There's that old saying about there are no atheists in fox holes... well, hop in a Beijing cab and you too will pray for a safe passage.

It's interesting that it is never atheists who make these claims.

I work for a product design company. We work with (consult for) companies that want to bring a product to market but don't have the internal engineering expertise or capacity to do it themselves. There are a lot of companies like this. They employ some engineers to create specifications and make technical decisions, but not enough engineers to complete the project in a reasonable time.

I have trouble believing that a normal IT department is equipped to do a large-scale migration, especially when they need to continue supporting all their normal business operations.

In summary, if you want to be successful with a large software project--and large software projects aren't what your business does, you probably need outside help that does it routinely. Then the question becomes how you evaluate this outside help's qualifications, how you write your contract, how you set your milestones, and how you communicate your requirements. But that's an entirely different story.

Statistically atheists know the most about religion, according to the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.

You are exactly right. This column by Glenn Greenwald is timely, and a far better source than "InfoWorld". Here are some select quotes:

Don't forget that McConnell is the chode who got the telecoms retroactively immunized for their participation in the illegal NSA domestic spying program.

Who are your heroes? Conversely, who are your villains?

I'm a fan of your TED talks. It strikes me that many of your greatest discoveries come from destroying samples. You cut apart bones to see their growth stage, drop bones in acid (for no reason?) and found blood vessels. How did you develop this attitude toward your work?

You are shifting the goal posts. Your argument was that corporate profit is double-taxed. I have refuted that and nothing in this reply addresses that point. Your only claim is entirely unsubstantiated, when you say that, "That money will eventually be spent." My first link illustrated that corporate cash-on-hand is rising faster now than historically, but it has still risen historically. It cannot rise if it is "eventually" spent, unless if you are comically measuring time in decades or lifetimes.

Every dollar of profit is not taxed eventually. For the most part, corporations sit on their profits to increase cash-on-hand [1]. This increases flexibility for them, gives them better banking terms, and causes share price to increase. This increases the wealth of those who own the shares, but this increase in wealth is untaxed unless these shares were to be sold. Once you are a millionaire or billionaire, you don't need to sell shares--instead, you can take out loans against them [2].

Effectively, reducing corporate tax to 0% would be a 100% loss. Corporations do not spend more money on cap ex just because they have more cash on hand. Similarly, they do not increase salaries; U.S. wages have fallen by more than 50% since 1970 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) [3].

Here are my references, which are pretty half-assed since I just googled for stuff I'd already read and linked the first similar thing. But hey, it's already 50% more informative than the average post.
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/07/16/idle-corporate-cash-piles-up/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/the-zuckerberg-tax.html?_r=0
[3] http://www.thestreet.com/story/11480568/1/us-standard-of-living-has-fallen-more-than-50-opinion.html

No, he negotiated the current gold-standard TV contract for creative artists. This is less money but full control of his great show "Louie" which runs on FX.

Yes.

If you are like me, you thought, "What the fuck is Righthaven?"

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Alien Swarm gives a laser beam so you can see where you and your allies are aiming.

The Wire.

I'm glad that BP is being made to take responsibility for the spill. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to shield themselves from liability by hiding behind contractors and wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Do you know any people who do these jobs? I know several, and if anything they get paid too little.