yes!

While still being a nice guy, good kid, decent student no less.... he will help anyone do anything.

Unfortunately, we can't get this sort of action on AGW.

Hey! It was 4 minutes to Judge Wapner...

My son is autistic too.

With the right combination of Physical Therapy, Speech therapy, and Occupation Therapy over the last 7 years, he is almost indistinguishable from a "normal" person. He is not that much different from your average geeky kid, except his short term memory is like a database with broken indexing: it is all there, but he has to really work to get it out. If you supply a prompt, the data floods back out of him at a surprising rate.

So far, his only real social setback is he has NO IDEA that all the girls around him adore him. Kid is putting out some sort of weapons grade pheromone or something.

He came home the other day with some cool looking knotting thing going on. Asked him about it, turns out the girl who is the top of the social pecking order in his class saw his shoe untied. She offered to tie it for him at lunch, spent half of lunch break redoing the lacing.

I don't think he will have any problems passing on his genes.

the next Anthony Wiener wannabe sending me his junk in 3D.

We have not evolved enough for this technology.

Word came down today that running any XP images is a security violation.

Security violations are potentially an immediate termination offense.

You have it wrong. The AGW is the "dissenting" view. The null hypothesis is that the earth is not warming.

AGW believers have to prove the Null, not the other way round.

See, the null hypothesis is that the earth is NOT warming, so there is no proof needed.

Since the evidence shows the Null as supported, and the models do not match the evidence, there is no need for proof.

You have to disprove the Null in the scientific method.

The only thing I have watched supported by the Koch Brothers is Nova. On PBS.

No.

I keep moving. At a relatively "old" age of mid 40s I have a position where no one else does what I do, and I could probably do it for as long as I like and bring a good salary.

Instead, I am leaving this comfort zone and taking on bigger and more risky opportunities... and bigger payoffs.

Either way, I stay more relevant than if I take the safer option and stay put.

Interestingly, I work for one of those collusion companies.

To go work for one of the other big "pre interent" companies I would likely get hired.

Post internet? Maybe amazon, not Google, for sure. Not many start ups either, unless they wanted a "greybeard" for a reason.

They would see the culture as incomparable, and I would tend to agree. I have a very ingrained "don't risk your production environment" viewpoint, and while I can and do step past it all the time, it is definitely not as compatible with a fast moving tech start up.

I don't think it is flooded.

It is more likely a mismatch between skillsets if you can't find a job.

(that is for a family of 4, btw, not just myself. Much lower burn rate if it was just me, but I like my family =) )

Depends, are you paying me in BitCoins so I don't pay taxes?

I live on just about $5.3K per month, which is what the government lets me keep of my 6 figure income, and I save out of that amount too.

Perhaps this one is more appropriate:

http://xkcd.com/1343/