Manning was a tool for Wikileaks and a soldier who violated the oath he took when he enlisted. He deserves to be executed for his treason, not celebrated.

Ditto. Fry the worthless POS's stealing this stuff, they obviously aren't providing any valuable service or even a small benefit to society. I guess we could send them all to the welfare states of america on the coasts, if they like em so much.

airbus is a corporation. they only thing that they care about is what wall street and the markets think. if you think they give a damn about your safety except where it makes the the investors happy, you are a fool.

If they had actually done an ROI study on the purchase, they wouldn't be all that happy. Gas would have to more than triple in cost before I would see any reasonable return on investment from the increased costs I would see from the higher payments, the higher insurance costs because it was new, and the higher property taxes I would pay. Never mind that buying a hybrid so you can feel good about yourself actually required the consumption of more resources to produce your new car versus just keeping the one you already had.

Yeah but we can't get decent diesel vehicles in the US because the left is focused on trendy things like hybrid technology, makes them feel better about themselves. I've got friends that have had VW TDIs for many years, through multiple model years, and they routinely best hybrid fuel economy. I bought a Ford Festiva in 1991 that got 40 mpg from day one, it was just under $9000 new sticker price. WHICH, tells you why there are no reasonably priced fuel efficient vehicles, no profit margin and not sexy enough.

Right on. That's how the left does it. Feeds and cloths the morons who refuse to do it for themselves, and penalizes those who will work.

Congress is the "who" behind the stripping of your rights, and you actually believe they give a damn what you think? Sad. Actually, you do need to fight the people paid to support them, they are responsible for willingly committing acts of in violation of the constitution, no matter what the courts, also co-opted by the government and its corporate masters. Face it, the government isn't on your side anymore, if they ever were, and pandering to them to fix the very problems they cause is alot like pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out.

I have an F350 diesel and a Jeep Wrangler, and an RV, and a boat. I figure I own more of the road than you due to the road taxes I pay, and I'll do damn well as I please to do, including driving MY CHOICE of vehicle, without bowing to your kind's socialistic tendencies to obliterate both the hobbies and endeavors I choose to participate in which drive my vehicle choices. I'll damn certain not let you or some other hippy loser dictate those choices. So you "get your head out of your ass," and while you're at it, best stay in your big city with all of the pretty little baubles that your kind loves so much. You keep your oppressive police presence, the continual erosion of privacy, the crime, and the multitude of other ills you city folks and their pundits love to spout off about. I will, on the other hand, actually go out into the world and enjoy it, along with the risks to personal safety and revel in the rewards of being free of morons like you. And when the shit hits the fan, us "ignorant folk" with our big vehicles and freedom loving tendencies will be there to bail you morons out, as has happened every other time in the past.

"These are more pricey"....

which is the real reason the law was passed, to take a commodity product/industry and generate more revenue by requiring new light sources. I'm all for energy conservation but let's call a spade a spade, this isn't about energy conservation, it is about political favors for a special interest.

I second that. This story, http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/fisherman.html, is what convinced me that working 80 hour weeks wasn't worth it, no matter how impressive my resume looked, or my responsibilities were, nor where I got to travel on the company dime, nor who was patting me on the back. I left that corporate world eight years ago and took a job, still in I.T., making 30k less per year but only working 35 hours a week on average. I'm still there, working 35 hours a week. I live in a 80k house, almost paid off, and drive old cars that I work on, and I earn (and use) 300 hours of time off each year.

The good life is out there, even for I.T. workers, if you're willing to go find it.

I have 20 people who support 7,500 endpoints, nearly 1,500 printers, 450 servers, and over 500 switches across a multi-site facility. Consider also ensuring that data is backed up, secured, and that disaster recover works they way you planned, or the difficulty in finding people who can solve problems, which is what being a good I.T. professional is actually all about.

I outsource to vendors because I simply haven't got a chance in hell to support it any other way.

For a talking head, such as Paul Venezia to have the audacity to think he knows jack about the enterprise is an insult to those of us who do, and indicative of what is really wrong in I.T.; people who have neither the intellect nor aptitude for information technology being in positions to influence the industry, like the editors for rags like InfoWorld.