Obama to Push Immigration Bill Despite the Risks

“It just doesn’t seem rational that any political leader would say, let’s give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration. Mr. Beck predicted that Mr. Obama would face “an explosion” if he proceeded this year.

“It’s going to be, ‘You’re letting them keep that job, when I could have that job,’ ” he said.

As you may have already know, the strong opposition to immigrations are Republicans. However, I feel like Americans who really strongly oppose immigration afraid of the competition with the immigrants. I mean, if they are good and qualified for the job, then they shouldn’t have been worried about it at the first place!

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April Fools: NYU Accepts Grad Students by Mistake

NEW YORK (AP) — New York University officials weren’t laughing when hundreds of people mistakenly received word that they’d been accepted to grad school on April Fools’ Day.

NYU says it sent out acceptance e-mails April 1 to 489 applicants to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Those applicants should have received rejection letters instead.

The school sent out a second e-mail about an hour later to the applicants, saying they hadn’t been accepted after all.

NYU spokesman Robert Polner blamed the mixup on a clerical error. He says the school apologizes for the mistaken e-mails and is looking into it to prevent it from happening again.

~ New York Post, http://www.nypost.com ~

A good thing that this doesn’t happen to me. It could have been very embarassing! Though, Google fooled me with its Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE).

Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)

The WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License) is an uncommonly used, extremely permissive free software license, the March 2000 Version 1.0 was written by Banlu Kemiyatorn who used it for Window Maker artwork.^[3] Samuel “Sam” Hocevar, a French programmer who was the Debian GNU/Linux project leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008 wrote version 2.0. It allows for redistribution and modification of the software under any terms—the licensee is encouraged to “do what the fuck [they] want to”. The license was approved as a GPL-compatible free software license by the Free Software Foundation. ~ Wikipedia ~

Isn’t that interesting? Here is the term of the license:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

In 2008′s April Fool day, Google changes all of the licenses on the SoC pages to all be WTFPL version 2. Here’s all of the Google’s fools for 2009.

Wrapping Up Open for Questions

The initial run of Open for Questions came to a close with the President’s online town hall this morning. With almost a hundred thousand participants and more than three and a half million votes, it was an eye-opening experience and showed the potential of what this kind of open engagement can accomplish. The online town hall had an amazing feel of something that had never been done before, and something we should be trying to do more of.

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shanty Towns

FRESNO, Calif. — As the operations manager of a homeless outreach center here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck. What he had never seen before was people living in tents and lean-tos on the railroad lot across from the center.

“They just popped up about 18 months ago,” Mr. Stack said. “One day it was empty. The next day, there were people living there.”

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The LARGEST Hamburger in the World

Don’t know where to go for lunch? Check this out!

SOUTHGATE, Mich. — A Detroit area restaurant owner believes he broke the Guiness World Record for “largest hamburger commercially available.”