That's so ignorant it hurts. Workers work at Foxconn because it's a good job and they make more money there than at some crappy family-owned factory. Let me guess, you were influenced by Mike Daisey's story on "This American Life" about horrid conditions at Foxconn? Turns out that was a total lie. Evidently he had the story written before he ever visited, and simply wrote what he wished was true. For example, he said armed guards patrolled the Foxconn perimeter looking for escaping workers, while in China only police and military can have firearms. His fraud dissolved easily with a simple Google search.

Let me guess: 1) you never heard about this, or 2) you considered it fake but accurate. The narrative was right but the facts were wrong. Those pesky facts, always getting in the way of a good story that agrees with our pre-existing political biases.

Seriously? You don't know? An educated person, totally ignorant about any other measuring system other than the one he's accustomed to using? One of the traits of intelligent people is a willingness to accept and consider other peoples' views with value and broadminded-ness and open to alternative solutions. Suddenly this doesn't apply? I think someone is not as smart as he thinks he is.

Nah. Doctors don't care. They don't care any more than auto mechanics care that your car gets fixed. If it's fixed, great. If not, they did their damn job and get off their fucking backs. Source: doctors (sorry, physicians).

Did you know doctors don't do diagnosis any more? Remember the TV shows about doctors when they would try to figure out what kind of disease you had, possibly opening up one of those medical books on the shelf behind their desk? Yeah, they don't do that any more. They ask YOU what tests you want done. Like I fucking know? What, ask Google? Then the physician makes a derogatory comment about patients consulting Dr. Google. They're not shy at all about telling you to fuck off (sorry, referral to another doctor) or giving you the middle finger (sorry, I meant a suggestion to try "alternative medicine"). Source: my own experience at the hands of physicians. Sad but true. It does, in fact, mean they just don't care.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Seriously, people, don't borrow money from scary international lenders who are just waiting for you to default so they can take control of your country. Don't borrow money from them! And if you do: pay it back! I can't stress that last point enough. It's really the key to the whole Greece problem.

Who said that? I'm curious. Someone whose worldview would be advanced by the idea that the Allies cheated and beat the Nazis without playing fair? Lemme guess, the same folk who would say that the Japanese were the good guys and the Americans came after them because DATS WACIST? Guess what, it was your buddies the Communists who beat the Nazis, the Allies simply prevented them from overrunning all of Europe.

Ah, it's lovely to hear such a wonderful tale right before bed. Attorneys have dug their own graves. Don't believe me? Just ask anyone who has had to deal with an attorney in the last ten years. And they all were displaced by H1Bs happily ever after. Don't you love a happy ending to a story?

All points of view are equally valid. Some are more diverse than others. Who are you to pick and choose which are right and wrong? Sounds like you're a cultural imperialist. What's your problem with diversity of opinion? Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Ah, yes, the good old "social Darwinism" argument. Let me guess: you aren't an educated person. If you were, you would certainly know that there was a famous 20th century person who advocated your philosophy and he was quite vocal about it. It didn't quite work out the way he intended and it all ended in tears and the complete discrediting of your philosophy. For $1000 and the daily double, please question the answer.

What we really need is a government brave enough and strong enough to tell the people NO, you cannot have that Big Mac, you cannot have that 44oz soda. The adults are stepping in and taking away your toys. Unfortunately, too many idiots think that FREEDUMB[tm] is most important, and they're willing to shorten their lives to have it. It's so wrong on so many levels. :( If only there were a political party strong enough to do this...I weep.

How is this jingoism moderated up to +5? Explain how people have the right to a job just because of a coincidence of birth? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept, it seems bizarre in our borderless world.

Diversity is just a code word for anti-white. It doesn't actually mean diverse. 100% Asian, no problem. 100% black, no problem. 60% white BIG PROBLEM. Homogenity increasing is only a problem when whites are doing it.

And the word evil gets bandied about a lot on the Left. You're really not aware of this? Seriously?

The Ferengi were the leftist writers' ridiculous caricature of capitalism. They didn't even bother to come up with a culture for them, all they knew is that capitalism was BAD, and they needed to display their political biases on the show. The writers were prudes as well, like most leftists, TNG hardly ever touched on sexuality. If it was me I'd be on the holodeck covered in girls but the only ones who ever said anything about females were those icky Ferengi. Those barbarian, sexist bastards with the big ears who only want to capture and enslave human women...mmmm....forbidden fantasy....

Nobody can help you unless you tell us what the terms are. Seriously, trademark issues are famously inexact, and being vague doesn't help one bit. It could be either way, honestly.

Should have registered the trademark yourself, that way there would never have been a problem, and if there was already a registrant, change the name of the damn software. I swear for some reason open source developers choose the dumbest names for products.

Seeing as poverty is defined relatively, it simply doesn't matter how much anyone has. If there are people who are starship captains, there are only so many starships in the Federation. Everyone can't be a captain. The definition of poverty first requires a determination of what constitutes basic needs. The 21st century definition of âoefood and shelter necessary for survivalâ will be as obsolete as the 19th century buggy whip. The 25th century definition will be âoethose lacking the prevailing community standard." You can live 24/7 in the holodeck powered by a Mr. Fusion free energy generator, and the social justice warriors will still be bitching and moaning because the self-actualization apex of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs cannot be achieved by most people in society.

"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wholly owned foreign enterprises (WOFE) have been available in China since China joined the WTO way back when. These limited corporations are fully owned by the foreign investor. There is another structure called a Joint Venture (JV) that does require a 51% share by the Chinese side, but these are typically used in restricted industries like publishing or mining where WOFEs are not allowed. They are stupid and I don't know why any foreign company ever does them.

Americans are fleeing to Latin America? Really? This is the first I've heard of it. The same Latin America that is so dysfunctional that its people are fleeing in droves to barrios in our inner cities? Think about it...our prisons offer a better quality of life than their entire countries. Sad, isn't it?

Residents of the United States of America are called Americans and have been for hundreds of years. I'm not really sure where the confusion comes from here, just ask any non-Americans and they'll tell you.