Do they even have jurisdiction to operate there? I thought federal regulations give U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authority to operate within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary." Minneapolis does not fall within that area.

This is not about H1-B
"The exemptions sought would cover workers with visas sponsored by U.S.-based companies and students with ones obtained via a U.S.-based school."
It is right in the summary....

Luckily, just today we had a story about a $400 billion govt boondoggle

A 10110-uid should get this joke.

I guess I can't speak for those areas. However, in Chicago, the utility charges charges us for distribution fees and a seperate line for kWh usage. You are even able to choose an electricity supplier who is different from your distributor.

In these places where PV is popular, would you essentially just become your own supplier yet still pay the power company for distribution? I don't see this as being an obstacle which cannot be overcome.

Yeah, people are free to associate with whomever they want. Businesses, however, are not people. We as society have set up laws that dictate how businesses need to operate. They do not enjoy all the same freedoms as individuals.

The demand for illegal weaponry is not as great as the demand for controlled substances. Yes, there is no doubt criminal organizations would move to other pursuits, but they would be less profitable pursuits. Also, lets acknowledge the demand for illegal weaponry is already being met by criminal organizations. If you dropped the regulations on controlled substances, some of the existing organizations would try and become legit (we saw this during prohibition). Others would be forced into an already crowded market for dealing controlled arms.

There was a known issue with the Evo drives that samsung issued a fix for: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

I believe this was a reference to an element in the what-if book, not part of the ones posted online. http://www.theguardian.com/lif...

Any competent company should have their own OS image put onto new laptops. This should not affect the corporate world.

"Fighting words" are not protected by the first amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Please, this is not a recent phenomenon, schools have never been a place full of civil liberties. Corporal punishment in public schools existed for quite some time. Schools have the ability to hold kids against their will (detentions), some places you can get arrested for truancy, there has never been due process in doling out these punishments either.
I am sure you could find a large amount of people who believe schools these days don't have enough power to infringe on student's rights and that's why "this generation" is the worst of them yet.

Iran was a democracy.. until, a country that tries to build democracies decided to topple that one.

I wasn't trying to apply morality to the situationt. From my perspective, there is nothing inherently wrong with pro-west leaders or expanding NATO, etc. I was just trying to convey how this might be viewed as provocative from Putin's perspective. The Ukrainian People have every right to pursue whatever political course they desire, if they seek US or NATO help, the involved parties need to acknowledge the potential affects on the region. That is all I am saying.