and programmers not only have to compete with offshoring, but with H-1B visa holders.

The US is a country where engineers and programmers get a crappy salary unless they work in finance.

With these facts in mind, I find it surprising that Barack Obama has the temerity to go on record as saying "we don't have enough engineers", while saying that "private sector companies will promote science, technology, engineering and math education, offer students incentives to finish degrees, and help universities fund their programs. The participating companies intend to double their internship hiring." It's going to take more than that to get more engineers, and we have to start in grammar school.

I wish they had a cheat code that would make Clive Barker's Jericho not suck Pinhead's balls.

There are people who will pay hundreds of dollars for a pair of Nikes when they can get a perfectly good pair of sneakers for a fraction of the price. They're paying for the brand.

I want to optimize the US Tax Code with a chainsaw.

Syfy is irredeemably blackened by its association with WWE and made-for-TV movies that were so shitty that they made Roger Corman spin in his grave. I gave up cable TV when I moved out of my parents' attic. Syfy as a paid channel, even if cable moved to a la carte pricing, isn't reason enough to get cable again. For the good of science fiction and fantasy as art forms, Syfy must die.

I already have a PS3 and a 360. I want to get my money's worth out of 'em, and I don't feel like explaining to my wife why I'm going to get rid of three "perfectly good" consoles.

Fuck the PSN, and fuck Sony. Fuck Xbox Live and Microsoft as well. When these cunts announce their new consoles, I'm going to ignore them (and Nintendo as well), build a PC, and ignore consoles. I've had enough of this shit. If Valve can't keep Steam's data locked down, then I'll just download bootleg games.

We can thank GM for that.

I don't believe in Society for the same reason I don't believe in God. There are no God; religious people each have their own god, which they create in their own image. There is no Society; every individual has his own society, which emerges from his interactions with others.

The executives should all commit seppuku. I won't believe they're sorry until they spill their fucking guts.

Why am I not surprised? Incompetence of this nature seems like just cause to destroy the Sony corporation and liquidate its assets.

He can probably read faster than you can talk.

I'd consider the use of high explosives.

I suspect that since nobody would sit with him in the school cafeteria, he's compensating by "encouraging" his employees to live out his fantasy of being included at lunch with him.

I'd say that the Greek origin myth is a hell of a lot more plausible than Genesis. According to some Greek myths, existence originated out of chaos.