To make sure all of the intelligent people are accounted for.

In one of the images (#11) in the article you can see screenshot of the "Automatic Inspection" software. It says that the defect rate is over 1%, i.e. for 150,000 units it should have been more than 1,500 defective units. Of course, they did mention that it was "shipped" units they were bragging about.

Do you really want to be a judge that sided with an accused child porn user? That will ruin your career no matter who is right or wrong.

The guy who failed to wipe the computer probably got a new promotion, precisely because of his highly valuable skill of not being able to wipe a computer while saying he did it.

Easy-peasy! If you use more bandwidth than a grandma checking emails, then you are a dirty pirate!

Here's direct link to TED's video on YouTube, so that you don't have to navigate maze on all these articles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MKXjjpZqZwU

In the end you will have to carry more than one card plus cash, because you cannot predict what payment method you will need, since not all merchants will accept your universal card, whatever card it might be, and not all merchants accept cards (thus the need for cash).

Every time I go to a gas station I hope that what you said was a reality. Apparently lawyers are not very good with math and while prohibiting surcharges they are still allowing discounts, e.g. you can't ask customers to pay extra 10 cents for using credit card but you can charge "everyone" 10 cents "extra" and give 10 cents discount for cash payments.

I was not familiar with the term and had to look it up. Here's the link for the lazy

From the Wikipedia article:

I also thought "Tesla" and imagined the old beautiful and sexy designs they used to have. All of the current lineup now just looks plain ugly. They should have fired their old designed several years ago and never hired any replacement, so that current models could have benefited from the old beautiful design.

Have you read the article you linked? It pretty much says the same thing:

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How is this different from FBI shutting child pornography websites, or taking over DNS records of websites that infringe copyrights? I am not saying that what Russians are doing is right, but lets not forget that we already have the same system and laws in place over here.

As for "save the children" argument that Russians used, I believe pretty much the same argument was used to give US law enforcement power to prosecute child pornography cases. It is hard to argue that government had some other intentions, but if it Russians...then of course they have to be different and have to have an ulterior motive.

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Cost of studying has nothing to do with lower wages that H1-B workers are getting.

I was a foreign worker. I got my undergraduate and graduate degrees in US. I am going to go ahead and claim my education costs were higher than that of an average American.

All of the tuition had to be out-of-state tuition, since foreign students can never qualify for in-state tuition. I had no access to government loans or grants. Vast majority of scholarships were not accessible to me even with 4.0 GPA. I had no family or friends to fall back onto, and due to that my out of pocket costs were higher.

In the end, my wages still were lower, because when an H1-B worker can't say "I quit" as easily as an American. Under the H1-B rules after you quit or get fired you have 10 days to get out of the country. That 10 day grace period might still be used against you even if you are lucky and find another job and process all the paperwork in time.

I used to work as an H1-B worker. I 100% agree that the work visa program lowers wages and steals jobs from Americans.

From my personal experience I know, that if I was not dependent on my employer I would have asked for higher than the market pay rate, rather than take lower than the market rate. However, since US government "helped", none of the companies I worked for had to offer proper wages to job applicants. I have seen many tailored job postings that were not really looking for applicants, but were posted only to fulfill requirements set forth by the government. Prevailing wage analysis and numbers that come out from that are mostly irrelevant and do not have to be lower than the wage being paid to the H1-B worker. My approved green card application had much higher wage than I was/am getting.

The program does not protect American workers at all. I used to hate H1-B due to somewhat slave labor legal conditions associated with it, but now that I am almost a citizen, I hate it because in its current state it does not benefit Americans and actually harms them.

Another things worth mentioning, although many people apply for green card after being on H1-B, the work visa is not considered to be a proper path to citizenship by US government. Partially due to this, none of the experience gained while working on H1-B can be used in green card application to prove that person is an asset to the company or to the country.