Cheese mining technology will seriously take off once we establish a moon base.

Don't trust anyone under 30?

Indeed who are these 'hippies' and other people living work free off the largess of others? I look around and I see a soon to be permanent underclass working 60 hours a week at 2 part time jobs.

We can't have our British friends closing the obesity gap.
Everyone waddle down to Golden Corral right now!!

What the fuck is this?

No, because I would be careful with placing the duct tape.

So Oracle then?

2008 - Three years of being dramatically underpaid for doing software engineering for an extremely complex and custom monitoring framework for a fortune 50 company. They never were able to hire any additional engineers because the skill sets were never there to hire and they didn't want to take the time to train anyone up like they did for me. You'd think they realize that even a token raise might be in order, but no.

2009 - working at a new company, making 30% more doing simple web programming and much happier with life until eight months later when the new company downsizes and all but the most senior IT people are cut.

2010 - After seven months unemployment, back at the same fortune 50 company, but a completely different department doing system admin automation for almost what I was making doing web programming. Then a year later an unexpected pay raise kicks me up over past what my last job paid. Reward for my diligent efforts at my new job? No -- the company had been losing talent to another large company that set up new IT operations in the area and they wanted to keep who they still had. A lucky spin on the IT wheel of fortune I guess.

2011 - My wife decides to retire from the University after 34 years. A reorganization of her entire division(Mainframe operations) is kicking her down to a poorly trained help desk monkey. Hand writing is on the wall -- those who can leave. I like having her at home, but now it's a single income household as we are saving the bulk of her retirement savings until we need it and spending the rest on paying off the house and making large improvements. Now I am feeling good about being a loser who didn't trade up in the housing boom. Money is tight and we have to coordinate our spending with each other for the first time.

2012 - More of the same. Some money saved and invested - waiting for the RIF hammer to drop. Doubtful it will occur this year or next, but can never feel safe from it. Part of this anxiety comes from other downsizings I went through previous to 2008, but then we always had her job to fall back on. I'm working on some outside programming projects that could be monetized, but finding the time is difficult. I think I have to go this route because when they decide to get rid of the old men, I'm not going to have the same retirement balance my wife had.
      I'm 43 and the youngest of my coworkers. Again, they don't want to hire anyone who isn't going to be immediately productive. I shudder to think where they think they are going to find my replacement if they aren't ever going to train anyone up. But I'm sure on paper it looks like no problem at all.

I remember watching him using scare tactics to convince his audience that food shortages were immenient and everyone should rush out and buy 20 pound bags of rice. A shortage of rice(really a price increase) in the international market was in the news that week because the typical exporters of rice were keeping more of their output for domestic consumption that year. That was in 2008. I hope grandpa and uncle fred like 4 year old rancid rice.

My first consideration in either using FOSS or buying closed software is to take a look at the documentation.
I have enough dirt for my hands working on my own project, I don't have enough time to sift through manure.

Second on that from experience.

I can't speak for the other cities, but there is nothing overly restrictive about the gun owenerships laws in Detroit or the state of Michigan. Open carry is allowed assuming the gun is registered and CCW is legal after taking the course and the background check. The people of Detroit do often keep guns in their house because they know the police are not going to show up in any reasonable amount of time, if at all.

Just because the city is a shit hole, don't assume the reason for that is one that fits your ideological bias.

I think the current zombie trend is about venting all the accumulated fear of biological warfare that accumulated immediately after 9/11. Also some of the climate change or genetic engineering fear - notice the cause of the zombies is no longer Black Magic, Satanic or End of Days, but now biological. At least for the well adjusted folk.
And for the not so well adjusted, I have to agree there is the thrill of unfettered killing of 'the others'.

Rule 34 strikes again!!

That was my first thought as well. I'm married to an incest and childhood rape survivor (and yes 'survivor' is the appropriate word here) and a lot of her therapy included extremely graphic written descriptions and drawings of the things that she went through. It brings it out into the open as something that really happened, rather than 'bad things happened, but we don't talk about'.
Who is to decided what the intent of any writing is? I'm sure some pedos would get off on her therapy art. Do we really want to jail people for getting better, rather than keeping it all in and self destructing? Just to keep a pedo from getting a boner and MAYBE doing something?