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Third world countries don't need OLPC with $70 android tablets existing that boast specs like:
7" Capacitive Multi-Touch screen, Android 4.0, 4GB storage, 512MB RAM, Cortex A8 1.2Ghz processor, 3G, Wifi, 1.3MP Front Camera, and HDMI

At this point OLPC is just embarrassing itself. They'd better serve their mission statement by becoming a dedicated android app development shop.

The U.S. government is extremely corrupt, in many ways. It amazes me how often U.S. citizens joke about that, or change the subject, showing that they don't care.

U.S. government corruption, a short list:

1) The U.S. government has the biggest debt of any country in the history of the world.

2) Governments in the U.S., federal, state, and city, have the largest percentage of citizens in prison of any country in the history of the world. The percentage is SIX TIMES that in the European countries. Putting citizens in prison is a huge industry in the United States.

3) The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 28 countries since the end of the 2nd World War, FAR more than any other government.

4) The U.S. government is involved in many, many kinds of activities that are kept mostly secret from citizens. For just one example, read the story about the US government's purchases of over one billion rounds of anti-personnel ammunition. Quote: "The ammunition is to be used domestically, not by the military."

5) The U.S. government often arranges to lie to citizens.

6) The U.S. government has more military installations in more countries than any country in the history of the world. Some of those are secret, so this list is not complete: List of U.S. government military bases.

7) There is far, far more corruption than that. For example, look at the photos of George W. Bush kissing a Saudi price. The book House of Bush, House of Saud, tells part of the story about how Bush and his friends and family took money to support the Saudis against the best interests of United States citizens.

Be a responsible citizen of the planet and do some research. For example, as many others have said, read A People's History of the United States. The U.S. government has a long history of violence, much of it motivated by desire for profit.

The U.S. government is not the same as U.S. citizens. The U.S. government often engages in many secret activities, such as secret violence, apparently sometimes partly to encourage other violence which is profitable for some people. Secrecy cannot be democratic, because the people have no power if they don't know what the government is doing.

My point is, the northeast blackout proved just how unprepared most Americans are for a power outage. I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where, but there are some basic things you can do to function for a few days without power if need be.

IMHO, too few people know about CAMPING gear. Just think of it... crazy people VOLUNTARILY go off-grid, in extremely harsh conditions, yet get along quite well.

They have:
* good food ($100),
* plenty of clean water ($40),
* get hot showers ($10),
* have an ample supply of power $10,
* lots of light ($10),
* plenty of news and entertainment. ($20),
* modern conveniences ($30),

etc., etc.

They even sleep comfortably in -30F degree weather (if you don't mind lugging around a punching bag).

My point is, the northeast blackout proved just how unprepared most Americans are for a power outage. I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where, but there are some basic things you can do to function for a few days without power if need be.

IMHO, too few people know about CAMPING gear. Just think of it... crazy people VOLUNTARILY go off-grid, in extremely harsh conditions, yet get along quite well.

They have:
* good food ($100),
* plenty of clean water ($40),
* get hot showers ($10),
* have an ample supply of power $10,
* lots of light ($10),
* plenty of news and entertainment. ($20),
* modern conveniences ($30),

etc., etc.

They even sleep comfortably in -30F degree weather (if you don't mind lugging around a punching bag).

My point is, the northeast blackout proved just how unprepared most Americans are for a power outage. I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where, but there are some basic things you can do to function for a few days without power if need be.

IMHO, too few people know about CAMPING gear. Just think of it... crazy people VOLUNTARILY go off-grid, in extremely harsh conditions, yet get along quite well.

They have:
* good food ($100),
* plenty of clean water ($40),
* get hot showers ($10),
* have an ample supply of power $10,
* lots of light ($10),
* plenty of news and entertainment. ($20),
* modern conveniences ($30),

etc., etc.

They even sleep comfortably in -30F degree weather (if you don't mind lugging around a punching bag).

Don't worry. The wheels will eventually come off, as sustaining Pax Americana will utterly and completely drain the coffers down to where the whole thing just collapses, just as they did with every other two-bit empire in the past.

A good read on the subject is Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.

To the bunkers!

Just get this and be done with it. Ive had it for almost 2 years and I absolutely love it:

http://www.amazon.com/Streaming-Media-Player-Wi-Fi-1080p/dp/B005KOZNBW

I've had this device (WDTV) for almost 2 years and it does everything you want:

http://www.amazon.com/Streaming-Media-Player-Wi-Fi-1080p/dp/B005KOZNBW

-Wifi/Ethernet/USB
-Netflix/YouTube/Hulu
-Streams content from SMB/NFS or a "media server" (like Vuse)

Love it love it love it. Plays any/everything I throw at it.

Here you go:
http://www.amazon.com/Burro-Mobile-Charger-AA-Powered-Building/dp/B0078E2MZW

Fortunately the market for this gear is pretty active and offers some alternatives. Sure, no Netflix and the Android UI probably is not the best for TV navigation. Needs some enterprising hackers to make it shine.

Kofi Annan's biography: http://www.amazon.com/Interventions-A-Life-War-Peace/dp/1594204209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377448186&sr=8-1&keywords=interventions

Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.

They have false positives. My Ortlieb roller bags tested positive after a month-long bicycling trip. Could have been the construction of the bag, could have been the Tanzanian dirt throughly embedded in everything by then, who knows. It didn't come directly into contact with anything combustible, much less explosive. Apparently soap/lotions can cause false positives. And of course, ammonium nitrate (the explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombings) is more commonly called "fertilizer". So, no, they shouldn't be reacting so strongly. They should know that it's likely a false positive.

I'd say two areas: tablets and cloud computing.

I'd say two areas: tablets and cloud computing.

Redshirts!

Whose lives were destroyed by McCarthyism?

A lot of college professors, for starters. Most of those who were blacklisted had some interest in communism as a political philosophy at some point (particularly the 1930's, when the commies were more-or-less on our side against the fascists), and many had rejected it after Stalin took over in Russia.

This one is personal for me: my grandfather, who had worked his way up from nothing through sheer talent and hard work, went from being near the top of his field (music theory and classical composition) to being a part-time piano teacher out of his living room solely because of his political leanings. Once you were considered a communist in the eyes of HUAC or McCarthy, the only way to extract yourself was to confess your former guilt, repent, and turn in some friends (all of which my grandfather refused to do).

There's a reason why the anti-communism of McCarthy et al gave Arthur Miller the idea to write a play ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials.

I'm an old school (1930s era) value investor - Ben Graham type of investor.

I don't give shit. I don't care what the know nothings on CNBC have to say (I don't think Becky is all that, BTW) nor do I care what Warren Buffet has to say - publicly.

I got an alpha of 20% right now and it's freaking me out because I'm thinking there's something wrong with my calcs. No, overall I'm up like 50+% year to date but I'm freaking out because i KNOW - I KNOW - there's luck involved and I WANT to weed it out so I can plan better.

If I were a Hedge fund or mutual fund manager, I'd be interviewed in the press and folks would be patting me on the back for my "brilliance" - fucking morons- all of them.

I got LUCKY and I'm too stupid to figure out where!!

Another cheap source of protein for cats: eggs. You can get a dozen for just over $1 and cats love raw eggs scrambled with a little milk. If you're worried about salmonella in raw eggs, you can pasteurize (but not cook) the eggs using a crockpot and a dorkfoods sous vide controller -- and the DSV can be used to cook great meals for yourself as well..

I'm losing fat actually. Get some exercise and cut out the high fructose corn syrup.

Screw going to a gym, just buy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Your-Own-Gym/dp/0345528581

http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/gmo-foods-linked-weight-gain
"As part of a long-term project studying the health effects of GM foods -- crops that have had their DNA modified to resist pesticides and drought -- researchers from Norway fed food containing GM corn to one group of rats and food containing non-GM corn to another group. Over the course of 90 days, the rats on the GM-corn diet grew fatter and ate more food than the rats on the non-GM diet. The researchers also noticed that rats got fatter when they ate fish that had been raised on GM corn."

What's the likelihood that Purina rat chow and Purina monkey chow (yes they exist) are made with cheaper GMOs? The article suggests also that food grown these days may be less nutritious in terms of micronutrients than in the past (due to depleted soils and different high-yield varieties of crops), and so creatures need to ingest more calories to get the same amount of needed micronutrients.

Another factor is "Supernormal Stimuli" of carefully crafted food to appeal in the strongest way to human desires like the American-style fast food you mention:
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose"
http://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X

See also, "How to escape The Pleasure Trap!":
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx

But I agree with the article's author when David Berreby writes: "The trap is deeper than that, however. The 'unifying logic of capitalism', [Jonathan C K ] Wells continues, requires that food companies seek immediate profit and long-term success, and their optimal strategy for that involves encouraging people to choose foods that are most profitable to produce and sell -- 'both at the behavioural level, through advertising, price manipulations and restriction of choice, and at the physiological level through the enhancement of addictive properties of foods' (by which he means those sugars and fats that make 'metabolic disturber' foods so habit-forming). In short, Wells told me via email, 'We need to understand that we have not yet grasped how to address this situation, but we are increasingly understanding that attributing obesity to personal responsibility is very simplistic.' Rather than harping on personal responsibility so much, Wells believes, we should be looking at the global economic system, seeking to reform it so that it promotes access to nutritious food for everyone. That is, admittedly, a tall order. But the argument is worth considering, if only as a bracing critique of our individual-responsibility ideology of fatness."

On stress and obesity, evolutionarily, eating more when stressed makes a lot of sense, because historically stress probably means you are uncertain about where your next meal is going to come from, so best to stock up now if you can, which means it is more likely you will survive to have and raise children later on.

Well, let's face it: people don't know what's good for them. It's better if we let the smart people run society. They can make better decisions for us than we can make for ourselves. This is known as Coercive Paternalism and it is the hottest new movement since Progressivism. The closed-minded need not apply, CP is only available to those who enjoy having their cherished beliefs challenged. From page 1: "The truth is that we don't reason very well, and in many cases there is no justification for leaving us to struggle with our own inabilities and to suffer the consequences." Since the government is not tempted by the rewards of your poor decision-making, it can dispassionately make better decisions for you. Let's face it: "choice" is such a sacred cow, especially to a certain that kind of person who practices out-of-fashion politics.

There's an easier way to watch Netflix on Linux computers.

Some of them have not only very high scientific degrees, but are also on the board of larger (>600 employees), successful companies.

Neither of those conditions precludes the possibility of being a moron.

How many bright people drive cars without even knowing the simplest things about combustion engines and drivetrains? Are they all morons?

I would say zero. All bright people have at least a "The Way Things Work" level of understanding of the things they interact with. Part of being bright is being curious about the world around you and putting together workable mental models.

Why Nepal is sending troops elsewhere? They're poor as hell and need aid of their own and they have rebels.

For the same reason they always have. Because they are poor as hell and they would rather kill and die in order to send home an honest paycheck than beg the rich for potentially toxic aid.

Well, I'm sort of in the same situation. Except that in my case, my friends and I decided to start our own company. We're building a MMO. No publishers.

We're not just out of college, we're veterans in a number of fields, and this is my point.
Education is transferable. If you know how to code, you can start in a good job, and move over later. Or, even better, do your own game. If it was art, I'd say, join a studio. But for coding? Sadly, you're replaceable. But you can replace them as well.

If you've got a good offer, go for it, but don't kill yourself. Go for the job, spend a year or two, and if you don't like it, move on, then come back as a more experienced person, and get back in higher in the food chain. Just out of college is a great time to try out something risky, that looks great on the resume.

But don't let them abuse you. Work hard, work well, but you are not a chew toy. The one thing most people right out of college miss, though, is that every project has to be finished and polished to be done. The stuff you do for class is under too tight a deadline to actually finish, you just get it working. This stuff, follow through on. Ask your boss about what I mean, if you get the job - knowing to ask that question can mark you as someone with a future.

I've had some good education from the following books:

Making Fun is a book about how a game is put together, the various jobs that exist and how they relate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RV3UTS/ref=oh_d__o08_details_o08__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Interactive Entertainment is a book about the life cycle of a game, and the various fields of gaming that exist.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041T4HG4/ref=oh_d__o07_details_o07__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Level Up! is a book on game design. Once you know about what a game is, and how it's put together, this is pretty handy to dig style with.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They're all a little generic, but they're also solid starting points.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(For those curious about my personal project, it's a spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The MAN shut it down. Well, we can make our own game! With blackjack! And... forget the blackjack. With superheroes! And costumes! And all kinds of awesome stuff. And the best part is that in the ten years since CoH launched, the industry's come a long way - we can do all kinds of crazy stuff now.)
( www.missingworldsmedia.com if you're interested. )

Well, I'm sort of in the same situation. Except that in my case, my friends and I decided to start our own company. We're building a MMO. No publishers.

We're not just out of college, we're veterans in a number of fields, and this is my point.
Education is transferable. If you know how to code, you can start in a good job, and move over later. Or, even better, do your own game. If it was art, I'd say, join a studio. But for coding? Sadly, you're replaceable. But you can replace them as well.

If you've got a good offer, go for it, but don't kill yourself. Go for the job, spend a year or two, and if you don't like it, move on, then come back as a more experienced person, and get back in higher in the food chain. Just out of college is a great time to try out something risky, that looks great on the resume.

But don't let them abuse you. Work hard, work well, but you are not a chew toy. The one thing most people right out of college miss, though, is that every project has to be finished and polished to be done. The stuff you do for class is under too tight a deadline to actually finish, you just get it working. This stuff, follow through on. Ask your boss about what I mean, if you get the job - knowing to ask that question can mark you as someone with a future.

I've had some good education from the following books:

Making Fun is a book about how a game is put together, the various jobs that exist and how they relate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RV3UTS/ref=oh_d__o08_details_o08__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Interactive Entertainment is a book about the life cycle of a game, and the various fields of gaming that exist.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041T4HG4/ref=oh_d__o07_details_o07__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Level Up! is a book on game design. Once you know about what a game is, and how it's put together, this is pretty handy to dig style with.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They're all a little generic, but they're also solid starting points.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(For those curious about my personal project, it's a spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The MAN shut it down. Well, we can make our own game! With blackjack! And... forget the blackjack. With superheroes! And costumes! And all kinds of awesome stuff. And the best part is that in the ten years since CoH launched, the industry's come a long way - we can do all kinds of crazy stuff now.)
( www.missingworldsmedia.com if you're interested. )

Well, I'm sort of in the same situation. Except that in my case, my friends and I decided to start our own company. We're building a MMO. No publishers.

We're not just out of college, we're veterans in a number of fields, and this is my point.
Education is transferable. If you know how to code, you can start in a good job, and move over later. Or, even better, do your own game. If it was art, I'd say, join a studio. But for coding? Sadly, you're replaceable. But you can replace them as well.

If you've got a good offer, go for it, but don't kill yourself. Go for the job, spend a year or two, and if you don't like it, move on, then come back as a more experienced person, and get back in higher in the food chain. Just out of college is a great time to try out something risky, that looks great on the resume.

But don't let them abuse you. Work hard, work well, but you are not a chew toy. The one thing most people right out of college miss, though, is that every project has to be finished and polished to be done. The stuff you do for class is under too tight a deadline to actually finish, you just get it working. This stuff, follow through on. Ask your boss about what I mean, if you get the job - knowing to ask that question can mark you as someone with a future.

I've had some good education from the following books:

Making Fun is a book about how a game is put together, the various jobs that exist and how they relate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RV3UTS/ref=oh_d__o08_details_o08__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Interactive Entertainment is a book about the life cycle of a game, and the various fields of gaming that exist.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041T4HG4/ref=oh_d__o07_details_o07__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Level Up! is a book on game design. Once you know about what a game is, and how it's put together, this is pretty handy to dig style with.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They're all a little generic, but they're also solid starting points.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(For those curious about my personal project, it's a spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The MAN shut it down. Well, we can make our own game! With blackjack! And... forget the blackjack. With superheroes! And costumes! And all kinds of awesome stuff. And the best part is that in the ten years since CoH launched, the industry's come a long way - we can do all kinds of crazy stuff now.)
( www.missingworldsmedia.com if you're interested. )

Well, I'm sort of in the same situation. Except that in my case, my friends and I decided to start our own company. We're building a MMO. No publishers.

We're not just out of college, we're veterans in a number of fields, and this is my point.
Education is transferable. If you know how to code, you can start in a good job, and move over later. Or, even better, do your own game. If it was art, I'd say, join a studio. But for coding? Sadly, you're replaceable. But you can replace them as well.

If you've got a good offer, go for it, but don't kill yourself. Go for the job, spend a year or two, and if you don't like it, move on, then come back as a more experienced person, and get back in higher in the food chain. Just out of college is a great time to try out something risky, that looks great on the resume.

But don't let them abuse you. Work hard, work well, but you are not a chew toy. The one thing most people right out of college miss, though, is that every project has to be finished and polished to be done. The stuff you do for class is under too tight a deadline to actually finish, you just get it working. This stuff, follow through on. Ask your boss about what I mean, if you get the job - knowing to ask that question can mark you as someone with a future.

I've had some good education from the following books:

Making Fun is a book about how a game is put together, the various jobs that exist and how they relate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RV3UTS/ref=oh_d__o08_details_o08__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Interactive Entertainment is a book about the life cycle of a game, and the various fields of gaming that exist.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041T4HG4/ref=oh_d__o07_details_o07__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Level Up! is a book on game design. Once you know about what a game is, and how it's put together, this is pretty handy to dig style with.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They're all a little generic, but they're also solid starting points.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046REX10/ref=oh_d__o02_details_o02__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(For those curious about my personal project, it's a spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The MAN shut it down. Well, we can make our own game! With blackjack! And... forget the blackjack. With superheroes! And costumes! And all kinds of awesome stuff. And the best part is that in the ten years since CoH launched, the industry's come a long way - we can do all kinds of crazy stuff now.)
( www.missingworldsmedia.com if you're interested. )

Wow, that's also how to good-bye depression!

And this AI watches who your friends are, and who aren't your good friends but share a particularly lucrative interest, and weighs advertising success accordingly.
Then is weighs how much you like certain family members and what their interests are, and finds lucrative niches there.
After this it compiles a list of co-workers and what they may be buying for their job, but it finds that one of your family members dislikes this product and you like this family member; therefore the A.I. chooses to aggressively target your naive boss on the point of saving money, instead of you directly.

Cmon Mr. asseblerex, you could have been more creatively interesting than you were. Our data shows you were holding back.
Would you like to read some sample pages of this self help book, a great value at the low, low price of $11.93?
 
//edit: CAPTACHA = "HABEAS" (Wikipedia: A Habeas Corpus writ (legal action) is a writ that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court.)

GFYS

http://www.amazon.com/Kestrel-Talon-Shimano-Carbon-3035194655/dp/B009R89BYC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1376733551&sr=8-4&keywords=carbon+bicycle

Finally!

I was wondering when I could get my old steering wheel laptop attachment.

Google Glass will allow me to pay even more attention to my e-mails on my way to work!

The book is a promising reference concept, but the execution is somewhat sloppy. Whatever generator they used was not fully tested. The bulk of each page seems random enough. However at the lower left and lower right of alternate pages, the number is found to increment directly.

Johnson's biography is quite a good read--not going to win a Nobel prize in literature any time soon, but the content is a delight for aerospace engineers like me. Johnson WAS Skunk Works, for many many years.

Funny note about Rule 4: He's advocating version control for engineering projects. If he was alive today, I suspect Mercurial would give him a hard-on.

Rule 4: A very simple drawing and drawing release system with great flexibility for making changes must be provided.

Last point: It's funny how many of the 14 Rules are anathema to modern management practice, particularly as implemented by the dominant aerospace firms. I'm not saying you can solve all of the industry's problems by requiring 14 Rule adherence, but you'd come close, The parent post already mentioned Rule 14, and implied it's laughable contradiction with current pay-scales in the engineering industry; Rule 5 directly contradicts the micro-managed, hyper-documented approach for modern systems engineering standards. Rule 12 has been repeatedly blown away by deeply-ingrained contractor dishonesty w.r.t. pricing and scheduling estimates, and by contractees' fanatical devotion to requirements creep and abrupt project changes (although in fairness, the budgeting environment doesn't help things), and as a result it's hard to imagine that this kind of trust will ever again exist between the government and the large aerospace contractors. Rule 10 is also a victim of this phenomenon.

I don't necessarily expect Amazon to place high value on this classic review of a children's story but I am disappointed in the slashdot readership that The Story of Ping wasn't mentioned. At least not in my old person's lazy perusal of the comments.

Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant - 55 Gallon: http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Veterinary applications October 12, 2011

"As a Fertility Specialist for Pachyderms, this was exactly what we needed to help rebuild elephant populations all over sub-saharan africa. It's not all just Medications and IVF treatments. Some times you need a loudspeaker, a Barry White CD and a 55 Gallon drum of Lube."

FWIW I think many slashdotters will find one of these reviews to be the funniest: http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Drivers-Windows-Driver-Foundation/product-reviews/0735623740/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0 Enjoy!

My favorite is the 1000+ reviews for Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff.

Or http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO

have to read the reviews too.

How did they miss this page?

This is similar to the AudioQuest K2 reviews, which includes the funniest single review I've ever seen there--starting with "We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives."

http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Link for the lazy.

http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know---/dp/0312337361/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376614268&sr=1-1

Best book I ever read about employment. You know corporations and HR personnel conspire against employees and what's more it's institutionalized but you probably don't know the gory details. Well, there they are.

I would say always give notice because you effectively have no power in the workplace whatever the law says.

Workplaces are effectively like 17th century pirate ships, where you are a member of a pirate crew and you work and get paid according to your terms but there's nothing like "justice" on that pirate ship. The captains and ranking mates are, if facts were known, probably some form of criminal and you wouldn't think of going against the larger group for any reason at all.

Employers have ways around law-breaking, employment-killing slander including but not limited to grapevines, coded speech "is she eligible for rehire?", and even tone of voice . Good luck busting them for any of that.

If you want a meaningful workplace then the American solution is to work for yourself. that is to say, for your customers or the market. It's amazing to me that after a few years working virtually any job in America , all employees aren't giving this a shot.

Oh wait, that's what H1-Bs are for - they don't have that option. I think those ships are called "slave" ships.

O. M. G. This is a geek site and somehow nobody has yet mentioned "The Story about Ping"?

Here's the product page: http://www.amazon.com/Story-about-Reading-Railroad-Books/dp/0448421658

Go read the first review NOW. You're welcome!

They could of linked to this page alone,reviews aware of the attempted rape of their bank accounts
http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/product-reviews/0870334336/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

"Capt. Trimmer's book were none too useful in my efforts to avoid huge ships, as I was recently struck by a very large ship indeed, a cruise vessel called the 'Costa Concordia'....Capt. Trimmer's advice would have been immensely beneficial to humans, fish, seabirds, and other animals, but I am none of those things. I'm a big rock."

Personally I'm of the opinion that this page has the funniest reviews on Amazon.

Disappointed that they did not choose Harry Raddick's reviews. By far the most entertaining reviewer they've ever had. EVER.

Read them here...

Check the reviews on this one:

Playmobil Security Check Point "Thank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like." http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL%C2%AE-36138-Playmobil-Security-Check/product-reviews/B0002CYTL2

What is that this has been going on for a long time and Amazon has let it continue without comment. Not so cool management is still on board, but still good to see a megacorporation with a genuine sense of humor as opposed to obvious ad agency promotions.

Link to the actual funniest reviews page