And in some states children are indoctrinated in some crazy shit involving magic underwear and Jesus hanging out with Native Americans. ::shrug::

(I have Karma to burn. Which is rather apropos given the topic)

The "conditions" may well be very easy to achieve once in a relationship, but if the woman is still pissed because you didn't take the trash out last night after you said you would and now the bin is going to be overflowing by trash day next week ... you ain't having sex. The "condition" was that you did what you said you were going to do.

(Can you tell I'm married?)

If you're even remotely attractive (Lets say, shy of disfigured), I'd say there's a very good chance. If the gender roles are reversed, there's a very good chance of getting slapped. I don't know if that's societal or biological, but I suspect it's societal.

Women decide when/if sex happens. Us men have to figure out what conditions have to be met in order for that to occur. The video game treatment, while simplified greatly, works along the same lines.

Erm, you seem to think iTunes has DRM. It doesn't.
And unless you're stealing your CDs from Walmart, one would assume you paid something for them.

What you are getting with your CDs is the full chunk of data that you can compress to the level of your choice before putting it on your portable player. And of course a physical "backup". I used to buy used CDs for this reason, but for the most part I now am willing to trade that for convenience and lower cost in most cases, so I buy from iTunes and Amazon.

So members of group 3 would be faithful, as long as they were locked in a room and never allowed contact with other humans.

Your logic is the same as "security through obscurity" ... and neither works.

Cheating is a choice. Nothing more, nothing less. People who make that choice will rationalize it 8 ways to Sunday, but in the end it always comes back to them having made a choice to toss their marriage aside.

"People who would cheat" are going to cheat no matter what. Doesn't matter if it's facebook, the telephone, or the supermarket check out line that facilitated that communication.

It can only get "out of hand" if your relationship isn't strong and doesn't have set boundaries.

There is no way in hell I would ever accept a friend request from an ex. Neither would my wife. Her and I have been together for over a decade (married for 7) and that's still a boundary you don't cross.

It is every bit as inappropriate as having an ex call you on the phone once a week "just to chat".

Sorry, no one I know nor myself has had this problem. I quit my job in Oct 2009 due to being dissatisfied with my employer and within a day of posting my resume on Dice my phone started ringing. I had my choice of several different jobs starting at about 4x your "slave wage".

On the other hand, the position I currently hold involves being part of the interview process and finding anyone who can actually write code is increasingly hard...

If only I had mod points.

I've witnessed exactly this first hand at a company that didn't include actual programmers/engineers in the interview process and had dilbert-esque middle-management. The person who claims to have extensive experience in the entire laundry list of qualifications is lying. They spent 2 hours before the interview learning just enough about everything on the list to bullshit through the interview. The people doing the interview know even less about what they're requiring.

To make a counter-point that somewhat backs the poster you quote, however, let me offer than even if you're *good* this is now how you have to play the game. If you know 7 out of 10 things they want ... you read up on the other 3 and do the interview. You can be honest and say exactly what you did, and that learning them won't be a problem ... or you can BS your way through. That decision is generally made after assessing the technical level of the person interviewing you.

The difference, of course, is that if you're good you generally can learn those things in short order.

Why that may well be the case with the above poster, I'm still going to have to agree with the "you're doing it wrong" part.

The OP said they have "years of experience" yet can't find a job and when they do have a job, they can't get promoted. If that is indeed the case I don't know that a college degree would help. There are literally a ton of jobs out there right now for people who can actually write code, and except for perhaps the gov't and maybe a few giant corporations, a degree isn't a firm requirement.

Which doesn't require access to the internet. We have this thing called a VPN that pretty much solves that problem.

Ignoring that, you can just only allow access to the remote systems that are required for that data.

I'm constantly amazed that anyone allows any critical systems access to the internet.

Not so much.

iPhone 3Gs = $49
monthly cost = $65 (plus taxes and fees, of course ... but that's a constant)

If you skip pizza delivery once a month you'll cover the difference in the plan cost.

Because credit card companies are pretty much the biggest racket on earth.

As a merchant, you are responsible for all fraudulent charges. I ran a small/medium eCommerce business for 6 years, and luckily only had a couple chargebacks but the way it works is this:

Customer calls credit card company and says "I didn't charge this". Credit card company sends notice to merchant asking for signature, AVS information, etc. If you can't prove that indeed, that customer did make that purchase, the credit card company takes the money back from you. Oh, and you don't get back your transaction fees or percentage paid on the transaction either. The CC company is pretty much out nothing. If they're one of the ones that charges the cardholder $50 ... they just made $50 + the original transaction fees.

If you look at the actual marketplace, this should come as no surprise. Carriers are basically giving away android phones. My boss just picked up a Samsung Vibrant for $30. Sure it'll never get a OS upgrade and it's got all kinda of crap installed on it from his carrier ... but it was $30.

Screws like this have been around for at least 50 years, and you'll most definitely find them in your car somewhere.

Examples:
http://www.brycefastener.com/myth.htm

I've run into these things over and over on electronics, automobiles, etc, etc for the last 20 years.

It doesn't keep anyone who really wants to open the thing from opening it. You can buy whatever bit or screwdriver you need. It DOES keep the stupid people out (and kids) which is what they want. In theory it can reduce their support costs compared to having joe 6-pack (The target audience for this device) decide he wants to open the thing to fix it or "just to look at what's inside".

This is pretty much what you expect with QWest.

In fact ... they must have gotten the good installer given the plastic bag.