How about "Come to an Educational event intended to raise awareness of the possibilities of electric vehicles". Throw in a few displays of photos of how the technology works and perhaps including a historical perspective on electric vehicles and the problem is solved. No more test drives, but rather "hands on learning demonstrations".

It also comes with a free gym membership where he can meet new and interesting people.

I sense a troll and a sock puppet

And then let it be reviewed.

"I can only think of one database that isn't "webscale", and that's TinySQL, which I still use for personal web projects regardless."

You've just made all those MS Access developers cry.....

17K lives by one estimate
http://www.newrepublic.com/art...

A testimonial:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

I'm unsure home how that compares to the millions of lives W. saved when he invaded Iraq ;)

The Dems only held the House 2 of the past 6 years. Possibly longer.

Yeah the /. department the article is filed under immediately tipped me off to the bias in the article.

This is par for the course of many software projects I have been on in the private sector. SSDE, Same *&^% Different Employer.

The entire deal reeks. A holding company in the Caymens associated with a company in a foreign land with profits which may or may not meet accounting standards. The only people dumb enough to take that play would those who cant lose, like banks.

Really; they probably got married, had kids, and got a life. Or developed some sort of interest outside of work. Or they just got their job and technology worked out to the point they don't have to work 60 hours a week to keep up. In short, they got a life. Assuming they are burnt out may be incorrect. You should also get a life.

They could have told the EU to get out. After seeing what lack of control of your own currency did to Greece, Italy, and Spain I've come to the conclusion the tight economic binding which is the EU is a bad idea. There are also no firewalls. It creates a situation where a country as small as Greece, Italy, or Spain can threaten to take down the entire global economy.

Wow, your original post fits my experience in my Blue days to a "t". I was going to swap serial numbers with you. I am now working at a Huge Plant and while Agile is badly done, partly due to the huge geographic nature of the projects, the environment and culture is very different.

And Faith Based QA.

1) UI design and usability - programmers are truly horrible at this.
2) Internationalization - It's hard to find people in the US with foreign language skills. Canadian doesn't count.
3) Project coordination with overseas clients or teams - see above and add in foreign cultures.
4) Requirements gathering and/or review - Which requires talking to people and, gasp, reading documents.
5) Business analysis - overlaps Requirements gathering and review
6) UI testing - much of which CANNOT be automated.
7) Project management - which requires communications and people-people skills. Most BAs/MBAs I have met are also truly terrible at this.

Example, a friend of mine has an MA in English. He is currently working for a tech company as QA lead which requires test planning, staff training, requirements review, user documentation development, and business analysis. All of which his degree is helping with.