I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but the parent post was about a stupid and childish ass it gets. You missed the whole point of the congressional hearings. Part of the problem with Congress is the fact that they waste years of time pushing legislation that has no business being on the floor and miss the soul purpose of why they are there.
They are not there to put a ban on gay marriage into the constitution and to actually protect the basic foundations of this country: education, health, and the economy. You could throw security in there too, but in these current times, that's a whole other arguement. Back to the original three, they are doing none of those. We have some of the lowest test scores in the world and it continues to drop, our health care costs are sky-rocketing, forcing too many to go uninsured and, I'm sure all of us felt the crunch in tech over the last few years, but our economy does not solely rely on the tech industry. It's about a balance of import and export of products and services. You can use the car industry as a perfect example. Ford, GM are on the brink of collapse, which in any other decade was a sign of slow down or decline in the car industry, yet now Toyota, Honda, etc seem to be growing at exponential rates.
And Gates giving out scholarships for every H1. He could give away every dime he has to the schools, but if the basic foundation of the education system is a failure, nothing will fix it. To put it into "tech" terms, no amount of servers you throw at a problem will fix the problem if the code sucks.
And to end it taking a cheap shot at Vista, that's just childish.
