People in 2 other states from me (ever) with the same names (I'm assuming from what I found on the internet that they're 2 different people) had some of their information posted on my credit report. It's an annoyance to get it removed, but it's possible. Find a good credit cleanup book, get all 3 of your reports, and make sure there's nothing jacked up in it.

That's a VERY ideal situation. More likely, the stock moves at the same pace as the economy, or lets say you tank the company. What then? You don't get docked pay. So, the whole point of a CEO's salary is that possible profit and the risk of possible losses are supposed to be baked in. Unless something unusually good or bad happens. And, with golden parachutes even if the company is all but destroyed the CEO still walks away with bags of money.

I know nothing about how publicly run companies deal with exec salaries, but it doesn't appear to be at the advantage of the stock holders.

Impeachment might be seen as a serious option if it hadn't been brought up about a 100 times by partisans since 2008. "Wolf" has been cried too many times.

I'd love to have something good enough to back up large amounts of data without burning through a stack of CDs or DVDs. Does the technology have to be driven by the entertainment industry?

Combat flying is probably quite a bit different. I'm just an air warfare buff, so I have no firsthand knowledge but fighter pilots are very focused on what's going on outside the cockpit. They have to learn to scan for aircraft w/ or w/o a radar cue, tactics that are all about your position in relation to other aircraft, and obviously using weapon systems.

A coworker interned with the military on some secret missile tech 15 years ago (I suspect he was working with HARM trajectories from what I could glean) and he said the guys who ran the simulators were far better at evading SAMs than actual pilots because of all the sim time they had. Come to think of it, he said the actual pilots were pretty abysmal at evading them which is a tactic best rehearsed on a simulator!

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So, no one would see a problem with advertising for employment towards women being skewed to promote jobs as teachers and secretaries while reducing job advertisements for managers and doctors?

So, you're saying is the Feds could use a nice, piping hot cup of Java to get moving?

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How about regulating them?

I think it's a little more subtle than that. It's not that we reward wrong behavior. We simply don't really punish people in these kinds of situations enough to deter doing wrong. And, that punishment scale is based on how much money or influence your parents might have.

Here in Kansas, we had a group of high school kids get busted a few years ago buying essays. The teacher flunked them all, but the parents went to the school board and pressured them into giving the kids passing grades. You can be assured it wasn't an inner city school. We've become a nation of cynics.

Years back I read that NASA uses older, battle tested chips rather than going with cutting edge hardware that might crap out on you from an obscure bug.

Business relationships color the news for all outlets; even NPR and PBS now have "sponsors." About 10 years ago I was watching I think CNBC when RFK Jr. started talking about poor environmental practices of GE, the parent company. The hosts actually shushed him and they immediately cut to commercial. When they came back, RFK Jr. was gone...

I'm in KC and when "lower end" fiber services in the 24 Mbps range started appearing, so many people started flocking to them that the entrenched service provider started offering better deals. Of course, this didn't happen until they were hammered with defections.

Before we've got to deal with insurgent aliens in the future.