I think a 'Windows party' more along the lines of the Boston Tea Party would be the slashdot thing.

So if regular tuna is 'chicken of the sea', what would this super tuna be? 'Ostriches of the sea?'

(Or if you go with PETA's metaphor of 'kittens of the sea', I guess these would be... cougars? Leopards?)

The phrase that stuck out for me was, 'a phase transition into "subhadronic" matter'. While I certainly recognize the need for new vocabulary when a new model/theory/phenomenon is described or discovered, this particular phrase, "subhadronic matter", gives me Star Trek Voyager flashbacks.

"Captain, the Borg are pulling us in!"

"Lt. Torres, can you reroute the power to the deflection array dish, and invert the signal to send out a subhadronic matter stream? That should disrupt the tractor beam long enough for us to warp out!"

"Recreate the forces inside a collapsing star, of course! Why didn't I think of that?"

Hey, borrowing something they've seen on American TV worked once:

One of the stranger impacts of the show occurred on January 31, 2006, when The West Wing was said to have played a hand in defeating Tony Blair's government in the British House of Commons, during the so called "West Wing Plot". The plan was allegedly hatched after a Conservative Member of Parliament watched the episode, "A Good Day", in which Democrats block a bill aimed at limiting stem cell research, by hiding in an office until the Republican Speaker calls the vote. (Source)

Maybe the cops thought, 'Hey, if it worked for the politicians, it must work for us, too!"

If you're using Pay-as-you-go on Rogers and are putting in $15/month, ask Rogers or Wireless Wave for their $100 refill. Unlike the smaller amounts, the $100 lasts for a full year, so you don't have to remember to keep putting in $15 every 30 days or so.

I moved to the US, but I kept my old phone and converted it to pay-as-you-go. I use my Canadian cell whenever I'm visiting, as the $100/yr I spend is less than the freakin' roaming charges AT&T applies.

The airport to nowhere!

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Faye: "It's a little known fact that every Canadian citizen is born with a sharp, serrated edge somewhere on their body as protection from polar bears and enraged Quebecois."

Marten: "Every night they quietly hone their blades, biding their time until the Great Curling, when they will cleanse the earth of all other nations. That's why they're all so polite- they know we're all doomed eventually."

What's to stop Microsoft from offering a crappy version of Firefox? They've got engineers to spare; they could download the code (ah, open source) and tell their engineers to muck it up so it crashes or mis-renders and so forth. Then install it so IE7/8 looks shiny compared to a rotten turd that they put in because they had to.

I don't think they'd even have problems releasing their Firefox CE (Crippled Edition) source code to comply with the GPL. ("Here, you guys can have this back!")

Both H1B employees and you earn the exact same paycheck; but your employer does not have to pay Social Security nor FICA taxes on the H1B employee. So, the cost to the employer is several tens of thousands dollars LESS than hiring an American.

WRONG. As an H-1B holder, and a former TN-visa holder, I pay all the same taxes an American citizen or Green Card holder does. My employer pays the same 6.2% (or whatever it is) Social Security Tax that he pays for my American citizen co-worker. How do I know this? I work for a small company, so my boss bitches about it whenever he has to deal with payroll, like it's my fault he has to pay that 6.2% on top of my salary to the Federal Government. I see all the deductions the government takes on my W-2s when I file taxes. Neither my employer nor I see get any special breaks for having an H-1B employee. In fact, in order to hire me, he has to pay thousands into a special fund which, ostensibly, goes towards programs to help train Americans in high tech jobs; it probably went to pay for Senator "I am not a crook" Stevens' Bridge to Nowhere instead. Again, not my fault.

Salary? I'm getting the same as my American citizen co-worker. So: same salary, same taxes, but my employer has to pay into a special fund for the "privilege" of hiring an H-1B and he had to pay a lawyer to properly process the H-1B. I've cost him more than an American Citizen. On the flip side, I've also (presumably) provided enough of a skillset to make such a cost worthwhile.

You know what we do get? The shaft, when we lose our jobs. Yeah, all that unemployment insurance money they take out of my paycheque? I don't get to collect it when I lose my job, unlike an American citizen, or a Green Card holder. I get a nice pink slip and a 'GTFO the country before we deport your ass'.

It sounds to me that if there's H-1B shenanigans going on, the fault lies with the employers committing it, the lawyers who processed their paperwork, the employees who went along with it, and the bureaucracy for simply pushing paper along. Go after them for immigration fraud. There are some of us doing it by the book and trying to play by the rules.

The last quote from the Baltimore County PD is pure idiocy. "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."

Paying in $2 is cause for nervousness? I'd be more worried about the staggering ignorance of the Best Buy employees and the PD employees, personally.