A while back I found a good chart of radiation levels and from memory 300 miles up was the point where radiation levels were too high for permanent human occupation. I wonder if this was the cause...

I bet it's more than that. A guy I used to work with couldn't get in touch w/ a client we were doing support for and guessed the password. I have no clue what he was getting into, but our clients are Fortune 500 companies.

So, the only option is to keep them imprisoned?

All the same, I'm more interested in the "how fast can you get daddy another beer?" experiment.

Exactly how a lot of people ended up in Gitmo. Besides the hundreds we've released already, there are other innocent men certified as such by our intelligence services that they won't release.

There's a difference between obeying the letter of the law and defrauding companies too small to ever fight back.

It's great that he's given so much to charities, but if he's still pushing to the top of the list, that should tell us all he's not giving away relatively much of his fortune.

Just the part we're worried about.

Will it pretend to ignore you while hitting on a co-ed at the end of the bar? I really won't feel comfortable unless it tries to short me change and hope I'm too drunk to notice, then give me a dirty look when I skimp on the tip.

But, for the previous residents of my house. They must have been some interesting characters. Lots of collections stuff continued to arrive and some total information awareness database finally associated my home phone number with the address as well, so I was getting upwards of 5 calls a day from collections agencies for them. And, they were complete dicks when I'd tell them they had the wrong phone number and address. At one point, my CELL phone number started getting calls for them, but that only happened a few times.

The worst thing about the whole ordeal is that it turned me into an asshole whenever I get calls for merchants. I got so many calls, I got into the habit of just cussing out any of the collectors or anyone using a collector's con to figure out who lived at my number. That eventually bled over to any merchants who called.

I don't know if this is insightful or funny. Actually, I was afraid to choose.

Hmmm, do you support Microsoft, the Great Satan, for circumventing advertising or do you honor your natural allegiance to Google? Never mind that that same ad revenue is how the videos you enjoy are paid for. The contortions I'm reading here must be snapping spines all over digital creation.

And, that is relevant to my analogy how?

If judgments only made me pay for what I stole, there'd be no incentive NOT to steal! It would become a "catch me if you can, then I'll make good" game.

That's simplistic. If an industry colludes to either suppress wages or change laws to increase the labor pool (lowering certification and licensing standards or H-1Bs) wages won't reflect supply and demand trends. Remember that plane that went down from icing in New England 5 years or so ago? The copilot was making about $20K/year. This is in a time when Vietnam-era pilots are retiring, so the War Boom of skilled pilots is passing.

In fact wages in IT seem to be worse in the industry considering what was happening during the DotCom bubble.