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Then the corporations (who are barely held in check by said govt that you've nuetered) will suddenly adhere to ethical standards, avoid polluting the environment, and cease exploiting workers. Everyone will be free and happy! Weeee!!!

Pass the crak pipe, bub. No sense in you getting all the hallucinations.

I'm disappointed I saw no mention of the liquid body armor Army scientists are working on. Basically you take Kevlar, which is already pretty protective, and soak certain chemicals into it. Then when you get shot or stabbed, etc, the liquid hardens instantly and the wearer remains unharmed. I guess it's a possible future improvement, but perhaps the more conventional body armor is more reliable and tested for now. Less fun to talk about :/

http://www.local6.com/news/3022956/detail.html isn't slashdotted... yet...

This is truly freaky!

More Pictures Here.

Fucking morons.

It's you who should be sitting in Guantanamo getting re-educated and punished for stupidity!

Yeah...totally agree, why mention the McD case when there a lot better lawsuits out there :)

Wrong soup

A criminal complaint said two employees on Considine's farm told authorities they'd seen Considine commit "disturbing acts" against his goats.

The valves on the U.S. side of the space station checked out fine, Foale said. The men then turned their attention to the valves inside the Russian compartments and also the Russian cargo ship docked to the complex. Reference

Phish Segway Showoff
or
http://www.local6.com/news/2414796/detail.html

I mean we let people from all over come here and work. Ummmmm, except we don't.

Um, YES we do!

The H-1 and L-1 Visa programs were invented specifically for this reason. In the US, we have no standard like those I've read about in Australia and elsewhere. Well, we have some regulations, but recently they've gone completely unenforced. If a company in this country can hire someone from overseas to do a job for which they're currently paying an American worker, and pay that worker half or less what the American makes, the company is under no pressure not to hire the foreign worker. It's happening for real. In the REAL world.

http://www.rescueamericanjobs.org/
http://www.local6.com/money/2381343/detail.html
http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/LosingYou rJ ob.htm
http://www.house.gov/delauro/press/2003/L1_bill_7- 10-03.htm

Further, US jobs now are being sent TO other countries. By some estimates, 2 million plus jobs in the next few years. Than't a HUGE chunk of the IT sector.

http://www.cio.com/archive/090103/backlash.html (accoring to this article, the number is like 10% of IT jobs)
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=14700325
http://www.msnbc.com/news/947478.asp?cp1=1
http://www.techsunite.org/news/techind/030722_ibm. cfm
http://comment.cio.com/comments/13404.html

The reason this is a story here, is because a good number of us work in the IT sector. This has HUGE implications for us.

Consider the fact that many colleges around the nation are scaling back IT programs (my stepmother teaches various IT classes at a local college) and thike about what that means for those of us who spent money on educations or who have been relying on our IT experience as means to acquire jobs.

The economy and job prospects have been bad enough just dealing with the economic slowdown without having to deal with the jobs that are still there going away from the US (I know, I was unemployed for the greater portion of 2002, and I'm only employed now because I new the guy who ran the IT department for the company I work for now).

In many countries in the EU and also in Australia, they cannot hire a non-citizen unless they CANNOT find a qualified candidate who IS a citizen. The US government needs to step up and implement some similar legislation. Even if you think about this from a lawmakers perspective, an American who makes $50,000 a year pays a whole lot more than an unemployed American and the foreigner who takes his job for $30,000. They'll see a WHOLE LOT less than that from the unemployed American and the job that's no longer in the US! Even the companies that do use outsourcing are killing their own market. How many computers or programs or Coke ayr you going to buy when you're unemployed, and can the foreigner who's making half of what you were making pick up the slack? I don't think so...

Anyway, I'm done...

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It was what he was saying, doing, and Organizing.
He was pro-union and organized Coke merchandizers, so they sacked him.

So yes, on the surface, he was fired for drinking a pepsi on the job, but the reality is it goes deeper than that.

Thank you Rush Limbaugh. It's good to see that you get your news from a Florida Television Station's web site that provides deep investigative journalism such as Fla. Man Charged After Allegedly Placing Dead Bird On Fence , rather than from trash like the NY Times. You really are a connoisseur of fine journalism. I'll bet that they declared the poles closed, the ballots counted and Bubba the winner on November 6, 2000. At least the NY Times admits when they've been hosed.

Do you ever knock your bottle of 'shine off the desk when you move the mouse?

Not true. While Gates sells stock almost weekly, Ballmer hardly ever sells stock, according to this blurb.

Of course, this could have been written by a NY Times journalist so take it with a grain of salt.

Actually, they've trained dogs to sniff out the distinctive cancer "stink." Heres the first link from google.

Imagine walking into a hospital to visit a sick friend and having a german pointer point at you while everyone is the waiting room gasps.

When right next to the article on the monitors, is this:

Man Who Allegedly Ate Cat's Tail Ruled Insane

and

Thousands Flock To See Gold Toilets

When right next to the article on the monitors, is this:

Man Who Allegedly Ate Cat's Tail Ruled Insane

and

Thousands Flock To See Gold Toilets

I bet this guy has some great ideas about saving the earth from killer asteroids.

Report: Human Remains Found In Shuttle Debris
Posted: 6:00 p.m. EST February 1, 2003
Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST February 1, 2003

Human remains have reportedly been found in the Texas wreckage of space shuttle Columbia Saturday night.

A hospital employee on his way to work said that he found what seemed to be a charred torso, thigh bone and skull on a rural road in Hemphill, Texas, near the Louisiana line.

Pieces of the spacecraft have been found in several east Texas counties and in Louisiana. NASA is sending out crews to recover the debris for the investigation.

The spacecraft had just re-entered the atmosphere and had reached the point at which it was subjected to the highest temperatures when it disintegrated Saturday morning.

All seven astronauts were killed.

which company has bigger asshats running the show?

Story here!

Sultaana Freeman didn't think so, and she is being allowed to take it to court.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Sultaana Freeman didn't think so, and she is being allowed to take it to court.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.