The Slashdot team works all day, erry day. You should give them more credit.

They're not hiring. They're poaching.

"free market principles" won't help here. On the contrary, just think of the money that would go into actual health care if the government came in guns-ablaze and forcefully said "no, United Health Care, you can't treat your customers like the deepest turd of a batch of untreated sewer sludge", or "no, big drugmaker, you can't throw millions of dollars on advertising niche products like fucking Restasis all over primetime tv instead of putting the money toward cutting the costs of life-saving meds".

Those are two cases where I'd actually be elated to see the NSA and TSA put into use: snoop on the moneyed fuckers involved and No-Fly 'em as soon as it's clear they want to take anything that resembles a business trip to plan their next splurge.

By:

1. refusing to even allow the bill to come up for debate until it gets just the desired amount of crossed-out lines, ideological additions, arcane language, and pork behind closed subcommittee doors; and
2. voting against it anyway once it's finally allowed on the floor.

And, do it for less than another half billion freaking dollars!!

Oracle's involved, so good luck with that.

Raiden: "You got enough?"

Snake: "Absolutely." *points to bandana* "Infinite ammo!"

And if the answer is "everyone gets equal financial support," then what prevents 1000 candidates from running?

And if the answer to that is "Nothing", have we really been harmed?

...and that is why you don't call business an "ecosystem".

Wait in line? Hah! They'd just strip your name off, make an ACA healthcare exchange server out of it, and LOL at your insignificance.

Apparently not one ping only.

I'd happily throw money at Intel graphics, once (a) they actually do catch up to the Big Two (they are currently not even anywhere near anything close to something that so much as resembles half their performance or graphical feature set), (b) I can afford them, and (c) they stop considering soldering their new chips to the board, or make more chips with "Windows 8-only" features.

Buying someone's chip is taken by that someone as support for their policies. Those in (c) are two that I hope I never have to support, and I don't want to pay a "competitor" that's just aiming to out-monopolize the monopoly.

"While the book lacks much about his thoughts on the whole Spore thing (presumably due to various contractual agreements with EA), the book is still somewhat illuminating about Wright. 6/10"

Won this war, and started this war.

I'm with you...is Google even using valid HTML, or HTML5,* in the problem pages? Last I checked GOOG was great at breaking both.

*I did not repeat myself.

Good call! Wouldn't want those highly advanced scientists at al-Qaeda to reproduce it at the gene level or anything.