Absolutely true. I've stayed at companies for up to 5 years and never received more than a 2 or 3% raise, but every time I've left a company I've gotten between 15 - 25% raises. The only reason I'm staying where I am now is because I'm tired of jumping ship every couple of years. I like the benefits where I am and if the owners of the company somehow manage to avoid destroying what few good reasons there are for staying I'm looking to finish off my career here.

I've been a software developer for over 30 years and I'm still trying to decide if it's a lucrative profession.

I agree we should continue to trust the reports from the IPCC, regardless of whether the data they use is made up or not. It's not the facts that matter but their intent. As long as we believe it's all man made is all that matters. It doesn't matter that their climate models can't even predict the weather accurately a week in advance, we need to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean we all know the climate is changing, today it is raining, yesterday it wasn't, today it is cold, yesterday it wasn't. It's all our fault. If humans weren't on the earth then every day would be perfect, no hot, no cold, no droughts, no floods, no ice ages, no warm periods. The weather is all our fault! We must stop the weather or we will all die! So pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Listen to what the IPCC says. I mean when has the U.N. ever been wrong?

Does it play Mario Bros?

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Everyone in West Virginia knows their Civil War history. If not for the war West Virginia wouldn't exist. Having grown up in WV and now living in the south I am surprised at how few people down here even know WV is a state. I guess after a hundred and forty five years they're still sore over WV seceding from Virginia. They must refuse to teach it in history class while they sit patiently and wait for the northern usurpers to leave.

robot that sweeps floors, or is that the one that cleans gutters?

the newly created Microsoft Motors has had to issue it's 23rd recall notice this year with engine failures reaching 54%. Microsoft is currently in talks with the Obama administration concerning a possible bailout of their Motor Division.

for the coal powered electric plant that produces the electricity to turn that salt water into clean jet fuel.

For now the cost of running your car off the grid is cheap, but wait til everyone else is doing it and the price will sky rocket. When the price of coal went up because the EPA banned high sulfur coal many factories and power plants switched to natural gas because it was cheaper. And now we all pay more to heat our homes in winter because the demand for natural gas has gone up. But really, what we need are cars that can be driven manually with gas power on local roads, and on the freeway a lane where they are operated like a personal rapid transit system using electricity.