I'd be surprised if 94% of professionals worked more than 40 hours a week, never mind 50. I don't know how they arrived at that figure, but it doesn't pass the sniff test at all.

Why do you think violent criminals released from jail due to crappy software would be somehow mad at the software company?

I'm not sure why you would pick CS graduates as opposed to applicants for positions. Any large company is going to have sales, marketing, administration staff, etc. so picking one specific category, even if it would be the largest, will not give you remotely accurate results. It also implies a CS degree is a pre-requisite for a job at a company, instead of for specific jobs. For example, you're going to have a lot of support staff (server, network, desktop teams, helpdesk, etc.) who would have no requirement for and a low likelihood of having a CS degree. Companies, even tech companies, are not so easily reduced to simple statistics that are meaningful.

A pretty trivial Google search "yahoo board of directors" has the first search result their list of board of directors (imagine that). 2 of the 7 are women, and 1 of them is, in fact, Marissa Mayer. So I don't suppose that the board of directors would ultimately disagree.

Why do you figure HR is prejudiced against women or ethnicity? Wouldn't it be the other way around? That'd look better being all diverse and stuff, right? Maybe they really are presenting you all the people that responded.

I find a lot of people on Slashdot seem to hate HR, but don't have any idea what they really do or why. Lots of standard kneejerk reactions. That said, it doesn't mean that processes in general may not be broken and that incompetent people don't exist everywhere up and down the chain. I find both conditions to get generally true.

Gotta have somewhere to put all your eels, you know.

You know that "m" has a fairly specific meaning WRT distance, right? :)

You're driving it wrong? :)

If it's not on all the time, then it won't be able to carry out it's function all the time.

What sarcasm?

If your idea is that all jobs must be hired full time, then your idea of working for another company at less than full time is not especially sensible.

Yes, there most certainly is.

Matthew Broderick wasn't even in the "Which Way" movies. I don't think you know what you're talking about.

The good ol' times are never quite like we romanticize them. It's always been this way.

You could probably do this via some VR solution of a world with just enough problems to make it believable. Can't be too perfect. At any rate, you'd probably have all sorts of people signing up for that, and you could harvest that energy generated from their fat for whatever reasons you wanted.