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fraud is basically theft through deceit.

I'm really sorry you think tobacco companies saying their drug is not addictive while knowing it was and being forced by the government to put only a minimal and incomplete description of medial problems smoking can cause on their product packaging is telling people exactly what they are getting. Did you mother smoke during her pregnancy with you or something?

Lotteries all the time state a jackpot winnings total, then tell you you must leave the money in an annuity under their control to get that amount if you win. If you want the money upon winning, they take half or so before they even take the taxes out. They advertise how much they're going to help the schools or roads or whatever, but a huge amount of the money goes to run the lottery itself and you're lucky if your state doesn't appropriate part of the funds for some other expense. Yeah, the odds of winning are stated clearly in the fine print, but what the lottery actually supports probably isn't.

Also, would you pleas learn that a dictionary of everyday terms bears little semblance to the definitions you'd find in the criminal codes of your state or in a legal dictionary?

You're an idiot.

A judge's ruling that a certain level of "damages" is excessive is very much precedent - whether individually binding, contributory to an overall aggregate of similar decisions, or "persuasive" precedent (essentially similar to Amicus briefs in the way that they can be considered in relation to a current case) - that can affect the damages the MafiAA may be able to extort in future trials.

Vacating a ruling means that you declare the ruling inapplicable and inadmissible to any future proceeding - in essence, "Null and Void." As such, a vacated ruling cannot be cited as precedent, whether binding or persuasive.

Now please run along, little child. The grownups are trying to have a grown-up discussion of important things. Come back in 18 years or so when you have a firm grounding in the real world and how the legal system works.

Ever since everything here became a car analogy, I get my information from wiseGeek: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-largest-asteroid-ever-to-hit-earth.htm

And what is the problem with this, it is not like nicotine is a bio-accumulating substance.

What's your point? It's a toxic chemical, sprayed on your food. That's, like, bad and stuff, right? That's what all the pro-organic people tell me... despite the fact that pesticides are used in fairly large volume in organic farming, they just use different varieties that are, like, "all natural" and stuff.

Did you even understand what you replied to? Non-bio-accumulating substances breakdown into other substances, many of which are not dangerous, either to humans or the environment. And what is left on food crops can be washed away, hell even so called fresh fruits and veggies from the grocery store should be washed. Before I eat what I picked from my garden I soak it in water with Castile soap and/or an organic fruit and vegetable wash before cooking or eating it.

Falcon

Per Amazon:

Corn Sugar is the common name for dextrose.

and per Wise Geek

Corn sugar is a natural sweetener that is made utilizing starch that is extracted from kernels of corn. The extracted cornstarch is then refined to create a solid sugar or to make another popular sweetening agent known as corn syrup...

The process for making corn sugar begins with the removal of starchy elements from the corn. The extracted elements are actually glucose, although the refining process will transform them into another form of sugar known as dextrose. With the production of syrup, the corn sugar becomes a high fructose corn syrup...

It sounds like "corn sugar" is already used to refer to a separate product. If they don't want to continue using "HFCS," then come up with another word, the same way they did with "Tilapia."

But I think they're shooting themselves in the foot. I mean, are they trying to give ammunition to the healthier foods? First, the other projects can continue to claim that they don't contain HFCS, and they can also make fun of the other brands for trying to hide what's in their foods.

I mean, it's going to be like a fucking field day for the health foods.

She can be taxed pro rata based on the money she made, but that's it. Anything else would likely be considered in a court of law as prior restraint on speech.

Yes you can arrest someone as a material witness for a good long while even pre-9/11, the law was enacted in 1984.

"In addition, if prosecutors have reason to believe that a material witness in a criminal proceeding may flee, they may obtain a warrant for that person's arrest and detain that person, under a 1984 federal statute. The warrant must be approved by a judge, and the witness is entitled to a hearing to determine bond and, if necessary, a court-appointed attorney."

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-material-witness.htm

Its long established that the police can hold you up to a day without charging you. This is standard and the shortest time in the western world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_a_suspect#United_States

Someone is claiming a 3 hour detainment is a violation of civil rights??? A three hour hold is barely enough time for ICE to call their supervisor, run a background check and have army and DHS people drive down from their offices. If anything he got VIP treatment.

btw: He did flee the country after the conference. Noone stopped him from leaving or tried to "make him a statistic".

Avoiding the moral issues involved here, it could show quite a few things. Roid rage is a well known concept but, to my knowledge, has never been tested to see what level is the 'breaking' point of violence and rage, but due to 'roid rage' we know that once the body reaches 'X' level of testosterone violent behavior will occur (due to 'roid rage' we know it heavily depends on testosterone). In a study like this you could 'see' just at what point does testosterone reach when violence occurs and possibly what other bodily chemicals spike during these 'rage' episodes. Taking this knowledge of what introduces 'rage', you can start working on chemical 'blockers' that will temporarily block the body from either producing or accepting these bodily chemicals. Make them into a gas/other substance and you (in theory as long as overdose isn't reached easily) can have a much 'safer' stun-gun then the current taser's on the market (that can introduce a heart attack in people with a weak heart) that also could have other 'peace keeping' opinions (consider their use in bar brawls, ect...). And since it doesn't knock you out like a tranquilizer, it would help disperse a crowd more effectively (instead of making the problem worse when everyone woke up).

The problem with this phrase is that there are really no others to communicate that what someone is doing is forming some hypothesis and then framing a question to prove it... which is a kind of fallacy. It is not circular reasoning, which is using a proof for an issue to prove another issue is true, but which itself relies on the first problem to be its proof.. So by usurping its use for 'raises the question' it removes a clear avenue for it original purpose. Sometimes generally accepted doesn't make something right. Kind of like the way everyone calls a van dyke beard style a goatee. :-D Just because a lot of folks say it's so, doesn't make it so. ;)

It's a shame. I was starting to give up on FlashForward until they revealed that Janice was a double agent. Then they reveled she was a triple agent! And then they reveled that she blew her cover to save Mark!!!

Maybe the problem with FlashForward is the same as with The Handler -- I think many viewers simply can't keep track of what's happening and lose interest. That's probably why Lost's focus on the characters was successful.

Rand? What the F are you talking about? I'm no Randroid. You're projecting, bigtime.

The difference is pretty much just linguistic. Fur refers to the structure on animals, while hair refers to the same structure on people (and sometimes animals). They're both made of keratin, and while the structure does differ, it differs just as much (or little) between any two non-human species as it does between humans and any other mammalian species.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-hair-and-fur.htm

This mite be usefull in the developing world... The problem I see is... where would you find a salad spinner in the developing world, on second thought why would anyone in the developing world even need a salad spinner, wait, why would ANYONE need a salad spinner? Since there are probably a lot of people like me that have no idea what a salad spinner is, here's a link i found http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salad-spinner.htm

"Let's not make excuses for the fact that Blackboard SUCKS in every conceivable way, as it has since schools first started using it."

The problem is the system has to be easy enough for your average teacher to use it but hard enough a child can't hack it.

That's probably very difficult to do. I'd imagine this "hack" was easier than they're willing to admit, let's not forget this 9 yr old just recently learned how to read most the content required to even start hacking.

But let's play devil's advocate, let's assume this is a super genius kid, that he's been reading since 3, coding at 5 and is now at a college level, that would explain how he figured how to do a real hack, but then wouldn't Blackboard and the school report that? Because as the article reads he's just a "very intelligent 9-year-old". Yeah, so is every 3rd grader now days, but that won't help sell Blackboard systems, couldn't you Doogie Howser up the kid a bit more? Perfect SAT score at 6 would certainly make me feel like this could never happen again. So this kid was not a genius, this had to be a easy hack.

Makes me feel very safe about my info at my old university that has switched to blackboard.

She may have been in a hypnotic or semi hypnotic state due to a petite mal sizeure cause by the shining of a bright (and moving!) in her eyes, which resulted in her believing she was burned and causing blistering. Discuss the likelihood by al means but not the possibility. More particularly, please do not introduce straw-men and please do not take the piss. Have a little intellectual honesty.

All I have maintained is that there maybe something to her story and there are issues that might need looking at. What I get back is the same attitude as "heavier than air craft cannot fly", "man can't travel at more than 70 mph".

I'll concede to the fact that I should have used 'blister' not burn. But would you expect her to know the difference?

As for LEDs being harmless just learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

You demonstrate your ignorance.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-petite-mal.htm

Note particularly "such as a light being flashed in the eyes".

I wont bother to wait for your apology.

It's nothing to do with hypnotism, apart from maybe making the person not react normally to pain. Ice can cause burns, you don't need to be hypnotised. See http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cold-burn.htm For details

"'Enemy Combatant' is not a term which appears in the convention" The term is actually quite well defined...by others than myself, though usually distinguishing between 'lawful' and 'unlawful'. In the posts above, I have been using the 'unlawful' definition. Relevant links: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-enemy-combatant.htm http://www.cfr.org/publication/5312/enemy_combatants.html The 4th Geneva Convention, as far as I know, applied further protections to civilians, but not to military forces that are not 'lawful' enemy combatants. Of course, it is now confused even more since the public outcry regarding treatment of Taliban prisoners and such (and technically didn't fall under any "strict" definition as the definitions stupidly specified "uniformed" military...as though there would never be any other kind...), and the USSC's subsequent caving on the issue which served only to further muddy an already vague classification.

``Saying that it's "nagging" the user to pay up, is nothing more than using some fine choice of words to make it look bad on Microsoft.''

Actually, I think that is the technical term for it. Software that does this is called nagware.

``Next up: Adobe nags the users after one month of using their trial software. Oh, the horror!''

Actually, I do think it's pretty horrible. I guess you get used to it, but having switched to open source software a long time ago, I half jump out of my skin with fear, annoyance, and fury when I find myself on Windows, especially in the "as shipped" or the "my computer is slow" states. It's like every second program on the computer is trying to get your attention for something or other: your computer may be at risk, your virus definitions are out of date, your trial period has expired, a new Java update is available, checking for new versions of your Firefox plugins, please click "Allow" if you want to allow Windows to start the program you just told it to start, and on and on. And don't get me started on the processes of software installation, hardware installation, or updates.

Being used to Debian, the Windows desktop is horribly distracting. I can completely understand why users give up reading the messages that pop up on their screens and just want them to go away as quickly as possible.

Sorry for the rant. I feel better now that's off my chest.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-top-manufacturing-countries.htm The US still manufactures almost 2x what China does. Keep in mind that when things say made in china, that doesn't neccessarily mean all the components were made there. The US also manufactures large amounts of goods that aren't bought by individuals (like tractors, heavy equipment and airplanes). Just because we don't dominate toys and t-shirts doens't mean that we don't make plenty of other goods.

The real 800 pound gorilla in the room

The metaphor is "elephant in the room"
you've mixed it with "where does an 800lb gorilla sit"

They opened a huge can of worms. Literally.

They literally opened a metal container filled with annelids?

I double checked as well. The wiki article is good too.

no, I understand your point, you just chose a bad example. I see no reason why there is 'public interst' in exposure of facts that are personally damaging and which by definition can only affect individuals.

If yu were talking about whether we should have a completely transparent government because that would expose national security concerns, THAT would be a public interest issue. By bringing the arguement down to one where you are looking at two people instead of a group, then its an individual privacy issue and one which I will ALWAYS side on the individual.

As for ethics vs morals, I would point to this differentiation

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-ethics-and-morals.htm

We are talking about ethics in regards to the std thing IMHO since that is a societal construct. The examples I was talking earlier are probably moral though, yyou are right there.

Finally, as for legal issue, I have never seen a statute indicating giving someone herpes was a CRIMINAL offense. I have seen law suits though.

HIV might be, I can see that since it very well might kill you.`

Pizza is Italian.

There's no such thing as american pizza. Only american would-be pizza.

From what I'm told, the common implementation of the recipe of 'pizza' is very American and is different in Italy ... Chicago-style pizza (or tomato pies) might be closer to Italian but from what I've heard, the two have diverged.

I'm sure that, especially in more recent times, the service people at Apple don't have to service more than 1 tar-covered machine per day, but heading this off at the pass is just Apple's way of protecting their employees

If Apple wants to protect employees then it should require employees to wear gas masks or oxygen tanks. I haven't seen one employee doing this in an Apple store, yet I bet all those Macs, iPhones, iPods, and all that packaging used outsources gases worse than cigarette tar.

Heck, seeing as how Apple is supposed to be so hip and oxygen bars are hip, I don't know why Apple isn't infusing their facilities with oxygen bars too.

Falcon

Oh, BTW I do not hate or oppose Macs, I like Macs and OS X. I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro running Leopard and I have my Snow Leopard DVD close at hand for when I'm ready to install it. And when I get a new laptop it's likely to another MacBook Pro, unless of course Apple continues with this BS!

If that's accurate, then it goes a LONG way towards understanding why they'd ban a game like Wolfenstein, and why they're so adamant about banning sales of Nazi era items on eBay, etc. etc.

I believe that nazi symbols are illegal in Germany, creating the usual ironic effect whenever forms of expression are censored. That is, the act of censoring expression will bring more attention to that which is being eradicated.

A quick google turned up this: http://www.wisegeek.com/is-it-really-illegal-to-display-the-swastika-symbol-in-germany.htm

Typically, to lose one pound, you must consume 3400 less calories than you metabolize, which means these people did about 300 calories of extra exercise a day. To put that in prospective, here is a list of activities that would burn an additional 200 calories, so these people were probably doing about 45 minutes of jogging equivalent daily. The fact is, your resting metabolism is already quite high, as your body must maintain its temperature at a toasty 98 degrees; exercise only marginally improves on that.

On the other hand, losing 200 calories by dieting can drastically move that number from the low hundreds to even thousands a day for obese people. Here is what 200 calories of food would look like... it almost doesn't seem fair that you would have to run for a half hour just to burn off a can of soda.

You want to lose weight? Try controlling portions to what the box recommends as a single serving. You'll quickly learn to value foods that satisfy a high fullness/calorie ratio, things like vegetables, soups, salads that fill you up faster. Also, track what you stuff in your mouth, it really helps keep you accountable.

We're being sold out. Germany is the number one exporter in dollar value in the world -- and that with a first world standard of living. http://www.wisegeek.com/which-countries-export-the-most.htm Big business in bed with government is killing America.

Re your sig: Here you go.

Many people here on slashdot would perhaps be happy with a smaller paycheck if it was an awesome working environment where they could be challenged every day to do cool, neat things and write lots of code.

In any case, great reading.

I wouldn't because I couldn't stand the idea that 99.99% of the profits from my work would go straight to the sociopaths and leaches. There is no symbiosis in the corporate world. You might be happier doing cool stuff but you can just do that while reverse telecommuting from the corporate slaveshop.

See http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-temperature-in-space.htm

It says that space is ridiculously empty *on average*, so a molecule floating around in the middle of nowhere probably has virtually no energy (except the cosmic background radiation). This is why the average temperature of space is so low.

On the other hand, a molecule in our solar system gets hit by all sorts of radiation if it had direct line of sight with the sun, heating it to >40 kelvin.

Now, assuming that the fellow reseeds his crop each year (garlic is an annual, after all), one wonders why he is all that worried in any event.

Actually garlic is a perennial, it's just grown as an annual. I have some growing in my garden now and when I pick them I'll keep some of the cloves to plant next year, that's how I started the ones I planted this year. I took a bulb of garlic, broke off the cloves then planted them. Now if I leave some of the garlic in the ground they can grow back next year as well.

Falcon

http://www.hughesnet.com/

http://www.wildblue.com/

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-satellite-broadband.htm

Maybe if you gave her some real options for it, she would have it.

Oh wait, $99.00 a month is too expensive?

you are not complaining about accessibility, you're complaining about the price of available service.

Credit reports are not presented as a statement of fact - they are an opinion. As such, it's not defamation. See this.

Except that Africa has over 2000 spoken languages. So some people still won't be able to use it.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-many-languages-are-spoken-in-africa.htm

Why Google when you can ask Slashdot ...

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-it-mean-to-cut-your-teeth-on-something.htm

The 'C' in NIC stands for 'Controller', not 'Card'.

some people, including 3Com and Cisco, disagree with you.

You realize that the CO2 in soda pop comes from the air so ignoring the energy expended to get it into the can that is carbon neutral.

In a sense it does but then again how the soda is made has to be taken into consideration. Commercial manufacturing of soda has the CO2 injected into syrup. Old fashioned methods didn't do that though. Naturally sparkling water comes out of the ground carbonated so the favoring would be added to it. Or soda can be carbonated by the same process beer and wine are made, add some yeast to the drink. That's how I've made my own soda. I used to brew my own, beer, wine, and soda and would like to start again.

Falcon

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-http-and-https.htm

In many ways, https is identical to http, because it follows the same basic protocols. The http or https client, such as a Web browser, establishes a connection to a server on a standard port. When a server receives a request, it returns a status and a message, which may contain the requested information or indicate an error if part of the process malfunctioned. Both systems use the same Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme, so that resources can be universally identified. Use of https in a URI scheme rather than http indicates that an encrypted connection is desired.

There are some primary differences between http and https, however, beginning with the default port, which is 80 for http and 443 for https. Https works by transmitting normal http interactions through an encrypted system, so that in theory, the information cannot be accessed by any party other than the client and end server. There are two common types of encryption layers: Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), both of which encode the data records being exchanged.

When using an https connection, the server responds to the initial connection by offering a list of encryption methods it supports. In response, the client selects a connection method, and the client and server exchange certificates to authenticate their identities. After this is done, both parties exchange the encrypted information after ensuring that both are using the same key, and the connection is closed. In order to host https connections, a server must have a public key certificate, which embeds key information with a verification of the key owner's identity. Most certificates are verified by a third party so that clients are assured that the key is secure.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/ssl-howto.html

The first time a user attempts to access a secured page on your site, he or she is typically presented with a dialog containing the details of the certificate (such as the company and contact name), and asked if he or she wishes to accept the Certificate as valid and continue with the transaction. Some browsers will provide an option for permanently accepting a given Certificate as valid, in which case the user will not be bothered with a prompt each time they visit your site. Other browsers do not provide this option. Once approved by the user, a Certificate will be considered valid for at least the entire browser session.

Also, while the SSL protocol was designed to be as efficient as securely possible, encryption/decryption is a computationally expensive process from a performance standpoint. It is not strictly necessary to run an entire web application over SSL, and indeed a developer can pick and choose which pages require a secure connection and which do not. For a reasonably busy site, it is customary to only run certain pages under SSL, namely those pages where sensitive information could possibly be exchanged. This would include things like login pages, personal information pages, and shopping cart checkouts, where credit card information could possibly be transmitted. Any page within an application can be requested over a secure socket by simply prefixing the address with https: instead of http:. Any pages which absolutely require a secure connection should check the protocol type associated with the page request and take the appropriate action if https is not specified.

Finally, using name-based virtual hosts on a secured connection can be problematic. This is a design limitation of the SSL protocol itself. The SSL handshake, where the client browser accepts the server certificate, must occur before the HTTP request is accessed. As a result

Yes and that stuff about drinking 8 glasses of water a day is garbage

Shove you head in the water and it can be bad.

from my understanding fluoride actually acts to reduce IQ among other things (such as brittle bones)

I don't know about fluorine reducing IQ but it can cause fluorosis, which as one of the photos shows can cause the mouth and teeth to be stained, and cause brittle bones. What happens is that fluorine replaces calcium in the bones which weakens them. I don't know the validity of it but it's been suggested that that's why the elderly break their hips and other bones easily.

Falcon

English is one of the easiest? Since when? Almost all verbs in English are irregular, and the vagaries of grammar as well as the sheer magnitude of vocabulary required to read anything written by someone with more than an 8th grade education... I'll have to disagree with your disagreement. Finnish is harder to learn than English, but the "easiest" languages to learn are more like French and Spanish, with very regular rules and limited vocabulary.

My understanding is that it's true of Neptune (this site agrees), but it may be true of Mercury too. I get hazy about anything more than a day's drive from home.

Where is it, again, that I can put blow on my credit card?

Glad I could help. On a serious note, if you're the sharp type and good at reading fine print, you can occasionally make money with "credit card arbitrage" by taking advantage of 0% APR balance transfer options. Not for the faint of heart, of course. Or you can take advantage of the US Mint's offers to sell dollar coins at face value with free shipping to skim credit card rewards points.

Is it a blanket ban on incandescent bulbs? If the tungsten photonic lattice becomes practical (GE seems to be working on it), we could have good old glass-and-tungsten incandescent bulbs that are two to four times more efficient than they are now.

You should do a bit of research into breeder reactors. They're extremely fuel efficient, are powered by a much more common thorium, and my understanding is the waste material they would produce has a half-life of half a century instead of twenty-five millennium. And, they can use the leftover fuel from conventional reactors. When people talk about "going nuclear", it's with this type of technology that they're referring to, not building inefficient 1950's style reactors.

Youtube clip of Volvo XC60 - Test drive - Elk test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWQPf59iJ4
and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQ2VI7pJ1o

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-moose-test.htm

I agree. In fact I would go so far as to say that in general active volcanos stink and produce more "pollution" than the people living on their flanks. I also think that long before we were human we evolved a survival mechanisim that perceives the stink as a warning to stay away, when we learned to write that mechanisim became the Bible's "fire and brimstone". Many tribal religions that actually live on volcanos are more sophisticated than that, they recognise that the volcano can also bring new life in the form of rain and fertilzer. The mistake that all these tribes make is that they think they can appeal to the volcano's "good side", nature doesn't have a "good side" and doesn't care one bit if she covers you and your tribe with molten rock.

/rant

The tribal view is also applicable to the industrial revolution. Factories provide us with a lifestyle that few of us are willing/able to give up, but it's clear those factories are killing environmental canaries at an alarming rate.

I witnessed Mao's famine on a B&W TV as a child and that's what would happen if we stopped the industrial revolution, but I also recognise we are now so numerous that to continue with bussiness as usual means a global Easter Island is a real risk for my grandkids (first one due in March). It's not that we don't have the technology to have our environmental cake and eat it, it's that (until recently) most of our "chiefs" have been busy fighting each other over the right to kiss the factory god's arse. The world's witch doctors who collectively create our technology are ignored when they point out fatal but potentialy fixable bugs such as the tradjedy of the commons. Like the tribal witch-doctors appealing to the "good side" of the volcano god's I fear that our witch-doctors are appealing to the "good side" of human nature.

There are now over twice as many people on the planet than when I was born, I was a moderate greenie before the term "greenie" was invented. I watched the rural town where I grew up swallowed by the city of Melbourne. I have been visiting the local beach where I now live for 45yrs, over that time it went from clean to filthy and back to clean again, in fact the entire bay did likewise (Port Phillip Bay) and the fishing is slowly returning to what it used to be in the 60's (recreational fishing licenses were introduced to buy back commercial scallop boat licences). The strip of wetlands on the other side of where I live is a paradise for birds and a breeding ground for fish. It's still a shit farm but not like the original one that ruined the beach in the 70's, this one produces "drinkable" water and fertlizer for nearby turf farms. OTOH like a more intense version of California, much of the land that supported Melboune's growth is dead, dying, in drought, or in flames.

Technological supremacy is what seperates us from other animals, if we don't use it to our long term advantage we are just like any other predatorless mammal and will soon eat and shit ourselves into a population crash that according to the witch doctors will also drag much of the planets biosphere down with it. Currently middle eastern goat hearders are best equiped to deal with the aftermath of the witch-doctors visions.

/rant

The main characteristic of a sociopath is a disregard for the rights of others.

Visible symptoms include physical aggression and the inability to hold down a steady job. The sociopath also finds it hard to sustain relationships and shows a lack of regret in his or her actions.

AResearch has shown that the sociopath is usually a person with an abundance of charm and wit. He or she may appear friendly and considerate, but these attributes are usually superficial {and manipulative.]

The sociopath sometimes sees the world on his or her own terms, as a place of high drama and risky thrills. What is a sociopath/

I think you need to tread carefully here. The sociopath lives in a world of fits and starts. Relationships lead nowhere, Work leads nowhere. He hypes up the drama, he lives for thrill of the moment. The risks he takes have no purpose..

This isn't management - it's guy shoving his team off a cliff simply for the hell of it.

"Young pups?" Please.

I have decades of experience. Would you please tell me the name of the company you are hiring for so I don't accidentally end up working with someone as pompous and patronizing as you?

Your problem isn't others who "might (think they) know" things. It's the guy you see in the mirror who thinks he knows the "real world." I won't shed a tear if the responses to one of your oh-so-clever questions is a lawsuit for age discrimination.

For those who wondered what plasmonic is: What is plasmonic?