Not sure about that, all the Apple Stores I've been in there was no shortage of full sleeved tattooed clerks.

Wow..where do you live?

I mean, hell, I live in New Orleans...where pretty much ANYTHING goes, and I rarely see people with that much tattoo work done on them.

Most people that could afford an iWatch are gonna have 'real' jobs...and you generally can't be all painted up from head to toe, with piercings galore and work in an office, etc.

So, even in a town where wild and different is the norm...folks with enough tattoos to make it in a circus show are very much in the minority. And like I said, generally...those folks are not the market for an expensive toy like the iWatch.

I've never seen any of the Apple Store employees here with any noticeable ink on them.

Yes let's completely ignore that a $10,000 smart device should have taken that into account during development.

Honestly, I'd not have thought about it either....such a fringe thing that it likely wouldn't have been thought up.

I don't know that many people that have so much of their skin painted up that it would cause interference. I'd guess most professional folks, like the IT folks at Apple aren't all painted up from head to toe with tattoos.

Sure, lots of folks these days may have one or two, but usually they're somewhere what is hidden while wearing at least business casual clothing which would generally mean not running down your arms onto and past your wrists....?

Since when are leftists openly xenophobic and nativist? America for Americans? WTF? Have we always been at war with Eurasia?

Americans have this crazy idea that their government exists to benefit their own people. It has zippo to do with free markets. In fact, it screws with free markets to allow a race to the bottom. Americans are disadvantaged. We're not looking for a country that has a standard of living that a Pakistani bricklayer would consider decent. We'd move to other countries if that was the case.

It seems more than reasonable to me...I mean, why not?

I thought the Obama administration promised to be the most "transparent" one to take office?!?!

I can't see it being any more transparent than by basing their studies on data that everyone can see and independently confirm or debate...no?

What am I missing here?

Kim Berry, president of the Programmer's Guild, said Congress should protect American workers by mandating that positions can only be filled by H-1B workers when no qualified American â" at any wage â" can be found to fill the position."

You know.....I really like what Ken has to say. I wish our congress critters would listen to him. After all, they are supposed to be there to help US citizens' needs above all others. *sigh*

And btw, I also can setup a website within 20 minutes for free, but with a CMS that even the most skilled hacker will have a hard time with to hack.

Which one are you talking about? I'm seriously interested in exploring other options!!

Thanks!!

I'm a Java developer. I have a decade of experience doing that. Why are all these companies hiring .Net developers not even giving me a chance at an interview? It's all computer programming. They're discriminating against me!

That's more a function of IT outsourcing hiring to HR. HR asked for requirements. IT replied with what it's currently using. HR doesn't have the domain-specific knowledge that would indicate that most anyone worth a damn can pick up a new language fairly easily, so if your resume says C++ when they're looking for C#, it gets circular-filed by HR.

(I got lucky with my current job...was referred to the director of IT by one of his acquaintances, so HR only got involved after the decision had already been made to hire me. I went from doing streaming video/audio with C++, DirectX, and our own compression algorithms to doing business-specific web apps with C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server...rather a different skill set, but that's the kind of adaptability that the HR droids never take into account.)

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

That's the founding principle, and if you don't like it, then I think you're not really a leftist. You sound like a Republican complaining that her taxes are going to the poor.

PS all those states you listed have large black populations. You're a racist, too.

Guess the thumb-wrestling match

You know what I do to my kids when they want to thumb wrestle? I use my index finger and tell them it's "outside interference", WWF style.

There's also a lot about holding on to the traditions of the early Catholic Church. :)

Here's some.

Actually...sad.

These might just have really *BEEN* some of the coming entitlement generation kids, the same ones that always got a trophy growing up just for showing up at a game or whatever.

Maybe they all did deserve to fail?? I hope they at least have to take the class over and aren't all given automatic passing grades whether they deserve it or not...?

Trust me -- I'm well aware we're on the same team. I attended a Protestant Church with my wife before she converted to Catholicism. Some of my comments are as much for others as they are for you. There's an old saying -- no one hates the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they think is the Catholic Church.

If you think that's bad, sugar causes a WingDing font.

Better that than Comic Sans MS.

The EV might be ok for the american suburbs where everyone has a big house with a garage, but for for european ones where almost everyone live in apartments where you park your car either in the stress or on some parking lots.

Geez, I couldn't live like that. Just not having a place for my outdoor grill and smoker....or a place to set up my burners and pots for a crawfish boil (or do some home brewing) out back would drive me crazy.

I'd miss cooking out and having a bunch of friends over on the weekends.