I always figured it was an ironic statement. You know, we trust God, but nobody else at all. Especially not politicians.

My time is worth $15 an hour (plus benefits). My time alive is priceless. (But I haven't lived while suffering cancer, either)

Actually, counting it as a percent is idiotic. If you have 1000 viewings of a show with 1 commercial, and a 1000 viewings of a show with 50 commercials... which show has better commercial coverage?

The one with 1 commercial. Scarcity increases value. I watch every commercial that pops up on hulu. I watch 5 seconds of commercials on TV.

At college, the school did exactly this. They shut down every computer that was infected. If you get into a car accident on the highway, you might get your license suspended. So why shouldn't you be responsible for your actions online?

But at college, they also did all the things you mentioned. Also, the local police monitored the connections, because a week into the semester, the police came into my class to arrest a freshman for downloading things of an illegal nature.

Well, if a song is worth $180,000, then I can see how the letter is worth $400,000.

The contract requires you to set a starting price that's in line with its current value.

There's a lot of ways you can screw with this. People are going to be pissed if they get it 2 days before its new auction ends.

To be perfectly honest, I find this much more interesting and artistic than a lot of modern "art."

For example, I believe these Blobs of Glass are little more than interesting candy dishes (not $20,000+ works of art).

The black cube satisfies a lot of requirements for great art, in my mind.

1) It's different. I haven't seen anything like this before.
2) It is a one-of-a-kind. The market really can't support more than one of these.
3) It generates interest all by itself. (Any market it creates is all self-generated buzz. Most other art is only successful because of heavy marketing campaigns and artist self promotion).
4) It says something about our current society (There are a lot of ways you can interpret this piece).
5) It is a shared experience.

Compare it to the candy dish blobs. They look a lot like things you can buy at Wallymart. There's thousands of them. The artist is mostly successful because of heavy marketing. There's no real interpretations besides "Wow, psychedelic man!" I'm unsure that anyone discusses the artistic genius of the glass-blobs, so I don't feel they qualify as a shared experience.

I think Scientology has a copyright on "Inner Lords."

I keep telling people that these "American Companies" aren't American at all. Fewer and fewer of their worker's are American, their ideals are not American and their tax revenue isn't reported in America.

As a people, we need to take back America

Is it sad, or is it what the company deserved? How many other companies deserve this same fate but are being propped up because "They're too big to fail"?

I live in Minnesota and drive a Honda Accord. I've never been in an accident. Ever. Never even gone into the ditch.

Wow, I can save pennies off my electricity! Now, how many centuries does it take for the battery to pay itself off?

I'm 23 and know a bunch of people who are into football. Football isn't about going outdoors and getting exercise, it's about sitting on a couch, getting drunk, and yelling at the other team and refs for being unfair (no, it isn't that your team sucks). Instead of working on homework, they are practicing intoxication, anger, tribalism, and blaming others for personal failure.

Worse yet, they have this idea that if they're stubborn enough, they'll get their way, even though they've spent their time watching sports instead of learning

Translations are considered copyright-able. Frequently you'll see people getting sued over making copies of shakespear... and losing.

Our legal quagmire is a swampy minefield of shitpiles, but hey, at least its a smaller shitpile than that guy over there!

Let me second this. Managers should add to the efficiency of a team. Make it clear that you're staying to support them, not harass them. Stay out of sight, but make it clear that they can call on you for communication with the rest of the team, as well as keeping people refreshed. Something that may be effective is for them to reason through a problem with you. You may not be able to code in their language, but often times, if they talk through the problem with you, they themselves will have an epiphany. If they're staying late, they're obviously already dedicated to seeing the task through to completion, there's no need to ride them.

And while you're sitting there, unable to help, I'd pick up a book on the programming language they're using to code. Even if you never put your fingers to the keyboard, it will gain you credibility, which will make you, as a manager, a thousand times more effective.