You tinfoil hatters disgust me. When something bad happens, it's always a Emperial plot here, Bene Gesserit there. Why don't you just accept that the most plausible reason for this can be explained with short term greed and house rivalry.

A good first step towards achieving this is ensuring that higher education is available for everyone with the required aptitude in a society. Increase in the cost of education coupled with stagnant wages has ensured that a good education is only viable for a relatively small elite and people willing to live a life of indentured servitude after finishing up your degree.

Though I'll probably be branded a commie or socialist for even suggesting this by some.

That should be:

FTL travel, or even FTL communication, is forbidden by our current understanding of the laws of physics

Yes, looking up error codes in in a manual. That brings be back to the 90s.

Those bits of software were completely modular and could be fixed separately from anything else running on the host. The point was that with Systemd you don't have that luxury, you have to replace the whole kitchen sink.

Indeed, and see how Solaris is doing now. Those changes were the main reason a lot of shops replaced their Solaris kit with Linux in the first place

Right here with you!

This is indeed how the game is played...

If I even have to explain this, then you really don't have a clue what's really going on in board rooms.

Not living in the US myself, but I thought the US government was telling everyone that the US economy was doing great?

Can someone on Slashdot, who's actually living and working in the US, paint a picture without the government propaganda?

There are strip clubs that accept amex?

The management responsible for these layoffs don't care that much if they're out of a job. Every C-level manager only has to work 1 year after which they could afford never to have to work a day in their life.

People below that... not so much.

When Carly was CEO at HP, she had a 4 million dollar salary and at some point she gave herself a 16 million dollar bonus for saving lots of money (almost all HP employees waived 1 day's worth of salary at Carly's request just a few month's before she gave herself that bonus).

The current HP CEO on the other hand already has a 16 million dollar salary package. If HP goes tits up tomorrow, she's really not going to lose any sleep over it.

Don't worry, if you get hacked, the US government will always trace it back to 'North Korea' or 'Cyber ISIL'.

Only during the embargo the estimate was the 500,000 children died in Iraq, because of it. Madeline Albright thought it was totally 'worth it' though. I presume you know how to use Google if you don't believe me, then come back to me and tell me the estimate of 150,000 people killed during a much more violent period is too high.

You're coming up with too many inconvenient facts that take the steam out of his arguments.

Cold fjord is quite likely working in psy-ops and the only reason he puts in his signature is because it's supposed to rile up people, which is convenient to further his cause, while I sure that he's the type of person who would have favoured 'freedom fries' over 'french fries' not too long ago.