The colonization of North/South America and Africa was justified and defined in explicitly religious terms. It resulted in the deaths of millions.

Can you cite some examples of the "abusive contracts with brokers" and "slave wages" and give us some data on how prevalent you believe these are?

Here's survey data on H-1Bs: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/H-1B/h1b-fy-12-characteristics.pdf

and here's prevailing wage data for a random area (Denver, Colorado): http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-1132&area=19740&year=15&source=1 prevailing wage for Level 1 is $64,230 for an application developer.

Most H-1B workers tend to be young in their mid-20s. In comparison, here's what graduating seniors from an Ivy League engineering school make in possibly the highest cost location in the country (NYC) http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/sites/cce/files/2013_gss--cc__seas-ug.pdf The median is mid-50s.

It seems to me you have your panties in a bunch over imagined abuses. May I suggest a direction in which your indignation could be more constructively directed?

Here's what Colorado pays the school-teachers who are tasked with educating the next generation. http://www.cde.state.co.us/sites/default/files/documents/cdereval/download/pdf/avgteachersal/2011avgteachersalary.pdf

Salaries in most districts are in the 30s and 40s. In the Denver area, they creep into the 50s in some districts. This is an average, it includes teachers with decades of experience. And these are people who are spending hours and hours before and after classes end grading homework, preparing lesson plans etc. That's the real problem we have in this country when it comes to training and preparing skilled workers so they can move up the income curve.

If you're in NY, CA, TX, IL (which is likely where most slashdotters are, you can safely vote for a third party candidate. There is an extremely low probability your vote will impact the actual electoral college count. Make your statement, the future is safe.

I don't think it's going to be another iphone, the market for tablets is not as big as that for smart-phones. But, I don't think it will be an apple-tv either.

It effectively kills the "electronic photo-book" market. People are paying 70-150 for those things, that is now gone. I like the leather-ish case which turns it into a keyboard type stand and into a photo-frame/tv stand, that seems like it will win some minds.

One wild-card in all of this is that it is the PERFECT computer to give your mom since it's got very simple icon entry into apps, and not too many complicated menus you have to sift through. That might just lift it into another category of sales. For people who use computer apps for different and varied tasks (say photoshop, or full-fledged spreadsheet use) this is never going to be enough. But for mom or grandma to keep photos rolling on her mantle so her friends can see them, to e-mail the kids, watch a few movies, maybe play some games, this may well be ideal.

My take is that this is not really designed for slashdot readers, it's yet another device to expand the market for apple computers to another type of user by offering a simple interface and the most frequently used features. I suspect they'll succeed, especially since the entry-price is reasonable.

Mexico happens to have universal health care coverage. It might not be perfect, but then neither is the pharma-medial-legal complex that impoverishes anyone who happens to enter a US hospital without comprehensive insurance. See:

http://www.cfpc.ca/cfp/2005/Jan/vol51-jan-letters- 4.asp
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9421-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Most immigrants are not here to take advantage of the US health care "system" such as it is (any sensible person would much prefer taking advantage of Cuba's). Most immigrant are here because the US economic system affords opportunities at all levels of skill that are far superior to those available in other countries.

I have yet to meet a US immigrant who considers health care a factor in their decision to move. Any thinking person to whom that mattered would move to Canada.