Cute - I was thinking something more along the lines of:

"Hello, and welcome to Microsoft Software Security Assurance Enterprise, Small Business, Government, and Education Transparency Center number 6!

You'll notice that there's a beautiful and fluid whiteboard set up over here to the right. These lines represent our data flow between all of our convenient and secure value-adding services to our customers, and these dots with arrows pointing to an unlabeled blue box are transfer nodes, which Microsoft has decided are not applicable to this Transparency Center presentation.

Now, if you'll look directly in front of you, there's a window that you're free to gaze through to observe Microsoft's server operations for a period of 32 minutes. Please don't touch the glass, and thank you for visiting Microsoft Transparency Center, or as we on the the Security Assurance team lovingly refer to it, 'MSTC6.' Please visit us again soon, and don't forget to accept a complimentary Microsoft gift bag including some enticing software discounts!"

Or Klingon opinion, anyway:

"Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?"

Are we still in the U. S.? Why?

Your necessary qualifications should also include Cognitive Dissonance (Level IV, but if you believe you're a Level V, we will accept that) and Reality Distortion Warp experience (6 years in a public-facing position. We noticed you wrote "3 years" here but after tallying the total experience reported worked, your history qualifies.)

Then if the anti-gays protest the protest by pushing attendance to this film, then the pro-gays must begin the anti-protest protest by buying two tickets to every other film playing _except_ Ender's Game.

Thus will voices be heard through one-upsmanship. cha-ching!

Just to give an idea of what's possible beneath the surface:
Deep brain stimulation at TED Talks

Probably should go more with the "Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease" story, but it's too cool not to share. This involves implants performed by neurosurgeons because the positioning and amount of electricity is critical to the success of the procedure.

Although it would be interesting to see what a trickle charge does for these burnt-out frontal lobes...

Not only do words matter, they are the only thing on record for policies. And everything from a government mouth should be subjected to a lawyer-like interpretation where you must pick apart everything that was and was not said.

The only thing Director Clapper says is a quick summary of how Section 702 of FISA is supposed to work, with nice, simple, and generic parameters. There is no reference or acknowledgement of any of the surveillance programs which we must assume are in effect. Nor is there ever raised the possibility that they may have instituted some of these programs using a broad interpretation of some other law, not necessarily Section 702 of FISA.

One of the articles from yesterday regarding the Verizon data collection mentioned that this program has been in effect for the past seven years, renewed quarterly. So Bush initiated, then Obama amplified it. He is the first real Information president who dangerously understands how technology and data can be used for the purposes of government and control. I have never read or heard him speak any words related to individual privacy, but not to say they don't exist.

Bottle it.
Then sell it at $50 a pop with dubious claims about health benefits.

"Billioneia Aquifer" - You can taste the years.

Hey AC,

Please watch this YouTube video; it may be the best 9:40 you'll invest in the inexorably slow building of your critical thinking discipline.

Open-mindedness by QualiaSoup

OpenOffice Calc 3.3 is a two-year old release.
Even though Excel is a more mature product with contributions by scores of paid programmers over 20 years of development, I'd be curious to see how much improvement there is using LibreOffice 4.0.2.

Let's see your variable names after 50 revisions, compilations, and failures when you're fairly gosh-darned sure you followed all available examples and documentation.

But yes, for a final released product, that should not necessarily have passed a review.

I can't wait to visit the spot in North America where George Washington manipulated our nation's Great Stick and made a speech concerning public health.
Visiting history, one edit at a time!

Whatever happened to the avid discussions concerning Vote Swapping and Instant Runoff Voting? I liked when those topics were on the forefront because they gave me more hope than any of the candidates for fixing the seemingly impenetrable wall of muffled cries between the citizens' desires and the ruling bodies.

I don't ever want to vote against. I want to vote for.

[Sad face here]

I know, right? I was trying to think like it was Jeopardy: - "Quik?" "Bosco?" "Ovaltine?" "SyrupSearch?"