We need to simply open the borders 100% and let whomever whenever. Offer them citizenship on the spot and a slot in the citizenry to pay taxes use services be legal and so on. Right then and there. No limits. And instant 100% legitimacy for those already here.

The short term effect would be to depress wages steeply until they hit a bottom below which no one can afford to work. At that point there would be less incentive to immigrate to the US. But over time people who are paying taxes and are 'in the system' would tend to benefit themselves and everyone else albeit at a lower overall income level but higher than what those illegals would have otherwise. Good for them, marginally worse for everyone else.

It would also tend to further marginalize all of the people with low level criminal records who are already excluded from mainstream employment and housing because of arbitrary restrictions and background checks. But again, over time one would think that legal immigrants would enter the criminal justice system as anyone else, grow that population as well. So again it's a little worse for them and for the people in the system but better for everyone else not in the system.

It would also tend to level out the problem of skilled labor aka H1B visa applicants. This way an unlimited number of skilled employees, technicians, doctors etc could enter the workforce bolstering our ability to provide those services. This would tend to dampen the export of jobs to poor countries. It would also tend to increase academic enrollment in advanced technical, medical programs. Good for the universities.

Kind of makes it sticky to call yourself a modern country with working political institutions though. I mean stripping your president and his family naked, tying them to poles and shooting them is fine. We see it a lot in places like Africa, Iran and such. Revolutionary councils and mullahs love this stuff.

Fark was recently overhauled and redesigned. The 'moderators' as such have become draconian intolerant assholes. Then poof a book of Drew's brain vomit pops up. Can a sale to Google or Yahoo be far behind?

And now Drew Curtis wants to whine that the website that made him wealthy is promoting an ethos that's ugly? Fuck you Drew. Poser. Go worship a beer bottle.

Services like the famous anon.penet.fi have been besieged away for a while. But some ISP's like earthlink offer up to 10 additional anonymous email names appended to your real account. They claim it provides no useful outbound or inbound information and should be used as an email name for circumstances where you don't want spam to come back to your regular email. Whether that's actually true or not I've never looked into.

Which is written to an 11th grade reading level, at best. And that's an American 11th grade which is not a world wide benchmark. No, America has always been an anti intellectual country. I'm not even sure what an intellectual country is? Weimar Germany?

Is that suburban communities which are satellites to vibrant urban areas continue to do well whereas homesales in exurban or rural areas not connected to an urban economy are stagnating. In other words it pays as it always has, to live near the 100 largest cities. Of the 50 largest cities nearly all of them show high single figure or double digit growth.

Yes and I'm sure that Oliver Cromwell was a corruptible sort. But that didn't stop the Directorate from imposing Puritanism on England either. People who are megalomaniacs are not bound to a silly consistency are they?

A chill just went up my spine. Bain is the bluest of the blue blood high powered consulting firms. BCG is the Bain precursor and analog to I/T consulting. Bain Capital is one of the shadowier hedgefund/LBO funds.

Bain alumni are a who's who of American business such as Meg Whitman, Ken Chennault, Pete Dawkins. Bain is like McKinsey but more if that's even possible. If you want a picture into a merciless savage Darwinian culture, take a look at Bain.

By the way Gordon Wagner/aVulcan, I would have thought you'd have picked up on the Orit Gadiesh connection. Your handlers are slipping. Orit is like red meat to you psychos.

It would be called "The Ya Ya Sisterhood" Ahh the upside of bipolar alcoholic abusive dysfunction.

Mr. Perfect sitting in his chair watching he doesn't even know what on TV in glazed angry stupor. Then the cops show up and it's a rumble as Mother of the Year leaps on a cops back when they try to drag off her man, after she called them because he clubbed her in the damn eye for something. Kids are in the back room filthy and screaming. Child services gets called and the Royal Couple both go to jail, after being pepper sprayed and face bounced off the cop car, for assault and simple possession. When the kids grow up they remember "when we were little our favorite day of the year was mom's birthday cuz she was too drunk to beat us."

Good times, good times.

Don't hold your breath waiting for autarky to yield the floor to you.