xeroderma pigmentosum a rare pigmentary and atrophic autosomal recessive disease in which extreme cutaneous sensitivity to ultraviolet light results from an enzyme deficiency in the repair of DNA damaged by ultraviolet light. It begins in childhood, with early development of excessive freckling, telangiectases, keratomas, papillomas, and malignancies in sun-exposed skin, severe opthalmologic abnormalities, and, in some cases, neurological disorders.

That's... really not the same as what we were talking about. Not even a little.

Because they have no idea. wikileaks and the like are anonymous, and if that's not enough protection for you, you won't post it there.

If you got hired based on your insider knowledge of a few secrets, as opposed to insider knowledge of techniques and development practices, you're absolutely right.

By never starting it, obviously.

Not to be depressing up our thread, but... they won't let untouchables have important jobs like chip manufacturing. The untouchables are several ranks too low in Indian society to allow that.

Luckily, due largely to the outlawing of the caste system some time ago, the harsh treatment of untouchables seems to be waning, at least in urban centers, so this might not even be a sensical distinction between potential employees in high tech industries in India anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit#Social_status_of_Dalits

My Taiwanese roommate violently disagrees with you. YMMV.

Not that this would surprise me, but... how can you tell? citation please?

No really, anybody, if this is true I'd like to know.

So set firefox to check for updates first... but really, the target audience of this live cd isn't updating their software every 2 months, or year, so I think your argument isn't quiet spot on.

Fewer than pedestrians would like.

The fine isn't applied to people under a certain income, who can't get health insurance for less than a certain percent of their income, etc. I believe it's above the poverty line and 8%, respectively, although it was 400% of poverty wages in a previous draft. Shame that got changed.

More actual info:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/20103224250561653.html

In what ways is France's healthcare better than the United State? Seriously?

Cost (11.2% of GDP or US$3,926 per capita) in France vs (15.2% of GDP or US$6,347 per capita) for the United States

And just about everything else:

Life Expectancy
Abortion Rate (irony!)
Deaths from Cancer
Heart Disease, Obesity
# of Physicians per 1000 people
Teenage Pregnancy

Any questions?

It certainly doesn't cost $0 to pass a bill... especially one which Hilary Clinton tried to pass when her husband was in office, and got completely and thoroughly shut down on. And how was it treated?

People who say that business should be free of government competition are full of crap, because they pretend that the government should just regulate. Except they don't like regulation either.

I was going to tell you that all of these professions are mostly self employed, since that's the impression I grew up with, but I looked it up, and it's actually around 6-9% for each field who are self employed.

I guess you're right. Pity.

Wow... you just made me a (hopefully vocal) supporter of sexbot companies. I mean, I had nothing against them before, but it never occured to me that they could provide a massive social benefit.

This is gonna lead to some weird conversations.

bullshit.

I've got a lot of family members who work various positions in local hospitals, and my sister just went through a medical lab assistant course, and agrees with what I'm saying here.

Saying that men aren't interested is BS, because they're high paying jobs and you spend every class surrounded by ladies. it sounds like a great scam. But when you get there, everyone thinks you're 'just precious' and you end up being the damn bouncer and guy who picks up heavy things in an emergency room, which isn't exactly a job with good promotion potential.

There are a lot of guys who want a stable well paying job with fairly low risk and nice stat holidays. A lot more of them would be getting into the field if there wasn't such a social stigma.

I've got a family member and a substantial number of friends just entering the teaching profession, and they all agree with this strongly. Why is this modded troll? In fact, I thought this was common knowledge, that private schools refuse to deal with the troublesome, disabled, and malnourished, and so don't face most of the problems which plague public schools.

Yeah, JK is rollin in the dough. she's also the most popular author on the planet, for about 8 years straight, and basically introduced half this generation to reading as a pleasure activity. She might not deserve as much as she got (about $200 million last year), but she still deserves a big stinking load of money.

There's plenty of fat which ought to be cut, the copyright system is broken horribly, I agree with the rest of slashdot on that. But JK Rowling is the shit, don't pretend otherwise.