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It seems to have changed in the last 2 days! (@_@)

It was working 2 days ago (I checked before posting) but now it's not. And it was reported back in early Febuary here, here and here.

Or you can google: "google I am extremely terrified of chinese people" and find many sites talking about it.

Harsha says computer science majors are critical for the U.S. economy because their training provides them with computational thinking and problem solving skills that they can deploy in any industry.

So does: physics, chemistry, engineering, math, accounting....

"The primary reason for the downturn in computer science majors was the erroneous fear that everything was being outsourced to India, which we know is not true," says Prof. Jerry Luftman, executive director of the School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.

Really? Tell that to IBM.

The lobbying group TechAmerica says computer software engineering and computer systems design are the fastest-growing high tech jobs, even in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Who is this "TechAmerica"? The lobbying group TechAmerica says computer software engineering and computer systems design are the fastest-growing high tech jobs, even in the fourth quarter of 2008. Oh, I see. So, corps want more H1-Bs, I take it and they're setting up the public opinion to be more open to it in these troubling times.

The whole article keeps mentioning "IT","IT","IT" and only once did they say something mobile devices. I wish they would say exactly what area of IT is booming.

This article is nothing but fluff.

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind such vigorous attempts to restrict and control "IP" by these organizations? They're obviously not out to protect the artists, but why go to such lengths for their own interests? Take for example the yU+Co's Watchmen Opening Credits; it uses a minimum amount of movie footage and can help to promote the movie free-of-cost, yet Warner Bros is frothing at the mouth trying to rip this and anything with the vaguest use of "their" copyrights from the tubes.

These organizations serve as a prime example of why copyright is inherently wrong. The fact that they're only the middlemen and create none of the content themselves but are allowed to exercise an enormous amount of control over it and our culture is insane.

There's a reason the New York Times' stock sells

for less than the price of its Sunday paper

.