Lucas claims this is not a revenge plot.

Either way California *could* stand to be a little more self sustaining. It doesn't seem California is able to supply their own anything. 25% of their electricity is purchased from Arizona, and even then they still have rolling brownouts because they can't meet the demand.

After rubbing my eyes a few times, I was able to get your point.

What does the Skilled Occupation List have to do with this?

First of all, I would make it so you can press the Enter key and it conducts your search. Forcing people to either tab or navigate their mouse to the button makes it a little annoying.

Ok what about this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Apparently they're not hard to find, so probably more common than you think.

I disagree, I think healthy capitalism is where the competition is so strong that regulations aren't needed. When the forces of supply and demand (aka free markets) regulate the market, things have a way of turning out much better.

For an example, look at the net neutrality situation. Sure, the government can regulate that Comcast be fair when it comes to peering disputes, they might even be able to one day regulate Comcasts prices, but one thing they'll never be able to regulate is the fact that Comcast are total assholes to their customers. Comcast will always be assholes unless they have a competitor taking customers away.

I remember how during the 80's, the local phone companies had really asshole policies (Need to reconnect a phone line after you suspended it because you were leaving the country for 6 months? That'll be $300 please, or $700 in 2015 dollars) and they were HEAVILY regulated, both in terms of price and service. It wasn't until just about everybody could finally offer phone service that adding a new phone line became dirt cheap, and long distance became basically free.

This is going to sound ad-hom, but I'll just be honest: You'd have to be incredibly stupid to believe that. In fact, the people who started that nonsense against McDonalds are incredibly stupid. It isn't greedy to, for example, sell lemonade, which is a very sugary drink that harms diabetics.

In fact, if we're going to start calling it greedy to sell any kind of food that harms any kind of person with any dietary restrictions, then we'll have to ban commercials that advertise the following foods, because in large quantities they cause problems with people who have any kind of kidney disease: (which includes a lot of people, especially diabetics, who often end up with kidney failure)

Legumes
Beans of any kind
Tomatoes
Spinach
Melons of most varieties
Star fruit
Milk
Cheese

In fact while we're at it, let's ban every commercial featuring food that there's a known fatal allergy for, like all varieties of seafood, eggs, all varieties of fruit, and all varieties of wheat, and also all foods containing high amounts of vitamin k because it harms people taking drugs designed to fight thrombosis, so that means most green vegetables are out too.

Good point. I wonder if they would ever actually do this? It's definitely non-trivial, but they may have people with the capability of doing that.

Like this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Apparently it's trivial to make an upper middle class income doing that:

http://www.straightdope.com/co...

So I ask, why does anybody give to them anyways? Many of them make more money than the people who give them money.

And inside, a modern x86 processor is actually a giant hardware emulation of x86 instructions with a RISC/VLIW core... You call it cheating, and I call it optimizing.

But this would happen with a macrokernel as well... you can't just magically make networking overhead disappear...

I wasn't intending on saying that CISC was superior to RISC... what I was more saying is that there has been more money put into CISC processors, and so they develop faster.

It's just a simple fact of money == better access to stuff to make more money.

This was basically what I was trying to say. More capital investment typically means better outcomes.

I figured that he would be denied a heart transplant because of his bad criminal and academic history, until his mom and the popular media play the race card, and in a huge public outcry the medical team is forced to reverse their decision, and then not long afterwards he tries to rob an old lady, shoots at her, runs over a pedestrian, and then dies after he crashes into a very racist utility poll.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/cr...