I imagine Bush.

Actually, that's a good point. Do they let Chuck Norris onto an airplane?

That's how to pirate an airship.

You just gave some RIAA lawyer a brain aneurysm.

We asked very different things of librarians and Google.

Me to librarian (in the early 1980's): Where can I find a good book on sharks?

me to Google: +tentacle porn midget chocolate sauce -"val kilmer"

No, they will be too busy wondering how she ended up in the state pen for violation of federal law.

The combination of two factors:

1. Eric Holder has "broad discretion" in prosecuting federal crimes.

2. There are so many unexpected laws (Mississippi's silly ones include this list), that a committed prosecutor can always find something to convict you of.

Nice to see Australian politicians are getting back to their ancestral criminal roots.

Yes, yes I am. After spending years scouring the Internet, my small team of l88t Haxors realized that only one account, on one site, had the propaganda value we needed. It was DoofusOfDeath@slashdot.org. We're sure to get a second serving of rice balls for this exploit! Long live the god Kim Jung Un!

Why should we believe anything the "senior intelligence officials" tell us? They have a profound record of lying.

Let me try cleaning up your post for you, Senior Fussypants:

Dear original poster,

"STEM" is a very broad category of studies. Most of us who have jobs that could be called "STEM" jobs find that we're highly interested in some topics in this category (for example, software development), but not others (e.g., microbiology). Many of us are sufficiency interested in a broad cross-section of "STEM" topics to read about them on Wikipedia / Science Daily / EETimes / etc. But one thing is true of most of us: we're so interested in our particular corner of "STEM" topics that we've invested lots an and lots of time studying it and/or doing it as a hobby.

So when we hear you asking about "STEM" work in general, rather than something specific such as organic chemistry, that raises a few alarm bells in our minds.

First, if you're still thinking in such broad categorical terms as "STEM", it makes us think you're not particularly fascinated with any one particular subject area, such as organic chem or computer science. We fear for you: there's a long, hard path to proficiency in any of these areas, and we're concerned you lack the level of innate interest needed for you to succeed and to be happy.

The second alarm bell is that "STEM" is a buzzword du jour of politicians and educators who think of it as pixie dust. "STEM helps our economy!" "STEM workers make more money!" "Everyone can (and should) code, because STEM is great!" Those persons strike us as outside interlopers who are likely to damage our community and our productivity, because they have political power but not understanding. And so, when you use similar language, we're concerned that either (a) you've fallen for their foolish thinking, or (b) are a snowflake in the avalanche we fear is coming from their foolishness.

Please don't misunderstand us: if you're interested in putting in the time to learn the ropes, and you also have the right kind of mind, perhaps a number of different "STEM" jobs would suit you well. But you should expect to put in a lot of hours learning, and you should do a gut-check about whether or not you're really interested in spending 40 hours/week on it, year after year.

You might ask why your American governments don't afford you the same freedoms.

So it's okay for me to go live in Switzerland without any documentation? Sweet!

Because it's impossible to secure 3,000 miles of border, and he would just sneak back in if that's all we did.

Not if they're dead.

Seriously - why do we allow this? If illegal immigrants consider the penalties to be acceptable, the problem is the penalties aren't strong enough to persuade them.

It's not like the penalties are an entrance fee, where once you pay it, we're all good.

Your right! the GP's idea is dangerous and cannot be tolerated!

And there seem to be about 499,999 who claim terrorists don't represent true Islam, but don't clearly, publicly articulate why the terrorists' theology is less supported by the Koran than their more peaceful interpretations.

That was quick. An article about ads devolved faster than anticipated.

Because WW2 involved Hitler. Godwin wins, every time.

Normal people get walked out the door by a security guard and told the stuff on their desk will be mailed to them postage due.

Is that really true? I've wondered about that. It sounds like criminal theft to me.