While you can't outsource blue collar work, look at the way many of the trades have changed in the last quarter century. While plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are still great money-makers, many other trades are nowhere near as good as they once were. Craftsmanship isn't valued, customers don't know or care how shoddily their mcmansions are built. Additionally, it's hard to find Americans (of any race) who are willing and able to do the work. Anyone with a work ethic and half a brain has been convinced they need college and an office job. Technology has also eliminated many blue collar jobs, mainly in manufacturing. This is happening worldwide; a machinist friend is one of only two machinists employed at his plant. 15 years ago this company employed 14 machinists and machine operators, and the business has grown since then. While the trades are safer than programming jobs, they aren't immune or safe by any measure.

Now now, he did go to ITT Tech. Hey may not be quite as challenged as our esteemed editors, but writing a script might be a bit much to expect.

Aircraft is an apt description, as helicopters also qualify as aircraft. What it isn't is an airplane, but they are not trying to call it one.

If you've ever been through Wyoming on I-80,theyve taken this into account. All the speed limit signs are electronic, and the speed varies with conditions. That way, people trying to drive 70mph during a blizzard can get rightly ticketed, even if they are doing 5 under the normal speed limit. Unfortunately, they didn't increase the max speed up to 80mph like they did elsewhere.

Really? Link me to a current Verizon ad that claims unlimited mobile data. They used to advertise that, and they honored those contracts. However, all of those contracts have expired, and anyone with an unlimited plan is now month-to-month. Which means that both parties can cancel the plan each month. Forcing Verizon to offer this plan in perpetuity opens the legal possibility of Verizon forcing the consumer to continue a month-to-month plan in perpetuity as well. Personally, I think it's a good thing they can't do that, or else they'd be taking full advantage of that.

But if you truly believe that all governments are illegitimate, then the concept of buying a plot of land is also impossible. Without government, how exactly does one own a plot of land? Sure, you can defend yourself and force others off of that land, but what stops a better armed group from occupying 'your' land? Without government, the concept of private property becomes fiction, ownership is a merely temporary matter determined by whomever currently has possession.

And as we all know, Amazon has been a deeply troubled company on the verge of folding for many years now. How silly, investing in growing the business...

I really wonder about that argument, though. Historically, privacy among a family is a relatively recent development. It used to be the norm for a dwelling to be a single room, and also common for parents and children to share the same mattress. I will agree with you that exposing modern children to pornography is much more likely to shock them than violent imagery, but that is only true for our culture. Children from sometime as recent as the settlement of the American West would likely be much more traumatized by watching die hard than watching porn. I suspect this change has a lot to due with cultural mores during the development of mass media: even radio programs directed at children (silver shadow, the lone ranger) had no compunctions featuring violence, but were very sexual repressive. Prohibition may be related, but that's just a WAG.

He was writing a GIF novel, so the reasons for deletion aren't entirely unknown. In fact, I think Google is doing a public service here

Come on though, when I want the hottest new Hollywood movies or the freshest warez the first place I turn is github. Seriously, this is some weapons grade bullshit, I've never run into pirating on that site. I may have seen something that was patented, but I'm not sure that 20: print "Hello World" isn't covered by someone's patent anyway. If I sand round corners onto a block of wood, do I owe apple money?

Read what to Google is saying: they do t delete your history for ads, just for search history. Which I'm oddly fine with. I realize Google needs ad revenue to continue offering services that I use, such as YouTube, search, and Gmail. However, I am very aware that their revenue model is based on tracking me closely. There's no way they'll let you delete your data for ads; FFS, this is a multinational US corporation. If you don't want their trackers, don't use their services. I know it's impossible to avoid adsense, but do you want to pay a subscription fee for every site you visit? It seems anathema, but we all used to do this with newspapers and porn. Who buys either of those products now? Tracking sucks, but unfortunately shit costs money. Even this site: I've been here quite a while and never paid them a dime put of pocket, but my page views have indirectly paid the editors and hosting fees.

Umm... not only does my code make professionals cry, but I'm not even a twitter user and I could grok this easily enough. How is this confusing, they simply list the user number ranges that were registered and how to view the bot accounts. What I would have liked to see is some information on how they were able to register so many accounts in such a short time. Whoever owns this twitter bonnet must also have access to a reasonably sized botnet; there's no way only a few IP addresses could register that many accounts that quickly. Perhaps that is the reason all the accounts were registered so quickly, but it seems like a poor strategy to avoid detection. I guess they are assuming twitter has no interest in dropping 1% of their users banning a single botnet.

I don't think any reliable figures exist for Intel's R&D budget, much less the grant money they receive, but you can be sure there is plenty of government interference applied. I doubt they are influencing the direction of research, but the final product certainly has seen government influence.

Taiwan actually has more capacity than the US. http://m.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2016/03/02/459646/Taiwan-overtakes.htm/ shows Taiwan with 21.7% of the world total capacity; North America as a whole with 14.2% and China at 9.7%. Intel isn't locating the true cutting edge processes in Asia, but claiming taiwan is a distant second list a laughable claim. They aren't cranking out xeons, but the ARM market is a huge part of the cpu game.

*cough* TSMC *cough* And yes, I know they're pure-play, but their market cap...