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I'd rather see a law that said the highest-remunerated employee in the company could not be given more than 10x that of the lowest-remunerated employee in the company. That way the people who deserve the windfall of a successful and profitable business are the ones receiving it.
This sounds good in theory, but I think it has the potential for unintended consequences, such as companies exchanging all low-paygrade employees for external contractors.
And they are already slowing my Internet.
I'm glad someone made the Stross reference, so I don't have to.
One day the vote will become a complete charade...
One day?
I thought they did that ten years ago.
"Worlds most F'd up interviews" would make an entertaining
The Daily WTF has a nice collection of interview stories.
Actually, IBM already has.
http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1534223/ibm-files-the-patent-troll-patent
My liquor cabinet requires some replenishment of Tennessee Whiskey.
Pray I don't alter it further.
Shouldn't the burden of proof be on you to use the Scientific Method to support your theory that the accounts of the Bible are true?
My 3rd grade teacher was aware of the fourth state of matter. She knew it was called "plasma", and she explained that it existed in our blood.
... but rocket science is not so new and awesome any more you know?
Maybe not so new. Still awesome though.
I'm always wildly amused by the type of hyperbole that is coming from some people in the US public. To some extent, it shows exactly how little they know about the world, and even about their own government.
First World Problem.
Other banned books from the past:
Fahrenheit 451
Wait! Really!? Are you sure this wasn't some clever demonstration of Irony?
I imagine Steve Ballmer needs a new chair at the moment. So that's a plus for the local office furniture outlet he buys from
Ah, the Good ol' Broken Chair Fallacy.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it. -- Les Aspin, D., Wisconsin