Awesome!

The biggest problem with hydraulic fracturing and the source of it's dislike is it competes heavily with green energy, that's the true problem with it period, never mind that it is one the cleanest and most practical fuel sources available and is a welcome alternative to coal. Gas extracted 5000 feet below the ground underneath impermeable rock, there is no leakage, there is no seepage, it's all scare. Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades and natural gas has been extracted in the country for nearly 200 years and it's use produces almost zero emissions harmful to humans. It's infuriating to see it resisted in the name of the environment.

Google we have plenty of low cost housing and tech workers here.

Call it an occupational hazzard.

MSDN is awful compared to what? I'm a .Net developer and IMO .Net is one of the most vast and well documented APIs created. A stack overflow entry supplies a very specific answer to a very specific question, so of course I can get a great answer to a very specific problem very quickly. The API documentation on MSDN is a tool you apply to answer your questions and understand the API and architecture. I use MSDN a lot, I use stackoverflow constantly. To suggest their documentation was a waste of time is ludicrous. Where do you think the stackoverflow experts obtained the knowledge to apply it to the problem in question? Case and point, stackoverflow entries constantly refer to the MSDN and KB entries.

Runaway I grew up outside of Pittsburgh and that is pretty much my view on how things unfolded. Here the unions had striking down to a science, anytime there was a healthy profit the unions would strike, so the owners decided it was no longer worth reinvesting into the mill, so they got as much out of what they already had invested and they let the plants die a slow death. I hear the specialty plant across the river, producing a tiny fraction of what it used to, is finally going to close. After a couple decades of being shut down I heard the small mill in my town reopened and is doing a small operation.

Are you serious? Everything in the city costs more. Cities are chalk full of graft, greed, corruption.

Keep in mind AT&T (the child of ma Bell) was given a government monopoly, ergo it's network and stranglehold that was created by the government and very much exists today.

A Greenwich Village couple, affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, was arrested yesterday for allegedly having a cache of weapons and bomb making materials in their apartment. A detective discovered a plastic container with seven grams of a white chemical powder called HMTD, which is so powerful, cops evacuated several nearby buildings. http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/7929

Really? You're going to blame an increase in flooding on global warming? Try run off from parking lots and roof tops. Get a clue and some basic understanding of water retention.

Both degrees require you to solve problems using programming languages and techniques; both are adequate in preparing you for solving real world software problems. I prefer the CS curriculum because having intrinsic knowledge of how systems work from the CPU register, memory access and beyond shapes the way you look at and understand systems as a whole. This is the kind of insight you may never gain from working on the job. Otherwise computes and compilers will be always some mystical black box that you can't quite comprehend.

Yes this has nothing to do with our current presidents war on profit and subsequent reelection. Let's make a reference that points and blames conservatives call for some fiscal sanity. The US doesn't have a monopoly on innovation and investors can take their resources elsewhere and unfortunately this is exactly what is happening. I saw this coming. Tuesday night, this was my biggest fear.

Explain how a US oil embargo equates to a military blockade? Your implying we surrounded their island country with ships and didn't allow any oil to enter.

Be very afraid of this statement: "Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta stated that the United States was at risk of a 'cyber-Pearl Harbor.' " Watch, because very soon they will be making the case that the only way to keep the internet 'safe' is to hand the controls over to the government. This is a clear power grab. Never let a crisis go to waste.

Available information indicates this to be a pre-planned co-ordinate terrorist attack on the 9-11 anniversary, not a riot over a video that no one ever saw. The video scapegoat was a way for the current administration to deflect attention away from their own security failures and point blame at their political adversaries. Free speech is the casualty or a more cynical view would be that free speech, specifically speaking out against the muslin religion, is a direct target.