I'd be more interested to know what these scumbuckets are sharing about guests. I'd like to visit NY, and haven't been to the country for a few years, but can't take the risk that loathsome state will see I was resident however long and try to claim I am NY tax resident and owe them into eternity (if you are abroad, they will say your a** belongs to them).

Stop these groundless rumors that there is any purpose in learning Chinese except self entertainment.

I read novels in Chinese just fine, thank you very much, spent 5 years living there... hoping to find my dream job where I would actually be able to make SOME USE of the language. Instead, I ended up wanting to murder my coworkers postal style everyday because they coerced me against my will to speak in shit ass English. If I hadn't learned a word of Chinese I probably would have loved them.

A friend who has lived there 8 years now said this: "Did you ever notice when you are in any office for foreign companies from America or Japan that the Chinese aren't even capable of speaking PURE Chinese with each other? They always have to inject Japanese and English words every 5th word in a sentence... because Chinese isn't a real language. They find they have to resort to real languages like English or Japanese to actually communicate. And it's true. They despise themselves and their culture so much, they WISH for annihilation. Don't even get me started on $100/plate Chinese dinners the company paid for and not one single person had anything NOT NEGATIVE to say. Chinese people HATE Chinese food with a passion. If I spend $20 in USA eating I will be raving about the deliciousness, you can be goddamned sure if I spent $100 I would be cumming in my pants with pleasure. Not so with a $100 plate of Chinese garbage food they themselves hate.

If anyone had warned me about how horrible the REAL CS salaries are, I would have majored in ethnic studies or general studies or HISTORY.

Seriously. Freshman year 2000 -- dot com bubble -- new car bonuses and salaries well into the 50's for new grads.

Eleven years later here I am -- my friends who DROPPED OUT OF HIGHSCHOOL have gained enough experience in the factory to be in the 40's.

Meanwhile blowing half my paychecks on a $350/month micro efficiency apartment, $200 groceries, and $7000 10 year old used car payments, student loans are taking every other penny I got. My highschool drop outs don't have student loans. Boy did I fuck myself for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.

you either get it or you don't. They're already in college? There is no hope, they're well past the critical period of linux acquisition. At best they can hope to have a semi-grammatical command with a foreign accent after 10 years of struggle.

European history is not my forte, please forgive I'm just an American.

But, I could not find Swiss on my globe, I also couldn't even find the country on Google maps!!!

Second, while we're on the topic of weird European countries, I noticed that Holland is quite a popular place, but I have NEVER ONCE in my ENTIRE LIFE seen reference to the Hollish people. In fact, the word is not even in my dictionary. Do they have native citizens, or do only English people reside there?

Third. Every time you watch a war program on the history channel they talk about "Then 1000 troups attacked Hitler." etc., but they never ever (and not through all of highschool history class) explain how many soldiers are contained in one troup? I assume it would vary by army, so why not just say there were 10,000 SOLDIERS and be clear?

Is there any way an amateur programmer with a CS degree but only 3 years work experience under his belt could add this to his resume in a reasonable time frame and thus become a shoe-in for entry-level cloud positions?

I am desperate for work. It has been 2 years now :( Reading that pile of SQL .NET and so on books doesn't seem to have helped my prospects at all, because recruiters and interviewers always only care about responsibilities I had in my last job, and wouldn't trust that I could do or know anything else.

The last recruiter I met pointed to the word "Linux" on my resume and said, "And LINUX, what the HELL is that anyway? I mean, you can probably tell me that you heard of it one time in college and it is an operating system or SOMETHING. Yeah?"

vote -1 for troll on the economists part

has anyone at all associated with this article any experience whatsoever with the kind of "science" that comes out of 3rd world countries? Some of my Chinese friends will openly admit what a farce they are.

Some of these countries submit 100's of shit shit shitty ass papers to conferences in an attempt to get something in by sheer numbers domination as opposed to actually making it in with work of quality.

It really gave me pause the part about:

  'Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse,'

I think that would be quite nice, certainly more than I or any of my friends would do for some dumb bitch (by a factor of like 5). How rich exactly is this elitist fuck that Outback is not nice???? FUCK HIM

Fuck Apple. I set my alarm and turned the phone off so no idiots would call me while sleeping. Did the phone power up in the morning so the alarm would go off as expected --- as all my phones from 2000 on have done? Nope. Fucking idiots and their backassward technology.

I wouldn't say " God isn't a valid explanation" troll.

I would say in the loosest most sloopy pseudo-scientific definition of the word "explanation" ever conceived, GOD this worthless POS word is not a type of explanation of any sort. It's like if you told me you solved divide by zero and the result is "Bejoodle". And bejoodle is defined as whatever supernatural existence which would make divide by zero possible. Get lost godfag.

I seriously suspect you left handers are the largest and most successful trolls the world has ever seen.

I despised my co-workers and so wanted to make life miserable for them whenever they needed to demonstrate anything to me on my computer. I thus arranged my monitor and keyboard on my desk at a very sharp angle such that a right-hander trying to use my mouse would have to basically break his arm to reach and use it. I myself am so-called "right handed". The first several weeks I felt a bit of psychological distress and anguish at the fact that my left hand was just not as responsive and precise as my right. After that short adjustment period, though, I can say it long longer makes a damn bit of difference what hand I use.

STOP TROLLING AND GTFO LEFT HANDERS!!!

I mean... any fatass worth his big macs who thinks "oh gosh darn, I should up my gas mileage by losing weight" will quickly realize he can do even better by just empting the old books and other miscellaneous junk he's been hauling around in his trunk the past 3 years

Do they have a different culture in L.A. ? Out of the tons of places that say free Wi-fi here in Ohio, I can't honestly say I've ever once seen a person on a laptop using it in the past 6 months. In fact I wondered if some of them might shut it off because it is an expense that seemingly attracts no one.

Damn straight.

I had a co-worker (Chinese) who originally went into government research for nanotech. I was shocked he would quit something so bleeding edge and exciting to do inconsequential projects at a software company. Turns out all their 'research' is nothing but an attempt to 'save face' for the government. The repeat experiements we have already done, with crap equiptment, 1000's of times until they get 1 positive result (it takes that many tries with crap equiptment) then they check it off the list "yes china can do what the USA can do as well".

I get about 50% of my porn from Chinese websites and 50% from American, and I can tell you that the Chinese are far more trade-oriented. While people here will spam the shit out of porn-brothers of 4chan and it's ilk with entire photo series in exchange for nothing, most Chinese sites lock-down upwards of 90% of their porn and only 'upgrade' users that make serious contributions.

In short, Chinese won't do fucking shit unless they can be goddamn sure they'll get something in exchange. It's ironic the 'generosity' of Americans in contrast -- culturally Chinese have much more of a capitalist spirit. I blame Christianity for the sorry state of America -- so many anti-profit anti-selfishness ideas.