I just don't know whether to sit on the fence or stand on one side or the other on this one. I worked with a Canadian for a while and he told tales of the nightmare that Canadian health care is. To hear him tell it....socialized heath care is everything but good heath care.

Well, I just counted employers (have done several different job descriptions for a couple of them). 4 different employers in 31 years. Same one for the last 20 years.

Yes, my comment is redundant but, if you look at the times, they are 2 minutes apart. I was editing mine when he posted his. Sorry about that.

Microsoft is now complaining ......... IBM is so anticompetitive that governments should intervene. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

No, Southeastern Ohio :^)

It's done nothing but storm for a week here & we haven't had a seconds trouble with it. TV has gone out a couple of times but not WB.

We recently switched to WildBlue satellite internet service and it has a fair amount of latency. No big deal really but it would be too much for Skype and you have to assume that the same problem would hold true for any sat service. (BTW WildBlue is awesome compared to the dial-up rurals have to put up with :)

That's not exactly how I interpreted it. I took it to mean that the news would be dished to me (along with adverts) because of what I had searched for before. Since I work in IT, that means I would get nothing but IT news when I log in at work & at home? Sorry, but I have a little trouble with force feeding. I don't have a Speedy Rewards card or any thing of the type. They are just used to find a subject that advertisers think they might make money from me. I send junk mail back to the sender in their own prepaid envelope (I'm tired of paying the trashman to haul it off). I'm also an old fart with 6 Grand kids and a GG Kid. I like my privacy and have a problem with the "Internet is everything generation". Seems a strange contradiction for an IT guy but, isn't life just a strange contradiction? :)

If this comes to pass, I guess that I'll try another search engine, I want what I want not all the junk that Google (or anyone else) thinks that I want.

I know exactly what you mean. If you've every read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy, it's the same scenario. A company (in this instance a drug company) having the power & will to do what they want.