I would hardly call STEM grads "cheap workers." Especially if they want to settle down in the US, they're probably the most valuable immigrants we can get our hands on. Far better than bringing the foreigners here, letting them get their advanced STEM degrees, then kicking them back to their home countries. That's brilliant when combined with the majority of American kids who majored in liberal arts. (I'm one of those...)

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaahnn!

...that when we were raping, looting, pillaging, etc - the Muslim world was the center of tolerance, science, learning, etc. When they were overrun a few times by barbarians from the east... somehow all the high parts of their society were lost for good (so far.) Damned shame.

They just have different excuses for it.

I am a strong believer in free market economics. But I also believe that man is at least partly responsible for global warming and I am much less of a conspiracy theorist than most of the tin-foil hat crew here on /.

Why? I can charge you different prices for cash/credit. So I already know you're willing to pay different prices for the same goods. Now if you come in all Mr. T wearing 99 gold chains and a T-shirt that says "I ALWAYS NEED MORE BLANG" and I have a gold chain shop, there's a good chance that my prices are going up to what I think you'll pay.

'Course, I'm a big fan of haggling as much as possible, too.

Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If a vendor knows who is willing to pay what, they can improve profits while maximizing sales.

Hell, if I had a store and could identify people willing to pay more for my goods, I'd charge them more too.

Actually, that's only part of it.

Problem 1) The "initiative" process, that allows any group of morons to pass the "Feed the Kittens" proposition.
Problem 2) Gerrymandering of districts so that you have a state legislature of extremists on both sides who are incapable of agreeing on anything*.
Problem 3) The legislature has to figure out how to pay for all the *existing* programs, plus now the Feed the Kittens. And oh by the way, budgets in CA have to be passed with a 60% vote.

Recipe for disaster. I wish them luck with their constitutional convention.

* CA is not the only state with this problem

There's more than one Android app that does the same thing.

Um. Why would you expect the US government to extend the constitutional rights of US citizens to non-US citizens? (Especially if they aren't even in the US.)

While I don't agree with everything roman_mir says, I'd hardly call it Trolling. It's just a different point of view.

Wait a minute, you mean all I have to do is say "anti-filtering" and it'l#$^&@&O$p1ethi....###NO CARRIER

Thanks, Mollari.

Love my Drobo! Filled it with 2TB Seagates I found on sale for $69/ea right after the floods.

... [/obligatory response]