Thank you!

A friend of mine worked on Wall Street and said that her firm had a guy at the fed whom they slipped bribes to in exchange for information about the interest rates. Apparently this is widespread.

Why doesn't China open up their mission control to western reporters during their missions? This is same paranoid crap the Soviet Union pulled. I am sure that they would also do the Soviet thing of only announcing their missions only if they were successful, but they cannot get away with it. Time to get out of the dark ages China; enough of this 1984 crap.

Just because you are a foul-mouthed cretin does not make you right. I know that Clinton is a god to you, but he was just another corrupt pol (and rapist also). From the Washington Post, hardly a leftist org (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/loral053198.htm): "Yet early this year, despite expressions of concern from the Justice Department, President Clinton gave the company permission to launch another satellite in China."

No, because you are a shill for China. Why? Ideology? Nationality? Since when has China earned the benefit of the doubt in its actions in Tibet? Let the free press into Tibet and open up the internet in China....

Who run the Forest Service.... not more embarassing photos of stump fields...

Oh yes they are most definitely assholes about Tibet and they are so paranoid about the free press that they have dopes like oodaloop do their bidding on social media. This is like saying that the Soviet Union had to take over Poland and Baltic states for their own protection... Read Seven Years in Tibet to find about the genocide of the Tibetian people....

Like they have for almost all their other space technology....except for the sleazy Loral Systems deal where they paid off US politicians to get the tech.

As yes the 35 million dollar space toilet on the ISS

Not, Attorney Robert Swearingen What a dream come true for the Ambulance Chasers...

And played more golf than any other President. Persecuting whistleblowers is hard work. I love how the state-run media (i.e. all the US media) let's him get away with almost anything.

And we lapped it up....

I wish! It was a great language, but it was killed for political reasons by the C / C++ Nazi's

especially if it makes the code unreadable. Give me the verbose, easy to read code any time. If you really, really want succinctness, use Perl or even better, APL and don't worry about the next poor slob who has to maintain your code.

If you are still interested in academics at all, check into some post docs or professorships. Otherwise, try to brush up your C++ and anything else which might look interesting and in demand. More and more I would discourage anyone from expecting any concrete advantages from advance degrees, particularly in computer applications.