Perl where are you tonight
how can I now run scripts on my own
I searched the filesystem
even looked in slash sbin
They rm'd the sym link and pffft you wuz gone

"What this proves is that Apple is jacking up the price and availability more on some markets than other."

Exactly. Whenever something doesn't make sense, ask who benefits.

  Look at Hostess...the company was forced to close its doors and go bankrupt. The unions would NOT negotiate or budge enough on their demands to allow the company to continue. Rather than the unions negotiate...they stood their ground, forced the company into bankruptcy, and ALL jobs with them are now gone forever.

Whoa up there. Hostess went through 2 bankruptcies and 6 CEOs in the past decade. They went on an acquisition spree, bought a load of their own stock and went in debt to do it. Then they laid off half their people. The union agreed to big concessions at each step along the way. During the second bankruptcy, Hostess promised to modernize their plants. Instead, they lined the pockets of the CEOs and board. The union realized the company was being run into the ground and dug in.

  Much of what the union rightly worked for in the early days...working conditions, hours..etc...were long ago accomplished and codified into employment laws.

Those laws can be changed.

We aren't using the technical people we have. Why subsidize the production of more? It just gives employers more candidates to reject.

  Can they see what you are doing when you are using private browsing? Are they capturing passwords and storing them? Is the device pushing back secure information to them?

Yeah, like online banking. What could possibly go wrong?

  Good for you... Coffee is bad for you... Coffee is good for you... Coffee is bad for you...

I need my glasses to read this.

Dell opened a plant in NC some years back, pocketed the tax incentives, ran it a few years and then abruptly closed it. It wouldn't surprise me if Lenovo did the same.

  But, in practice in recent years, it's become nothing more than a way for big corps to skirt the free labor market and artificially suppress wages for skilled labor. You advertise a job at a ridiculously low wage, or with ridiculous requirements, and when no American worker responds or qualifies (because American programmers and engineers won't work for $30,000 ...

This hasn't just been the case in recent years, it has been the way the H1-B scheme has worked from the beginning. The place where I was working started doing this no sooner than the ink was dry on the H1-B legislation, more than 20 years ago.

The robot is your designated driver.

  You're not a perp until you've done something, or at least set in motion clear actions towards doing something.

But he has done something. Communicating threats is a crime in most states.

... if dropped on your foot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet

Gotta have more of that caffiene
Sweet little nectar from the coffee bean

The US will experience a massive outage like this one. India is handling this a lot better than we will.

  "... the Romans reserved this very harsh technique for unusual events. They were not dumb enough to do this to every unit on a routine basis!"

Neutron Jack was right about companies accumulating dead wood. They can and do. Used on a one time basis to get shed of non-productive workers, Rank and Yank is highly effective. But then they keep doing it on a routine basis. On subsequent iterations, they get rid of good people. They become so fixated on this process, it becomes an end in and of itself. I wonder whether Welch knew what he had set loose upon the world.