Programmers who can write a halfway decent market prediction algorithm are being churned out by universities all over the world in astounding numbers. Investors with the available funds to make use of those algorithms, not so much. I'd say a six figure salary for a programmer is pretty good considering how many out there are unemployed right now.

...check out the list of CC Friendly Lawyers at creativecommons.org. Somebody might be able to offer advice that doesn't involve suing the infringing parties.

Do you want to be the teacher that has to deal with Junior for 3 years in a row?

Or you can quit wasting your time with the morons and take the more direct approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raygun

What happens when all candidates are owned by the same corporations? How can the voter go right?

One guy flying his plane into an IRS station does not a revolution make.

Here in the US over two thirds of our population is made up of megahumans!

If they were going to wait for FDA approval before selling these things they'd have to wait... a year? 5 years? 10 years? And how much money would they have to sink into validation testing? I can't blame them for slapping a disclaimer on the thing and selling it as is.

Between applications from recent grads that can't find jobs, ex-grads currently working at Starbucks, and those folks laid off to increase CEO paychecks, EVERY job market is already flooded. Might as well do something you enjoy for 4 years. You're going to be fucked after that no matter what field you go into.

Next time you're at the grocery store waiting in a line that takes longer to get through than the drive home, look at the front of the line and you'll either see somebody writing a check or counting out bills and coins.

Actually the government is quite competent at wasting money!

The agenda of any organization that grows large enough is to continue to grow.

You couldn't find enough people with an attention span long enough to rise against anything. If they found out about this they'd be upset until the next thing flashed on their TV screens.

I've beta tested some commercial games and actually took the testing part seriously. Result? Nothing changed. Now I just do it for the free preview. And as for sending in bug reports for open source projects? One of three results: 1. It's fine, go away. 2. Nothing changes, no response. 3. "Didn't you see bug report #463-394Z filed four years ago describes a similar problem in another screen? Wow, you're dumb! You should read over our bug report archive before filing a report."

When people defend FOSS defects with statements like, "if you don't like it, don't use it" or, "if you don't like it, make it better" I wish they'd consider the quoted statement first. Every alienated user that makes his way to Apple is one less user buying the hardware you want to buy. And once it's no longer worthwhile for manufacturers to make that hardware you're shit out of luck unless you plan on porting your favorite open OS to the TI calculator.