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  1. Re: A myth indeed on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    I honestly believe that because individual income tax rates are higher the corporate rates and additionally because to the liberal expenses that corporations are given, I wouldn't be one bit surprised if tax revenues didn't increase if corporate taxes were completely eliminated.

  2. Re:Shortage of people or people with degrees? on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    You have hit the nail on the head - no investment in growing and developing exactly the people that are now in short supply.

    It's worse than that, many have the attitude that skills gained while employed and paid for by the Employee doesn't count and most seem to feel that company paid training for skills benefiting the company places the employee into an indebted status.

  3. Re:A myth indeed. on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 0

    Just because Miami is spending Millions and saying it's because of Apocalyptic Global Warming, doesn't mean it really is because of Apocalyptic Global Warming; very likely the government in Miami-Dade just knows that if they say Apocalyptic Global Warming, the sheeple will gladly follow that Juddas goat. Additionally just because the planet hasn't warmed in 17 years and sea levels have only risen millimetres doesn't mean that being able to higher water is a bad thing in a hurricane zone.

  4. Re:A myth indeed. on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1, Informative

    Arguably, social security @ 15% and Medicare, most states add in sales taxes @ 6%, local property taxes, fuel taxes; no 60% isn't that far fetched.

  5. Re:Fuck that guy. on Jesse Jackson To Take On Silicon Valley's Lack of Diversity · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine who is Hispanic, as in emigrated from El Salvador, and both degreed and competent in IT almost can't not work.
    In fact he works for HP currently.

  6. Re:besides digital or analog, for safety, use phys on Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Is a piece of wax melting analog, or something else entirely?

    Analog, to be digital the wax would have to be eutectic, some waxes do come close.

  7. Re:Because no analog system has on Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting a dedicated analog line since the phone companies all went digital. Even if you could there would be no garantee that the line leased to go between two points, only goes between those points.

  8. Re:sure, no problem on Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the situation, Military Equipment often has a "battle short" switch which overides all safety interlocks and limit switch, for those times when you have to rock-and-roll until it catches fire or blows up.

  9. Re:sure, no problem on Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    My little brother work at a place that shall remain nameless and when he arrived at work they went into the locker room, undressed, showered and then exited to another room where they dressed in company supplied clothing and went to work; at end of shift the process was reversed. Short of daily cavity searches, that's as air-gapped as you can get.

  10. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    As Regan said, "but how many Russians would they kill?"

  11. Re:Hmm.... on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    the US ... is perhaps THE biggest protector of free speech.

    How's the kool-aid taste?

    Slightly better than some places, a lot better than most places!

  12. Re:does it add up? on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    I saw on CNN that the plane had a number of lithium battery in the cargo hold, it occured to me that if the batteries caught fire, they could have taken out a considerable amount of electrical/electronic cables and the crew were trying to flight back to Kuala Lumpur, by the seat of their pants without instruments or comms. Sure that's baseless conjecture, but so is everything else.

  13. Re:does it add up? on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    If an insurance policy didn't pay for suicide, it's unlikely it would pay for acts of war or terrorism either, if you sue for non-payment then you as assume a burden of proof.

  14. Re:does it add up? on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    Landing a 777 takes a significant airstrip. Really significant. Once there, it's not simply a taxi to some secluded spot. If your scenario is true, the plane should be visible by satellite.

    or a dry lake bed. I suspect there are a lot of those in asia, especially in those muslim countries that most of us have barely ever heard of and exist in a state of near anarchy.

  15. Re:Three thoughts... on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to get under-the-radar than you would imagine, any radar with sufficient resolution to track an individual aircraft is line of sight and the radar horizon isn't that far off. Even modern circuits only have so much sensitivity, transmitters only have so much emmited power so the inverse square law always kicks your ass and the only way around than is to use tighter beams. To get enough range, your pulse repetition rates low enough for the signal to travel to your desired max range and back. Now with a really tight high power beam and a low pulse rate, it's entirely possible for a plane to diaspear between pulses.

  16. Re:Total, Utter, Unequivocal BS on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    I've always assumed that the present incarnation of Obamacare was meant to be unsustainable and part of a process to get the US into a universal government run healthcare system. Those of us who have been subjected to US Government run healthcare systems such as the Military healthcare system and the VA system vary from being suspicious to outright fearfull of a Government run system. Some countries do seem able to pull it off, I doubt the US is one of them.

    Further more I doubt the US is going to be able to afford both universal healthcare and being the world's lightning rod and policeman, are the rest of the developed world prepared to take up the slack?

  17. Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    Here's a subsidy calculator and here's a market place see what's happening for yourself.

  18. Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 2

    Depends on your age, I'm turning 60, and the wife is 62, health insurance for us is in the neighborhood of $1,200 - $1,900 per month; that's more than most mortgage payments! There no rhyme or reason for the prices that is appearent, there are plans with deceint coverage and high deductables that are cheaper than plans with for-crap coverage and deductables of $20,000! My subsidy is just over $900.00 which is good for me, not so good for the rest of the taxpayers.
    I know this sounds outlandish, so here's Subsidy Calculator and Health insurance quote site so feel free to try different scenario yourself.

    Yes I can see somebody making good money and still not being able to afford health insurance.

  19. Re: Feds... on New Jersey Auto Dealers Don't Want to Face Tesla · · Score: 2

    Foreign seller is a term usually misunderstood, in New Jersey, Tesla a car company incorperated in a state that is not New Jersey is a foreign corporation, wouldn't be surprised if Tesla was incorporated in Delaware. Foreign Corporations often have serious legal disavatages in a State's courtrooms so local legal representation is necessary.

  20. Re:This is communist accusations on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    They (the CIA) gave the Senators the use of CIA computers, access to specified portion of the CIA's classified network and the Senators strayed into an area they shouldn't have and aquired a file they shouldn't have. The CIA quickly discovered the event, and reported to law enforcement; I'd say the NSA could stand to take a few pointers from the CIA.

  21. Re:It's a she, not a he on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    I support same sex marriage partly because it's about time the fags and lesbos feel the same pain and suffering that us breaders do, and mostly because it's none of government's business deciding who can marry whom.

  22. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    The Taliban was probably demographically significant in Afganistan, but they gave our next-door neighbors, Russians all kinds of hell on earth in Afganistan; never underestimate a motivated minority.

  23. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    What a marvellous idea. You are about to lose and fate of country population is going to depend on victorious army goodwill (or at least basic decency). That's just PERFECT moment for last, monumental fuck you.

    I'm not sure victorious army goodwill is something the Russian Army is known for, I have a Polish friend who learned Russian sitting under the muzzle of a soviet tank and he didn't see any victorious army goodwill.

  24. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 2

    It's not posturing, Russia has legitimate interests in the Ukraine such as a warm Water naval base, several natural gas pipelines and I could easily see how Russia would use military force to protect those interests from outside interlopers. Unfortunately using military force to protect those interests from the host nation is going to require a level of brinkmanship that is likely to be beyond even a former KGB Colonel's.

  25. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    After what the Russians did at Chernobyl?