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Comment How? (Score 1) 195

Seriously. Everyone loves H1-Bs exception tech workers. What do you do when both parties are completely in favor of it? You can't say "Go to the Libertarians" either because they're in favor too (they're against amnesty usually, but want more legal immigration and visas).

I don't think we've got a chance. I remember reading an article from some University economist or something where he talked about how we're all going to have to get used to a lower standard of living and a more "Fragile" existence. I'd love to believe that's not true, but heck, we still blamed Unions for Hostess going under. We blamed 'em for GM and we're blaming weak test scores on them. We can't stop fighting amongst ourselves, how do we protect our livelihoods?

Comment Re:And it's of course Apple's fault (Score 3, Interesting) 261

Okey, this might not have any relevance at all, but I thought that it was quite funny, so I decided to post a little anecdote. Quakeworld - a quake 1 'mod' - tends to give me motion sickness if I'm not used to it.

These guys need to get accounts or I need to get mod points. Apple should have known better, considering that this effect was known fifteen years or more ago; I had a fairly popular Quake site back then (1998-2003) and got quite a few emails from readers talking about this in Quake II, and bigger sites than mine were covering it as well.

Research fail on Apple's part. Hubris or stupidity? Both?

Comment Re:On the plus side... (Score 2, Interesting) 261

I think you misunderstood his point - whether or not the hardware was updated, it was the same interface. The interface was the problem, not the phone.

I'm starting to think that my $125 waterproof Android phone is superior to an $800 iBling in a whole lot of ways (my daughter has an iPhone, she wants one like mine now).

Comment Re:Some things never change (Score 1) 83

I'd guess more than a hundred years, read about the Teapot Dome Scandal 90 years ago. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen covered it in Only Yesterday: a An Informal History of the 1920s written in 1931. It's suggested in that tome that Harding's death was either assassination or suicide because of that scandal.

I have the printed book, just finished re-reading it on my phone (there are a few OCR errors). I recommend it, it's a fascinating read. The 1920s were very similar to today, possibly even worse. A housing bubble, runaway stock market, gang wars in Chicago over an illegal drug (alcohol in the '20s). They seemed to have learned a little from History or we'd be in a deep depression now.

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