there aren't cool glasses (X00X) in new year's eve. I'll use my modded 2009+1.

I don't live in the US but H1-B's are a subject that always put me into thinking.
I've been to the US from training (boeing/airbus) and for some months as a H1-B many years ago. I just wanted to learn english (which I barely do) and have some experience outside my country. Anyways, the wages paid were lower than the ones paid in my homecountry and the costs were about the same. The reason I got the H1-B was, beleive of not, because it was easier than a getting regular student visa by that time, and I needed some kind of interaction with americans to really learn something, the student visa wouldn't get me that, I would be in a group of foreigners. Everybody know there is no such thing as shortage of workers, companies are just using that to pay lower wages and be more competitive.
My point is, the US should just end the H1-B program, it is hurting not only american workers but also foreigners that are trying to have a better life in the US. But also, it should create some kind of short term, easy to get, "internship" for foreigners, just like other countries do. In my country, there are plenty of americans that come here just for a short period of time. Not for making money, it's just a knowledge enterprise.

It's just the way it is. Somehow, there are certain types of jobs that are more likelly to be filled with a specific gender. I beleive this is result of a extremely complex combination of education, genetics and culture.
I'm a pilot. In this job being a women will make your life extremely easier. There is a consensus in the industry that women are better at managing aircrafts systems. In my own experience, I'm sure that is very true. But, I'm also sure women often don't like the job of flying airplanes around. It's just a job for them. Maybe that's the reason women's landings are rougher on passengers. Maybe that's why women will never do something out of the manual, because it's just a job, they aren't even thinking, they are just machines doing what they are supposed to do. When they have to make decisions not covered by a manual they always ask others to decide from them. Usually the manual is right, so... women are in fact better pilots.
But if you do something because it's a job, someone else will do it for fun and much better than you.

I wonder if walls can protect castles of cards.

I'm filling this patent: any biological form that may create or solve problems with or without purpose, including any intelligent form that may file patents. Pay me my millions,no

It is true that Airbus airplanes are more dangerous than Boeing counterparts in general. But, if you take only airplanes with correct maintenance, Boeing airplanes are dangerous as Airbuses. The thing is, Airbus products are cheaper and that leads to cheap buyers, the end of the story you already know. Composite materials are a bad choice right now. It's very hard to evaluate fatige in the long run because they start to break from the inside out. Magnaflux and x-ray are not effective on composite materials and you would need one hell of MRI to really verify fatige in those parts. The 787 does not bring anything really new to the table besides high maintenance costs, honeywell has been selling similar avionics for years to embraer. Boeing had the chance to bring Airbus down and now it's taking a bite from Embraer and Bombardier on regional airplanes (737,3)

Nice! But... why?

Just adding: G forces does not mean much when not related to time. A human body can withstand 60Gs for a very short amount of time.

British?

I'm a pilot (A320 rating) and a software developer for a major brazilian airline. Unmaned aircrafts are remote controlled. Airbus and Boeing NG airplanes can, in fact, fly with almost no human intervention. But they only do that with very very specific scenarios and cannot solve any situation that is not predicted. In fact, there is no auto-pilot in the market right now that can keep a plane flying with 26kts+ of wind, it cannot predict the wind movement because it just can't learn how the wind gusts are behaving. 26kts winds are nothing, any private pilot can land a cessna skylane with that situation. IRS systems fail, VOR/NDB usually fail, ILS also. It is NOTuncommon to a pilot land a plane "tech-blind". That's just a simple scenario, there are thousands of situations where learning stuff on the spot is required. There is no computer in the market right now that can predict a wind-shear, thing that barely experienced pilots can. Students try to make a car drive by itself and that thing usually is too slow, unreliable, and just do wrong things. It will take decades of AI development to make a computer actually fly an airplane. Yes, I'm a A320 pilot and software developer, if you are too skeptical I can send my code you can check on ANAC website (FAA-like in brazil).

I think the world should let them alone, along with Israel, North Korea, etc. The more attention they get, more they want. They will change their minds after 3 days of nuking each other.

People only have what they deserve. It is very harsh, I know. But, the more attention the world give them all, more they threat to kill each other. It is time to let them do whatever they want and kill themselves.

Those actions turn the US into a less competitive country and will not stop people from having cell phones, software, etc wherever they live. I don't think Nokia cares very much about federal contracts right now.

It would be worse. It would be easier to negotiate votes (read: buy votes). It would turn churches, unions, etc into parties.

I've posted over 10 times this same thing here in this thread. Documents signed with A3 certificates cannot be hacked, cannot be faked. SSL mutual authentication with this same certificate cannot be sniffed. I still can't beleive people really think that pieces of paper are safer than this.