Having a family is a choice and in this world, a fucking stupid one.

This protein is changed so little across the entire spectrum of eukaryotic cells that brewer's yeast can have their CDK replaced with the human version with no ill effect. Something that's proliferated for so long with so little change indicates that very small changes make the organism unviable. Tampering with the expression of this protein seems like an amazingly bad idea.

Much like how Tumblr was for Porn, Twitter's only real use case is dunking on blue checkmarks. RIP.

What "most" of the people here want, and forgive me if I'm bringing in anyone who disagrees, is to make sure neither Comcast nor the govt gets to filter traffic or somehow tamper with any data passing a network.

QoS has been brought into this and it is a legitimate issue but there is a difference between QoS for VoIP vs other traffic, and QoS for sites who pay up vs those who don't. QoS wouldn't be an issue if last-mile ISPs had the bandwidth they purport to have where all users get to max out their connection if they want or need to.

On the other side there is the concern that government will create rules allowing them to censor content. A well-founded concern, given the ICE's recent takeover of various sites and the pressures applied against several news organizations and banks.

So, again, net neutrality is needed, and all proponents are asking for is that neither the govt nor the ISPs get to mess with the bits on the wire.

You won't have problems if you aren't "loud" as being quiet is pretty much the norm there. They also tend to judge on a personal basis, so you shouldn't have problems with people stereotyping you though there is always the oddball.

Being from an eastern-European country myself, I would advise against moving to anything east of Italy or Hungary. Things are improving in those countries, but they are nowhere near as good as the USA at the moment. Corruption is the way things get done there, and EU membership isn't helping for some of the newest members. Croatia is not even a member for that exact reason.

You should be OK in most of Western Europe and I can personally vouch for Switzerland. If you can, try to find a few people from these countries (through social networking sites, etc) and ask them specific questions you have. They'll probably tell you if there's anything you should really know about before settling down there.

Comcast is not officially preventing any services from their network, although they were caught throttling bittorrent traffic in the past.

I've had an Asterisk PBX running on a Comcast account for several years with few to no problems so far. However, Comcast has an interest in degrading SIP as well as video services from 3rd party providers since they provide both of these themselves.

The fact that the telcos are cheering means today's legislation favors content discrimination and they'll no doubt be taking advantage of it soon.

I guess we should enjoy these multimedia services while they last, and that won't be long.

I am personally looking at moving back to Europe which is where I was born, even though I'm a US citizen now. Same reason as yours.

One piece of advice, don't announce the fact you are an American if/when you get to Vancouver. We are not well liked by either Europe or Canada, so make sure you get to know your company well before announcing that to them, lest a cop there decides to get personal with you.

I have actually been harassed at more than one European airport after showing a US passport, so the warning is not purely theoretical.