Here's to hoping they don't find any oil there, given the earthquakes it's caused in OK.

I wonder what is coming next, hiring good 'ol Carly Fiorina as "Chief Vision Officer" or something like that? I'm sure that'd improve morale greatly. That worked out so well for HP. (Not that their subsequent two CEO's were much of an improvement...)

Where do CEO's learn to talk like this? Weren't they ever front-line employees who rolled their eyes at the exec-speak? (Judging from the breathless and sycophantic comments I see posted on my company's intranet to every word from our Fearless Leaders, I'd say no.)

This deal is good for some people, not good for others. If you think it'll work for you, sign up, if you don't, then don't. It seems more than a bit of a stretch to proclaim that the plan is a colossal failure because it does not meet your particular needs.

For somebody regularly near Wi-Fi (and therefore a low user of data), it's a pretty good plan, with only $20/mo for the unlimited T&T, and data that is reasonably priced if you don't use that much of it.

Firstly, nobody is prosecuted for discrimination. Discrimination is not enforced by criminal law; it's enforced by civil ones. You are sued, not prosecuted, for violating them.

Please go back in time, and ask black Americans their view on the matter before such practices were outlawed. Ask some women how harmless it is to get paid less than men for the same job.

By no means are things hunky-dory today, but they are indisputably much better than they used to be. You certainly can't change attitudes through laws, but when attitudes keep people from wanting to do the right thing, laws certainly nudge them to do it anyway.

If you are an immigrant, you are going to choose a place because it's less-bad than the one you came from. That doesn't mean that they deserve to be taken advantage of simply because it's possible. I'm pretty sure that if those Indians in Dubai could find a job in say, Europe, doing the same work for the same pay, they'd certainly choose to go there.

I would have thought that in every state with a lottery, lottery employees and their immediate family are simply prohibited from playing. (And close friends get really intense scrutiny.)

Timothy, that was some pretty lame and obvious political axe-grinding there... and completely off-topic from both the summary and the article.

The Federal Trade Commission, by it's very nature, regulates trade (as in, private businesses.)

The TSA and IRS are completely out-of-scope of their jurisdiction. (This kind of role is usually handled by the GAO.)

If this isn't a paid placement, it might as well be, given how it's completely void of any editorial content. If it was an actual review, it'd be marginal, but it's just a regurgitated re-hash of the spec-sheet and press release.

The defense, in their opening statement, admitted the defendant committed the crime. A trial to determine his guilt was merely a formality leading up to the penalty phase. Everybody, including the prosecution, defense (and presumably the defendant), and the judge all understood this. But it must be a slow news day, as every media outlet is making this out to be a big deal.

I'm not on Facebook. I've just never felt the desire to keep up with what dimly remembered friends from High School and College are doing (the last time I peeked in, there was some post about how so-and-so was quitting the 20-yr high school reunion committee because of all the drama... seriously? Who still has high-school era drama 20 years later?), and I see all my current friends often enough that there's really not a need.

If I was applying for a job, I suppose I'd build a profile on LinkedIn, but I'm not, so I haven't.

It's a total fallacy to assume that a humanities degree is somehow inherently easier to earn than a STEM degree. Certainly some colleges have some lousy humanities programs that aren't worthy of calling a "college education", and the same is also true for some STEM programs. Each school has different strengths. A skilled humanities professor certainly has a decent B.S. detector, just like a skilled STEM professor knows how to write test questions where memorizing formulas and review questions won't save you.

"Reading some books and watching some videos" is no more a complete substitute for a proper liberal arts or humanities class than doing the same in a proper course of STEM study would be.

SirWired's Career Axiom: "Money can't buy happiness, but happiness can't buy anything."

I'm all for "following your passion" when picking your major, but while you are in college, you need to be angling your courses some general direction towards figuring out how to make a living afterwards. This is especially relevant if you've picked a major without ready quantities of employment directly related to your major. Doubly relevant if your "dream career" involves hitting the proverbial rare jackpot like becoming a music/acting/art/literature/dance star.

Most programs outside STEM have ample elective slots that can be used to "fill-out" your transcript with things like business skills, a smattering of technology, etc.

Heck, most STEM grads would be well-served by shoehorning things like writing classes, business classes, etc., although this is more difficult, due to the reduced elective slots.

And occasionally somebody proposes a space elevator too (which, based on current technologies, is only slightly more infeasible.)

The economic benefits of such a road would be minimal. Seriously, somehow transporting goods from Russia to the US via truck, (but only during the parts of the year when the road isn't blocked due to snow) is supposed to make sense, when we have perfectly good trains and container ships that can do the job just as quickly for far less money?

This makes the fanciful "Hyperloop" project look like a cost-effective means of transportation in comparison. That takes talent.

I don't see why "the community" would be upset about IBM developing a Blockchain-based system of their own to sell to governments. Did they really think the idea would never be used by anybody but crypto-anarchists?

And I thought that under the crypto-anarchist ethos, people were free to seek profit in any means they saw fit. Does that somehow not apply to large companies?

A placebo is, by definition, a "sham" treatment, whether it be a drug, surgery, meditation technique, whatever.

Using the currently-accepted treatment is not, by definition, a placebo. I don't know how you can say it "isn't substantially different".

Control-groups MAY use a placebo, but there are many other ways of creating a control group. (Using the currently accepted treatment, drawing on statistics from a sample population, etc.)

And it would STILL be unethical to use homeopathy in ANY study in which there is a current accepted treatment, and total non-treatment could be medically harmful to the patient.