That describes no CEO I've ever met. They manipulate board meetings, decide how far they can go outside of the law without getting caught, make insider deals that serve their own interests at the expense of the workers, manipulate financial data to increase their bonuses, make big business deals of buying and selling subsidiaries in order to make the greatest profit for their buddies, and generally leave the running of the actual company to underlings.

Typical anti-intellectualism idiocracy, and one major reason that this country is heading into the toilet. At one time academics were respected for this wisdom. If they had an issue, they were trusted to be on the side of right. Now it's attack scientists and professors at every opportunity.

"I'm not painfully introverted or socially inept, but I get lost in my work and only contact people if I need something from them or they ask me a question."

The people that get the best reviews are not the ones who work the hardest. They are the ones who impress their bosses and colleagues the most. That may sound a bit cynical, but it is the painful truth. Stop working so hard. Take a breath, look around, and relax a bit. If you are feeling swamped, then you need to set expectations better. Let everyone know that you are really busy, even if you are not. Try simple small talk, like "good morning," and "going to get some coffee, you want some." Treat your boss and people in authority with casual respect, that is, not stiff, but with deference. Take more breaks and run into more people. I learned a long time ago that in IT, perception is more important than results.

We're probably not talking about people with their fingers on the detonators of bombs. More likely people who criticize certain people in power, you know, common slashdot conversations. Maybe it's MY ego getting in the way, but slashdot more and more is becoming the modern Federalist Papers, and that has to be of concern to the powers at be.

How about we accept that Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin don't really matter and just ignore them? Nah, marketing people need their meaningless metrics to justify their salaries and spending.

From our American taxes to the military to Haliburton to Dubai to diamond encrusted cars. Fuck this country.

Free energy from the ether! Not.

These are the same people who have been convinced that universal health care is a "communist" plot. "Better dead than Red." Wish granted. There is no hope when the citizens vote for their own slavery, hell, they insist on it.

OT, but Japan was also top in the international intelligence poll. A couple more years of language study and this American and his wife are moving west.

As it has in countries with strict gun laws, so there's your correlation. I guess America is just so much more full of crazy people than UK or Japan that we all need guns for protection. Wait, who are those crazy people? Can they buy guns?

What is hard is launching a person into space safely 100% of the time. If your passenger is willing to risk their life on a 10% failure rate of the rocket, and iffy engineering on the capsule, anyone can do it a year with enough money. I hate to say it, but until we are willing to accept that kind of level of risk, like the first biplane pilots, or the first sailors going out of sight of the coast, then this space thing will take a long long time. There's no end of adrenaline junkies looking for new ways to risk their lives. It's society's extreme reactions to any failure that is slowing us down. One craft crashes and we shut down the entire manned space program for five years until we figure out who to blame. Way to go America. I hope India and China and Denmark can jump start that next wave.

Typos in both headline and submission. Well done slashdot, well done.

It's the same reason we are still at "war" with Cuba.

Homeschooling by idiotic parents is tantamount to child abuse. OK, that describes most home schooling.

Agreed. Standardization should decrease complexity (of maintenance), not increase it. Keep the tools as simple as possible, and as close to vendor standard as possible. It's like admins who customize root. If you leave it generic, then every admin knows what to expect.