Then you put in a request for new equipment, and explain that it will make them far more in increased productivity from you than it costs. A $2k upgrade only needs to increase your productivity by $1/hour to return the investment in the first year. That's usually a no-brainer expense.

I care little that some stranger I've never seen before happens to notice that I leave a bar. I do care when I realize that someone is following me everywhere I go.

Perhaps, but the bricklayer doesn't have to worry about gravity suddenly reversing.

And even if the stars align and you manage to get an all-star team, the product can *still* suffer bugs due to resource issues, like management shortening a deadline without input from the team, poor or non-existent testing environments, or poor equipment and tools.

It's less about being politically correct than it is about the amount that was laundered. If there were six more zeroes at the end of the sum, the guy would have gotten off with a warning.

Now there's no uncertainty. In the UK, you can't be fair and open with your doctor. By doing so, you are also being open with any government agent who decides to take an interest, even if only for personal and nefarious reasons.

Unfortunately, the bill neither defines what "publicly available" means insofar as remaining compliant with the law, nor does it provide any mechanism to do so. This is an important point, because in the past, we have seen attempts to sap resources from labs producing unwanted results by flooding them with requests for their data.

Before we can laud the law for good intentions, it needs to provide a mechanism to define what it means by making data available and ease the burden of disclosure.

-1 not enough jQuery

Why do you hate America? It needs to use corn syrup.

Not that I necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but...

What do costs look like in Utah versus California? If you were to convert costs and salaries to Utah dollars, would teachers in Utah and California have similar standards of living? How about building costs, utilities, busing, school food, textbooks, etc.? Do both states employ comparable numbers of multilingual teachers?

The people who bear shame are those who voted Republican *or* Democrat in any national election.

Also: there's a large group of people constantly looking for and exploiting holes, and sometimes holes are intentionally added.

That's true in theory, but re-election rates versus Congressional approval ratings seem to disprove it in practice.

If you run it in desktop mode, there's very little re-training to do. The only significant difference is that it has a start screen rather than a menu. The lack of a menu hierarchy is a bit jarring to those who relied upon it, but the searching works just fine, and you can still pin important items to the task bar. I have run 8.1 at work since my workstation upgrade a month or so ago, and I have very few complaints.

This kind of opinion is precisely why we continue to see the erosion of our rights in the US.

Suspending constitutional rights because "their job is hard" is bullshit. The border agents can suck it up and do their jobs the right way. If that means I have an order of magnitude higher chance of dying from a terrorist attack, so be it - it would still be multiple orders of magnitude lower chance than dying of many other things like cancer, heart disease, or car accidents.