Actually the federal government made and kept a massive amount of profit from the bailout.

GS, BAC, Fannie, Freddie. All of those bailouts reaped hundreds of millions for the tax payer.

WTF are you talking about? Tech salaries are way up.

Oh fuck that. Produce or die. Seriously.

Plenty of work places with good management, motivated employees and a collaborative environment. If you tax us to support your incompetence, it will be war.

You are an idiot.

This isn't really true though. In the 80s, about 30% of CS grads were female. Its declined to around 12% lately.

The lack of female devs can be traced to Academia and HS. We all know how desperate corps are for devs. You could be a gay nazi transgender alien, but if you can sling Ruby, you will be hired for 100k+. Women aren't devs because women aren't studying CS in college. Women aren't studying CS in college because college emphasizes the wrong priorities, and because their parents didn't buy them legos.

There is a problem, but its not in the industry. Its in the homes and schools

US seems to be doing just fine. Economy is growing, no bubbles, etc.

Not sure if he is right, but I do agree to an extent. Sending out a clearly unfounded C&C or threat of lawsuit should at least carry a fine with it. Companies have no incentive to weigh the public good right now.

People easily confuse the government shutdown with the threats regarding the debt ceiling.

Lots of people could have cared less about the shutdown, but understood full well the consequences of default. Conflating the two over the ACA was a big mistake. Its my understanding is that the Tea Party aligned members of the RNC were responsible for that, but I could be wrong.

I think a lot of people disagree with your conclusion. I don't think that I should be obligated to work on behalf of someone else's survival if they are UNWILLING to work for themselves. Given that condition, I'd rather let them die.

Just curious, but why is centos never part of these debates? Is it generally not used? Its pretty much Ill I've touched for years, but I never see them in flame wars.

Lets be clear, they are not serving people, they are serving Canadians. Its pretty clear that Nintendo thinks they are the only people in the world foolish enough to buy this turd.

Great way for goog to ensure they only hire goog employees.

Private sector was doing a pretty good job for the majority of Americans. Even the ACA acknowledges that.

The ACA should have empowered private entities to create the market place. Then it might stand a chance of working.

Its not easy, and government is bad at this stuff in the first place.

Which probably means its not a good idea to count on them doing it. The ACA should have tweaked the regs to force existing insurance to cover more people, and left it at that. Depending on government to build and maintain a market is asking for disaster.

Does it matter? If the government can't manage the contractors, they shouldn't build a system that depends on them managing the contractors.