Yes... but explain that to the average american't bozo who thinks that it's ok for schools to include theology in science classes.

Yes, indeed they do. Why? Because so few people have the brains and imagination to conceive of distance beyond the next block. In astronomical terms, 65,000 miles is almost grazing, hence a near miss. To a human on earth, it's a long way away.

IBM's current focus is to sell services that it can no longer provide to companies willing to pay top dollar for the reputation that IBM once commanded. Then IBM will lay off the people who can actually DO the work that they are on the hook to deliver (set up automated backups and monitoring and disaster recovery solutions for data centers), hire people whose only other access to "high tech" jobs is telemarketing firms at low prices, and pocket the profits, counting on the fees for non-delivery being lower than the cost of actually doing the work.

The GOP has never truly been in power. The US has been a government of the dollar, by the dollar, and for the dollar for quite some time now. Modern politicians are nothing but mouthpieces. Eagee, When the US economy tanks, it will take the world's economy with it. There won't be any safe haven left after that.

That's very true. Plumbers don't have to sit in a box day in and day out, and they get to charge extra for working in off hours.

IMO the significance here is in the other part of the post, which is subtly castigating Google for not doing the same thing. They should of course castigate Apple for the same thing in regards to the iPhone. Both could be in the drivers seat if they wanted to be, yet they are not.

Maybe we should require that irs do its job, and actually tax the corporations, instead of leaving them with enough loopholes to get out if it altogether AND require that the government spend its tax revenue wisely. If neither of those happens, then we should take the IRS as well as the government to task, rather than voting the same fucktards into office over and over again. The prob,me that we have is democracy. Unless the voters are intelligent enough to make rational choices about who to elect, it doesn't work. Clearly, it's not working.

First off, I despise sweatshops and have left companies because of that mentality. That said, I findit increasingly difficult to sympathize with people who tolerate those conditions, especially when they're for specialized skills like game programming. The company can't replace an entire team, so if the entire team says no to unpaid overtime, the company is stuck doing what they want. Ergo, EA gets away with treating its employees like shit because their employees let the company do so.

A capitalist economy will ALWAYS culminate in a race to the bottom. That race won't end until somebody wins, and when somebody wins everyone loses. With capitalism unchecked there is no victory, and demise is only a matter of time.

Exchanging information with idiots isn't productive. Most staff in corporate IT are idiots, ergo exchanging information with them isn't worth the bother. Most of them use the remote work option to work perpetually anyway, which is proof that they're not actually any good.

The last place I worked at where a lot of folks worked remotely was a culture of work; these people wrote spaghetti code and worked constantly.

On my last telecommuting gig I had the option of working in an office without windows or at home with windows and cat in my lap. The laptop I got stuck with was crap, so it was inefficient to work with no matter where I did it. Hence I was more productive at home, not commuting.

Feckless implies unfortunate. These board members aren't feckless, they're incompetent and probably voting for CEOs who promise to share their golden umbrellas.

One theory I heard for why Uwe Boll continues to get hired to direct movies in spite of his spectacular record for making terrible films is that he's a great tax shelter. If you're the head of a production company and you hire out directors to make films (common), hiring Uwe Boll to make a film will almost certainly lead to a significant loss, and therefore mitigate your tax bill. Hence, Uwe Boll makes a lot of bad movies in spite of being a pretty lousy director.

"If global warming is real why go after the smallest contributor to global warming? But you can't answer that can you?" I can, but what would be the point?

I've done the math. Maybe you ought to give it a try sometime? That is of course assuming that you can handle even basic arithmetic...

Because the idiocracy has already won. That there are still people who claim that global warming is false is incontrovertible proof that the idiocracy has, through simple dint of numbers, defeated the intelligentsia and is dooming future generations to a world of hell and high water is now also a scientifically verifiable fact.