But but... in the USA, everyone is above average and everyone is equally talented. Kumbayah and flower power.

Funny how an entire nation can delude itself into thinking weird thoughts that, to an impartial outsider would seem utter madness. I blame the 60's unicorn liberals who are now firmly in charge (they're in their 50's and 60's now in positions of power).

Social science is about as scientific and STEM as Scientology. It's called Voodoo sciences for a reason. Nobody goes into it thinking it will be a great way to utilize their strong math skills.

Except that sitting on the floor isn't an Eastern practice, it's a Japanese/Korean practice. Chinese sit in chairs like the rest of Asia/world.

at least in Berlin...

we demand that Samsung engineering department show us their diversity porfolio!

Signed,

NAACP, N.O.W., G.L.O.W.

how could these companies say with a straight face that they only want more H1B visa employees due to lack worker shortage and not because they're trying to find cheaper labor?

Because he was being snarky while adding nothing to the discussion.

"Because China has a wonderful record on industrial pollution"

And this will affect the financial success of the project how? Grandparent's point was that technological advances since Panama Canal will make the project more cost effective.

"and Central America has a wonderful record on fiscal responsibility and accountable government."

Except it's the Chinese footing the bill and making the decisions, so this comment is irrelevant.

He's just pandering to Slashdot groupthink and bashing China pollution and Latin American corruption. And it worked too, currently at +5 insightful.

"geunyeo hanteseo tteol-eojyeo" - "Get away from her" --> This is correct.

"dangsin-eun nappeun!" - this is wrong, it means "You are a bad person" and it's in the polite form even.

"Geh sek ki ya" would be more appropriate, it's a commonly used expletive meaning "dog offspring".

Dude, they're not talking about drug tests where your employer wants to check if you're high on crack cocaine.

They're talking about drug tests where a new experimental drug needs to be tested, first on mice and then humans, to see if it's safe enough for FDA approval.

cos the factory makes cars that run on 1.21 gigawatts at 80mph.

>Haven't Android and iOS completely cornered the market?

Yes.

>Is there any hope for the likes of Tizen,

No.

>Firefox OS,

No.

>and Windows

Yes.

It's great that you bench 285. However you conveniently neglected to mention how much you weigh and how many umpteen thousands of calories you stuff in your face every day.

No, all of science is debatable. Even Newton and Einstein.

The ones insisting that science is "settled" and undebatable are the same old religious authority figures dressed in new clothes.

Unfortunately taking art classes does nothing to actually increase your creativity -- it's an innate characteristic of the human soul (or brain, depending on your religious views).

Tell her to go into medicine. There is no way doctors are gonna be replaced by robots, ever.

On the off chance that some tremendous breakthroughs do lead to medical robots like in Star Wars, NOBODY will have to worry about getting a job. I'm not holding my breath though.

A Mars landing will cost hundreds of millions, even if these experiment payloads are small. How exactly are they gonna come up with that kind of money? Skimming through TFA didn't reveal any details.

Is this like, put out a bunch of press releases to get publicity, then hope Paul Allen or some other billionaire will fund it? Because the kind of budget they will need is a wee bit out of Kickstarter territory.