Depending on where you live, you may be more valuable to the economy as a prisoner. For example, the US national average wage for 2011 is about $43,000, whereas California currently spends about $50,000 per prisoner.

What with all the money we're in the hole, why hasn't anyone yet brought up the possibility of taxing religious organizations?

I'm sure they'd like to help.

Yontoo has been around already, and not just @ Macs. I recently removed it from a Windows 7 PC. The uninstaller does not uninstall (shock!) ... one needs to remove registry keys to prevent this thing from sticking itself into Chrome, IE, etc. Spybot will find it well before Norton and others.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2073476&cid=35746630

Yeah, I guess you are right - using data to validate / not a testable hypothesis, over and over again, that's not *actual* science.

Fail. An Economist is, in fact, a scientist.

Humanity doesn't survive without greed.

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Where was god sitting when he created everything, including himself?
Where was the primeval atom sitting when it created everything, including itself?

I have asked both types of people, and they both give me the same hand-wavey answer.

hulu.com is 32% the property of NBCUniversal, which is now 100% the property of Com-crap. Sorry, pard-ner.

I fed the troll and became a troll for it ... man oh man!

Correct:

IICV: Is it fun to live your life as a completely ignorant, mean-spirited fucking prick?

Here's a hint: You don't always have to win, and you don't always have to be the smartest kid in the room. No go place nice with your little sister.

The problem is, I work in a language because someone pays me to do that. $BIGCO_X isn't gonna pay me to work in $NONBIGLANGUAGE. So no, Java isn't going away, and yes, that's because of my first point, which totally validates your final point :)

gar!
(S)he's ... etc ...

S(h)e's a 'coward'? Where's your name in this post?

Look at the etymology of the word 'testimony'.