You only have a say if the loafers - er, lifers - don't outnumber you and outrank you.

As someone who was a union member about a decade ago, you sure couldn't tell it by my union's actions.

The requirements are right there in the question: would you support creating a database to track people of a given religion? There's no tweak to the requirements that could make that a palatable task.

Depends on the company. I've been with my current company for about five and a half years; we came in through an acquisition, where the old company had been lowballing everyone. I got a 10% raise at the time of the acquisition, and over the last five years I've gotten about a 115% raise beyond that. (No, that's not a typo, I'm making more than double what I was when we were acquired.)

Those XP machines shouldn't be connected to the Internet anyways.

It depends on the state. In Michigan, for example, items intended for resale aren't taxed. And certain entities are exempt from paying sales taxes (schools, for example). That wouldn't be possible if our sales taxes were set up as you describe.

The very oldest models will be USB-only; wi-fi wasn't added until the third generation (aka Kindle Keyboard).

The problem isn't on the server end, it's on the device end. The root certificates saying "yes, this is Amazon, all is good" are expiring. If the device doesn't trust the server's identity (because it was signed with a new root cert), there's no way for it to download the updates.

Amazon sent emails out about this over a month ago...

You won't even be able to buy from Amazon when you connect to wifi; you'd have to download a new book from your computer then copy that to your Kindle via USB.

You can't have both - if you want to be able to download stuff you're paying a monthly fee for to use offline, it's going to have DRM. Otherwise, you could download everything, then cancel it, and keep watching it indefinitely.

So she's now only able to be employed in a completely different field. Sounds to me like it did a lot of harm, then.

The bullshit there is the IRS trying to tax you on that foreign income, not that corporations aren't.

As far as I know the US is pretty much the only country that tries to double dip on its citizens' income like that.

The problem isn't the NSA having offensive weapons. The problem is the NSA knowing that some installations are built on quicksand but not informing the owners.

That's not helping national security, that's degrading it.

Yes it is. Everywhere else he's just "the Doctor".