http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/telco-to-town-were-suing-you-because-we-care/

and even from slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/09/12/2326251/telco-sues-municipality-for-laying-their-own-fiber

They don't really need to assume that we are morons. We prove this every day, unfortunately:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/edward-snowden-poll_n_4175089.html

Kind, sensible people every day stand idle while sociopaths lie blatantly to their faces, because they want to believe so badly that these agencies behave like they do.

Same setup (new hire and entry level software engineer) basically. I only get to see my team in person every Tuesday and Thursday. We have email, jabber and phone for the other days. I think the same rules apply as any IRC channel - don't be afraid to own your ignorance, but make sure you have done a modicum of research before posting to your devel team listserv or pestering your coworkers with jabber texts in the middle of code-freeze or code-bash. Take it at face value and make incremental steps and get feedback.

If you do a little digging into the history of reactor design, you find out that there is already a working alternative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor

The problem is that a LFTR reactor doesn't give you all those great by-products for thermonuclear weapons.

During a low, poor period of my life I was working "seasonally" at an official job and doing under the table construction to help make up the slack. My bank at the time was Wells Fargo. Often I would have to go to the bank to cover checks that were going to bounce with cash. I would get there at bank open and deposit cash, a transaction that is supposed to post immediately. They would delay the posting of my cash deposit to business close to let the checks bounce and levy a $33 dollar fee. When I confronted them about this I was told to read the fine print of my agreement, which summed up to "We do what we want, so go pound sand."

They did have a pop up picture showing a hairstyle and makeup application designed to defeat facial recognition software. I would rather be ID'ed than wear the hairstyle, but the makeup pattern was kinda cool.

I wonder how much of it is the age thing vs completely cryptic HR screens. It was so much easier when I was in the public sector and the job announcement followed a strict form. You set your resume to answer every bullet point in the job description and if you hit all the checks it got past the mouth breathers and onto the desk of who would actually be hiring you. In the private sector, I've seen job announcements like that to cryptic touchy-feely bullshit like "Do you dream in DLL? Do you get a chubby writing device drivers?" Honestly. Spell out what the hell the job does and leave it at that. All my degree did was give me an understanding of the language of software engineering. It did absolutely nothing to prepare me for the reality (not to mention that the language of choice in uni was Java and now I'm in a QT/C++ house. Not exactly square one, but certainly not hit the ground running like an old crusty grey hair with no degree would do).

... is going to be killer.

He is a dick for pointing out that currently IN THE US the weather computing power is at 0.07 petaflops? What was he supposed to google? How about "Is is a dick move to point out the lack of computer weather prediction capacity in the US without providing a non-sequitur mention of UK computer weather prediction capacity?"

I think what he is saying is that in his case, it pretty much was a penile head removal. Read up on botched electro-cautery foreskin removal, where there are cases of doctors burning off way too much skin.

There are still a couple of Burma Shave signs along the 101 in Oregon, although doubtless put up as novelty...or never taken down?

why no mod points when the funny is brought?

Sort of like Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, you mean?

There are some Indians who would like to see that corporate veil pierced