U.S. is still one of the best places for free speech.
The criteria for any expansion of governance in an international context should be directly linked to a country's free speech laws. So theoretically countries like Estonia and Norway deserve some power, but in reality, the only people who care about internet governance are those who want to suppress free speech.

1. All Content is Copyright by default.
2. How do you distinguish the legal from the illegal content?

In Australia. We have a pretty high standard of living here. The reason I would like to move to the U.S. is because I'm an entrepreneur and it's nearly impossible to hire people here for speculative projects. I've did it twice before and anyone decent is 150K+. In a seed funded company that is a huge amount. Also VC exists but they are like the Merchant of Venice here. Also there are a ton of other reasons why even with U.S. litigation madness, the U.S. is still a better place to start companies. Entrepreneurs in SF have it better than anyone else on the planet. U.S. (average) salaries actually look quite low to me. I understand where you are coming from though with the rest of it. Maybe you should move here, it's pretty civilized. #grassisgreener I guess.

This year they also added a CAPTCHA after you've signed in for the results.
So I had a little OMG moment today before the usual let down.

My wife and I have applied every year for the last 9 or so (since they went to internet based registrations). It's always been the same, nothing has changed until now.
In hindsight, since I never applied in the first two weeks I was probably wasting my time all those years which is a bit of a bummer.

I probably should have just went over on an H1-B. It always seemed a bit like indentured servitude tho..

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Maybe there is something interesting to be learned about that 'measurement error'...

We desperately want to meet the aliens. Unless they are illegal aliens, then they should GTFO.

I've heard this before about the old UI.

People told me how incomprehensible it was, but once they learned it, how incredibly thoughtfully laid out the UI was.

I hope that the new UI still has that spirit. FYI, if you are interested in 3D and want a tool that is really easy to use, try Google Sketchup.
It's pretty awesome.

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--Gabrielle Gifford March 25, 2010, MSNBC Interview.

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This sounds an awful lot like incitement to commit murder. Is there any chance this tough guy will get charged?

To take it one step farther, I propose that every major U.S. corporation should have a dolphin as it's chairman of the board.

Last time I looked (~2.0 era) there was still a ton of closed source stuff in android, usually labelled 'prebuilt' in the source directory.

Even if all the prebuilt stuff is gone now, there is still a ton of closed source firmware that's not distributed, but required for a working handset.

Cyanogen would be the man to ask get all the nitty gritty.

I'll bet good money this will fail. One reason apps are so popular is that their user experience is so highly customised to their individual devices.

Alot of foreigners (like me) out there would like to come to the U.S. and hire (relatively) cheap American engineers,
but we can't do it because foreign investment visas are too costly/risky for small companies.

Here in Australia, our labour market is tightly government regulated, and it's nearly impossible to hire decent
engineers here for anything less than a king's ransom as competition for anyone good is fierce - even the banks
have problem hiring people.

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