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  1. Were they forced to change the search results? on Google and EU Reach Tentative Settlement in Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    In the shopping example, the results returned in the modified screen shot are crap. Did the EU force that too? That's not anti-competitive, that's anti-user.

  2. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    The companies that hire Infosys require a certain number of H1B workers. How is that legal? They mandate ratios, such as 4 H1Bs to one non. It's obviously not about talent, it's 100% about driving wages down.

  3. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    Skilled H1B workers will always have jobs, but corps like infosys are just looking for warm bodies and headcount.

  4. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    Except that you have to hire 4-6 offshore to do the job of one onshore. Skill levels, ability to manage technical complications, lost cycles when there are data or server issues, it never works out for companies and I don't understand why they keep doing it. It looks good on paper but the gains never gets realized.

  5. Re:Because Congress' goal is to privatize the USPS on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    It's another skirmish in the GOP's anti-union and anit-government wars. They can't afford to let the USPS function because it proves unions don't destroy industry and that government can actually work.

  6. Re:Already happening on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    If we had this, I think I'd check mail weekly. I'm also not willing to walk a block for ads. I was wondering though, will this help with the obesity problem? 5 minutes a day adds up.

  7. The USPS actually makes money - the problem is GOP on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    It's the GOP that's determined to shut them down and is forcing them to pre-paid retirement benefits the next 20 years that's breaking their budget. Retirement benefits, for employees they won't hire for another two decades. The problem is political and ideological, not fiscal. The GOP wants to destroy the USPS because it's a) government that functions and b) unionized.

  8. Re:Moronic writer. Old news with new data. on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    I wish I could vote up on this account. This is such a fascinating topic.

  9. Re:There is _female_ in male? Sacrilege! on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 0

    Really? I though feminist were more concerned about domestic violence, education access and maternal mortality rates.

  10. Re:Moronic writer. Old news with new data. on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    Oppression of women is as natural and greed and cruelty, and just as avoidable.

  11. Re:X-X, X-Y, Y-Y on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    He'd truly have to never get hurt, he'd be unable to clot and would bleed out from a paper cut.

  12. Re:Consider for a moment on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    Pacifiers. Although, men do actually lactate, they just can't produce very much.

  13. Re:So we are part... on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 2

    It's significant from a health and evolutionary perspective. X inactivation in women makes expression of these genes mosaic which can prevent disease as well as cause some interesting immune responses. A gene can be beneficial in a pair but fatal solo which creates an interesting evolutionary tradeoff. If a woman can't have sons, is that a significant evolutionary disadvantage?

  14. Old news on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    This is nothing new. The Y-Chromosome is too small to actually code for anything, and no one ever thought that it could contain more than a handful of genes. The Y is just a set of GOTOs pointing to the X.