I didn't say that I work on classifed data from my home, having a clearance does not mean that you work exclusively on classified projects.

I didn't say that I work on classified projects from my home, the purpose of the clearance is as you describe.

I have a clearance, bill a generous rate, work from my home in South America, work on high-impact projects, and am always learning new technologies. Maintaining the clearance and flying up to DC every month or two are the biggest hassles.

So much misinformation in the submission and comments that follow. Where in the IE blog does it say that ony H.264 will be supported in IE9? It merely talks about what will be built-in, Flash and other plug-ins will still work, you will still be able to add whatever CODECs you want. Microsoft isn't blocking any of that.

LMAO, go read the Newsweek poll, not one of the right-wing biasted polls. The majority of the people do support what's in the bill and they support they bill when they understand its provisions.

I'm pretty pumped up, its nice when democracy leads to a little social good.

All the case you cite proves is that the US government will only take cases to court when they have overwhelming evidence. If they don't they might go through a military tribunal, but if they don't even have enough evidence for that they'll just detain the accused, or assassinate him.

You'd be wrong. Go read about the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, large swaths of civilian infrstructure were destroying including the international airport in Beirut. tens of thousands of residences were destroyed. Now go do some reading about Israelie activities in the occupied territories, the IDF has bulldozed the homes of hundreds of thousands of civilians who had not been suspected of doing anything hostile to Israel. They even ran over a US woman who was protesting nonviolently. I don't approve of the violent activities by Palestinian militants, nor do I approve of the failed attempts by Arab countries to invade Israel, and I find it ironic that most of the neighboring countries have tried like hell to keep the Palestinians off of their land. But the Israeli responses have only made things much worse and harder to resolve.

And you have 100% confidence in your government's ability to accurately idenfity these combatants? Ever dealt with an IRS audit? The IRS is 100% correct too, right?

Well stated. And such mistakes are already happening. US troops fired on journalists in Bagdad, including reporters sitting on the balcony of their hotel rooms in a hotel that the US had specifically recognized before the invasion as being full of foreign journalists. Whether it was intentional or not is debatable, the fact that a US tank fired on the hotel and killed innocent reporters in 2003 is accepted by all sides. There are a lot of other examples.

Such naivety, you have complete faith in the government's ability to accurately identify people as actively fighting the US when those individuals are not in a battle. So you also have complete faith in the government's ability to tax you fairly? You are ready to hand over 100% of the healthcare system to the US government? You've never had a government employee make a mistake when getting a drivers license, registering to vote, or anything else?

Hmmm, volunteers who are there as part of a non-government agency's effort to provide medical care? Build schools? Install wells and sewage treatment systems?

Sigh... These US citizens and a whole lot of foreigners are being assassinated in non-combat situations. The drones are being used precisely for this scenario: execute someone who isn't actually shooting at US soldiers while minimizing the risk of US soldiers getting injured. And a lot of these drones are being operated by non-military personnel too, so you are ok with the CIA and its contractors executing people, including US citizens? Will you still be ok if the CIA starts executing political extremists in the US simply becuase the president said that the protesters are terrorists who were thinking about violent actions?