My dad says in the early models you had to crack the window to get the door closed because it was so hermetically sealed air pressure wouldn't let you slam the door.

It's almost as though Slashdot is trying to lure me out to the front page, or something, by not showing responses to the JE messages.

Ah ok, so if something happened say 20 years ago - the cause of it now is not the same cause as it was back then. Meaning that your global warming "trend" has nothing to do with today's situation, if I follow your "logic". Or where do you draw the line? 100 year old data is ok but 101 year old is not? Why is 150 years ago relevant and 40,000 years ago not?

Like hydrogen. It's not like it's going to be a manned balloon after all. So what if one blows up once in a while - fireworks = added bonus!

And what messes would that be?

H1B is about giving a company a slave. These ppl are basically unable to shift to a different company until they get a green card. As such, companies pay these ppl well below average, and then block the green cards.
BUT, if we change how we do green cards and go back to priority for those that we need, as opposed to saying that somebody has family here (which rarely helps), then we bring good ppl here that will work hard and be allowed to participate in real competition.

A fascist? Since you don't know the meaning of the word, maybe you should learn it before trying to apply. Fascism is a socialist system of government allows some operation of private property but introduces huge controls over it in order to gain most of the reward from that operation. Fascism requires business and government to work together.

What happened with the individuals taking over land they saw as unclaimed had nothing to do with governments and companies working together, so your ad hominem fallacy noted.

I blame the obstinance of House Republicans.

Venus would be better. I would be very confident in the man who could cool down Venus. Plus it has a real atmosphere, far denser than Earth. So it should be easy, right?

Dude, we're playing checkers.

It takes a while for sheep to be trained to bleat something else.

So there was no ice age 100k years ago? It's all anthropogenic global warming huh? Without humans the temperature on the planet would be constant, right?

One problem with discussions like this is that there is a lack of consistency in titles and job role naming across companies.

For example, in some companies first level managers of developers are not very technical (fortunately, I've never worked at a company where this was the norm) and can only manage work units and people but not solve technical problems themselves or provide detailed technical guidance. They can be good people managers, good at working the politics, good at making sure that the project dependencies (both inward and outward) are being tracked, and good at protecting the group from abuse. However, they need to rely on project leaders/lead programmers for the technical stuff. In other companies (fortunately, the most of the ones I've worked at as a developer or a manager), managers are de facto project leads and/or psuedo-architects and are able to (and do) look at code, review specs, make technical decisions when necessary.

Similar story for "project managers". At some companies they just push lines around on PERT charts and note and track that there's an issue that needs to be resolved by next Thursday about if the asdfasdf is to provide some data to the lklkjfsdf or if the lklkjfsdf should independently fetch it. At other companies, "project managers" would actually know what asdfasdf and lklkjfsdf were and be able to understand, at some level, that lklkjfsdf couldn't possibly independently fetch the data because security policies don't allow it no matter how loudly the owner of asdfasdf insists otherwise (and, knows who/how to bring in to shut the owner of asdfasdf up).

The ideology in question simply states that women are equal to men. That's it.

Do homeless white males still need to check their privilege?

Kindly explain "eye rape" to me, please.

Can misandry exist?

Does giving preferential treatment to any group, at the expense of another, meet your requirement for "equality"?