IT unemployment is much lower than the national numbers. It's around 4% versus 9%. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/06/09/tech-sector-unemployment-half-the-u-s-national-average/

Most IT workers already have a job when they are negotiating a new position. Corporations are usually scrambling to find a technically qualified person who is presentable and shows up on time. In IT, there is much more leverage in negotiations, and that only increases as skill and experience increases.

I don't see a whole lot of .NET, Java, or Oracle developers unemployed for more than a few weeks, and even then they are waiting to apply for positions just so they can have a little time off. PHP and ColdFusion developers are a different story.

Scott Brown of Taxachusetts is definitely no conservative republican. Have no idea about the other two.

This is a republic. You don't need to move to another country when another state, or possibly another county may suit you better. I don't want the federal government overseeing trash pickup.

The county where my parents live uses prisoners to sort trash into recyclables and non-recyclables. Don't assume that just because there is no bin that there is not recycling.

Did Apache Flaw finally get promoted out of incubation?

The President should not matter as much as your representatives. And furthermore, the federal gubment should not assume powers that should be relagated to the states. We were intended to be a republic, where the governor of a state was more impactful to day-to-day life than the President of the United States. We are currently off track from the intended path. I have no idea how to get back on track. Perhaps insolvency will fix that for us?

These summaries are much more informative when read via RSS

US socialism? Seems funny to call the Department of Defense socialism.

"Free" is very difficult to retain because it is so easily corruptible. It requires strict adherence to principle. America is no longer free because the government has become the monopoly. If the federal government were to relinquish its policy power back to the states, then it would be arguable that "America is free." But that's enough libertarian mumbo jumbo from me.

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Journalism is dead. Most submissions have an agenda.

Depends on the extent to which you use the office suite. Our business is not built on the documents we provide; they are merely a tool in which we communicate data and ideas. In this case the OO.org people tend to be the kind of people who figure it out for themselves, while the MS Office people just want to get the work done. So support still goes to MS Office. Until there is an absolute reason to support both products, there is no need to consider diverging on a particular office suite.

I think the parent's comparison to browsers is a perfect example for our case. But it might not be for yours.

"Temperamental idiots" still do productive work. We do not rate their performance based on what office suite they prefer.

My office of approx 50 people is about 50/50 OO.org and MS Office. The more technically-minded people took to OO.org. We still save in the MS format for compatibility. For the most part, the MS Office users have not migrated simply because they "think" it's going to make their jobs harder. There have only been a handful of incidents where there was a compatibility issue. Culturally, the two camps feel they are superior to each other, so it is an interesting social experiment and mimics the dichotomy you see on /. posts.