I'd say shoggoths, if it were Antarctica.

Like arsenic and cadmium?

... the US economy needs Buckaroo Banzai.

...warlocks.

The argument is invalid because someone may -and will- infer that the reason Europe has been battling terrorism for a long time is precisely because these measures have not been taken.

And, yes, I agree with you on the 'foreign involvement' as defined here; generally, however, Israel is where the problem stems from.

All that will happen is we programmers will have yet another huge, unresponsive monolithic agency taking more money out of our paycheck. Unions are the antithesis of free markets, especially when they start doing things like using member money to influence Congress.

The real solution is for game developers to not put up with this any more.

I live in Ohio, in Lucas County (which voted 60% Kerry btw). Apparently didn't make much of a difference. >_

I'm also looking into moving to Canada. I was going to move back to Seattle in the summer, but Vancouver BC is looking more and more like a good alternative.