You DID see they talked about people over 40, even. I'm 39. I have a mortgage and a two year old daughter. I'm not a freaking baby boomer - I'm from the end part of Gen X. I was born in 1976. My employer doesn't seem to have issues with older employees at this point, but if I get caught in a workforce reduction, I'm probably screwed. I certainly can't afford to retire twenty five years early. And you know what, my dad, who turned 71 years old this year, guess what, he can't afford to 100% retire either. He worked as a lineman for the phone company for almost 40 years, retired and then found out he was going to have to partially support my stupid stepbrother and his two daughters that moved in with him. So, he's still out there, doing computer repair work and troubleshooting network problems freelance, because his other choice is to starve, I suppose. Go find your own career, don't worry about taking it away from someone who still NEEDS it.

OS X was based on Next Step, you mean, though that admittedly included BSD code, apparently.

I assume the term Troll actually comes from the fishing term, where you let out a line with bait and then move in your boat at a slow speed to simulate live prey. So perhaps a Trawler of Trolls or a Net of Trolls or some other nautical term.

Beyond the possible blue light = day light issues, it's just true that red light doesn't destroy your night vision. We made sure to get a nightlight that can be set to red for the hallway to my daughter's room, and keep a headlamp that has a red light in her room for if we have to find something while she's asleep. The default on the nightlight is green, I think, so I've had to stand there and get my nightvision back when I've turned it on post power-outage in the middle of the night.

I don't have mod points, but thank you. To me, the suggestion of pardoning him, let alone Jill Stein's stance as listed above... if I had considered voting for a third party, I would be definitely put that as a mark against that person.

And Trump also has spoken favorably of Brexit, which might lead to other countries leaving the EU, a weaker EU is also to Russia's benefit. (Not to get all conspiracy theory.)

BS. I'm a female engineer and I frequently joke that female engineer is a different gender than just female. I'm an engineer and a geek first, most definitely, and I would say that's true of a great number of female engineers I know. I hate shopping, except for books or games, I hate gossiping and small talk. I'm an INTJ, if you're into Meyers Briggs. I have never been given any opportunity to negotiate on salary. I do my performance review and I get a little slip of paper with my raise.

Other countries have addressed the "starter job" versus "adult job" issue by... having two minimum wages, dependent on age.

Or be made to look like Natalie Portman?

I've 39 right now, and I've been lucky enough to work at one company since college. Like a lot of people, I worry about my job, especially since I work at a defense contractor. I've had friends who were laid off and had a bear of a time finding a job, and I worry that in the next couple of years that will be me. Now, at my actual workplace, I haven't seen much of it; I work on a program that has been in active development since at least 1992, so I think we really value the guys who have been at it since the beginning. Of course, right now we don't have a ton of new hires, since they've tended to be the people who have set sail for more stable ground vs the ones with houses, families and inertia.

The easiest way to have both public involvement and keep the idiots from hijacking the poll is probably to have a first round of _submissions_ which are handled privately, winnow out the stupid ones and allow public voting on the subset remaining.

Hopefully, you realize (though it sounds like not) that this does not involve actually taking anything away from you and giving it to poor people. At all. It is about the idea that poor people tend to use their phone for basic internet activities, rather than having a cable modem at home, etc, etc. It is arguably the same problem as people using the ER without insurance and spreading the cost to those who do have it. Except that in this case, you're charging more (okay, okay, charging the same for less service) of people who have difficulty affording it.

The argument appears to be that if they offer data for certain apps at a discounted rate, that effectively it means they are overcharging for other things, such as the more general internet service that people using their phone for all their internet would likely to be doing more of. I don't know if I buy it, but that appears to be the argument.

Zero-rating (also called toll-free data or sponsored data) is the practice of mobile network operators (MNO), mobile virtual network operators (MVNO), and Internet Service Providers (ISP) not to charge end customers for data used by specific applications or internet services through their network, in limited or metered data plans.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It allows customers to use provider-selected content sources or data services like an app store,[7] without worrying about bill shocks, which could otherwise occur if the same data was normally charged according to their data plans and volume caps. This has especially become an option to market 4G networks, but has also been used in the past for SMS or other content services.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In contrast, my college required all engineering degrees (literally, with engineer in the degree name), I believe, to take technical communication and write a huge paper, while I as a computer science major did not. (I did, however, have to do a team senior project with a real company that went from requirements definition to creating training documents and having a fake trade show.)