It's getting to the point where the US Citizenry will need to decide to accept to be held captive to the interests of a Corporate Oligarchy or go into active revolt against a Government that no longer sees them as actual citizens, but as the chattel of the "true citizens", the Corporate Personhoods of the Fortune 500. ObamaCare was the first step in forcing every American to buy goods and services from Corporate Cartels. Having Corporate Lobbyists oversee and regulate the industries meant to protect the American public from the Corporations is only a logical step on the way to a truly Captive Audience envisioned for the Future American Free Market Surveillance State.

On one hand you sardonically belittle those who value their freedoms, on the other, your signature cites Eisenhower, one of the the last Presidents to truly care about the welfare and freedom of the people over Political and Corporate interests. Make up your fucking mind

Frankly, this is the EXACT sort of shit coding that made me hate Perl and glad to see it go. Because I have seen so many examples of coding not too dissimilar to that. With Perl it has always seemed there is an ongoing contest among developers to see how arcane and unreadable they could make their code to show their "cred". Perl can go to hell, it's developer base can go fuck themselves and frankly the world will be a much better place as soon as that language is dead.

Lord knows Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs each rued the day they dropped out of College. If only they had bothered to graduate... they might have made trillions instead of mere billions.

Came in here to say the same thing -- as if even getting to the nanometer level was somehow "low hanging fruit", never mind the current ability to fabricate at 14nm. Welcome to the brave new world of the gadget generation who take tech for granted yet are completely ignorant of the fundamentals behind it.

I fail to see how this wouldn't be likely to happen under private insurance. A lot of Doctors tell people to go home to clear out their waiting rooms. Running tests may indeed be billable, but take time and require documentation.

So you're saying "hey, wear the arm band, everyone else is". I'm not having any of it and am getting the fuck out while I can. Fortunately, there are countries will to let people legally immigrate without having to get married and once you have obtained citizenship, you can go to any US Embassy and formally renounce it. Seeing that the Gov't can have a drone shove a hellfire missile up your ass regardless of your citizenship, there's really no upside to having an American passport. In fact, it might just make you safer being a citizen of an Allied Country and NOT an American, since at least most US allies take a strong exception to US thuggishness when it comes to their Citizens. In the US, they just waive their hands and bandy about terms like "national security", "collateral damage" and "guilt by proximity"

What really scares the shit out of me is that no one even seems to bat an eye at the unconstitutionality of these NSA letters that let the Government threaten, intimidate and interfere with the lives and business of law abiding Citizens. As an American, I am franticly working on fleeing this country that is rapidly becoming every bit of a Fascist Police State as Nazi Germany or the East Bloc. Secret Warrants, Secret Imprisonment, Secret Courts, Secret Lettre de Cachet from Gov't Organizations that will allow them to put you into the Secret Justice System and detain you indefinitely if you do not obey their directives. Why even bother voting? We no longer live in a free society. And the majority, even on slashdot don't give a fuck.

Not providing for your own OFFLINE BACKUPS is a reckless oversight of such magnitude that I am entirely incapable of having sympathy for these asshats. We need a few examples such as these to serve as cautionary tales for those who think the Cloud is the answer to everything.

Militarize NASA and make the liberation of the Solar System from the enemies of FREEDOM priorities of National Security. At that point Congress will be tripping over themselves put the US an additional 15 Trillion in debt in order to invade Mars and install a puppet dictatorship that is friendly to US and Israeli interests.

Damned exoskeletal robot suit's powerful robotic pincers crushed the donuts again. When will I learn?

My point was that arrogant and abusive assholes are the real problem. If you find you actually have a bonafide MORON who is lacking in overall intelligence, then why were they hired to begin with?

From the summary, it seems anyone who was at the wrong end of a bell curve should be the target of derision and abuse.
So, a perfectly capable person who comes up short in any category is now an "idiot" and should be treated as trash.

Frankly, that's a load of shit and any organization that employs people who see that as acceptable and fosters such an attitude deserves to die.

Any team members that views themselves as somehow intellectually superior and views others as idiots should be shown the door.

I don't care about Mini Months or Year Bases as much as the ability to have Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, TrialSized Dove Bar or Perdue Wonderchicken. I want opportunistic branding to penetrate every orifice of my life.

Someone's got to Hire and Manage the Engineering Team from the Pleiades.
What? You think mankind possesses the technology to build a pyramid?