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  1. Re:Free market, LOL! on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 1

    "we're sorry, sir, you've been diagnosed as unprofitable..."

  2. Re:Free market, LOL! on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 2

    well if it's on libertarianmajority.net, it must be true...

  3. Re: Free Market? LoL on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 1

    but it's electric political crap...

  4. Re:More STEM on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    STEM Bacon STEM

  5. Re:There's both a glut AND a shortage on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    'many small IT consulting firms' are entirely owned by the CEO/developer, not exactly the same comparison. and if external labor is too expensive, they are in the unique position of being able to do the work themselves.

    try googling
    executive pay versus average worker

    odd, no one is complaining about a CEO shortage, but their wages continue rising unabated..

  6. Re:2.0'd my way to high six figures.. on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    #3. The prospective employers you are interviewing with are not as smart as they think they are.

  7. Re:There's both a glut AND a shortage on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    yes, adding a few tens of thousands to your developers' salary breaks the bank, but adding tens of millions to the CEO's doesn't.

    new frontiers in hyperfinance...

  8. Re:They do get lucrative jobs! on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    you forgot to add the Goldman got to unwind all their erroneous trades...

  9. Re:It's not all one field on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    "shortage is of course most likely in new and in growing fields"

    And these superjobs of the future would be?

  10. you'll know the STEM shortage is real when... on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Companies that cannot hire H1-B's (defense contractors) are paying outsize salaries and lavish benefits to their engineers. At the moment, they can't seem to stop laying them off...

  11. 'they will end up in other sectors of the economy' on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    Would you like parallelepiped potatoes with that?

  12. Re:FTFY on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really, if you've met both people who've inherited wealth and made it themselves, the difference is striking.

  13. yes, if you encrypt it you will be perfectly fine. perfectly fine.

  14. Re:A freaking spy rock! Sweet! on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    maybe it's a double-agent rock

  15. Re:Question is when on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I guess Steve has time to post on /. now...

  16. Re:Next CEO on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    No, hire Carly so she can buy Nokia. And Blackberry.

  17. Re:Accomplishments on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    PostgreSQL

    PS You might be insane.

  18. Re:There *was* a perfect time on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    because they remove the illusion that you would have succeeded if only...

  19. Re:By Retiring he made himself $1bn on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 2

    or especially one not at the office...

  20. Re:lmao on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Except they have the wire into your house. In the end, cable TV (and wireline phone) will be free. Your internet will cost you $180/month, though.

  21. Re:Of course Price Waterhouse... on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    The 'analysis' from consulting firms is just regurgitation of what their other clients have told them.

    What a wonderful business.

  22. Re:Netflix saved me... on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 2

    They still send them. We still get them. There's no way in hell I'm paying a dime for their lousy streaming selection.

  23. if you block third party cookies... on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    ...the terrorists win.

    (coming soon)

  24. Re:They could call it......SKYNET on Microsoft Is Working On a Cloud Operating System For the US Government · · Score: 1

    that would make for a much shorter movie...

  25. Re:i keep looking for the punchline on Microsoft Is Working On a Cloud Operating System For the US Government · · Score: 1

    you have to give your email address before activating, though