And my thesis committee - "Ballistic properties of early 21-century office furniture and of Executive personalities: an exoteric analysis"

On Tequilla 50% chance of hangover 12 hours later, 25% chance of Black eye, 30% chance of break up, 17% chance waking with a stranger

It's another step in trial.

No, it's rife with abuse.
Many programmer are salary, when they shouldn't be. Many are denied OT, even though they are not management. They are expected to be available all the time without compensation, many are worked to exhaustion, regularly.
Funny how when you pay people for there time, suddenly there aren't a lot of last minute emergence that make you stay at work and work 60+ hour weeks.

Coppea.

"Individuals are above the collective,"
That's moronic, and you don't actually believe that even if you think you do. Do you think my right as an individual means I can drive the wrong way down the freeway? dump toxic chemicals into your ground water? cut in front of you in line? PLay music at 140 db at 4 am?

I can go on and on.
It's a balance.

For you? Jan 2000 - June 2000

put every god damn penny you can into a 401k.
Oh, you mean programming wise?

You realize calling the Big Bang an "explosion" is a metaphor, right?

Detroit got fat and lazy, and as a result foreign automakers ate their lunch. Japan in particular had cheaper, harder-working workers, coupled with more focus on efficiency and -- eventually, after they built enough capital and experience building cheap crap cars -- design and build quality. Detroit didn't believe they could lose, either the management, or the unions. In order to stay competitive, both would have had to make serious changes... almost certainly including some reductions in labor costs and some labor re-training.

Yep. And, frankly, it was and is obvious that it would be. I've been saying for years that globalism was ultimately a good thing, though in the short term it was going to be painful for the wealthy countries, as standards of living equalize. If this article is correct, the pain may be much less, and much shorter, than I'd expected. Not that there isn't still pain ahead, but if we're already getting to the point where overseas labor costs have risen enough to be offset by domestic education and infrastructure, then the future looks pretty good.

At the end of the day, though, I'm no more entitled to my job than some programmer in China. If he can do the job as well and will do it for less money, then he should have it. Cost of living differences make this painful in the short term, but if we just keep competition open, the field will level -- some of that leveling may come from decreases in my standard of living but most of it will come from increases in his. That's too bad for me, but great for him, and it's fair because he's no less a human being than I am.

Interesting. What do you mean by "operate the engine in private"? Who would use it? And given that information derived from what you search for is the primary source of information for ad targeting, and given that the search engine is the primary place the ads are displayed, how would that work?

Presumable your 230 would be divided up among the site you visit.
The real problem will be malware that makes it look like you visited a site more often then you actually did.

"Remember how cable subscription you already pay for includes ads in the programming?"
you pay for the service of having the shows piped for you, not for the shows.
Do you think you cable company makes all those shows? The very premise makes NO DAMN SENSE.

We had ON TV in '77, it had commercials. The Soft core porn add on did not have commercials.
Cable TV goes back to the laet 40's and early 50s. They took broadcast channels, and then piped them into areas with pore/no TV reception.

People don't seem to realize that Cable TV has always just shown what was broadcast, and they don't strip commercials.

Now there are some companies that just flat charge you for their channel, and 'stations' business model(HOB et. al.) is pay us, no commercials, but that is NOT the same as providing for a service

Yo are remembering incorrectly. Cable TV was never ad free becasue cable companies have(had) nothing to do with content, only delivery.

ON TV didn't have commercial, but that wasn't cable TV. It was one company, selling on channel AND the service. Literally they installed a cable to your house, then ran it to a box on your TV that had one knob. You tuned your TV to channel 3, then turned the dial from OFF to ON.