So your claim is that cockroaches are as human as Jews?

It was North Koreans trying to get information for their missile program!!!

This mirrors my experience; I find that the part of my brain that processes code is distracted by music, and vice versa, so I'm pretty sure they are the same part.

-- Terry

You can't speak to NASA until you make it through their airspace... welcome to vertical bureaucracy!

Angry man screams into cell phone standing near a small dock "Dammit I said ORE Dog not OAR Dog!!!"

Typically it's to avoid annoying the System Administrator who is already working there with the idea they are hiring a peer or over his head.

-- Terry

Then tell government where they are going to spend your taxes, me regarding mine, your regarding yours. This simple core change fixes a great many problems not least of which is removing failures of government to budget and do correct accounting..... We'll do it for them and they can take more vacations until their vacation is permanent, like a rigged lottery for a free lunch.

No Taxation without representation! Do Lying Politicians represent you?

Representation is not about some person claiming to represent you as that could have happen at the start of this country where someone in Britain could have claimed such.

No, we have software developer positions that pay enough (I have one of them, it pays enough, and competitively), but we have chronic openings that take months to fill. We get a couple of US-based applicants per month, usually unqualified. The rest are mostly Chinese and Indian immigrants (also frequently unqualified).

To put it another way: we have almost 100% acceptance on our offers, and too rarely someone to make them to.

Unless you are, IT workers are already exempt from overtime pay; you are exempt IFF:

(a) Paid at least $23,600/year
(b) Paid on a salary basis
(c) Perform exempt job duties

IT workers fall under the "Exempt Job Duties - Professional" umbrella, just like computer programmers:

(a) Employees are performing exempt professional job duties if their work involves the application of advanced, usually specialized, learning or credentials of the type commonly associated with the "traditional learned professions" such as medicine, law, accounting or engineering.
(b) Computer professionals are exempt if they are paid on a salary basis, or hourly at a rate of at least $27.63

See here http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html and here http://www.overtimelawyer.com/areyouexempt.html to further educate yourself as to why you probably do not deserve to get overtime pay if you are an IT person.

-- Terry

Given that Java has only been released for 17 years, you are basically asking James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, or Patrick Naughton to come to work for you for $40K/year.

-- Terry