The "Social media guidance" document on which this is based is an interesting read: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/social-media-guidance

I dread to think what Grace Hopper looked like.

asking why everyone hates the IT department

Solution 1: if you can, work for an IT company.
Solution 2: Don't do desktop support.

"What language makes the most sense now to get the jobs?" What jobs?

A the most watched nation on earth, we're familiar with this path in the UK. Expect issues, as seen at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-spy-cameras-project

Virgin in the UK used to refuse support until you connected a Mac or Windows box directly. Routers were 'not supported'.

Exactly. It's secure just the same as your TiVO or Xbox 360 is secure. That's great for a netbook appliance, but for a full laptop or desktop computer not so much.

Oh come on - they showed something you could actually do with an iPhone, just not in the 23 seconds it took in the video. Adds where the phones literally pick the sun out of the sky are however accepted as okay, just like that spot where the train station is quickly filled with people just because somebody uses this rad new phone - because the whole idea is stupid to begin with, nobody cares that you couldn't gather a crowd in 30 seconds.

As well as candida infection. Many, many people have one and don't even notice it.

Favourite part: "This is so wrong it has to be right."

Original - or did he cite someone?

[citation desperately needed] [especially for the "buy" part]

I used to think like you, but the pride you speak of is one thing when you're proud of the minority you're in, and another when you're proud to be part of a majority group. It would be nice if we all thought of ourselves as being "Americans". (Conservative solutions to huge problems often involve having everybody deciding to behave in a certain way or to believe something.) But we don't. And there are lots of people who think they think that way, but they really don't. Show them a person of the wrong race, and "American" isn't the first thought that pops into their heads.

All of those things are very unlikely or mitigated by insurance. A poor installation could lead to damage but that for instance would be the installers problem not his.

This is as close to a guaranteed ROI as it gets.