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  1. Re:What's worse? on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 2
  2. Re:What's worse? on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    Sooo, it's American doctors. This study is new, and I'm not aware of studies for countries like England and Canada that have social healthcare, but I gotta wonder if that's a factor.

  3. Re:Liberal Arts - still a skill. on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that's Political Science. And to get ahead in DC you'd need actual connections, I reckon.

  4. Re:Indeed on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Translation is poor friend. Sorry.... As for: "2) is especially important if you train somebody for a job." ... then yes, I'm saying the company should do that!!! After all, if a company has such employees and expertise, and experience, then they could create a new thing! A new market! We've seen that happen with the Internet, eh? Whatever that is! I reckon capitalism is just that, instead of just sitting on all markets like some fat dragon and controlling everything. Right?

  5. Re:Learning how to learn on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    lol! YOU sir, are talented and full of esoteric knowledge. How much were you paid? Were you promised a full position, at least?

  6. Re:Follow your passion on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. I do hope it's true for your kids. And you. But most of us struggle, and are beaten down because of corruption, the de-regulation of employment law, and have no recourse when things go wrong. Lawyers and "rights" are for the rich, or at least the middle class. Then you get old. Think about it.

  7. Re:Liberal Arts - still a skill. on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Yes, Good point. It's the point Brian_Ellenberger made a few posts above, and very well. And it's a shame so many colleges and universities, even the great ones, have degraded the courses. I feel it's a determent to our future.

  8. Re:Liberal Arts - still a skill. on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    That's a lotta years of study and money. My point is, and this is how things used to be done in industry, it was the company who trained you in those skills. They can afford it, after all. Can you? Considering student dept, and the dept level of everyone in North America, is dumped all this educational dept onto the individuals shoulders fair? Just to get a job at all???

  9. Liberal Arts - still a skill. on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find this most refreshing. I've always been confused by corporations insisting on hires based on knowing the job already. What? You, Mr. Corporation aren't innovating and training your crack staff to forge the new world you keep telling us the 'free market' slides on like ice? Guess not. Considering the news that in fact, even Silicon Valley has used collage grads, who are dragging massive depts just to get the 'specialized skills' corporations have been screaming about for frickin' years, were actually paid crap and worked like dogs while, Oh, these companies colluded to do just fucking that. Free market seems to mean "we get labour free". Well, cheap, at least.

    Even the much maligned Liberal Arts Degree should be enough for any employer to see that this young person can, you know, LEARN THINGS.

  10. Tracking on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Tracking the culprits behind the pranks is difficult."

    Ummmmm, why?

  11. Why not just say it out loud? on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... call centre.

  12. The Brookings Institution? on Brookings Study Calls Solar, Wind Power the Most Expensive Fossil Alternatives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Brookings Institution??? Why would anyone give a damn what some think tank, er, thinks?

    By definition, a think tank's job is to simply rationalize their clients opinion.

  13. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't need to guess. I don't have the link, but there have been stories in the press about exactly that. There are paid-for commentors all over the Internet. They range from everything to psy-ops, think tanks, political parties, three-letter-agencies, and so on. They post everywhere too. After all, they have the resources. And they all stem from Right-Wing sources, as was reported. Yes, the Internet is a terrific source of propaganda, even in the forums. Just wait till election time, it's always much more obvious then.

  14. Congress on Russian RD-180 Embargo Could Boost American Rocket Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait... does anyone seriously think that Congress will pass funding for anything related to NASA and the space programs? The current, Tea Party locked, science committee that recently called Climate Science "not science at all", Congress???

    Good luck with that.

    Unless it's a back-scratch back-room subsidy for their ilk and/or a state they wanna buy votes outta, forget it. Not ... going... to... happen.

  15. Do you hear that? on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you here that? It's the sound of a billion people on the other side of the world loling.

  16. Re:Good for all the traitors on Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story · · Score: 2

    Well, the Assange flick (The Fifth Estate) was based on a book from a disgruntled former WikiLeaks guy's book. A book that was mostly a hate fest directed at Assange. What has been announced here is a film based on Glenn Greenwald's journalism, for which he won the Pulitzer this year. Huge difference, I reckon.

  17. WoW! on Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn you Blizzard! I pay a subscription, you're down again and... oh wait. nm

  18. Waves!!! on The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got it!!! We could send some sort of waves out that would be easily picked up by some sort of antenna. We could have stations transmit these waves so there's no gap, and best of all they would cover wide areas as the waves would bounce of the atmosphere. People would only have to buy a receiver set with the antenna and all the programing could be paid for with advertising alone! No more bills! ;p

  19. How Japan Plans To Build ... on How Japan Plans To Build Orbital Solar Power Stations · · Score: 1

    How Japan Plans To Build Orbital Solar Power Stations?

    With giant freakin' robots! Obviously.

  20. Government for The People or Corporations on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    There's a thread of rather amusing ignorance about government and corporate interests happening all through here, I had to comment. Well rant really - There's more than a few people saying that corporate interests, either as just a natural outcome of superior innovation or whacking gobs of cash, won out here because that's Capitalism. Others lament that government, in this case the FCC, only exists to serve itself, not The People (which is their mandate), and thus like all government is naturally going to defer to it's nature.

    What kind of social Darwinian claptrap is this?

    Face it. The truth is the problem is money in government. It's way out of control and that's why the FCC has deferred to corporate interests. Essentially moving to turn the Internet into your cable TV box, or radio frequency spectrum sell offs. Which we here are ALL against. Why? It's the fact that the FCC and the lobbiests for those corporations are THE SAME FUCKING GUYS. The "revolving door" of people who have worked at the FCC then "moved on" to lobby positions at these corporations is wide open. That's the problem. That's why this, ultimately, happened. There has been legislation against this 'revolving door' in the past (I'm sure someone will point that out) but it was just fucking ignored. Lobbiests like this are supposed to refrain for something like a year. Didn't happen. They showed up in Washington the next day. Literally! No one was fined, arrested, or even saw a raised eyebrow.

    So please, let's speak of the reality of what's happening at the FCC instead of vomiting bullshit theories about the "nature" of shit. M'k?

  21. Re:rotfl They want to outlaw themselves!?!? on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Labour unions are parasites? Thanks for the update John Galt.

  22. U.S. tech firms have ideas? Last I saw it was just a lot of - "how can I completely manipulate, patent troll, and keep an iron grip on this market"?

    Really, if you think Facebook or Google is somehow a wonderful idea, you don't understand markets. It's also a major reason the US top tech firms are failures, really, and why they have to maintain those markets so no one notices. It's a self destructive cycle.

  23. Re:Are programmers really this naive? on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 2

    Let me get this straight...

    You're telling me that because one is lucky enough to get a job they should happily accept being forbidden to do things, like drink coffee? There's a word for people like you.

  24. Re:F-35 is not just American on Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Because the F-35 is, I shit you not, IS, an American plane. That's a fact.

    Wow, you just had to completely fuck that up in your head and then post it on one of the most read tech sites in the world. You are just fabulously fucking stupid. There really should be some sort of voting radio button for 'fabulously fucking stupid'. Something so marvelously and completely wrong that it needs to be stickied or pinned or some such thing, just so the rest of the world can see the drop dead idiocy one individual is capable of. Bravo. *golf clap*

  25. Don't worry, all that copyright, trademark,etc. stuff that is such an international headache will be solved with the TPP. Corporations have already sent their bag-men to secure the deal. Men like, oh what's his name, Barry Obama er something.