I'll bet I could be really competitive in business if I underpaid all my workers. Maybe this whole thing wouldn't even show up as an issue had it not been for the historic abuse of the H1B program by big US companies? Remember the Disney fiasco of not too long ago? I thought one of Trump's campaign promises to was to mandate a minimum wage for H1B workers, so they would only be used when REALLY needed, rather than just be used to undercut US tech salaries.

No, I didn't vote for Trump, but I don't see him as any worse than Clinton, where policy would be dictated by your contribution to the Clinton Foundation. A different kind of bad, but I'm not feeling worse right now. In the Kook vs. Crook contest, the Kook won. We all lost, but we would have lost had it gone the other way.

Really, now that somewhere in excess of 30% of people refuse to participate, and they botched this one so bad, will the people who hire these jerks now just go away? Yes, it appears that Clinton won the popular vote, but she didn't get 50%. I was one of the crowd who voted 3rd party, since the Dumbocrats and the Repugnicans couldn't nominate someone who could come up with a better campaign slogan than "The other party sucks worse."

If it's not the same guys, I would bet they at least share office space.

I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but by PRC, I was referring to the Peoples' Republic of China. Sorry if it was a joke and I seem humor impaired.

Had he limited his blabbing to the fact that the NSA was spying on everyone in the US, I would say pardon him, because he was blowing the whistle on illegal behavior. However, he also blabbed about NSA intrusion into a PRC college network and Cthulhu knows what else. That's why I clicked NO.

Yes, unfortunately, Trump gets his campaign merchandise manufactured in China, Clinton will probably stay the course on H1Bs, because the people who want the cheap labor paid her for a speech or gave to the Clinton Foundation (what does that thing do except employ Clintons?), Gary Johnson wants the market to take care of the H1B problem, so I guess Jill Stein is all that's left.

Absolutely. The shortage isn't in American IT personnel, it is in American IT personnel who will work for the pittance they want to pay. Setting a minimum salary for H1Bs would greatly help by getting rid of the use of the H1B program just as a source of cheap labor.

If we are going to outsource, why not save a ton by outsourcing a lot of the executive/empty suit level?

...I always thing THE TRUTH IS FINALLY COMING OUT! No, not really, of course. I think it has as much validity as those robo-calling polls that allow you to win a free cruise for participating.

Agreed. At the very least, there should be if not outright rejection, some logging to a permanent file for events like, say, the caller ID = called ID, or caller ID = 9876543210. If they would just force such things to be anonymous calls, I'm already blocking those.

Wouldn't it be funny to see a court order as part of the damages that Micro$oft must support Windows 7 in perpetuity?

Agreed. What company will keep an attorney that says "Our client screwed up, and we are trying to bail them out, and we're not optimistic about their chances."

Reminds me of an old MAD magazine joke. I think it was a businessmens hall of fame. There was one entry for a guy who made a fortune selling Studebaker stock after he started a rumor that they had only shut down for several years for "retooling". He then lost a fortune buying Studebaker stock because he had heard a rumor that they had only shut down for several years for "retooling".

Exactly what is ESSENTIAL FLASH CONTENT? Wouldn't that be an oxymoron, like decorative manure?

In the case of a traffic accident, the driver would be responsible, I would think.

However, the property tax sounds like it should be the responsibility of John Deere. Are farm vehicles usually taxed, though? I had a friend of mine who found a Ford Pinto in a creek after a flood, and went through the trouble of fixing it up. When he tried to register it, he found it had been registered as a "farm use" vehicle, and couldn't be re-registered for road use until property taxes had been paid for all the years it was a farm use vehicle.

What happens if the tractor is parked illegally, impounded, never claimed, and auctioned? When does the buyer get informed that they are merely a licensee, not an owner?

When you register the vehicle, does the state have a checkbox so you can say you are only licensing it? Wouldn't John Deere have to be the registered owner? And wouldn't they be the ones to have to go through the hassle of registering it?

Are ALL tractor manufacturers doing this?

-- Tom