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Faces change, policy doesn't.

pulled us out of Iraq and Afghanistan

If by pulling out of Iraq you mean sending thousands more troops or if by stating pulling out of Afghanistan you mean leaving troops until the next Administration, then you're correct.

tt can be baryonic matter, if it is encapsulated in some fashion. I believe your two conditions refer to BBN (not a particularly extreme energy density, BTW) and the Lyman Alpha constraints on Warm Dark Matter (which means it had to drop out of the radiation fluid v ~ c / sqrt(3) pretty early).

Both of these are fulfilled by, e.g., quark nugget dark matter (these would form well before BBN and drop out of the radiation fluid well before needed to fulfill the WDM constraints), as maybe also the recently proposed "macros".

You're still obliged, in law, to deliver what you promised you would.

I'm pretty sure, if you look at the 'gifts' offered, they are all offered contingent on success of the project. Not success of the funding campaign, but success of the project. I'm pretty sure you'll find that the projects are all roadmaps or visions and subject to revision. So, E:D's kickstarter "promise" to deliver you a specific game is a lot like Comcast's promise to deliver up to 25 Mbps.

So far as I know, there is exactly one pending lawsuit aimed at testing the obligation to deliver promised goods. I don't expect it to be very successful, because funders are generally putting money into a risky venture without guaranteed success.

Even authentic, tax-deductible charities get away with diverting donations from their ostensible purposes. Look at a group like National Veterans Services Fund. Their administrative costs are 82% of their revenue. You can find 'charities' with administrative and fundraising costs as high as 95% of donations. The point is that "delivering" on marketing literature is very different than "delivering" on a contract.

Neither a fan of the most valuable company (Apple) nor the 2nd, but had to be said before Microsoft bashing commences: http://www.betawired.com/micro...

So they must be doing something right!

That's a great point. Most everyone I know looks at market capitalization when trying to choose a desktop or mobile operating system. Damn straight I do! How else can I know if the quality of the user interfaces, ISV models, required hardware footprints or device support are what I need?

I used to research the products, test them out to see if I liked the look and feel, confirm that the hardware I wished to use was supported and that I had good choices of software. What a waste of time. Now I just look at the stock prices and market cap and I'm done.

What a dork I was! Usability. pfft! Access to applications of my choice. Who needs it? Support for my hardware? Throw that crap out!

Focusing on Market Cap makes me feel almost as good as after I used MYCleanPC and it made my PC 4000 times faster!

Facing a similar problem a couple of years ago, I discovered that yahoo provides email filters not only for its webmail users, but also for several other companies. They have a procedure for requesting an exemption from their filters. It took a couple of tries, but I eventually got my server accepted. Here's the form:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yah...

You can apply for bulk sender whitelisting from Yahoo!. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

The don't give a Flying-F*** about your SPF if your DKIM is wrong or if you are using an @yahoo.com email address.

What they care about is that they've updated their DMARC record to reject @yahoo.com emails in the From: address if they aren't sent by yahoo.com servers.

You should have googled this.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail...

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. To answer your questions:

1) Yes, I have a domain. The reverse DNS is correct and I have SPF records for the domain. Also, I'm not running an open relay and my mail server and IP address are not on any RBLs.

2) Each mail service I listed above provides different results. First, Google doesn't send me an email back notifying of an issue. They simply dump the email into the spam folder of whomever I email. Yahoo spits out several messages:

Deferred: 421 4.7.1 [TS03] All messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX will be permanently deferred; Retrying will NOT succeed. See http://postmaster.yahoo.com/42...

Deferred: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/42...

Hotmail spits back this message:

Deferred: 421 RP-001 (BAY004-MC5F24) Unfortunately, some messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX weren't sent. Please try again. We have limits for how many messages can be sent per hour and per day. You can also refer to http://mail.live.com/mail/trou....

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. To answer your questions:

1) Yes, I have a domain. The reverse DNS is correct and I have SPF records for the domain. Also, I'm not running an open relay and my mail server and IP address are not on any RBLs.

2) Each mail service I listed above provides different results. First, Google doesn't send me an email back notifying of an issue. They simply dump the email into the spam folder of whomever I email. Yahoo spits out several messages:

Deferred: 421 4.7.1 [TS03] All messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX will be permanently deferred; Retrying will NOT succeed. See http://postmaster.yahoo.com/42...

Deferred: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/42...

Hotmail spits back this message:

Deferred: 421 RP-001 (BAY004-MC5F24) Unfortunately, some messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX weren't sent. Please try again. We have limits for how many messages can be sent per hour and per day. You can also refer to http://mail.live.com/mail/trou....

The article says: "over 2 million people left the Guandong province of China and returned just a few days later--that's equivalent to the entire population of Chicago upping sticks"

Sounds pretty major, right?

Well, let's see according to Wikipedia, the population of Guangdong province was 105,940,000 in 2012. So approx. 2% of the population traveled out of province for Chinese New Years. 2% doesn't sound that big compared to "the entire population of Chicago" eh? To put it into perspective, the population of California is approx 38 million, and for Thanksgiving long weekend in 2013, "Statewide, 4.46 million will drive to holiday destinations, and 533,000 will go by plane." according to the AAA. That's over 12% of the population traveling. Granted, not *everybody* left the state. If one just counts the ones the flew by plane, 1.4% of California's residents flew somewhere over Thanksgiving. 2% doesn't sound like that much now.

Honestly, after reading the news reports about the super crowded trains during Chinese New Years, I would have expected the number of people traveling out of Guandong to be *much* higher than 2%.

Ref: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

Then Bush II was elected, the Republicans continued to control Congress, and the deficit soared.

Yes, the dot com crash and 9/11 happened. I don't blame Democrats for that. Do you blame Republicans?

Obama stepped into the worst national economy of my lifetime, and was unable to keep the deficit down.

There's no doubt that most of the increased deficit under Obama was due to economic factors beyond his control. At the same time, the recovery was also beyond his control. Much of it was IN SPITE of Obama's policies. Did you see the widely covered "letter to the editor" from a Canadian who is confused about why we voted in so many Republicans even though under Obama we have all these great things? It's all over Facebook and the news. Here: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blog...

It's hilarious. Everything the guy talks about is stuff Obama has fought AGAINST. Record corporate profits... Democrats feel pain and start crying when corporations make record profits. Remember all the "windfall tax" crap? And "clawing back" bank bonuses, etc? Oil production... Democrats are against offshore drilling, fracking, shale oil, exploration in Alaska and the arctic, Keystone XL (oh, and putting tighter regulations on trains carrying oil, which is only being done because there's no pipeline..), all the talk of killing subsidies for oil and gas, etc.

I mean it's really a joke how Democrats like to give Obama credit for things he had nothing to do with or actively fought against. I don't get it. I wouldn't do that for a Republican because I have at least a smidgen of intellectual honesty.

Yes, the most important racism out there is affirmative action.

Loses money? AMZN had $274 million in net profit last year.

Please stop fucking up Blizzard. Return them to how they were before you purchased the company, and pull your dick out of their ass. http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/sta... Notice When everyone started pulling away from World of Warcaft? http://finance.yahoo.com/echar... Notice Blizzards stock plummet in 2008? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... Isn't it funny that within a year of Activision purchasing blizzard that their stock tanks, their games suffer, and everyone looks the other direction? Diablo 1 and 2 were awesome. Several expansions of World of Warcraft were awesome, and StarCraft was great. Activision took over and Diablo 3 was horrid. Wrath of the Lich King was the last expansion that was mostly completed before the acquisition and every expansion since then that Activision started making changes to has tanked. If Blizzard wants to survive, buy yourselves back and make a run for it.

... three years before this article...

3DS page notes, "the use of the 3D feature by children aged six and under may cause vision damage."

The reason I say 3 years ago is looking at this article from 2011. "we do not know what happens to children, whose visual systems are still developing." I remember reading quite a few articles at the time where the press (multiple different reviews at the time) basically questioned Nintendo, indicating that Nintendo was probably over-estimating the potential risk. The American Optometric Association made a statement disagreeing with Nintendo. It was actually rather interesting (and pleasant) to see a company as large as Nintendo risking harm to sales on their latest product, by being more cautious than what seemed warranted.

Yeah, putting this all one one guy is pretty stupid.
If it's happening, it's more a function of "Republicans are going to be in power for the next two years, might as well hitch my cart to that horse."
If it's happening.
Yahoo (I know, I know) had a story up just a few weeks ago about just how liberal Silicon Valley is: Here. Check out the slideshow. It would be a MASSIVE turnaround to look even moderate compared to 2010-2013, let alone Republican leaning. Source data here.

Better article at finance.yahoo.com: https://finance.yahoo.com/news... that I ran across on Tuesday.(I own some NOC stock).

Cheers,
Dave

And I did RTFA. Limiting travel doesn't have to mean their interpretation of it (forbidding flights from/to certain places).

Uh huh. And when you eliminate most of the travelers, what do you think the airlines are going to do? Maintain their flight schedules with empty planes? Partial restrictions have much larger effects than just eliminating the restricted travelers.

For starters, I'd restrict visas for non-US naionals from those places, regardless of where their particular flight originated.

WTF? Why would you restrict people who haven't even been in the region? I'm resisting the urge to throw down the race card, but it's hard.

Finally, asking people who have been in close contact with Ebola patients to quarantine if at all symptomatic isn't unreasonable.

I don't agree, but even supposing I did have you thought about the effects of doing that? Like, for example, discouraging doctors and nurses from traveling to West Africa to help out? The biggest problem with controlling the epidemic there is the lack of healthcare workers, and unnecessary mandatory quarantines are going to reduce the number of health care workers willing to go.

Don't believe me? It's already happening, even with the limited state-based quarantine requirements. If the quarantines were actually necessary or useful, that would be unavoidable, but it's not, so quarantines are actively damaging the fight against the disease in the place where it's most needed, in order to assuage groundless fears of people who have 0% of ever contracting the disease.

People, not to put too fine a point on it, like you.

1.4M employees, check.
$16B is for all of walmart, not just the Walton's stock. They own around half.

$8.81 moving to $100/hour almost makes the $8 insignificant, but I'll use $91.19 anyways.

1/3rd are part time.

Using 1.4M employees, that's roughly 1,867M full time hours, 467M part time hours. 2.3B employee hours/year. So increasing average employee pay to $100/hour would cost the Waltons $210B of their $8B of income from Walmart a year. For that matter, raising average pay to $12.29 would wipe out their income period. You could reach $15.77 if you theoretically turned Walmart into a non-profit.

$2/hour to the proposed federal minimum wage increase would seem doable though. It would also increase our tax base - more people paying the higher income tax rates vs the 15% max long term capital gain rate the Waltons almost certainly take advantage of.

Granted we are just comparing individual companies. Apple is an American company and has done amazingly well. But, personal opinion here, Apple's magic is not very substantive, and people are very fickle in what is considered cool. (Not that Apple's products aren't good, but their success in recent years has been way out of proportion to how good they are - the quality created a fad - and that won't last).

Granted we are just comparing individual companies. Apple is an American company and has done amazingly well. But, personal opinion here, Apple's magic is not very substantive, and people are very fickle in what is considered cool. (Not that Apple's products aren't good, but their success in recent years has been way out of proportion to how good they are - the quality created a fad - and that won't last).

I'm sure there are some security there but my US friends gotta realize the serg at arms who shoot the gunman is the dude who carries a decorative mace, leading politicians walking into the parliment with a funny hat. No disrespect but all kudos to him for the response but my point is that, this stuff ALMOST NEVER happen here and hence there's little need for people carrying machines guns walking around the parliment ground.

Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.

That isn't what the article you linked says, do you have a problem with reading comprehension? The article says that the forecast was for $184 million through middle of 2015, not for 2014. As for increased crime or reduced productivity, citation needed.

Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.

Wow only $40 million? What an insignificant figure ....

It is if you already spent the $184 million...

Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.

Wow only $40 million? What an insignificant figure ....

Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.

This doesn't include the associated costs with the increase in crime or loss of productivity which have to be taken out of that amount.

So using the inevitable whining from people on here, Colorado's experiment is just as much a failure as Chicagos.

You say this as though it's something other than exactly what the lobbyists who wrote the law intended. They get more of your money, and they pay for less care. It's a win-win from their perspective.

And billions are going to insurance companies

RTFM - in a computerized system, the nurses enter some information about the patient, but that information is not relayed back to the screen that the doctor sees.

Brilliant.

That also explains why we have to repeat to the doctor(s) everything we just repeated to all the attending nurses.

The Pentagon certainly employs many pedophiles. I was wondering if the FBI had any higher moral standards.

Not true.
Men receive more harassment than women. They're just used to it, so they "man up" and "take it like man".

And that is why students who can't find jobs are now suing their educators, and so is the government.

Fill out this worksheet. Nobody actually benefits from you doing this

Most of the worksheets I filled out in school benefitted me, by presenting opportunities to practice valuable skills.

If your school passed out dumb worksheets that didn't reinforce vaulable skills (see: stupid Common Core math worksheet stumps dad with PhD), your school was doing it wrong. Sorry you had to go through that.

but, they will clear the way for "i told you so" Hillary in 2016. Washington (AFP) - Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has denounced the White House... http://news.yahoo.com/obama-te...

Oh, Oh! I get it now. I will have my free Windows 9 upgrade, not a real Windows it appears, than i'll have to buy Windows 10. have the feeling I will ending up installed gentoo on my laptop as well.

"-- pushed forward with NSA surveillance of all Americans;"
vastly stripped down surveillance. BTW, that's their job.

Where do you get the idea it was vastly stripped down? Snowden waited to do his leaking because he was hopeful Obama would change things. It was when Obama changed nothing ...

Snowden said he thought about disclosing the program sooner but was hopeful the election of President Barack Obama would change things. But "[Obama] continued with the policies of his predecessor," Snowden said.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/th...

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"-- seeks to make such surveillance inescapable;"
wanting to be ab; to execute legal warrants is no making surveillance inescapable.

Really, after everything we've learned in the last year about how utterly ignored the 4th amendment is, you think this about warrants?

"-- tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan over the previous "conservative" administration"
there wasn't enough troops to deal with the war. What would you have him do? All this shows ois the the previous administration underestimated needed capacity.

He could also have just left. NOTHING is going to fix that region EVER.

"-- redefined "collection" to mean "reading" in order to avoid following the 4th Amendment (would that work for filesharer's who didn't listen to downloaded music? Not a chance.)"
and?[Emphasis added]

I not you skipped the due process free execution thing, but anyway,with respect to the 4th Amendment: see STASI: http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/0...

Also, why do you hate the Constitution? It makes you seem very unAmerican when you publicly crap on the 4th Amendment.

"-- has killed thousands of innocent people with drone strikes in numerous countries."
which is far fewer if they used none drone weaponry. Civilian deaths is tragic, but historically it's a lot less now then any other war.

This is your defense of the Nobel Peace Prize winner causing thousands of deaths?? "well, he could have caused even more." Serial Killer Defense attorneys should take note -- "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, it was only 52 victims he hacked up, imagine what he could have done if he was President!"

"-- destroyed the War Powers Act by engaging in war in Libya without Congressional Approval."
He has congressional approval. More specifically, the office of the presidency has authorization. YOU might want to ask yourself why the pubs scream about this, but don't actually talk about removing the power congress gave him?
too wit:
"That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."

Last Sunday was the 90th day of bombing in Libya, but Mr. Obama â" armed with dubious legal opinions â" is refusing to stop Americaâ(TM)s military engagement there. His White House counsel, Robert F. Bauer, has declared that, despite the War Powers Act, the president can continue the Libya campaign indefinitely without legislative support. This conclusion lacks a solid legal foundation. And by adopting it, the White House has shattered the traditional legal process the executive branch has developed to sustain the rule of law over the past 75 years.

There will be no free upgrade if your computer came with Win8.x pre-installed. And there is not going to be a Windows 9 - they skipped directly to 10.

The Windows 9 upgrade might not be as free as initially believed

... just those customers who have purchased a Windows 8 (or Windows 8.1) copy will qualify for free upgrades. Users who have purchased a computer with Windows 8 preinstalled (OEM version of the software) will have to pay a fee.

Guess they wanted to catch up to Apple OSX version 10. Same as when one linux distro would bump their version number, others would to, even if that meant skipping a few digits in the process, so they wouldn't seem "behind."

They're not skipping a version number. Windows 9 is basically going to be a Service Pack for Windows 8.

Confirmed: Windows 9 to be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users

Releasing Win10 so quickly supports the idea that Win9 is just an update. Win10 is really what they want all the Win7 users to move to.

Of course in typical Microsoft fashion they will probably not allow direct upgrades from Win7-Win10 (probably not even Win8-Win10)

Not quite. If you read the article, what the article is calling "Windows 9" is now "Windows 10."

Also, from the same site, if your computer came with Windows 8 installed, you'll have to pay to upgrade. Which ain't gonna happen.

They're not skipping a version number.
Windows 9 is basically going to be a Service Pack for Windows 8.

Confirmed: Windows 9 to be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users

Releasing Win10 so quickly supports the idea that Win9 is just an update.
Win10 is really what they want all the Win7 users to move to.

We could have socialized medicine in the US if we could get this money.

Or we could have something useful. Or just not collect the taxes in the first place, if that's the best you can do with it.

absolutely.

At the time when an average /.er writes another meaningless statement as to how to use more government violence to steal more money from individuals to create more monstrous government monopolies, Switzerland stands its ground and votes against such notions.

Slashdotting Yahoo should be quite a feat, but I suspect this particular service to be underpowered.

At least tap water --- if properly supplied --- has gone through the chlorination process

And according to WHO, chlorination kills the ebola virus

And there is your answer to the question of why they don't burn the bodies. They bury the bodies triple-bagged and soaked in strong chlorine bleach, with more bleach between the layers of bags. Let's be generous and say 10 litres (approx 10 kilos) of industrial grade bleach (18% by weight available chlorine, this stuff will peel the skin off your hands) per body. Allow another 10 kilos for triple layers of body bags.

How much wood does it take to cremate a body thoroughly?

Several hundred kilos.

Good enough reasons?

depends on how transparent the breakdown is... I do recall some airfares that were pretty close to 50/50 fare/taxes+fees, and I certainly have long distance phone bills that clearly show pennies worth of calls and dollars worth of "fees" that are carefully described as "not taxes".

So, while everything isn't "taxes", they are larger than you think, but the "profit" part is generally pretty small. For example, the current "profit margin" for American Airlines is negative That can't be good...

True, but I'm pretty sure that in this case cause and effect works in both directions (ie, it's a viscous cycle). Being poor makes making poor choices more attractive, and making poor choices makes you poor.

But if you make poor choices, having money won't solve your problems. For example, 70% of people who unexpectedly gain a fortune, end up bankrupt 7 years later (link).

When Amazon made their announcement, my first thought was, the parcel-carriers should all be doing it. Sellers might too, but for FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL and other mail-companies, this is a must going forward.

I even bought some AVAV shares back then — the only publicly-traded company I could find, for whom drone-making is the primary business...

Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

previously

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

Any time I hear about spinal injuries in rats, it always reminds me of this (go to 3:56). "Well that's good news, huh? Getting all those rats up and around again!" :-D

So are you disagreeing that there are fewer farmers or that the population has not grown in 600 years. The were 40 million farmers in Europe in the middle ages with a population of 50 million. Today there are 13 million farmers and a population of 740 million.

No, I'm saying something very specific: exactly what I wrote. To clarify, I'm saying that just because there are fewer people farming today than there were 600 years ago, does not necessarily imply that they are doing the farming for a larger population (which they are). While both statements are true, it is not correct to say that one logically follows from the other, which is what you were originally claiming (and I was disagreeing with). My apologies for being precise with my language.

People no longer have to farm for a living they do one of a million other things because of technology. If technology was not there they would have to farm.

I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate with your first sentence. People no longer have to farm for a living, this is true. People do one of a million other things because of technology, this is an empty statement. People do one of a million other things because inaction is not possible; even the most idle person is still doing something, even if that something is merely circulating the blood through their body. This is by the very nature of life and has nothing to do with technology. Even prehistoric man did one of a million other things in the absence of agriculture, independent of technology. If technology was not there, they would not have to farm (indeed, they couldn't farm, since farming depends on technology). They could hunt/gather instead, or they could lay around and die, or they could do countless other things. This has nothing to do with technology though.

I'd like to see your proof that those other jobs did not replace farming jobs, you are missing a few rungs in your logic chain.

If those other jobs replaced farming jobs, there would have been no gain in productivity (because the productive output of those other jobs is an input to modern farming). Since there was in fact a gain in productivity (or at least that's what economists have been consistently claiming for decades, if not centuries), we know that those jobs did not rep

Zuckerberg is also a traitor to the American tech worker.

Hey, Mark, MSFT just laid off 18,000 people; Cisco just laid off a bunch; MSFT just the other day closed its research center right down the street from you - filled with gifted coders and brilliance. Mark, there is a MOUND of studies showing NO shortage of STEM works in the US.

Some facts: The H-1B fiasco has cost Americans **$10TRILLION** dollars, since 1975. For anyone who wants to know the truth, read on.

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1... Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Also, little known is the tactic of creating many different kinds of sub-visa categories to "fool the system". There are almost TWENTY different kinds of work visas. The whole thing is a sham and a lie, designed to drag down wages and keep from having to re-train Americans. Never thought I would see this day!

Some of the information presented in the following links will shock most Americans, because American corporate leaders don't want us to know the truth, and they are paying off policy makers with contributions to keep the truth from us. Bill Gates, John Chambers, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and many, many others - including the principals of the most prominent immigration law firms, who profit from this outrage, are lying through their teeth. There is NO shortage of STEM workers in the US!!

Last, Zuckerberg has all out lied since day 1 about guaranteeing privacy on Facebook - just outright lied. Facebook has become something that teens shun and will soon go the way of MSFT, run by another deceiver, Bill Gates, on the H1-B issue.

Approximately half of Alibaba's shares "were sold to 25 investment firms", and "most of the shares went to US investors."

I wanted to learn more about it and I came across this on Yahoo! Finance: Our parent company Yahoo (YHOO) has a 22.5% stake in Alibaba and will sell roughly $8 billion in shares today, leaving it with a 16.3% stake.

Which brought up a lot of things.

So, Yahoo! is speculating in the stock market now? Or venture capital? Well, they might as well since their Internet business is for shit.

I knew what Alibaba was but can a peon like me get in on the IPO and made the easy money? Nope. I don't know the right people.

A Chinese company on the NYSE? So, I guess they are going to meet all the reporting requirements and auditing? A Chinese company? My the World has changed in the last few years! (The simplicity of Chinese accounting scandals) Good luck with that!

"Investing" in Bitcoins doesn't look so crazy anymore.