Hypothetical question with no real-world application.

1. The guy talks about "5s ping". That means 2500ms latency one-way.
2. You will not find 2500ms latency anywhere in the world. You did not even find that in 1994.
3. Even satellite will provide better than that: ~300ms.
4. Your question lacks an important parameter: bandwidth and server/receiver memory.

As long as you have enough memory, you can store the entire transmission without acking.

Yes, totally agree. Line all of them up against a wall in Utah please.

Disagree there. The attendant is most likely a minimum wage working hanging on to a job to make a living. I don't think a lot of people would like to have that job. That worker did not deserve that treatment. The attack was not aimed at the company or even at the fact that a car was being towed, but merely to humiliate someone in a low-income job who is most likely struggling to meet ends (otherwise, why take such a shitty job?). All out of sheer frustration.

Being nicer would probably have helped a lot more. I had a similar experience the other day. A company did something I did not like, in fact, I was more than pissed. I called the company and before a started my rant, I told the person on the other line: "I know you're only picking up the phone so what I'm about to say is nothing personal. BUT I AM PISSED LIKE CRAZY FOR COMPANY XYZ TO DO ABC". She totally understood ("yes sir, I'd be quite upset as well), and fixed the problem on the spot, apologized on behalf of the company and sent an internal note to prevent this from happening again.

I agree, but for a different reason.

I would have threatened to sue the school for the lack of proper information security. If teachers are allowed to use their last name as their password and type it out in front of students then something is severely wrong and it has to be assumed that a data breach has already happened undetected.

Totally fair comments. My goal was not to say that you are wrong, but to point out that a significant amount of the current tech force may come from oversees. One thing that rarely gets mentioned in the H1-B discussion but should be included is the amount of L1s that are working in the tech industry. For L1s it is more difficult to displace US workers as they are already working for the same company, but with an L1-A it is extremely easy to get a green-card so the chances of actual displacements are higher.

I'm not American.

Yes. If someone is unable to properly write English, I write them off indeed.

Yes. In fact, it is not mine either. But at least I scored 115 points on the TOEFL-IBT.

Four, to be exact. English is one of them.

I'm sorry, I do not believe in imaginary friends.

According to this source, the H1-B program as it is today started in 1990. Since then, the visa cap fluctuated between 65,000 and 195,000 per year. Let's take an average of 85,000 and we're talking about 85,000 times 25 years which equals 2,125,000. That's 2.1 million.

According to this source. The total number of tech jobs in the U.S. in 2012 was 3,951,730.

So ~50% of tech workers could have come in under the H1-B program which, as you might know, is dual intent and allows for the application of permanent residence.

Trust me, with your writing skills, not a single employer will consider you for a position. There is no space before a comma, and sentences generally do not start with a lowercase character.

Ah yes, the UK. Where they kill the one goose that lays golden eggs. I believe his name was Clarkson.

Bring
Back
Clarkson.

That's exactly what the crew of Asiana thought when they landed at SFO :)

You will still need a pilot who understands aviation in case the computer fails.

I graduated from Western Governors University last year and got my master's degree. Everything was online, with the exception of the graduation party.

Teachers were just a phone call or e-mail away. And because they did not have to attend any classes either, they were usually *always* available. Some of them even in the weekends (since that's when most people study, next to their daytime jobs) until the late hours.

I did a two year program in less than 18 months. Try that with your traditional on-campus university.

This. Exactly This.

Stay in Europe, and you won't be paying US taxes effectively, due to the foreign tax credits. Yes, you'll have to file a tax return every year, but that's not extremely difficult, especially if you don't have to pay any taxes. Taxes are significantly higher in most of Europe.

I faced a more or less similar choice a few years ago. Me and the misses were in the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa, and my wife was about to deliver. We could have chosen to deliver outside of the U.S. and avoid U.S. citizenship for my daughter. We chose to give birth in the U.S. so out little peanut would have dual (actually triple) citizenship. She will always be free to work in both the E.U. as well as the U.S. without any immigrant processing. She can choose to attend U.S. college, or European.

We reckoned that the simple fact that she would have to file a tax return every year would be an acceptable cost of all the benefits.

Looking at the pictures, he glided the aircraft to an open field and landed without the landing gear. This picture shows the cockpit intact, as well as the skidmarks from the belly-first landing.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. If the aircraft is still serviceable afterwards, it was an excellent landing.

This was definitely a good landing :)