You need to read the links. This story is a troll. They aren't promoting international students over domestic students. They are merely giving the facts of what is involved with hiring an international students.

"Indeed, on Slashdot it is traditional to make the same retarded jokes over and over again."

In Soviet Russia, the same joke over and over again makes you retarded!

"A 250 megaton warhead, will only destroy a modern office building at less than a kilometer."

Normally I don't do this, but you are full of crap. The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, the "Tsar bomb", had a yield of about 50 megatons and a radius of total destruction of about 8 miles. Granted there might still be some of the foundation left with 250 megatons (not that anyone has such a weapon in their arsenal) at a half-mile but it will certainly be destroyed for all intents and purposes. A few thousand such weapons to destroy NYC? Utter bullshit, unless you mean to leave the whole area with a smooth finish.

I think the last line of the summary could be reworded: "We don't know how much these things will cost to make, but to get additional funding we had to come up with something less than what current technology costs and ten times less just sounds so sexy."

I think the more likely scenario is that they force you to drive to the top and down the elevator to exit AND make you pay.

Yes, Geraldo is also an idiot. What is your point?

"PVRs are given out FREE by all the cable providers."

Huh? Where? I have Time Warner and if I want a dvr it is $11/month, plus you need to have digital cable which is another $15/month.

Duh. I don't see anywhere where it was explicitly stated or even implied that TV watching directly causes asthma. Looking at what other possible risk factors coincide with excessive boob tube time may lead to being able to what the actual cause(s) is, whether it be lack of exercise, too sterile an environment, poor diet, etc.

Two possibilities come to mind. As the authors of the study suggested, hearing voices and having hallucinations may induce stress within the subjects and cause them to drink more coffee, cola, etc, effectively reversing cause and effect. Another possiblity is that there is a third factor. The subjects were college students. There may be a correlation between high caffeine use and insufficent sleep which could explain the visual and aural hallucinations.

How many times on here have we heard that correlation != causation?

While 99.5% may have registered a religious affiliation, I wonder how many had actually attended a worhsip service or given their religious affiliation any consideration since the last time their moms forced them to go? I suspect there is a high correlation between atheism and eduction/socioeconomic status that is more likely to explain their underrepresentation in prison, getting STDs, etc.