People who study art history create things like Star Wars, Jazz, Bioshock, the Muppets and the Avengers.

Those things inspire other human beings to create things like spaceflight, Pro Audio, VR headsets, CG Animation and robotics.

Nobody pays for games unless they're forced to, and there are only about six companies that can force people to pay for games, so the industry is fucked.

Writers don't work for free, and programmers can't write, so it doesn't matter if the story matters or not.

After they uproot their families, leave their friends behind and start over, MAYBE they'll find new work... ...at Home Depot.

Ironic use of the word "hungry." Not going to matter to you obviously until you feel the pain of losing a home and watch your kids say goodbye to all their friends and have to travel 1100 miles for a pay cut. The fuck do you care, right? You're a fucking hero of the free market, aren't you?

One thing these threads always do is bring out the cunts.

Hey look, everyone! Someone came up with a new idea that might advance science and Slashdot immediately claims it will never work!

How far up your ass did you reach to pull "half the energy is lost on the way down" out and try to sell it as fact?

These are the same people who get their underwear all in a wedge when other people criticize science or oppose scientific advances.

Scientism followers are self-congratulatory fundamentalist paranoid hypocrites.

Let the layoffs begin.

I'm sure the middle managers are already sorting their lists by who most recently closed on a house or who has a pregnant wife.

They'll save a few for the week before Christmas too, of course.

I thought the iPad was going to replace the PC and usher in a new era of technological wonders?

Or maybe it was just a load of shit.

Bandwidth is not scarce.

DRM is there because if it wasn't, anyone who makes their living writing, composing, programming, making videos or anything else viewable on a screen would be destroyed financially while everything they make is pirated from hell to breakfast.

You know why Steam makes millions? DRM
Why World of Warcraft makes billions? DRM
Why Amazon sells a shitload of ebooks? DRM
Why Netflix works at all? DRM
Why Adobe can make $6000 worth of software available for $50 a month? DRM

The industry would be happy to remove DRM, but the Internet culture will never abandon piracy.

So there you have it. Don't want it? Don't buy it.

At least they are trying to employ Americans. I'll believe it when I see it, though.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they brought cargo ships full of Chinese teenagers to work every morning and shipped them home at night.

That's the stupidest fucking thing anyone has ever said.

At least he admitted their bullshit interview questions were designed to make the interviewer feel important and were a complete waste of time.

Sounds like Google is getting a head start on making everything else at their company a waste of time. Maybe they'll hire some grownups someday who have some respect for other people's educations.

Hey Laszlo. There are indie romance novelists who make more than in a month than you make in a year. English degrees produce billionaires. The only people who become billionaires in computers are dropouts.

Now go back to your meeting.

The federal government has no legal authority to require brewers to dispose of edible by-products and not feed them to livestock.

In fact, under the 10th amendment, they are specifically prohibited by law from doing so.

Their "reasoning" is immaterial.

This article makes it sound like the inability to afford food ends when you graduate.

But then grocery stores that gouge customers who don't have club cards or that charge confiscatory prices for food that is so plentiful we pay farmers not to grow it is a subject very much like liquor stores in poor neighborhoods.

You're not allowed to talk about it.

I don't fear the military. I fear a population led to believe the Federal government has the authority it claims to have.

Sounds like we agree. So how about you get off my leg and start directing your outrage where it belongs?

There is an argument to make. The Second Amendment is there to protect the people against all enemies: foreign and domestic. If the Second Amendment is repealed, abridged, modified or otherwise tampered with, it weakens the nation against those enemies.

You can spout all the hyperbole you want, it doesn't change the reality of the situation: that if all other rights are taken from us, by stupidity or surrender, the Second Amendment is the last line before Americans start getting herded into railroad cars.

And that's not going to happen on my watch.

That clear enough for you, or do I need to use charts and graphs and an easel?

Yeah, we can.

You can if the theater is on fire.

Because the Second Amendment says they can.

Guns are for defense: of the individual, the neighborhood and the nation. You will never disarm the United States. It cannot be done by any power on, under, over or in orbit around this planet.

Find something better to do with your time.

Why don't you have them manufactured by robots, then you can put the rest of the microscope business on the street too?