Maybe if "we" got out of the mindset of wanting to pay third world wages, people would move to these kinds of fields?

It is funny, in my opinion, the ones to the greatest extent setting wages ( trying to keep them low ) seem to be the ones lamenting the fact that people don't want those jobs, and all the while praising the market for all the magic it can do ( and it can ).

science doesn't deal in Truth, and its viewpoints and theories change with time.

The problem isn't that we aren't going to see millionaire musicians anymore. The problem is that your statement that "an artist can make it on their own" is, for the most part, not true. Never mind millions -- almost no artists are making a basic living selling music anymore (...) no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore.

These days, to the extent that an artist or act is able to make enough money to continue to make music, that money isn't coming from music sales. It's coming from shows: what they make playing shows (including merchandise sold at shows) minus the costs of doing them.

All walls that can be bombed are clearly marked, and the weapon you just found in the dungeon you are in, is the one you must use to kill the boss of that dungeon. There's also a giant red arrow point at the enemy's weak spot. The game is a lot longer now though.

My wife is a recruiter and if people submit their resumes in anything other then .doc(x) i tell her to push back to the candidate and get a properly formatted resume.

And the Iranians have only themselves to blame for fostering and tolerating religious and political extremism in their midst.

America, take note.

I'm a developer at an ISV. Personally, I am waiting for XP to go. Microsoft has some great technology (WWSAPI, SQL Server 2012 LocalDB) that looks like it will solve some of the problems we need to solve with our application, but it's not available on XP.