Your point on competition is well taken. It's unconscionable that our people should have to compete with, as you term them, "disposable" small brown people. So which do you favor? Genocide or Empire?

There was a specific moment when it became advantageous for employers to outsource aptitude testing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

Inconceivably? Not only doesn't that word mean what you think it means, neither do rather a lot of the other words you're using.

When you set out to grind the Philistine to dust beneath the shiny wheels of your half-apprehended vocabulary, it helps to be absolutely correct in your usage; to sound, as it were, more like a Buckley and less like a self-educated cellblock Socrates.

Brittain, Bardeen & Schockley would be really pissed to hear themselves called engineers. (Did you know Schockley was a nasty racist in his spare time? Fact.)

I'll give you this much, you've got that self-esteem thing licked all to hell and gone!

Stupid old people advocating policies that not only don't favor them as a class but might even hurt them as a class. Whatever can they be thinking of?

Maybe Stewart, Colbert, and (now with extra class!) Jimmy Fallon can explain it all to us poor senile fools, your grandparents.

Props, you sound like someone worth listening to. What are you doing here?

However, in harness with competition, it beats command and control all to hell, without piling up hundreds of millions of corpses.

On my planet, some dude wrote a book called "The Wealth of Nations" a couple hundred years back, and since then "losing jobs to India" has sounded kind of tardulent. Learn how to compete.

Recently got hired after 6 weeks of unemployment at a 20% raise from my previous gig. I'm 63. I sent out 3 resumes.

Cloud cuckoo land? Precisely right. I read her blog posting and some of the comments. Her cognitive community Believes In Karma. Somewhere amongst the four forces there lurks a cosmic accountant. OK, whatever. In my universe, reality is a bitch. It probably takes her and me to make a society. I think she's an idiot, she thinks I'm a brute. Oh well.

Did Tina Fey tell you that she could see stupid and ignorant from the Tea Party?

Looting has been tried before, Skippy. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money, and then there's hell to pay. There's more to macroeconomics than "you've got it, I want it, hand it over" class warfare. Read some Bastiat.

Heh. I wrote that program sometime in 1976, target was DEC RSTS Basic. It helped me squeeze more function into a rather limited amount of memory.

The science is open source. But the raw data has been "lost"...

Sadly, licensed dietitians aren't particularly interested in devaluing their credential.

I love it when you guys get classy!

Freud was a coke fiend. With his buddy Fleiss, the nose fetishist. Honest, I couldn't make this up.