It's worse than that. They identify the foreign workers they want to import, and then taylor the job descriptions so those workers are uniquely qualified for the job.

This is as relevant now as it was when it was made.

I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first. Not that I'm holding my breath.

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A Swiss genetics company has claimed that up to 70 per cent of British men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, say they have reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.

The results showed that 'King Tut' belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 per cent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 per cent, according to iGENEA.

Actually, a similar system seems to work ok for the Catholic Church, which could be considered as a non-geographically oriented political entity, complete with it's own laws, court system, a voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions. Not shabby, especially when you consider it's lasted for 2000 years, which is longer than any government has.

Lovely. Just what we need, another aggrieved minority. The first thing it'll prolly do is hire a lawyer and sue us for reparations for displacing it's ancestors 30,000 years ago.

Definition of a scientist: A political activist that also wants to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs, and lay inventors.

Question: if you're not eventually going to be sending people into space, what's the justification for a tax-payer funded space program at all? The object of taxing people is to provide things that are useful to the public at large. If the intention isn't that people will eventually be going to live and work in space, or have some other practical human use for it, all you're doing is forcing the tax-payers to subsidize the curiosity of a few scientists and science geeks. Nice idea, but in today's economy pretty tough to justify. I like the space program as much as the next guy, but spending money on things that benefit no one but a select few are luxuries we can no longer afford.

My purely anecdotal observation (as an ex-libertarian) is closer to "A libertarian is someone who wants just enough government to prevent the angry mob from giving him exactly what he deserves".

April Fools!

Climate change! Is there nothing it can't do?

Is there anything it can't do?

How 'bout it? For the first several years, Slashdot was All Linux All The Time. That's what drew it's original audience. It was one of the best resources on the net for keeping up with every little Linux development.

What icon does Slashdot use for articles about music? An Edison cylinder phonograph, a technology that hasn't been in common use for nearly a century, and is rarely if ever actually seen outside of a museum.

The point is that whether or not an icon representing a function reflects a technology currently in common use has nothing to do with weather people will associate it with a particular function. People who have grown up familiar with "folders" as a metaphor for "directory" or "phonograph" as a metaphor for "music" will associate the icon with the function regardless of whether or not they were ever familiar with the original technology the metaphor was based on.

No. Here if you pull a stunt offending somebody's religion, you get this.

Indeed? Who's the one trying to have his working letters suppressed? I don't think it's the AG...