A contract benefits both parties. What benefit does the agreement offer you in exchange for those ideas which they "feel" you came up with while you worked for them?

Even if companies did offer three years of compensation, by the time you got to the end of that three years, you would be three years out of date and three years out of a job, and would be lucky to get a job for half of what you were getting paid previously. This is not fair to the employee either. The company would have to compensate you for the three years plus COLA, plus typical raises and bonuses that you got for three years and then continue to pay you at half that rate plus COLA, raises and bonuses for the remainder of your professional career. Or, perhaps they could take the quick way out and just offer you a one time cash settlement. $2 million ought to be reasonable for a typical $100,000 job.

I would gladly spend $50 or $100 for a good program on PC, but I am not willing to pay even 1/10th of that for an app on a phone or tablet. The UI on apps and tablets sucks. It takes 10 times as long to do something as it does on a PC. For instance, I am interested in a program like iReal Pro, but I don't want a table or phone version. I want a PC version. I am almost willing to download the Android SDk just so I can run it on my PC, but I imagine the user interface is still going to be a tablet/phone interface. I would be willing to probably pay $50 for a program like that with a good user interface on PC, but comparable alternatives are several hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Racist? Where did I mention race? Oh, you are assuming that since I mentioned sitting at home and making babies, that I was talking about black people. That makes you a racist.

Well I signed up, under duress, but it did take me 6 tries and I had to scan in IDs and attach it to the account twice and then I had to delete the account and create a brand new account, and then even after doing that, the cheapest possible plan was still twice what I was paying a two months early (not one month earlier because one month earlier my insurance company raised the premium by a factor of 4).

Insurance premiums went up after Obamacare, not down.

My daughter-in-law attempted to sign up for Obamacare. She is in school and makes no money. Between her and my stepson, they make maybe $4-$5k per year, about $10,000 of which goes to pay for school. Yes, I know that doesn't add up. Anyway, she tried to sign up for Obamacare, and the cheapest plan she could get would have cost her $143 a month. She can't afford that, so she didn't sign up. She asked about the penalty and they said since she didn't make much money, she doesn't have to pay the penalty. So what does that mean? It means Obamacare did nothing. Poor people still don't have insurance. They don't have to pay the penalty either. They just go to the emergency room like they used to. Nothing has changed except that the people who already HAD insurance now pay twice as much.
I'm sure if my stepson and daughter-in-law were to drop out of school have a kid and sit at home all day THEN Obamacare would kick in and pay for them. After all, that is what Obama really wants, is for people to sit at home and make babies, not waste their time on education.

I'm sure a lot of those people were already insured, but their insurers dropped them due to Obamacare. That has happened to a lot of people I know. It didn't happen to me, but it was practically the same thing. My Major Medical plan went from $242 a month to $960 a month, with no notice.So I was forced to drop the plan and seek other coverage. I used their stupid webpage to shop for coverage. Turns out that is a bad idea, as their web page is so incredibly sucky that you have to put your information in multiple times, they can never verify your identity, they will ask you to scan in an ID, but there is no link on your account to do so, etc. Andnow, I am one of the $7.1 million users of their wonderful system, according to them. No, I was fine before Obamacare, and now the best I can get is a plan that costs twice as much and doesn't cover as much. I chose the absolute cheapest bronze plan I could get, which was still twice what I was paying before.

False. Auto insurance makes no guarantee to pay car repairs for people who cannot afford auto insurance. There is not even a sliding scale. Auto insurance only pays for those who pay in and the amount you pay in is determined by their statistical assessment of how much they are likely to have to pay out for you personally.
Also, before auto insurance was made mandatory, it was also a lot cheaper. I pay more per month now than I paid per year when I was 16 years old, and the car I had when I was 16 was 8 years old, versus the 13 year old car I have been driving. I have had 0 accidents in my entire lifetime, 0 hail damage, 0 payouts of any kind. When I was 16, insurance wasn't mandatory, but now it is.

Yes, and I just got the wonderful news that despite having made no changes in my salary or withholding, I owe $4,000 in taxes and penalties this year, as opposed to the $2,000 I got back last year. Plus I now have to pay quarterly estimated taxes the first of which is due in 5 days. So something made a $6,000 difference in my taxes between last year and this year, which pretty much means a $18,000 change in income. I suppose that must be the fact that insurance premiums are no longer deductible, although what my employe was paying for my healthcare premiums was nowhere near $18,000 last year.
If my tax burden is going to go up by $6,000 a year, the least somebody can do is give me an extra $6,000 post tax to pay it with. I can't continue to have no raise, no COLA, and have Obama continue to take more and more percentage out of my paycheck.

When morality comes into it is when we decide that the weak, stupid and slow ought to have the same (or better) shake at passing on their genes as the strong, smart and fast do. In fact, the strong, smart and fast tend to limit themselves on their offspring to only what they can support, while the weak, stupid and slow have as many children as they possibly can, on the dime of the strong, smart and fast.

As a southerner myself, I would be confused to see a nor by itself, as I would expect it to be only be used after a neither.

That certainly seems to be the mentality of most corporate IT departments that I know of. They figure if security is always inconvenient, then making things inconvenient will automatically make them secure. Correlation equals causation right?

Microsoft Updates are the reason I had to upgrade last time. I had a legitimate Windows XP system bought from Dell, had all the certificates and codes. After an update from Microsoft, it suddenly started telling me that my windows was not legitimate and wouldn't boot up. I tried reinstalling, searched the web and found various other things to try. Nothing worked. I tried calling Microsoft, who also suggested reinstalling, and then after that still didn't work offered to sell me another XP license. No thanks, I already have one. I ended up eventually building a new system and putting the old drives in temporarily so I could keep all my data.

Unless the water cooling system is built on the graphics card itself, in which it case, it sucks.