This water quality official is projecting his frustration onto the people he is supposed to serve. If he can't do his job, he should resign. Instead, he's trying to play the terrorist card. Embarrassed by this outrage, his superiors have gone into damage control mode saying his remarks were taken out of context and that he later clarified his position.

Wow. Is this what we have to look forward to?

It's amazing how advanced the Romans were and how some of their technology stayed "lost" for so long. The fall of Rome was a great societal reset. There may be another at hand.

If your consumption is much higher than the norm, they'll notify the police of a possible grow operation.

Yes, a shortage at the nice price. That is what this has always been about.

Industry groups have been bellyaching about shortages since the 70s. Dire predictions of shortages are regularly made. Only now, they may finally be right. So many citizens have been displaced for so long, the H1-Bs may be the industry's best source of technical talent. It's a self full-filling prophecy. They may have run off so many older citizen engineers, developers and what have you that the young ones see that and opt for a more stable career path. So they may have produced the shortage they've been predicting for so long.

On the other hand, around here all of our best engineers are H1B people originally, most of them now on green cards or with citizenship, and split equally between continents.

That's because the displacement of citizens has been happening for decades.

"How do you know he's king?"

"He hasn't got shit all over him."

-- Monty Python, The Holy Grail

... like Forrest Gump? There are short term problems like perspiration to deal with unless you and those around you don't mind you smelling gamey.

Then there are long term issues like joint wear. I used to enjoy running but my knees wore out and knee replacement really doesn't fix that.

  Don't agree to the terms of employment if you don't mean to stand by them.

Such terms of employment are industry standard. For most of the rank and file, you sign or you don't work. Sure, these have been ruled null and void in court in this state or that but nobody wants to be the test case. It's an intimidation tactic.

Perl where are you tonight
how can I now run scripts on my own
I searched the filesystem
even looked in slash sbin
They rm'd the sym link and pffft you wuz gone

"What this proves is that Apple is jacking up the price and availability more on some markets than other."

Exactly. Whenever something doesn't make sense, ask who benefits.

  Look at Hostess...the company was forced to close its doors and go bankrupt. The unions would NOT negotiate or budge enough on their demands to allow the company to continue. Rather than the unions negotiate...they stood their ground, forced the company into bankruptcy, and ALL jobs with them are now gone forever.

Whoa up there. Hostess went through 2 bankruptcies and 6 CEOs in the past decade. They went on an acquisition spree, bought a load of their own stock and went in debt to do it. Then they laid off half their people. The union agreed to big concessions at each step along the way. During the second bankruptcy, Hostess promised to modernize their plants. Instead, they lined the pockets of the CEOs and board. The union realized the company was being run into the ground and dug in.

  Much of what the union rightly worked for in the early days...working conditions, hours..etc...were long ago accomplished and codified into employment laws.

Those laws can be changed.

We aren't using the technical people we have. Why subsidize the production of more? It just gives employers more candidates to reject.

  Can they see what you are doing when you are using private browsing? Are they capturing passwords and storing them? Is the device pushing back secure information to them?

Yeah, like online banking. What could possibly go wrong?

  Good for you... Coffee is bad for you... Coffee is good for you... Coffee is bad for you...

I need my glasses to read this.

Dell opened a plant in NC some years back, pocketed the tax incentives, ran it a few years and then abruptly closed it. It wouldn't surprise me if Lenovo did the same.