I hope slashdot's privacy is better then facebooks; this is not a poll I would be answering there.

I was thinking trying to get into mensa, they require a top %2 iq to get in right? That might be pushing it for me.

I for-see an interface similar to Googles custom homepage, that you can plug in widgets like twitter, flicker, google chat etc. You customise the permissions for each widget using a this sites authentication layer. This site would have its own widgets as well, that could be embedded into your Wordpress page, so people could see your friends on your wordpress page as well as on your homepage. This layer will store your data or it will just hand off it off to twitter/google/facebook. And it comes with a couple default configurations for noobs. How does it make money? Just targetted ads when people are searching for new widgets. You could also sell custom installs to compete with Sharepoint for the corperate world. Anyone wanna pay me to build it? grr how the frick can I add whitespace to my posts?

This is probably true for %98 percent of communities, but surely tech towns you can be involved with some good social activities without all the BS? Is it just a matter of moving to were the smart people are? I'm new too a city of 100k and I find it really hard to crack any sort of interesting social networks. I don't have patience for socialising with average people, nor facebook, so that's certainly a hindrance.

"HST they are shoving down our throats" Why are non Americans so quick to pick up American media's catch phrase of the week? It's bad enough hearing the British do it. Why can't we be a bit original like; We are getting Fisted with HST? or our proctologists are wearing HST gloves. or maybe putting down the HST WMT(Weapon of Mass Tax). In all serious I'm for HST, say what you will, but it in theory it'll increases tax revenue while improving transparency and reducing bureaucracy; its just bad politics.

It is amazing how enabling a public health care system is, even for myself, a 26 year old healthy guy. I think I would have been way to stressed to take the time I need to adapt my skills to this market.

personally I like pythons introspection and meaningful error messages. Oh and lack of compile complexities, actually I could probably go on for a while. I also use space delimiting folding in Vim, which is quite natural with python. the tabs do encourage you to break up your code, but personally, I see this as a good thing. if you have code nested 5-10 deep, its probably pretty ugly. And python isn't about being fast, its about not being ugly.

Perfect would be Python with the speed of well crafted assembly, optional gui tools of C#/objective-C, ease of deployment of PHP/JavaScript/J2EE and better Vim integration. I suppose Python's libraries could be a little more consistent.

I am curious if anyone has any insight on what happened in 2004 to cause such a spike in python's "Rating". http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Python.html

google app engine may have java support, it's an obvious choice considering the number of developers. However python is right there beside it now, a choice that a few years ago would not have been considered for such an application. Python may still be behind, but its moving quickly. 4 years ago my Alma mater required all BSc to take a python course. That said Java is still the dominant language in the computer science department, but heck it is also the Alma mater of James Gosling(founder of Java).

Just loose to Canada in the gold medal game, and you wont have to worry about an onslaught of DIY drowns attacking from the north.

Some guys will spend 100+k on a wood working shop; I'm sure there are enough people with money to put a few dollars down on cool biotech toys. A professor of mine bought a 30k drafting printer for printing large format photography.

I like to make shapes, such as 4rfvbgt5 or rfvbnhyt, it seems to work well.

Well I hope my reply doesn't send you into shock.

This would be awesome for unpowered aircraft. Perhaps they could provide/rent services and equipment. Probably hella dangerous though.