I think the real agenda is to turn scientific and engineering careers (and their usually* higher than average level of pay) into far more common cookie-cutter, factory-worker style 'technicians'. The goal: techs being paid far-far less than the BS crowd, and the real world pay falling as more and more H1-B folks are brought in to suppress wages even further.

The absolute destruction of unions (yes, they were never perfect, but...) and the 'Walmarting' of tech jobs all done to bring about Gilded Age 2.0.



* - I do hold out desperate, in-denial hope that the only ones that answer engineering salary surveys are boastful liars in the highest cost of living areas of the US.

In that vein, I see no need to boycott clothing produced in Viet Nam. That war was over long ago.

The war that the Vietnamese refer to as The American War.

Jobs touting the Humanities when he was far less humane to his low-level employees (perhaps sealing his Karmic fate).

"Ivan Gotyaovich" Hmm. 'Gotcha' to his friends, perhaps?

Mark Wilson writes Edward Snowden is heralded as both a hero and villain. A privacy vigilante and a traitor. It just depends who you ask.

Such as the jailers instead of the prisoners?

When I left a job I had my lawyer review the non-compete.

Then I doubt it was working in a warehouse, was it?

Man, I hated that class. One equation taking up half a page, with the audacity of including an error range of +/- 500%

This is going to be great for people in rural areas, developing countries, and others who otherwise would remain hostages to the poor reliability and high latency of radio and satellite internet.

Zuckbook will never give us great unwashed unfettered Internet access, but only a one way trip into the bidding paddock for advertisers to assess us - the product - a monetary value.

And to think FB will not be vending everyone out to all the state security organs of the world for 30 Ag is utter cluelessness.

The one problem with their method is that it can only detect overflows in one direction

and that one of the modules has already dropped out.

I know several airline pilots, they are told to fly even when they are very tired or when sick.

And how many of them are Germans working in the Eurozone? Just because Corporate America willingly puts profits ahead of people's lives, doesn't mean it's universal behavior.

Maybe Jezza finally did go too far, but the Beeb (and BBC America) will deeply rue this decision financially, and the 'victim' will go down in history being about as popular as this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident

Greenwald is right. Had even one of his parents been of Middle Eastern origin, the state organs of security and the corporate media would be shouting "Terrorist!!". But since he's German (read: White), the 'T' word isn't even uttered, just mental illness.