Another example of U.S. extraterritorial laws deals with Cuban cigars. If you're an american, you can't smoke a Cuban, even in another country. The penalties for an individual -- you can get fined up to $250k and spend 10 years in prison.

somebody mod parent up. He nailed it.
That VB6 is so horrid alone justifies .net

And that explains all the businesses running IE6. Ah business people.....

subsidies, corporate welfare

Social Security will never be self sustaining. Ponzi schemes never are.

1) It's pretty obvious that you're signing your soul away. I signed one of these myself, but they're not valid in Minnesota. A number of states don't allow this. California is another one where even if you sign something like this, it cannot be enforced.

So many companies do this. If you're not in a state where it's unenforceable, the only leverage you have is starting your own company. Which I encourage, and when you all do do that, don't make your employees sign contracts like this.

Not if Ron Paul gets voted in as president

Those assholes!! Can they do that? I'd sue the f*ckers

The S in SD means "Secure", for which DRM is an acronym. Fixed it :-)

So true. Minnesota is owned by Microsoft. A few java places.....some, very very few linux places.....lots of M$. M$ up the A$$

I thought it was because there were so many changes happening behind closed doors and nobody really knew what they were voting for. Or as Pelosi said (paraphrased) "In order to know what this healthcare bill does, we have to pass it". They don't even read the shit they pass.

bare necessities could be tax exempt. No sales tax on food, some clothing, etc. That would solve that problem.

"To block botnet-infected computers from connecting to the Internet. Under the proposal, PCs would be issued a 'health certificate' that showed whether the system was fully patched, that it was running security software and a firewall, and that it was malware-free. Machines with deficiencies would require patching or an antivirus update, while bot-infected PCs might be barred from the Internet."

I'm sure the machine will have to run windows to get the health certificate.

not if the conspiracies are real.

that's the same conclusion I came to as well and I'm glad I didn't get hired.

It's good to hear it from somebody else though -- thanks :-D