The link has the chapter and verse reference, Sanskrit text, transliteration, translation, and commentary. I'm not a Sanskrit reader, but the given translation is very close! King James Bible is not a bad translation.

Quick google turned up this link to the chapter and verse:

http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-11-30.html

Pretty interesting.

If gun ownership in a society is as ubiquitous as in the United States then the police necessarily have to be at least as well armed and trained in military tactics.

Gun ownership is protected by law. And that is all the more reason that the police should behave in a calm and civil manner; they are creating the problem they fear by behaving like violent criminals themselves. "I have to to home at night" will never be an excuse for breaking into someone else's home and creating situations where people get murdered (and the murderers get off being put behind a desk, rather than behind bars).

If they get a warrant describing the specific place or persons to be searched, knock, and calmly identify themselves and their purpose before drawing arms (as they are expected to), they have nothing to fear from normal citizens.

As to the cases where there is genuine risk from armed criminals involved (which remains the case regardless of the legality of arms), well, quite frankly they were aware of that risk when they signed up. If they are not willing exercise more due diligence first or put their lives on the line to protect and serve, then they should find another line of work.

Should I buy one to replace my HP Touchpad?

So many mistakes to choose from...

Wait a minute... I forgot, HP made the Touchpad cheap and useful... I guess I won't get the RT.

Correction, they made 1,000 changes. Thanks for the catch!

You can do that as long as your boss knows your passion and enthusiasm would work just as well for someone else, and you remind them of it constantly. Otherwise, bend over.

No, if you like your job, and your boss knows it, he/she knows that he/she doesn't have to work as hard to keep you happy and productive. Ergo, they don't have to pay you as much to keep you.

Yes, your experience is universal and the vast majority of employers aren't evil money-grubbing bastards that will screw you at every opportunity, no matter what the industry.

Oh, wait..

The business world IS engaged in an overall betterment of humanity.

Sure, if you define 'humanity' as 'the leeches at the top of the org chart who don't do any actual work'.

the worst thing a company could do to its employees is not turn a profit

An oversimplification. You're not wrong, but the problem isn't that cut and dried. It depends on how they turn a profit. If they sacrifice long-term viability to make the quarterly statement look better, yes, they're turning a profit, but eventually the bad choices will catch up with the company - but by then the people who made the bad choices have long since pulled the ripcord on their golden parachutes and left the rank and file out of a job. I would argue that a better business model is not only to turn a profit, but give the employees a stake in the company's success beyond "you get to keep your job."

"Following your interests" is usually incompatible with "paying your bills". If someone knows you've got an interest in the material beyond just getting paid, they will pay you less (or at least try to.) "Liking your job" is just code for "Please screw me out of money at every chance you get."

Eric just wants some peace and quiet.

Care to share where these openings are? (Please don't say "California")

Isn't it sad that the engineers are the ones who actually do the work, while managers are just overhead, yet the managers are the ones who get the money?

It all depends on exactly what your skill set it. I got laid off a couple of weeks ago. Here is my experience.

My experience is in ASIC and FPGA design. I can do pretty much any digital design work, and can code RTL, as well as do ASIC physical design (laying out gates on silicon). I can even design the board that the ASIC or FPGA will go on. I actually am finding some job openings but none in my geographical region, so I am having to look for contract work away from home to keep food on the table.

Now, I AM seeing a ton of jobs for verification engineers. If you really learn SystemVerilog and UVM well, you will probably have it made and can find a job reasonably close to any geographic region that you want.

As far as "working for nothing," that is the general trend. I have had careers at two different employers since I left college (both jobs were around 6-1/2 years), and have seen the same thing at both. Companies want 95th-percentile employees for 50th-percentile salary. The focus is a lot more on the shareholders and very little on the employees who actually do the work. You need to give the employees at least as much consideration as the shareholders, or your company will start to drive off the good employees -- well I would like to think so. If every employer treats the employees as fungible assets, then I guess that there is little reason to choose one over the other.

Maybe engineers need a union... I have seen the evil that happens when the union is too powerful. Ideally, you want a fairly balanced system where both the employer and employee has power. Bad things happen when one side has a lot more power than the other. No union = employee has all the power, which is very bad for salaries. With unions, it is possible for the employee to have too little power, which makes the company less productive and competitive due to a bunch of mindless union regulations.