Maybe not the beef you eat but the beef I get from a farmer who is a family friend eats mostly alfalfa either fresh or silage with some leftovers from a near by craft brewery. With fresh alfalfa you have to be careful because the cattle will gorge themselves on it and then you get to deal with the after effects. Then again the farmer who I get beef from wands to produce a quality product at a fair price for his small but loyal customer base.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
-Denis Leary

You're just not using the right kind of laser. Why bother with a laser that puts out a few miliwatts to a few watts when you can get one that operates in the multi KW range.

Had a similar experience with my grandmother several years back. She is going to turn 93 this year, and is willing to learn new things which seems to be more of the key than anything else. The only uses of the computer for her was browsing the internet to look up information, sending e-mail, and printing pictures so the switch wasn't painful at all especially since she was using an internet e-mail provider already. My mother on the other hand still longs for the days of the family's old Apple II C+ which wasn't all that good when we got it.

Now you made it so I need to make another purchase. Another series I got a while back was the old black and white Addams Family, which has aged fairly well even if it isn't as dark as the comics, or movies, it is still good.

Because I remember watching graphics load line by line and that sucked.

Even better would be a pre 1895 Mosin-Nagent.

How so? I dispose of old hard drives that way with my Finnish M39 and will go through that many rounds or more in an afternoon.

The way to avoid getting busted for having a coffee maker in your office is to put the coffee maker in an old computer case and run the plug out the back. One of my foreign coworkers has this setup in the server room he works in and in the 6 years I have known him no one in management or facilities maintenance has found it and no one else in the office will turn him in as they have started doing the same thing.

I don't think you understand any good god fearing red blooded American is all for porn, just so long as it isn't any stranger than what they look at.

Still sounds like a good weekend to me.

Personally I would be fine with H1Bs, but since we are told that these companies absolutely need these people that an imported H1B individual is the highest compensated person in the company. This means total compensation, not just salary, and include the magic golden parachute, stock options, relocation expense, housing expense, etc. These companies obviously needs to import this individual since they couldn't find a US citizen at any cost and this position is so critical to the company that this person is so critical to day to day operations that they can't afford the time to train someone to do it so they must be worth more to the company than any one else in the company including those on the board.

Also I don't buy the shortage issue since if there were a shortage then wages would be going up compared to inflation instead of keeping pace or dropping.

Sounds like you know one of my coworkers (CISSP holder) who looks at me like a deer in headlight when I ask a simple yes or no question. A perfect example of this was the other day when I asked if he has that hardened RHEL 6.5 server disk ready that he should have been working on and after the long deer in headlights pause I got an explanation on why installing 6.4 and running an update is a better plan.

That is entirely possible I didn't see it that way, but then there are probably a number of valid interpretations of things.

I think you may have just found a logically coherent reason for me to be against this legislation and I like it. Lets take the common cited example and law suit that started this of a photographer not wanting to do a gay wedding because of religious objections. Lets re-frame the scenario as there was a photographer not wanting to to do a sinners (in the eyes of their religion they were sinners) wedding because of religious objections.

Now we can have a reasonable discussion about the issue so time to think aloud. If the photographer was consistent in only photographing people who were not living in his religion's view of sin and rejecting all others because of religious objections I would probably be willing to support that. But since the photographer's religion probably has rules about unmarried cohabitation, premarital sex, consumption of shell fish, are of a different religion, etc. and the photographer has done work for those sinners it see that their argument is much weaker. Also we already have laws preventing discrimination based off of religion, which at this point the photographer probably has fallen afoul of.