They also subsidize train transit, including sleeper cars.

How exactly do you expect our 16 year olds to stand up to an intimidating authority figure when we raise them all to be blindly obedient to authority figures? The appropriate solution is for those of us who do have the gumption to stand up for the rest. Refuse to vote for anyone who has ever supported the TSA. Better yet, vote for their rival, no matter how much you dislike their rival.

Maybe it's time for the TSA to have their imaging equipment evaluated by the FDA like every other piece of human imaging equipment out there. Or better yet, stop using it.

So they kidnap you instead.

And this is exactly why I still fly in spite of my desire to take a train. The only reasonable option for that duration of a train ride, sleeper cars, cost a lot more than a plane ticket.

You mean Hel? It's not so bad a place.

On the contrary, pagans often recognize the validity of other religions. It makes more sense when you consider that Jehovah is the desert god of the Israelites. He has just been adopted into a much larger worshiper base.

I think you are mistaken. It was Woden and his warriors who took out the giants.

As the adage goes where I work, if you want software really bad, you'll get really bad software.

Why? Because he believes that all citizens should be allowed to vote? I might think he's generally full of it, but he has a valid point here.

"Members will solicit questions from the public via their Facebook pages to ask TSA officials at the hearing."

RTFA. Facebook is the only option. There is no suggestion that letters submitted to your congressman via email or US Post will be considered. In fact, there is no suggestion that questions will even be solicited from the audience.

The buyback probably won't have significant impact on the share value since the market cap is over 500 billion. What it will do is provide Apple with a financing safety net should they run into hard times again. They will have those shares that they can sell to raise capital.

Looking at the chart, the S&E work force has grown considerably since 1990. The article suggests that the workforce as a percentage of the population should be continuing to grow, but they don't offer any logic as to why. It makes sense to me that this number would be flat. Is there an ideal target for this workforce? Is it 100%?

This. And fire the executive management that refuses to seriously what a good project manager tells them about realistic time lines with given resources. They are the scourge that will either sink your company or cause it to never become a great company. It sounds like your company needs to either table some of the projects for now or hire more resources. Though that still won't help you if you don't have good project management.

And you can tell them just that. That all you want in life is to do interesting work like this job is offering. That doesn't mean that you will be culled from the herd for it. It tells them that you're applying to the job because you want to do the work associated with the job. Telling them that you just want a job tells them that you don't give a shit about the work.