And got completely different results!

However we are current pursuing efforts at mind reading and using minds to control devices using a feedback device which measures activity in regions of the brain. 50 years ago, this would have been considered bunk, so there obviously has been some progress.

> A divorce lawyer doesn't just get hired into a corporate law position.
I think the situation is that if I were to say well, "I need a divorce lawyer specializing in divorces of a white woman and white man with 2 children in their teens, both couples working and making between $30K-$100K [each] who own 25% of a house whose market value is around $300K and whose reasons for divorce are that the man has been cheating on his wife."
There are strategies in a divorce that work better if the couple makes more or if the children are younger.

I have had so many job applications rejected because they were looking for 3 years of C# and 2 in MS-SQL while I had 5 in C++ and 2 in Java and 3 in IBM DB SQL all on Windows.

Next story, some Jewish archaeologist will claim to have found Jesus's body!

Will it be possible to identify his tomb after all these years? How are we sure that even if we find such an ornately decorated tomb, that Khan is the one buried there, instead of some relative or whatnot. I don't know, but many cultures have superstitions about their corpse in the afterlife, so that might be a motivation to "hide" the real corpse?

There are lots of services that one gets from the government which come with all sorts of catchs. Obviously you never read your student bullitin and talked to people who were expelled. What right did Brown University have in expelling Amy Carter?

That we haven't found Martians!

As many species are going extinct, the "common cockroach" is flourishing and multiplying.

After quoting a time schedule and costs, my previous manager once told me that "[He] doesn't know how to do that task nor understand the technical issues but doesn't think it should take or cost that much!" I guess if you can buy MS Word for $700, that is the ball park for any software task. I wish I had told him that he needs to buy a copy of MS Word and his problem is solved.
Unfortunately, most workers in the US revere top level executives as some sort of business geniuses. Call me "anti-business", but I believe most were lucky that they got in when the going was good and managed to hold on. I remember reading about William Penn (who at one time owned the land which became Pennsylvania). He leveraged himself too much and went bankrupt and died penniless. Since that time, our bankruptcy laws haven been changed to protect the wealthy and given them a chance to "reorganize" and keep "creditors at bay" until they get their finances in order. A case in point is Donald Trump who should be working selling hot dogs on 57th since the mid-1980's. Listening to him for half an hour on his "reality show" makes me want to puke. It would be good if that was his occupation, but his show was just a way to stay in the limelight for a bit longer.

The Soviet Union collapsed largely due to the cost of Chernobyl and the economic costs due to military expenditures in trying to match Reagan's SDI (Star Wars) initiative. The Soviet economy was much better off during the Cold War than it was at any other time, even NOW. Gorbachev was a Mongol whose nation was conquered by the USSR and wanted to see the USSR collapse. An arrangement was orchestrated by which he became a private business man worth billions after leaving office.
Just as Americans were taught to fear the Soviets, the Soviets were taught to distrust and fear the Americans. What I was truly surprised about was that the USSR did not launch all of its missiles fearing that the US would attack when it was down (a.k.a. in Israel as "The Samson Option").

Will someone point out that Snowdon is probably revealing info to the Russians? After all, everyone wants SOMETHING!!

the other 40% get it from Fox News. The rest don't care.

After having seen men land on the moon, it seemed a bit of a letdown that we only set our sites on flying 300 miles above earth. I had expected a mission to Mars much earlier on. Yes, it is expensive, but compared to the cost of wars that we had not questioned, it would have been cheap. Even the Cold War could have been averted had the US wanted to, as it was driving the USSR broke even before Chernobol. However, having the Soviets as a boogie man was a great play to get the public to spend a fortune. However, most of the population is really not able to affect the political process. All parties are owned by those who have the money to pay for the fanfare of elections. Fundamentally, there are trivial differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Carter, Clinton, and Obama really haven't changed the course of the status quo. With all the fanfare surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the truth of the matter is that previously, the uninsured left huge bills unpaid which were picked up buy driving up costs for everyone else. Similarly, the Vietnam War did not end because of mass public protest, but because of the realization that more bombs and money was spent on it then in all of WWII. Thirdly, the fact that we live in a republic rather than a democracy was evident during the TARP bank bail out in 2007, where most elected officials acknowledged that the majority of the population was against it, but the powers that be made sure that the investors would get their money back or the economy would be sunk.

Who has a pic of a naked Woz in his inbox?

Lets not forget that Win1.0, Win2.0, Win3.0 were failures.
Win3.1 was a success.
MS is good at pumping money and people into technology until it matures and succeeds.
I don't like a lot of things that MS has done, but I will admit that it was good at succeeding in the marketplace where others have failed. IBM had OS/2 and Micro-Channel Architecture, but in 1990, it seemed as if MS was doomed with EISA.