Employers are struggling to pull their heads out of their assholes and try to hire the right people. They're hiring the people whose resume says they have the skills and who look pretty and failing to hire the people who can solve problems and who look like whatever they look like (some of whom are pretty) because they're incapable of hiring intelligently.

I lay the problem on lazy and/or uneducated managers relying on the HR department to find their candidates without proper guidance, and on lazy and uneducated HR employees who are just trying to find anyone who fits some absurd criteria they copied from someone else's website.

None of those industries can function without IT any more. Also, as the GP alluded, IT is in a position to directly sell out all of a company's secrets, so you want them to be paid well enough not to do so.

It's a simple question of supply and demand; there's not enough supply at the rate they demand to pay. Consequently IT people have become truck drivers and dry cleaners and shit like that. Things that take two brain cells but not three. They're making about the same kind of money they were making in IT if they were underpaid, but with a lot less responsibility. Some of them are even making more.

Oh yeah, you mean like how all of the known evidence (what wasn't immediately and deliberately destroyed by our own government) suggests that the WTC was destroyed from within? Nobody cares about that, either.

That's not what the argument is about. The argument is about whether it's coercion to mandate a minimum wage, or coercion to have the very concept of private property in a system without one.

You want your government to threaten coercion against people for letting their feet take them where they will. You're just another kind of fascist.

You really think it's the presidents themselves who doing this stuff? Maybe in the case of George Bush Sr. Maybe in the case of Nixon, too. But in the majority of cases? No way. Most of them are just hand puppets.

Oreo-sniffing dogs still useless, and annoying

That's what you were trying to say? You don't need to slow down you just need to say things in a way that makes sense. Yes, the sensors were functioning when it entered orbit and nearly continuously since.

No, it only means that the craft has provided data of unprecedented detail, and that it's about the lunar structure. These aren't Star Trek sensors that just "scan" the moon and somehow directly spit out all the salient details about its composition. Actually going from the raw gravity sensor data to the 3D density map you desire takes a lot of work.

The implication being that they're recording the same data over and over and should have been done after the first 'pass'. Which is hilarious; thank you for clearly explaining. These are gravity probes, not cameras looking at large regions of the surface. Every unique position over the moon is a unique data point.

I think it's perfect that you'd trot out this analogy in an instance where an army of geology majors spending their whole lives with buckets and shovels couldn't get us the data this probe has. It really does put everything you said in perspective.

So you're upset at the lack of progress in manned exploration. Understandable. What's less understandable is how this has turned your thinking on anything related to the subject of space exploration to mush.

It would also boost new car sales, due to the reduction of used cars on the market.

Yeah, but it's not normally considered to mean "violators will be stopped with hellfire missiles", although apparently nobody has told the VA governor this.

A license that does not allow commercial use would not meet the definition of free or open source software (Freedom 0: the freedom to use the software for any purpose), so his restriction would effectively make it impossible for anyone to incorporate his code into a larger project, open or proprietary.