Admittedly, the Democrats basically had about 9 months (out of 6 year Senatorial terms and 2-year Representative terms in a 4-year Presidential term) when they actually controlled enough seats in both the House and the Senate to pass their agenda over the filibusters (which have become routine, against all prior wish and Constitutional intent) of the Republican minority. So blaming Republicans for their open and professed obstruction tactics makes a lot of good sense, actually.

Now, whether the Democratic agenda really would have helped the country all that much, that's another question. Personally, I feel like having the center-right in power instead of the far-right isn't much of an accomplishment.

That has an easy fix: just require a living wage for everyone employed full-time, as compensation for the fact that a full-time worker can't afford the time to just get another job.

I'm not saying you personally should stay in debt. I'm saying we need to fix our damned currency system. If I can only make an honest living because the public sphere is going ever-deeper into debt to create the cash I'm paid in... that's a problem.

The problem is that paying down debts now deflates the currency. The principal you pay back vanishes in a puff of smoke as it meets the promissory note and annihilates.

To quote a popular Slashdot sig, "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization."

I don't know any programmers who use those. Try LinkedIn, Indeed, and Dice.

If people in San Francisco are asking $140k/year for entry-level software engineering, perhaps it's because you can't pay rent on a decent place to live in San Francisco with a lower salary than that. I suggest you simply move your business out of San Francisco, to the rest of the country where median pay for software engineers overall is $90k/year, median pay for entry-level if $65k/year, and people can actually live on those salaries.

Welcome to capitalism. Why are we still stuck here?

Getting to see the Q cast as a troll-villain is why grown men watch "My Little Pony".

That's just San Francisco pricing for you. Where I lived in Cambridge, MA, it was cheaper to grab a falafel or an Indian buffet for lunch than a hamburger. Well, actually, they cost about the same (the falafel a bit less, the Indian a bit more), but the falafel and Indian buffet were accurately priced for what you received, whereas $7.50 for a hamburger was just yuppie-hipster pricing.

We used to have an on-campus computer lab for Computer Science students to do homework on here. There were student computer monitors hired to administrate it every year.

Then the budget got cut.

I have often been contacted via email by correspondents under the misguided impression that I am an Italian author and/or an Israeli public intellectual. I am not sure if these two are the same man, but I know from childhood that someone with my name once won some kind of prestigious prize for his fiction writing (was it a Pulitzer? I don't remember).

For the record, I'm the computer programmer by this name from Northeastern America.

They'll annihilate each other, leaving you with nothing but a piece of bread.

Kids these days... I blame parents! Damn feminism, dad isn't being manly enough. D:{ /sarcasm

"There's too much making your own entertainment now. When I was a lass we didn't make our own entertainment. We didn't have the time." -- Granny Weatherwax