I feel this is a good time to mention the American bias that operating with the intent to profit is naturally seen as a positive.
There are other intents, and things more important than profit.

This is the crux of the recent healthcare debacle, that the more socialist minded believe healthcare for everyone is more important than profit for companies.

I agree. I couldn't care less about the joke, and his only Cairo reference being joke just makes him an ass. Nothing special about that.
But tagging it so that he can have advertising to anyone reading about the situation in Egypt is just low, even for a profiteer.

OK, I know this is late, but I'll reply anyway:
The problem with Sarah Palin is that she is dumb. No, really. Politically, she's about on par with any redneck republican, with about as much thought put into her beliefs. That's not the problem. The problem is she's dumb -- she's worse at public speaking than GW Bush was, and she's lauded for attempting. 40% of people thought she was ready for the presidency in 2008. By sheer virtue of being a public figure, that number will rise by 2012. When people who don't value intelligence can be praised for that as a virtue, we have a serious problem. People who have the kind of backwards beliefs Palin does should not be taken seriously as public officials or contenders for our highest office. Our backwater members should not be allowed to represent our country to the world or make the sort of decisions that a president must make.
So Palin's beliefs aren't as extreme as some I've seen -- she wants to shoot terrorists and deer, she thinks she's an international diplomat because she made it through charm school and lives in Alaska (which as she reminded us, is quite near Russia). She thinks liberals are evil and Obama set up death panels as if this were Logan's Run. But people take her seriously, and that's why we're so alarmed.

again, I maintain those rights.
I may break an NDA, I may do drugs and refuse a drug test
I just might get fired for it, which is not in the jurisdiction of the law.

my rights continue onto my employers parking lot, i am unsure what makes you think otherwise.

my boss may fire me for breaking corporate policy regarding firearms, but he can't *arrest* me for it. there's a significant difference.

unfortunately your actions prove the contrary: the rally to restore sanity, as with the anti-war rallies and demonstrations, have had no measurable success in changing policy.

i should also note that the soap box is the only box left available to us: the ballots are rigged, we've been explicitly forbidden from exercising jury nullification or serving if we are even aware of the practice, and strict gun laws.. aren't even an issue, because even if you owned an assault rifle, the military owns UAVs and predator missiles.

mod parent up, if a foreigner can be this positive about our government, we've got a lot to learn.

our opponents in congress are not 'evil' -- they are dogged. when defeated on a bill, they will continually re-introduce it, and rewordings of it, as new bills or new sections of wanted bills. many people on both sides of the aisle feel they are under attack by their counterparts, and must take whatever steps are necessary to insure their freedoms.

of course, the same number of corrupt and greedy politicians exist, but the real threat now is the persistence and bull-headedness of each party in getting their own way, each believing they truly represent the wishes of the american people.

I don't believe GP was referring to any supposed holiness of the democratic party, but rather that democrat and liberal have become derogatory terms to many and are used in lieu of 'commie' as an epithet. Last election I actually saw a smear ad that consisted of nothing more than pointing out that the opponent was a democrat, hung out with democrats, etc. No track record mention at all.

ah, I should note as an e-reader convert: you don't have to replace your paper books. I supplement my library with the kindle, which is easier to take on trips than three paperbacks. It's also more comfortable to read on and has the ability for automatically delivered periodicals and blogs..
but if you don't throw out your paper library, you don't have to worry about electronic failure so much (:
(i also keep backups of all my ebooks)

your argument about business size is disingenuous. how big do you have to be *not* to implement a tiered service structure, which no ISP in the US has yet implemented? Seems like a regulation that says 'keep doing what you've been doing' isn't too hard to comply with.

For bias purposes, you should know I want the FCC to mandate net neutrality.

1) we're against the principle that google can censor, even in only a subset of their searches
2) i never used it either. but i'm complaining now, rather than when it comes to the full search engine, because people will say 'its been like this in google instant forever'

they didn't censor anything! they just hid certain words they didn't like

I should make this a moment for my 'I hate dubya, but he's not dumb' speech, but maybe another time.
It is sad that we can't vote out someone who is as bad a liar as Obama because the alternative is Palin. Obama is a politician -- sneaky, and needing to do different from what he says for his own agenda -- but Palin and her ilk are beyond a joke. They've become a nightmare because people are so divorced from reality that they really think MILF status is enough to become leader of the country (and, historically, the 'free world'). If nobody took Palin seriously we could relax and allow her to return to cheesy joke status, and exile her back to Alaska where she clearly belongs.

Even with a solid resume like mine, I hate keyword searches. They send me completely irrelevant job postings, often in the wrong markets and locations, obviously based on a simple keyword search and form-letter copy/paste job. I usually ask them to remove me from their lists, and only work with recruiters who treat you like a human being.
Don't have a degree, BTW, which may be relevant to the discussion. Never stopped me from getting top-level IT jobs with companies big or small.