It's easy. If they keep this HR philosophy, they will never have long term viability. No one who is sane will want to hang around with a bunch of eccentric, hard to deal with egotistical "A" players.

...through litigation. These so called "consortiums" are clearly anti-competitive, while I have no love of any of these companies (Google is just as bad as the rest of them), they should be illegal, as described.

As a Linux administrator I get so much more work done from home than I could ever get done in an office.

None of us feel entitled to anything. Your attitude is why companies are outsourcing. All we ask for is a job and a reasonable living. We hav no benefits. We do not feel entitled to cheam anything. Grow up. Eventually India and China will page liveable wages, and American companies will move back, unless the forign competition does not shut them down. So Short sighted.

Is more public transport. The automobile and fossil fuels are a dead end. We (The USA) need to start putting out infrstructure dollars in repairing existing infrastructure as well as building out rail/light rail infrastructure. Commercial air travel has become less and less customer oriented and will eventually be for rich people only, on the airlines schedule.

We all know who they want Mittens and his money buddies. Executives and integrators have no interest is "what's best for the IT industry", they only care about the $$$$$.

Why is this allowed? I hope artists get together and sue RIAA/IFPI. As mentioned in other comments, these organizations are nothing more than bullies.

Piracy, smiracy as long as we get paid. That's the tune of the MPAA/RIAA. They really could care less about piracy only about the money. They will lose in the end.

It's up to us a parents to teach our children that being too anything is not healthy. It's also up to us to teach our children that fashion is not a lifestyle and should not dictate how we see ourselves. We always explain to our 11 year old how the TV ads work and how marketing works (selling a "lifestyle/happiness") and what a lie it is. It's time for us to stop the consumerism of our culture, that is a lot of the crux of this problem and legislation is not going to fix it. All that said I am a good Liberal and I do believe that government belongs regulating commercial industries, such as big oil, who refuse to regulate themselves.

Wow this guy is really an idiot. How did he become a judge? You know, instead of whipping how but watching what she is doing on the computer....It ain't rocket science.

I have not patience for tea partiers who want to destroy this country by dismantling the federal government and putting into law Christian theocratic policies. NO THANK YOU.

Sorry Tea Partiers are more like terrorists.

This is a very important issue, IMHO, and cuts to the very heart of the problem with corporations today. Everyone is so shortsighted allowing the money to move them. What we should be doing is having a long term goal of providing good service/products and taking care of employees that do well. Money is a means to an end (products we need like food, technology. housing, education...etc) not an end into it's self. "One thing that did happen in the 70s and 80s, particularly 80s, was the concept that profit was a right and that firms when they employed a certain number of people needed to ongoing bussiness, even if the management was incompetent" There it is.

"system for diehards like RMS" and me

"TV series are available cheaply on DVD quite quickly." Not cheap enough. DVD tv shows should MSRP for $5.00.