Those modifications were my doing.

Use one of the stabilizer plugs on the lower barrel (gray, plugs in one of the barrels). It'll work just fine.

One of the stabilizer wires will attach to the M13 spacebar and the keyboard itself.

That's also my doing. Unlike the M, changing keys requires less toolwork; you only need a flat-tip screwdriver, pliers, and careful attention as the plate cover slides right out.

The only word of caution that I have is that fixing broken traces is a PITA.

Not going to happen as long as there's an effort to oppose US citizens. No sense in taking envious jabs out at the modern-day Roman Empire just because you live on the wrong side of it.

The US has a higher degree of personal freedom not present in nearly all the offshoring destinations. In every sense of the word, businesses in this environment hate freedom.

Guest workers are not immigrants. Before you ask, mine came to live long, prosperous lives as citizens.

The vast body of evidence would point to a large wealth transfer that penalizes freedom.

Given that the American has more freedom than the typical guest worker (or their home country), that alone is enough justification.

There was even better talent that was right in the US. Unfortunately, you weren't willing enough to work with US citizens in good faith.

Then stop with the unrealistic requirements that are designed solely to disqualify US citizens. The citizens are qualified, especially those that are asked to train guest worker replacement, you just have an anti-citizen bias. Your best bet would be to prepare to accept the idea that US citizens are qualified.

The guest worker program has never been about freedom; it has been about making an end-run around the Constitution's provisions prohibiting slavery and indentured servitude.

If you actually controlled for admissions criteria, which no current ranking system (especially PISA), the US would be much higher.

Economics does not work that way.

A decrease in the labor supply (a supply curve shift to the left) will cause a shortage, with an increase in required wages to meet equilibrium. If what you and the guest workers said was correct about shortages, then wages would go up - not down.

An increase in the labor supply (a supply curve shift to the right) will cause a surplus, with a decrease in required wages to meet equilibrium. This is what really is happening, since there is an increase in the labor supply beyond what the equilibrium will support.

Geopolitical interference with developed nations like the United States, such that citizens are purposefully and systematically excluded from selection, is a valid explanation.

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If they can get increased sales, so much the better.

Then I believe Topre makes a keyboard that would be more to your liking.

That's a model M buckling spring, not a model F capacitive buckling spring. The main difference is that the latter sounds much more like a typewriter - the Model F uses a curved circuit board + thick metal plate versus the Model M's plastic membranes + thin metal plate. Other minor differences are that that my conversion has M13 black keys, trackpoint, and a ANSI-like layout - things that are not present on any Unicomp terminal board.

With that aside, I have that one you just linked as well (the "Affirmative Computing") version. It may be a Unicomp model M, but it still holds up to the same mechanical standards.

(btw, yes, I'm on Geekhack and Deskthority)

Find a largish Terminal F board, sacrifice a black M13 for its labeled black keycaps, get a unicomp trackstick controller, and then you have this.

Only if you wanted to take a look at yourself. In addition, you would also find yourself as an example of being a collaborator, along with Mozilla.

Excluded middle fallacy.

Not going to happen as long as Snowden and his conspirators are fugitives from justice.

No amount of willful lack of understanding of security clearance work, which thrives in Snowden supporters, will change that fact.

I wonder if they're also doing extra duty in Reddit. Given the willingness for them to go between

By the way, since Slashdot has no rule against naming them, what's the name of the shill?

Why do you appease individuals of the SJW crowd, namely Chelsea van Valkenberg (you know who she is, but I can't mention that on Fark), by strictly enforcing their narratives, even in the light of truth?

Mandatory testing specifically for university placement is the bigger problem. It forces people to take paths that are unsuitable for them, just because "the test said so". For that, I applaud the person filing the FoI and hope that none of the snark, redaction, or delays gets in the way.

The Abitur is simply a part of a flawed system where a few mandatory test scores divine out the rest of your life. On the other hand, the US system doesn't have these flaws - it allows more people to receive higher levels of education.