Having money in US banks is risky anyways. If you can't account for a large sum of money, government organizations are known for just outright taking the whole damn thing. Not even taxing, it, just fucking outright taking ALL of it away. I even know people who had the police confiscate cash (in one case, $5,000) and just flat out keep it if they can't provide receipts showing where it came from. I honestly don't blame the super rich for hiding money in offshore accounts; you never know what the government will suddenly and irrevocably decide is "theirs," and public opinion will never be on your side either if you ever made an issue of it (popular opinion seems to be that the wealthy are only wealthy if they steal or inherit, in spite of some 70% of the forbes 400 not having wealthy parents.)

Remember slashdot is a US based website, that should be spelled "tsktsktsktsk"

The post itself didn't, the "5 Insightful" it received did, however. It has been addressed though.

Try looking at the content of his post, it was much more than "pointing out." Anyways, it isn't hurting the US's participation any more than our use of the English language is. In fact, a simple unit conversion is much more surmountable to the everyday person than a language barrier. Going into your comparison, you may as well argue that since a larger population of the world speaks Hindi and Chinese, we ought to use those languages instead. Few people speak German, yet Germany doesn't seem to get excluded. Furthermore, we don't see people making posts that say "Lol, danke, wtf is this, the 17th century? Oh wait. Germany." and have them get modded as insightful.

That's a very broad definition. I make less than $10,000 per year right now, yet all of that applies to me. No rich parents gave it to me either; rather I'm just VERY good at money management.

For example, I drive in a 2005 Buick Regal that I got for some trivial amount some 5 years ago (I think $1,500?) It's a pretty damn nice car too. Sure it doesn't have an infotainment system, but I've never found myself needing one (my tablets and smartphones seem to do a better job at those tasks.) It's a salvage title car, but you'd never know that without looking at the paperwork, and I've never had to make any serious repairs to it. Once when I was in a fender bender, I had to drive a 2011 (or 2010? don't recall exact year) Dodge Sebring. Compared to my car, it was a piece of shit, yet it had a bluebook value some 8 times of what my car was. Strangely enough, people pay this money for those turds.

Things like the above are all about money management; I spend very effectively.

That's not a very reasonable distinction. The jobs I've had rarely involve any physical work as they generally involve not much more than me simply making decisions and executing them. In the end, what's the difference?

Or perhaps Aviation, which uses US units in aircraft design all around the world. Could have something to do with heavier than air flight originating in the US, as well as the US having what is by far the largest aerospace manufacturing industry. That, and slashdot is *gasp* an American website? If you had any awareness of anything outside of your own narrow viewpoint you might realize both of those.

Anyways, an obvious troll and/or flamebait post modded insightful? Why...because bashing America is always a good thing, right? Enough of this "well the rest of the world does it differently..." bullshit. Every country in the world has something unique about it, so there's a "well the rest of the world" statement that can be made about everybody. Get off of your high horse and go mow your lawn.

I don't know much about Indian IT workers (in spite of being in IT, I've had almost no experience with them) but I know many Indians who are doctors, and they're pretty damn good at what they do.

Oh and guess what country Microsoft's new CEO was born in? He didn't make CEO by accident, nor was it the result of Microsoft wanting to be cheap by skipping over American workers for the promotion.

IMO the reason Indians, Japanese, and Koreans do so well is because their culture values work. Here you're sent the message that you are always a valuable worker just for being a human being, and if you feel you are underpaid its your boss's fault and you need to unionize and strike ASAP. Compare common Korean and Japanese sayings to the effect of "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."

I can't speak for all certifications, but ones I've done (CCNA and CCNP in particular) put a heavy emphasis on troubleshooting.

I'm not so sure the lawyers benefit from this. Firms like arbitration because it means they get to skip a lot of the lawyers, and the legal costs are much lower. Not only that but damages sought require jury trial, the time to settlement can be reduced to months rather than years. In addition to that, arbiters tend to allow you to submit all evidence so long as it is relevant (even things like hearsay can be submitted in some cases, with arbiters of course putting very little weight on it) whereas in the regular court system lawyers often get even really good evidence thrown out.

Also during arbitration negotiation you *can* add terms allowing it to be appealed if a legal error was made in judgement (same with the regular court system.)

If anything I would figure lawyers would mostly be against arbitration because it means less time doing what they get paid by far the most for (time spent in court.)

And if that is what is going on here, that's fine (I honestly am not interested enough in "climate politics" to read much about it, hence I don't really know.) However in general, I don't think any government decisions should be guided by proprietary information. For what its worth, the NSA uses proprietary information in order to justify the things it does, and you and I don't have any say in it. I just don't think that is good policy.

If we're going to act on anything, then I think we should really know *what* we're acting on. Governments used to do this based on prophecies (i.e. god's one prophet gets to dictate the rules because supposedly he is the chosen one to tell them to everybody else) and it was a pretty bad thing. It's good that these decisions are based on science now, but that is useless if the scientific method (which peer review is a critical component of) is thrown out.

Reread my post, that isn't what I'm saying.

Well yeah, that's how tort laws have always worked. If somebody wrongs you, you the victim have to initiate a lawsuit or press charges. Your neighbor can't do it for you.

Probably not. My thinking is that this is a precedent that states that any information that is used to guide public policy (read: laws that affect you and me) can be hidden from the public, skirting the intent of FOIA laws, by having that data be produced and/or curated by a private entity or person. This has further implications than just global warming squabbles; this could give groups like the NSA incentive to privatize spying, among other things.

An easy fix for this IMO is that nothing can be used to guide public policy or legislative actions unless the information used to glean them is already public. That would allow people like Michael Mann to keep their data private if they want, but stuff they produce can't be used to guide government decisions and/or actions unless he publishes it into the public domain before that process even begins. That would also satisfy climate skeptics IMO.

And really, why shouldn't it be this way? I mean I really don't like the idea that some derp could in theory dictate laws by claiming the world is about to end if we don't do it his way, meanwhile being able to hide his source of information and claim we just have to trust his work.

What about heat seeking drones flown by the predator? For that I'd suggest they get to the choppa.

I really don't think Monsanto would care to be honest. Or more precisely, I'm not sure why they would care.

By that I mean, I'm trying to figure out what is special about the seed these guys are "open sourcing" and I'm really not sure what sets it apart. Good luck to them I guess, but I just don't see what would make somebody want their seed instead of any other seeds they can obtain. This strikes me as being like forking FreeBSD under the GPL license, not adding anything to it at all, and then asking the FreeBSD community to switch.

It's already known however that several farmers (at least 144 of them so far have been proven to) deliberately try to grow Monsanto seed without paying Monsanto for them.

Anyways, SCOTUS recently stated that Monsanto can't sue in cases of accidental planting of their patented seeds (Monsanto hasn't ever filed such a lawsuit against somebody who accidentally planted them, let alone won one; rather an organic group was trying to ask SCOTUS to forbid all Monsanto patent lawsuits; a request that SCOTUS denied saying that Monsanto's existing stance was both sufficient and binding.)

Dunno but I wouldn't use that anyways. Without even looking it up, I'd actually wager that Tomato 1.27 was last updated before the patch that made heartbleed possible ever existed, so it isn't even relevant.

Tomato Shibby on the other hand is what you'd want, and yes, it definitely has that particular issue resolved as of the latest release:

http://tomato.groov.pl/?p=595