Business isn't around to "hire", as every right winger I've ever met is so quick to point out, yet every time I hear one spouting tax cuts for business (so they'll hire) and less regulation (so they'll hire). It seems to me you right wing freaks should take your own advice. Business is there to make money. Corporate charters require that the CEO do everything in his power to increase profit at any cost. Externalize as much as possible. I don't know of anything in corporate bylaws that talks about hiring people, so you can stop trying to have it both ways. Once you take the regulations away, corporations will still not hire, but they'll be sure to externalize more cost! (dumping, spilling and general polluting, rip-offs, scams, false claims, fake ingredients, price fixing, monopolizing) Remember...oh wait, you're a right winger, so you don't read. Well, there is a REASON those REGULATIONS were put into place. Because your "self-correcting" "free-market" doesn't regulate itself, contrary to current popular corporate propaganda. We've been in a time of rampant capitalism before and it didn't go well. I'm not sure what makes you think it would go well this time. CEOs are still dying to externalize anything. Corporate bylaws and charters still call for profit at any cost. If anything, no regulation would be even more destructive now. So please tell me, who's going to clean up the messes corporations make? The tax payer? Yup. Yeah, that's capitalism.

Attention leftist free software hippies!

Hows that free Obamacare colonoscopy going?

Iran marching toward a nuclear weapon

Egypt and Libya handed over to the Islamists on a silver platter

45% increase in debt.

Regulatory policies strangling business

That perfect health care for all, casuing businesses to not hire and drop coverage to put more people on the dole.

Unemployment above 8%

GDP Growth below 2%

Changed his mind four times on that OBL kill, which was set up by the hardwork of Bush, Bush worked 8 strong, Obama got the save.

Domestic energy production hamstrung, while billions of tax dollars wasted on masturbatory green energy companies, run by his cronies.

A racist running the Justice Department.

Hundreds of Mexican citizens and a US law enforcement officer dead because of Obama/Holder's agenda on guns.

Photo ID laws being challenged because they interfered with typical Democrat voters, the Dead and Illegal Aliens.

Chrysler bondholders screwed out of their money so the UAW could receive a giant wad of cash in the illegal government takeover of the Auto industry.........

Yeah, he's a raving success.

So you're impulsive, undisciplined, and display follow-the-leader (sometimes derisively called "sheeplike") characteristics? Advertising can't work otherwise. That's why these master manipulators use beautiful women and cute children and fuzzy kittens in their propaganda, because getting an emotional response bypasses rational thought. That's where not being impulsive comes into play. They love to get you to buy things you don't really need by making you think you might need them, that's where discipline kicks in. They want your purchase to be their idea and not your own evaluation of your wants, needs, and budget, which is why being an individual is so important. I guess that sounds negative but the purpose of explaining this to you is so you can see just how ruthless and devious these people in marketing really are. These traits are not really your fault. The school system and the media and the government all find them useful to varying degrees and they all encourage these character defects. Becoming your own man or your own woman in a meaningful way that makes you resistant to manipulation/propaganda is difficult because at first the deck is stacked against you, but it is more than worthwhile. The other problem a lot of people have is that they're prideful and easily offended so they don't take criticism well, preferring to get mad at me for trying to tell them something like this rather than being grateful someone is actually telling them how it is. If that kind of outrage is so valuable to you that you'd rather continue to be impulsive, undisciplined, and easily led, well, that would be your option, but I hope you can do better than that. As you see I feel no need to sugarcoat everything to make it easier to hear because that's exactly the sort of thing a manipulator does so that'd be rather hypocritical of me.

As I understand it, a typical Bonobo makes the horniest human look like a monk. They fuck practically their entire waking lives. They have almost no sexual taboos -- a female won't have sex with her offspring, but that's about it. A human who wanders into their camps will be propositioned immediately and often..

I often wonder if the lack of knowledge about them (it's not so long since researchers stopped calling them "pygmy chimps" and started regarding them as a separate species) comes from sheer embarrassment.

It depends. I know of one company who was informed by their competition that a fired employee was trying to, uh, promote themselves by explaining what data he had available for them. The reason they did this was because otherwise they would risk HUGE settlement costs after wards. Just not worth the risk.

FTFY

Uhm, that sounds like a flawed argument. Because this discussion touches on the work of computer scientists as well. Can't they have a say when their work is being affected by derailed legislation?

It is like saying to environmental activists: sorry but you have no degree in nuclear physics, so please shut up.

PS: What I do agree on, is that slashdot seems to endlessly keep its focus on the validity of patents, instead of looking for solutions, and finding a road to get to that solution. But that would require social engineering, which is too boring, I guess.