I haven't seen any ads on Facebook. Either they are so unobstrusive that I just don't see them (and are therefore useless) or I am just very good at ignoring them (and they are therefore useless).
I wonder what will happen when people find out that advertising is just a big scam and for every dollar you invest, you get far less than a dollar back. Goodbye Google, Facebook, MySpace, Slashdot, etc.

My old laptop had a dead battery. It only worked when plugged in. That doesn't mean I didn't still travel with it. It was still useful to me at my destination. Company policy won't let me check it in luggage.
Also, I work for a company that deals with healthcare and there is Protected Healthcare Information on my laptop. Do I need to carry HIPAA releases with me so that I can have them sign before looking at my laptop? Also, corporate policy forbids me to allow anyone else to operate my laptop, as does probably 90% of other companies in America.

They may have missed more than three. Who knows how many made it through security and then chickened out?

How many attempted hijackings were foiled? Also zero.

This one always sounded like "we fell in love in a hopeless place" to me. It is supposed to be "we found love", but that is what happens when you give the word "found" two syllables.
Then there is Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. About 50% of the song's lyrics are unintelligible. "Want you bad romance" sounds something like "wajagunro mance."

I can see how someone might hear Fing Cry, but I always heard Laugh and Cry. I mean, Laugh and Cry is much more common a phrase than F'ing Cry. and why F'ing Cry doesn't fit in context at all. "Lucky there's a man who positively can do all the things that make us F'ing Cry"? Why are we lucky there's a guy that can make us cry? Laugh and cry, yes. Just cry? No.

Maybe they have kids. Maybe they live in an expensive part of the country? Maybe they have different priorities than you do?

And when exactly does the fetus magically get anointed with persondom?

How is that possible? The letter of the law is that if they are undocumented, then they are illegal. Even if they would have been legal otherwise.

As far as the non-competes go, I would be willing to agree to one week of previous salary per each week of non-compete, adjusted for COLA annually plus 15% annual bonus.

What's a severance package? Is that the package containing your COBRA information and the NDAs an other crap they want you to sign right before they kick you out the door?
At my company, severance is only for the C level people. The rest of the company only gets paid through the current day and gets compensated for half of their earned PTO time. Which I have to imagine is highly illegal right there. If you have earned it, they must give it to you.

Kind of like the guys who get Chinese tattoos and it turns out actually translates to "Small Lo Mein with Egg Roll"?

Basically, they want to be like Wal-mart. Offer an inferior product at half price. But then the consumer is getting pissed off when the product doesn't perform as well as the full priced product.
In this case, though, this is more like if Wal-mart wanted to sell a radio at half price that uses public frequency bands but doesn't meet the FCC regulations. Which Wal-mart would not be allowed to do.

You have to take the law into consideration when looking at those statistics. In the U.S., the law allows for rape charges if a wife is forced to have sex with her husband. In India, the law can only be invoked if the husband and wife are separated.
Also, there are social reasons for underreporting of rape in India. If you file rape charges, then you are considered to have been raped. This can be cause for a future arranged marriage to be terminated, a marriage to be terminated and for the woman to be shunned.
It used to be similar in the U.S., but woman were empowered and encouraged to speak out. There are still a lot of rapes not reported, but there are also a lot of false reports as well.
In all, it is difficult to compare rates of a lawbreaking in countries where the law differs as do also the social implications of reporting the charge,

Who said anything about layoffs? It said "An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm". So AC produced stupid text.
If you read between the lines, this is not even talking about a direct replacement in the company. This is more like when they fire an employee so they can bring on a contractor and the contractor happens to be an H1b working for a contracting company. This happens all the time. I've had the similar happen to me as well. I was a contractor working for a company and I was replaced by several consultants from another company that were all h1bs so they could afford to pay them less. They started out with only two of them to replace me, which was a little more expensive than just paying me. But by the time all was said and done, they had 4 of them in there doing my job at a little over twice what they had been paying me.