"The US will always be the beacon of innovation in the world."

This is nonsense. Just ask Rome, China and every other country that had it's turn at the top of the heap. We can argue about how and when this will change, but the only thing we know for certain is that it will.

If I can't get a research position in the States, but can in Europe, that is a problem.

How does the job market for research positions and potential employee pool in the States versus Europe compare?

My impression is that it's rather difficulty in a number of European countries as well. Chatting with friends, it seems that there are a number of term positions in countries like Germany, but permanent positions are hard to come by.

I don't know the job market there. I was stating a hypothetical; I should have made that clearer. Given the post-doc situation, if another country were to dramtically increase funding for positions, America would see a brain drain.

Until Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. buys them. :)

Nice UI. Bad idea to do domain lookups on a site without SSL.

Yup, and whole companies are blocking new TLDs. Too much spam.

That sucks!

Was aware they could do this but totally BS!

The new domain companies can raise them whenever they want and however much they want.

Agreed. Name/Enom support has gone to complete sh*t. They are putting all the money into marketing crap new TLDs.

They stole a domain from me too. :(

There is a process when a failed TLD is handed off to a stable domain registry. It's only for a few years though.

Many of these new TLDs will disappear. There is no demand.

Non-profit has nothing to do with how much money they make, but with how they spend it.

This is the most annoying misconception on the internet.