Bloomberg saying be a plumber sounds reminiscent of a certain monarch in France saying you can just eat cake. History shows those in power with such disdain for those they govern will eventually regret their abuses.

Yeah I see where your going; approximately in a fuzzy amount, 165 feet.

I just checked that and you are right. The download manager showed things I thought were deleted.

Well I didn't want to bring that into it but yeah. Ya gotta like the idea of wrapping evolution into a political/governmental idea; makes it easy to justify wiping out $A_Race_You_Dont_Like. If any thing I'd say "scientific literacy" makes one more dimwitted as in the proverbial frog in a pot of water much like the intelligentsia of Nazi Germany were blind to the real intend by Hitler.

it doesn't make people more ethical. If anything less so as they think they have a more sound sense of why they should kill you.

Anything that involves a person in management.

No. If you need an explanation then your a crappy ass programmer, manager, etc.

because Obama lowered the oceans and being a "savior" he can do as he pleases.

Ensuring the workload is equally shared by all is the typical socialist short sighted view. The better answer is to fire the slackards. No amount of "incentives" is going to properly motivate. It wastes company time and resources. The unmotivated will get motivated when telling them to get their act together or take a hike.

And that's fine but I seriously doubt a California court can dictate what a corporation does in a foreign country.

His flaw is the assumption that software which is nothing more than math falls in the realm patents. It doesn't. Any Darwinian monkey would know this.

That's the sad thing of people who have never taught; once you create a lesson plan your good to go for eternity. Been there as an in-classroom instructor for the Air Force. Things are not as static as most people think.

Put Linus in charge of everything.

So what's the big deal, the developer has been bit in the ass even though people such as Mr. Stallman have warned them about these devices and their proprietary nature. Pay your thousands and shut up cry baby.

Good.