I believe it's to hire the more expensive foreign workers, so they won't be able to low ball US worker salaries. I could be wrong though.

They have courage, remember? They used it to remove the headphone jack. Or maybe they used it up.

I'm less for the Anime pillows, but the Pocky sounds delicious. I've been snacking on my Botan Rice Candy recently while waiting for baseball season.

Darn! I guess I should start working on pulling the race card more, that way I'll fit the stereotype! Here I thought I was supposed to work hard and let my results get me places. Why did I ever listen to my elders. Also, more seriously, I know what you mean about the claims of hate speech etc, I live in Oakland, and it's pretty bad here, to the point where I can barely complain about anything without a quick retort of "What, is it because I'm black?". (No, it's because you're an idiot, and I am just following company policy/guidelines)

I'm half white, and half Japanese. Does that mean I'll get the job AND get paid more? If so, sign me up! I even live in the East Bay, so I'm local!

My Uncle bought me one of these in 200X (can't remember the year, but it was a little while ago) and it's great! I put it through a lot of stress, and I've had to replace the band twice, but other than that, it's been a wonderful watch.

That's why my FX 8350 stays at home in it's "Safe space". Those mean intel CPUs are always out picking fights.

Depends on the games being played. I'll bring my tower if the game(s) require an extra bit of oomph, or if I don't feel like burning a hole in my friends' table. If we're playing retro night, or a combo of PC/Console games (let the laptop rest) I"ll be fine playing Diablo 2 or Civ (whichever version we're playing) on my laptop. Of course, I don't use a gaming laptop anymore since my Dell XPS 1715, so perhaps I'm missing out on all the new features of a gaming laptop.

You gotta go for the good ol' sturdy CRT monitors on your laptop! When I was in HS, a buddy of mine brought his CRT monitor because he had a screen issue on his laptop. Looked really stupid, but hey, unlike his laptop monitor, the old (I think Dell?) clunker worked just fine! Plus, it could be used as a weapon in case anyone tried to rob him I suppose.

It's coming in the next iOS update! Just place phone in nearby toaster to allow for "Catching Fire" (Hunger Games tie in?) update to download. Make sure you press down on the lever, and remember to turn bagel mode OFF or it'll just burn one side of the phone.

We still have to pay a good amount of cash to go to Universities here. Born in California, went to a UC. There is financial aid/student loans, but those are all ways to pay for tuition, it isn't free. It may have been in the past, I know my parents didn't pay much when they went to college, but unfortunately, they'll still have to pay for something. It's just up to them to see if they can get a part time job/apply successfully for the aid to pay for it.

As someone who lives in Oakland (The site of their new HQ), maybe their cars are just learning from the Oakland drivers... Can't go anywhere in Oakland without someone running a red light, or stopping randomly in the middle of the road, or cutting 3 lanes over to chat with some person walking on the other side of the street-it's crazy.

I'm in that sucky "I want MLB games" group. Waiting/trying to see if there's a way to get my team on the streaming services, but with Comcast owning the rights to the sports network, I wonder how expensive it'll be.

I salute you for having to balls to do it! As stupid as it sounds, I keep delaying doing something like this because "I can't justify spending that all now", even though I'll end up spending that and more on my Comcast service. My wife and I just have an issue dropping $X at once, even if we'll be spending $2X over time. It's stupid, but I'm glad there is a reasonable setup out there. I'm getting ready for a cable cutting though, by checking antenna placement around the house so we can maximize our TV channels. (I live in Oakland, CA, so it's pretty cool when I can get Bay Area Channels, as well as one or two from Sacramento) My biggest thing is finding someone with reasonable high speed internet and with a reasonable data cap (or none at all) Once I can get that, I may finally just go for it.

We'll see how it goes! I just had to downgrade from a GTX 970 to a pair of old Sapphire 6950's Crossfired. First AMD/ATI card since my old 9800 I had to buy to run Neverwinter Nights. At least they're old and I wont have to worry about new drivers every day? Wish me luck! (I haven't really had issues with AMD or Nvidia though, so perhaps I'm lucky, or AMD sees that I'm running an AMD CPU in this machine, and decides to play nice)