Its "$50k a year" because say if a pattern could be proved, that they were deleting say "minority-porn" preferentially, acting as employees, then the corporation's entire assets are at-risk.

Having aging vision, I can no longer live without the proprietary(?) "Magnifier" technology which I get with the itty-5th-button on my Microsoft "Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0". On Windows-XP it is instant GLASSY-SMOOTH magnification even as you continue to move the cursor. Evidently there are problems with the fancy compositing technology because it just doesn't work as smoothly under Vista or Windows-7.
Actually I am not sure this excellent technology is totally proprietary, as long as I get it for free with my mouse I need not research further - but I would of course be interested in any insight on this.

Recently I saw Nova's "The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies". Given your die-hard-determinist mindset, the new-age-y flavor of the two-minute "Watch a Preview" video at the site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/butterflies/ is guaranteed to cause cognitive dissonance. I would compare stuff like this to facts like photoelectric-emission-before-quantum-theory, it doesn't fit, it causes cognitive dissonance, it demands a better model. I would like to know if science has more to say about the Monarchs than mumbling stuff like "Natural Selection". I don't even know the figure for the typical mass of a monarch brain, or how many neurons it has, BUT buried in the full Nova episode is a key experiment - they captured some southbound Monarchs in Kansas and released them near Washington D.C. Initially they vectored fairly due-south BUT THEN they changed course towards Mexico, presumably being unfamiliar with any landmarks near D.C, after all they were born in Canada and never went to college. Navigationally LATITUDE is a problem, its why chronometers were invented, how did the butterflies know they weren't being released in Berkeley - I want to see that experiment someday.

Not being familiar with this font, I searched around and found the official "Type Specimen" page showing what it looks like in the different HTML sizes etc -- http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/fonts/comicsns/default.htm

Narcissism-out-of-school was a huge problem for me personally, decades ago. I had good grades from good schools but could have used a better set of "mirror neurons".
In particular I remember always being vocal that code ought to be rewritten because it didn't look pretty. Learning-by-hard-knocks to have some respect for legacy-wisdom is such a painful memory, not least because being-rejected-by-team-mates due to such LACK of respect I now realize was justified.
I wonder what is the earliest age at which kids are capable of learning bargaining concepts ? "The Power of a Positive No" is such a great book, author Ury is still sharp. I speculate that he might round out his career with a children's book targeted at this age. The "BATNA for kids" course might start out with a screening of "Shipbreakers of Bangladesh", my favorite CBS video on global-economics.