H1-Bs are already supposed to be paid at least prevailing wages, but that's easy enough to get around when you can give them whatever job title you want and run wage surveys pretty much however you want. That employee that's essential to our basic functioning and oversees the technical development of our entire company? He's a PC Maintenance Technician I.

Then again, that could just be very powerful aliens playing a practical joke on Earth. You know, sufficiently advanced technology and all.

Then you get a somewhat bigger fortress that won't collapse from external forces (instead it'll be the King demanding materials that don't exist causing every dwarf to be arrested or one careless death causing a tantrum spiral).

Yeah, when was the last time they took up a case about quartering troops in people's houses or made damn sure that suits at common law for $20 would be tried by juries? Oh, wait, you probably mean the second amendment. The one that already has the NRA standing up for it with twice the total budget of the ACLU. But if it makes you feel better, the ACLU has actually defended gun owners before: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04...

I always knew that the Red Cross was implemented by communists! See, they even have "red" in their name!

Oh wait, that's General Ripper territory.

People already do speed to beat the light. The only difference with a timer is that fewer people will be a few seconds late and speed past when it's red.

Not just "a federal judge". The Supreme Court said it. Kyllo v. United States

Is that before or after companies just can't happen to find an American candidate with 10 years experience in Rust and 15 years experience in Windows Server 2013 and fluent in 3 different foreign languages and willing work 80 hour weeks for $40,000 a year? But they can sure find some H1b visa candidate who's a perfect fit and a candidate in Elbonia who's even willing to undercut that. But the American worker is bad for wanting to put food on their table.

If it were just the 4-5 times the number of unique visitors expected, then I'd say that it's probably just curious people trying to understand the mechanics for themselves. But if there's a 100,000 visitor spike for no good reason, yeah, that doesn't pass the sniff test.

If a 20 year old Buick were dying on you, would you take it to the closest mechanic you could find as soon as humanly possible and not ask the price of fixing it or even if there was a realistic chance of fixing it? No, but that's because a 20 year old Buick going kaput isn't the end of the world. A 40 year old body going kaput very much is the end of someone's world.

Young people get sick. Young people get injured. Young people do not have enough assets to pay for any kind of hospital bills. It can easily cost thousands of dollars just to get diagnosed with something, even if it ends up being a relatively minor thing. Do you know a lot of 20 somethings that can absorb that kind of hospital bill?

Then again, I'd much prefer single payer, because I'm not fucking insane.

Whether or not turning my phone (and presumably all such communication tech) off for a week would bother me depends on what's happening. If I'm specifically away on vacation, then whatever, doesn't bother me at all (other than maybe not having music to listen to). If it's a normal week where I might expect calls or text messages from friends, then yeah, it'd kinda suck to not have any idea what's going on. For better or worse, most people don't live within walking distance of all their friends, nor do most people want to just stop by unannounced.

Oddly enough, they can (in some systems). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_trading

Yet Scalia cites the Federalist Papers, which is basically one side of a pretty damn spirited ideological debate between the founding fathers.

The Empire State Building used 48000 cubic meters of concrete. The Burj Khalifa used 330000 cubic meters of concrete.

I'd say it's way more like a suspected bookie that's writing down bets in code. Maybe you've cracked some of the code to figure out that there's a bet on one page of a book. Using that, you're trying to get the bookie to divulge his method of encrypting all the books found in his office. The question is whether the bookie has to give you a) the code b) decoded versions of the books or c) nothing at all.