All Supreme Court judges fall under article iii, as do some district court judges, and I believe court of appeals judges. Lesser district court judges(magistrate judges), U.S. Tax court judges, and a few others are not.

I'd break each one of those companies up 2-4 times as well. Merge Comcast/TWC then break them up into 6-12 separate companies.

Perhaps you shouldn't be behind on your bill?

Area of the states taken from Wikipedia. Crop production taken from the respective state's agricultural departments.

California doesn't even come close to "grow[ing] most of the food in the country". The account for 13.2% of the food grown in the US. While that is good for a single state, it's falls far shy of "most". In fact, California, while nearly 3 times the size of Illinois in area, only generates slightly over twice the food. That seems a lot less impressive.

Not all federal judges are appointed for life. Some are, most aren't.

There are plenty of desktops with M.2 slots.

You are right. We can't get any large projects completed today. Not the International Space Station, a large hadron collider, or anything of that sort.

Google is not a European company. Google has subsidiary companies that are registered in many countries, but they are mostly just sales offices. From your link: "We moved into our headquarters in Mountain View, California—better known as the Googleplex—in 2004.". Most international companies have subsidiaries where necessary -- either for tax purposes, or because the local governments require it.

Same thing for McDonalds, IBM, or any other multinational company.

Personally, I'd like to see Google just close their EU sales offices and let the EU eat dirt. Then they will just complain that they have absolutely no way of getting any EU companies listed in the search engine at all.

Don't believe what Anonymous Cowards say. They are typically clueless. The next version of .NET should be released in the next 1-6 months (I'm guessing around 4).

Dead ending VB6? Are you kidding? They had been saying that it was being phased out before VB6 was released. It's been dead for 17 years now. Give it a rest already. VB6 SUCKED.

Say what? Uh, no. Office has always allowed exchanging data to where ever, from where ever. I think you've drank too much of some funky cool aid. Word has always allowed saving to and from the 1997 version (.doc), or to other formats (.txt, .rtf, .xml, .xps, .wps), it also allows saving to .pdf, and the newer .docx format in both strict and non-strict. You could always access the document via COM/OLE as well, and read and manipulate it, and there were public hooks for writing your own code to read/write into whatever format you wanted (they called them filters). The only thing legal pressure did was force them to include the .odt format as well, which is odd, because usually the courts get mad at Microsoft bundling stuff in that could have always been done by a 3rd party, but in this case, it wanted to opposite.

FIlters is how the older versions of word were given the capability long after release to be able to read newer version of the file format as well. For example, older versions word being able to read .docx, which came out after their release. PDF was also originally added this way as well.

Perhaps, but then again, everyone needs to agree that when the market crashes, they all have to then take a pay hit as well -- and good luck trying to make any financial decisions when your pay fluctuates like that.

I haven't negotiated the price of a house or car for over 12 years or so. My last car, I bought new and there was no negotiation at all.

The problem with that is that MOST people greatly overestimate their worth, often underestimating other people's worth. This tends to have on a whole a negative impact if everyone knows how their employers actually view their worth. Quite often, a person's salary is reflective of the market at the time they here hired. Everyone else that may be equal in value then gets disgruntled that they new hire is getting paid more, even though they are equal value. In general, most people simply can't handle the truth.