A quick google search reveals the average manufacturing job in China pays $134 per month. It has little to do with laziness or stupid jobs, its simple economics.

The economics of the situation extends far beyond wages. Taxes, energy, distribution, and construction costs name a few. But perhaps the greatest cost to manufacture in America is the opportunity-lost-cost. If environmental regulations mean you have to wait months or even years to build a factory in America when you can break ground in China tomorrow, the decision on where manufacturing jobs go has already been made.

... & become the law of the land?

Mod parent up!

When the FCC redefined its own role by implementing the so-called Net Neutality rules, it did an end run around America's official representatives in Congress. As the OP noted, the courts have already ruled against a Federal bureaucracy assuming powers it can only be granted by the legislature. This veto, if there is one, can only be framed as Obama & the bureaucratic machine against the courts, the legislature, and the rule of law.

When the FCC redefined its own role by implementing the so-called Net Neutality rules, it did an end run around America's official representatives in Congress. As the OP noted, the courts have already ruled against a Federal bureaucracy assuming powers it can only be granted by the legislature. This veto, if there is one, can only be framed as Obama & the bureaucratic machine against the courts, the legislature, and the rule of law.

If an H1-B visa guy has your job in the electronics industry, where else is an engineer to go?

I just bought one of those for $229.99! I guess I should have known no sooner than I had installed the drive, Intel would come out with a brand new SSD and everything would be cheaper. Also OS X 10.7 with TRIM support is just around the corner. Oh well. This wasn't my first run-in with premature acquisition, and it probably won't be my last.

That there is warming may be your position. But that is not the position of the people being discussed.

Global Warming Theory espouses that not only is there some warming, but that man is the primary culprit in that warming, therefore a political dimension must be enacted to reign in man and his destructive habits. At this point "the science" around the AGW argument is largely found to be an exercise in confirmation bias (the subject of this thread).

In effect governments of the world have latched onto this warming idea and paid billions of dollars for "studies" that will justify their control of trillions of dollars. This cash and this motivation are at center of the pseudoscience bubble that's about to pop.

*cough* *cough* *cah--bullsh1T1* *cahm-plete bullsh1T* *cough*

These smaller form factors are overdue. Tower PCs the size of a labrador retriever are 90's technology.

True. But after 10 years of OS X, XP looks like something from the 90's.

Ironic how The Peoples' Republic of America has been found "ungovernable" and surprise, surprise: the answer is governing at the STATE level! It's almost as if this guy is channelling the Founders.

Apparently that wasn't the case in the 20th century.

Some would say we're still fighting the American Revolutionary War in 2010.

Few people realize it today, but the colonies were split right down the middle on revolution. Half wanted freedom and the America form of government, and the others were okay to go along with Britain and whatever Europe was doing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It's called Grand Central Dispatch.

Like England is? Last I looked, they were a pretty secular, post-xian society

Yet to this very day, England continues to have an official state religion. And interestingly enough, Connecticut & Massachusetts also had state religions.

Texas and Alaska however...