which law was broken by offering jobs to people so they wouldn't run against an incumbent? Seems like a typical political favor to me. Disappointing, but not surprising in the least from a politician.

just as the poster you are replying too overestimates the liberalism of the country, you seem to overestimate the conservativeness. This is a midterm election, where the party in power is usually on poor ground, and the economy still sucks. That more than anything is responsible for their troubles. The rightward swing of the Republicans has more complicated causes, but it seems unlikely to me that it is because the American people as a whole are getting more conservative. The people who vote in primaries are a small minority.

businesses and academics are completely different. Its still bad he did that do businesses, but not nearly as bad as doing it to academics working in a field of immense public interest.

its all good, I was just happy to finally have the info I needed. I'm glad I can play the beta now :)

thank you, I tried that search yesterday and got no useful results.

anyone know if a macbook would be able to run it, however shittily?

Except that there is no way to insure that this data doesn't go to the government. They buy a lot of data on citizens from private companies and knowing friendship networks actually is quite valuable information for Big Brother. Take a look at how Pakistan is fighting the Taliban there, it has a lot to do with knowing family networks. As someone with hippy friends, I don't want to be investigated if they join Sea Shepherd.