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Anyone agreeing emphatically with the sentiment and delivery
of TFA... needs to think about EQ.
[ http://ultimatelifestyleproject.com/emotional-quotient/ ]
[ http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl_eq_quiz.htm ]

And your ability to interact with others. If a rant is the solution
then maybe having better methods and avenues of directing
pent-up rage should be sought.

"Because CBS Cares..."

-AI

Meth is not a drug its poison to the human body and society for both use and manufacture.
It has not a peer to alcohol, or other lesser drugs.

War on Drugs? How about War on Money Laundering?! Thats the imperialism of the mafia over civil society.

I say money laundering is the serious and imminent threat to geek culture.
Too many geeks are getting sucked into the underworld's lure of fast money, trinkets and bobbles and hallmarks of evil-geekdom.

Will anyone miss the old days when geeks would just rip-off cpu cycles, disk space and bandwidth for wares & p0rn from their company sites.
Next it moved into fencing parts -- where did all that Disk & memory go from the upgrades last month?
Now entire data centers have been compromised in Eastern Europe by mafia seeking to money launder all sorts of activity.

Looking at one of the mug shots. gang / mafia is involved: Nasty stuff, stone cold died in the wool killers & innocent lives wreaked.

Here is the AG post

Its enlightening the AG says it accounts for 2/3 of the ID theft: probably to cloak procurement of the means to manufacture, warehouse, and transport the nasty stuff. That means other much more serious crimes have to be committed in support of this industry... not just the simple possession.

Here are general facts about meth and more reading.

Does anyone call them pedophiles?

The DSM defines pedophilia as, "a paraphilia in which a person has intense and recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about prepubescent children and on which feelings they have either acted or which cause distress or interpersonal difficulty." Prepubescent is generally considered to be age 13 or lower.

Go scan through this list of women, and consider whether or not the definition applies.

In some cases, the definition does not, because the victims are older than 13. In some cases, it absolutely does - and I suspect that you'd find a fair majority of the male lawyers and judges who would be fine with calling these women pedophiles.

...
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

  - E. A. Poe
http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/The_Bells.htm

ONLY ARKANSAS!?!?!?! Do you realise we could lose American icons like Bill Clinton if these earthquakes continue?! What are you thinking....

</sarcasm>

Have any quotes or links to back that up, Mr. Submitter?

Why would the submitter need to provide those? It's not his claim, it's a direct quote from the article itself.

And yes, among security researchers the general consensus indeed does seem that OSX is quite poor from security standpoint and I applaud Apple on their efforts in trying to beefen it up. It's hard to point one to some direct quotes on this as it's mostly just a comment here or there, but here's atleast two links:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/security-vs-popularity/4403
http://pcworld.about.com/od/securit1/The-Truth-About-Apple-Securit.htm

The government has instituted energy efficiency regulations for decades, for example, with CAFE standards for cars. The government also regulates hazardous chemicals. This type of regulation is not new, so I'm not sure why you're complaining now.

The specific reason that inefficient light bulbs are being banned is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to reduce anthropogenic global warming. There are also new energy efficiency guidelines for cars and appliances. You can also expect new building codes for energy efficiency. We've had building codes for a long time, too, by the way.

It is idiotic to ban owning and smoking a plant, if owning and smoking a plant harms no one but the owner or smoker. But greenhouse gas emissions harm many others.

uhhh... i hear you on the patriot act, but you do realize that the fed was brought into existence not because of some retarded senator palpatine style freedom destroying plot, which seems to be the way you think, but because people were sick of banking panic after banking panic laying waste to the economy and people's lives and financial well being:

http://history1800s.about.com/od/thegildedage/a/financialpanics.htm

and although i'd really love to hear your john birch society conspiracy theories about the fed, i'm sorry, but i have an appointment with economic reality and psychological stability that i really must keep, adieu

La la la la la la - I can't hear you - black hate, sand people, faggot, feminists, people who can read, people who don't fuck their own children, go Sarah, la la la la, UN plot, UFOs, the troof, la la la la, you're a Jew, la la la

uhhh... i hear you on the patriot act, but you do realize that the fed was brought into existence not because of some retarded senator palpatine style freedom destroying plot, which seems to be the way you think, but because people were sick of banking panic after banking panic laying waste to the economy and people's lives and financial well being:

http://history1800s.about.com/od/thegildedage/a/financialpanics.htm

and although i'd really love to hear your john birch society conspiracy theories about the fed, i'm sorry, but i have an appointment with economic reality and psychological stability that i really must keep, adieu

I guess fixing the existing infrastructure in the US is not a sexy headline making theme for politicians but the existing problems should be addressed before we start spending money on random things just to create jobs.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/rebuilding-america/4301459

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2627

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2009/02/04/americas-bridges-are-falling-down.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20095291/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/

Except that the site itself said it was a parody Beck's tactics. Nice.

"Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven't yet seen proof that he didn't. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation."

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-glenn-beck-conspiracy.htm

I would agree with this. I'd also like to know how many of those Liberal/Libertarian readers are also Atheists. I read an interesting article about the political views that most Atheists hold and why it seems to be the majority leaning toward the left. Off topic here, I know.

They aren't. I was just pointing out that the suggestion that all Americans consume too much protein isn't entirely correct.

Either way, the point I was trying to make originally wasn't that Americans consume too little protein in terms of bulk numbers, but rather as a percentage of calories in their diet. Americans on average take in about 15% of their total calories from protein. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends 10-35% from protein. Thus, the average American could double the percentage of calories that he or she takes in from protein, and still be within the recommended range.

More to the point, that's the only calorie source that's so far off towards one end of the range. Our fat intake is a little on the high side of the range, average carbs are right in the middle, but protein is way low. (Source: about.com) Further, eating more protein during weight loss results in more fat loss, less muscle loss.

So I maintain my original assertion that Americans don't get enough protein.

Am I misunderstanding something here ? I thought that disabeling that was a just question of altering a registry-key. I did, and was never bothered by self-starting USB or CD media again.

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/autorun.htm

Here a little gift from me to you. Overlay a map of the Continental US over the top of Europe. If you're like most Europeans, you have no real idea how BIG the US actually is, in square miles. The TGV is great, but it wouldn't even pass all the way through Texas. Here's the map for the lazy.

http://goeurope.about.com/od/europeanmaps/l/bl-country-size-comparison-map.htm

People in Europe wanting this and that for the whole of the US have no real concept of how expansive this country really is. Try going from LA to NY by train? Better to fly. You wouldn't take a train from Paris to Kiev, would you? To give you an idea, distance from Calais to Nice (France) is about the same distance as Sacramento to San Diego California. That is just ONE STATE.

Because Europeans have no real grasp of how big the US is, they make all sorts of faulty assumptions. Assumptions Europeans wouldn't accept for Europe.

I'm sorry...all this bitching about Republicans and the Patriot Act...which was written and passed by Democrats?

According to http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm In 2001 the Rs had a 221 vote lead in the House, and the Ds had a 1 vote lead in the Senate, but only after June, when Jeffords (R-VT) switched to independent. You can hardly say the act was "passed by Democrats". Even so, the point is moot - both Ds and Rs were co-sponsors, and a spectrum from Bob Barr to Patrick Leahy supported it.

Another example of the very problem net neutrality is trying to prevent:

http://airtravel.about.com/od/airlines/qt/Airtran-Airways-Offers-Free-Facebook-For-February-2011.htm

On the other hand, recently the EFF has had nothing but harsh words for the current net neutrality legislation:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/part-i-fcc-ancillary-authority-regulate-internet

While I am a staunch supporter of the concept of net neutrality, I'd hope for a better implementation than this.

I was hooked on "The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments" back in the early 80's, it was in my elementary school library. I have a PDF copy on my PC just for the nostalgia of it.

http://chemistry.about.com/library/goldenchem.pdf

It does have a few questionable practices that I would not suggest to a child 'tho, for example:

page 17:
"Do not bring test tube up to your nose for smelling. Instead, waft the odors toward you with your hand."

Page 43:
"1. Bases Taste Brackish.
Dissolve 5 g (1teaspoon) lye in 50 ml water, drop 5 drops of solution in glass of water. Dip finger in this highly diluted base. Taste drop on finger tip."

I count myself lucky growing up that I had an Uncle that is an Electronics Engineer, an Uncle that is a PHD Pharmacist + Bachelors History Teaching and a Dad that was an Automobile Mechanic and really into construction (I grew up working on cars and pouring cement.) I ended up doing various construction and factory work (lots of machining) until I joined the Navy at 26 to be an Electronics Technician and taught myself PC building and repair while on my two tours overseas. I always got the sweetest hand-me-downs from my Uncles, Radioshack 100-in-Ones, Oscilloscopes, signal generators, chemistry sets, microscopes. I would buy legos, erector sets, chemistry sets, lawnmower engines and RC anything at yard sales, got into model rocketry, made my own fireworks and all sorts of stuff that would give parents nowadays a heartattack if they caught their kid doing unsupervised. Just thinking about how many times I made my room stink like rotten eggs makes me smile. Made a go-cart with wood, bicycle wheels and gears and a lawn mower engine nailed to a plank. LOL

I'd argue the Microsoft monopoly was worse.

There are three things to note about the above claim. First, Microsoft's market dominance wasn't a monopoly at any time. Second, Microsoft hasn't had its period of market dominance very long compared to AT&T. Third, the AT&T monopoly was marked by a long stretch of stagnation. There really wasn't much difference in telecommunications service from the 30s through to the early 80s (automation of call routing behind the scenes being the prime innovation). But the so-called Microsoft monopoly presided over one of the great periods of innovation in human history.

I disagree that mobile phone advances were held back by AT&T. No one really used them in '84 or even '94.

Note that Japan already had a nationwide cell phone network by 1984. Europe established cell phone networks starting in the early 80s. The US didn't get started seriously till after 1984. By 1987, there were a million US subscribers.

So how messed up would the cell phone networks have been in the US now, if they had started in the mid-70s instead of ten years later? The only explanation I can see for the delay between invention of usable cell phones in 1973 and the late US start is the AT&T monopoly. To be blunt, I think this late start by itself explains most of the technological edge that Japan and Europe has over the US in cell phones.

According to a commentator on the CBC radio, the Egyptians are using wifi to create ad hoc networks. They can use these with their smart phones.

Maybe this is what they're talking about: http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wireless/ht/setupadhocwifi.htm

The $1 club gets paid in stock options, which have their own tax structure, and the occasional comped service. While it is a good way to avoid taxes, they are usually still taking a big hit in the pocket book for doing so.

Yes, a huge hit -- or roughly half of my tax rate (NOT including payroll taxes). Those poor CEOs, working out of the goodness of their little hearts for $1 and a few stock options, and the government has the nerve to actually take a portion of their pittance?!?

Capital gain income from assets held longer than one year are generally taxed at a special long-term capital gains rate. The rate that applies depends on which ordinary income tax bracket you fall under.

• Zero percent rate if your total income (including capital gain income) places you in the ten or fifteen percent tax brackets.
• 15% rate if your total income (including capital gain income) places you in the twenty-five percent tax bracket or higher.

http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/taxes/taxes-on-incentive-stock-options-12196/
http://taxes.about.com/od/capitalgains/a/CapitalGainsTax_4.htm

Myth? Please point to a current Mac virus.

Here, here, here, and here.

I'm sure there are more, but I think I've answered your request.

Myth? Please point to a current Mac virus.

Here, here, here, and here.

I'm sure there are more, but I think I've answered your request.

Myth? Please point to a current Mac virus.

Here, here, here, and here.

I'm sure there are more, but I think I've answered your request.

Or that giving the patient a placebo *and letting them know that* is better than nothing, and better than most IBS medicine.

http://ibs.about.com/b/2010/12/27/the-ibs-placebo-study.htm

"Europe is a hell of a big place"

Russia is big. Western Europe is rather compact.

"The 360 doesn't even use a PPC processor"

Bullshit, son.

http://xbox.about.com/od/xbox2/a/xbox360specs.htm

Military Prisons are pretty much controlled environments. It's prison with the bonus of having military rules applied to it.

Rather than taking near minimum wage prison guards, military prison guards are hand picked from Military Police MOS from all the branches and have low guard to prisoner ratios, Navy Brigs are like 1 guard for every 1.75 prisoners, vs 1 guard for 250 prisoners in many state prisons.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/justicelawlegislation/a/leavenworth.htm

I had a buddy from High School who did a tour there as a guard, said they were the most squared away prisoners he'd ever seen.

I believe what you are looking for goes by simultaneous dual band.

DLink's 825 does it, though my ISP made it so I need the router's 6-to-4 tunnel anyway, till the ISP's PPPoE eventually serves DHCPv6 instead of DHCPv4. I'm not sure about the sumult dual-band on the cheaper model 625, but like that one, other products also do v6, but you'll have to check them individually.

Always check forums before making your final choice; implementations can be wonky: even in LAN-bridge mode, a new bottom-of-the-line white-shell G-band router refused to bridge DHCPv6 announcements to PC's on their other side of the LAN. Remember too that browsers need [ brackets ] around v6-style IP addresses, that a tunnel's anycast gateway is 192.88.99.1 and that your manual DNS queries will be plenty even today, --browsers refuse v6 on dual-stack sites entered by hostname on your address bar: eg: www.kame.net vs. 2001:200:dff:fff1:216:3eff:feb1:44d7. Oh, and don't dare hyperlink to IPv6 addresses like the above. Even /. slurps it as nonsense.

This other article also from 2007, suggests that 76% of Americans own a computer. Have we reached a tipping point where an employer might expect you to provide your own computer? Exceptions will be made for those jobs that require unusual usage, but what about the office manager or secretary who only reads and writes emails ? Odds are he already has a computer. Should your employer (in this case the State of CA) be expected to pay the base price of the computer and internet access? I am not passing judgment on anyone with a company issued computer, just posing some academic questions.

So yeah, if your employer requires you to use a tool to perform any aspect of your job then the employer absolutely should be expected to provide you with that tool.

I can't tell if you are serious or intending parody. Given that you posted as Anonymous Retard, I'll guess serious.

they had their chance and they blew it

If that's the case, you're arguing for the death penalty? For all "sex offenders"?

Remember that in some jurisdictions, a 19-year-old who has sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend is a "sex offender." "Sex Crimes" laws are enforced just as often because the parents don't like their daughter's boyfriend as because there is actually something involved.

You could be a "sex offender" if as a teenager you sent a cell phone picture of your naughty bits to another teenager.

Or you could become a "sex criminal" if you have consensual sex with someone else, and they decide in a moment of regret afterwards that you really "raped" them. And in cases where you were both drunk out of your minds, technically you both raped each other because neither was "fit" to consent, but guess who the cops are going to charge and who the prosecutor's going to try to convict?

If we had a system where only serious offenders - those who are clearly high age molesting kids, serial rapists, rapists who use serious force like gun or knife or beat someone up - were put under "sex offender" registration and stigma, that'd be one thing. I'd even be ok with changing their status so that they had to go through medical diagnosis to assess the likelihood of recidivism in order to reach parole status, or be transferred to psychiatric care once they were released from prison.

The fact remains, the system we have right now is overbroad and simply does not work. I'd personally argue that Florida's crazy statutes, that force someone to live under a bridge under their "cannot leave the county, cannot live within 2500 feet of the following places", also fall afoul of the US Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.

To play the devil's advocate here, the ability to play some Xbox Arcade games is a pretty great motivator.

Xbox Arcade games are not that good. There are WAY more cool things you can do with an iphone.

I've not heard anyone rant about how great any Windows phone is ever. I sit next to a guy at work who raves about his iphone 4 until I'm sick of hearing it.

Personally I stick to a bottom of the line Nokia that actually gets 2 weeks of battery life. I want my phone for phone calls and the odd SMS and I have a laptop for everything else.

Just out of curiosity, how many Xbox Arcade games have you played? If I remember right, Portal: Still Alive was released to Xbox Arcade, which is a hugely popular game. One of my favorite games of all time is on the Arcade (Shadow Complex). There's a bunch more good ones listed here. I'm not saying everyone has to like these, but they've proven to be immensely popular, and I could see that as a driving factor. Personally for me that isn't enough, but ya gotta admit that tying these two platforms together is a pretty neat trick.

No, Manning was the man who gave the stuff out to Assange.

Manning also happens to have the misfortune of being in the military, where the rules are different from both the civil and criminal courts.

Misfortune? It's a voluntary force. He voluntarily and actively joined it.

That doesn't change the fact that he governed while a majority voted against him.

Uhm... that's almost a given event in any plurality voting system.

If it's imperfect and you believe it should be changed, please feel free to argue for that. To claim it is "illegitimate", however, is simply wrong.

If that happens then the House reps each gets a vote, in several states they don't even have to vote for the candidate the people of the state they represent voted for

Yes. This is the fall-back position in the event of a candidate not getting a majority of electoral votes: the US House of Representatives holds a vote. Unfortunately, your understanding is faulty, and the vote goes to one vote per state with the individual state delegations deciding by whatever means they choose (vote, cards, dice, drunken brawl, what have you) how their state's ONE vote shall go.

Again, is it perfect? No. Could it be amended? Probably. Will it likely be anytime soon? Probably not.

No, Manning was the man who gave the stuff out to Assange.

Manning also happens to have the misfortune of being in the military, where the rules are different from both the civil and criminal courts.

So is alcohol. I suspect more people are killed by drunks than by the stoned

Probably true, but marijuana use is still a significant risk to that percentage of the population that uses it and then drives.

Smoking Pot Doubles Risk of Fatal Accident
- Larger Doses Can Triple the Risk, Study Finds

Driving after smoking even a small amount of marijuana almost doubles the risk of a fatal highway accident, according to an extensive study of 10,748 drivers involved in fatal crashes between 2001 and 2003.
A study by the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research published in the British Medical Journal found that seven percent of drivers involved in a fatal highway crash used marijuana.

The researchers estimated that at least 2.5 percent of the 10,748 fatal crashes studied were directly caused by the use of marijuana.

The researchers concluded that the risk of being responsible for a fatal crash increased as the blood concentration of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, increased. Even small amounts of marijuana could double the chance of a driver suffering an accident, researchers said, and larger doses could more than triple the risk.

Lung cancer is not the sole smoking-related disease. In fact, it's not even the most prevalent; that honor goes to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

And, yes, there are plenty of studies showing a positive correlation between marijuana use and COPD.

Did you read the article you posted to? It points out that the numbers are wrong and wrongly used and then points out why the comparison to the US wouldn't make sense anyway.

I could see linking to the email as support of the idea of gun control. I could see to linking to a rebuttal of the email as support of gun ownership. I fail to understand the point of linking to an email analysis where it is pointed out as having no reliability.

I've read quite a few good articles on both sides of the argument over gun control vs. ownership rights. Try these instead:

• http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp - shows gun control not working
• http://www.guninformation.org/ - explains how gun control is effective and what is wrong with opposing statistics
• http://usliberals.about.com/od/patriotactcivilrights/i/ProConGunLaws.htm - examines the legal history with some bias toward gun control
• http://libertariananarchy.com/articles/the-case-against-gun-control/ - presents logical arguments supporting gun ownership rights (I hesitated to include this even more than the article above due to its source, but it really is well written)

If you really wanted a link using the numbers snopes points out as unreliable, you should have used: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0210e.asp

Personally, my opinion is that freedom is more important than safety. Whatever the statistics, whatever the arguments are about crime rates, murder and preventative defense, I believe that an individual has a right to any reasonable self defense they choose. Freedom absolutely does cost lives, but I believe that even as tragic as they can be, preventing them by restricting legitimate freedoms is worse.

People following a vegetarian diet must eat protein foods that have complementary proteins so that the essential amino acids missing from one protein food can be supplied by another.
What are some examples of complementary proteins?

# Beans and tortillas
# Peanut butter sandwich
# Macaroni and cheese
# Tofu with rice
# Hummus with pita bread
# Chickpeas and rice

Do people following a vegetarian diet need to eat complementary proteins at every meal?
It was once believed that complementary proteins had to be consumed at every meal. We now know that intentional combining at each meal isn't necessary.

Source: http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/dietarytherapy/a/Vegetarian.htm

From my own experience as lacto-ovo veggie for 10 years, lentils provide just as much or more proteins as meat, and eating varied provides you enough of everything. It's not that hard, unless you're the fiery / hunter type who craves food and meat especially. Medically, lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is superior and easy, as long as you don't restrict yourself to pasta, rice or just a few foods, but eat a varied diet.

If you're eating meat, you should question how your bowels look and smell, how much meat is stuck inside there undigested and foul. This is why, when people go veggie, they often smell worse for a good while, until their bodies are cleaned out. You can do bowel cleansing, which every person should do every other year anyways.

Vegan diet (no animal byproducts too) on the other hand. Well, those who follow it seem gray and sickly to me. I don't think it is optimal.

So we may not have to slaughter all those cows after all. Indeed, cows are reveered as holy in India for their usefulness, and many groups of people in that country have been vegetarian for thousands of years.

I think there's prior art...

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushmonkey3.htm

The actual story is here http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palin-top-10.htm [about.com] if you're interested.

I know the real story. Perhaps you'd care to look at a map?

What's that country right next to Alaska I wonder? What is actually incorrect about Palin saying if Russian airplanes were ever to attack they's be coming over Alaska? Remember the cold war was not that long ago, she grew up with it.

But that's not even the WHOLE story. Because the actual quote from Palin is, you can see Russia from Alaska. And that is true, from the furthest shores - it's only 59 miles at the closest point.

So what is your problem with an intelligent quote about Russia's physical and mental proximity to the U.S.?

What really kills me about Sarah Palin is not her ignorance, though that is a dealbreaker.

I can understand that; your ignorance is turning me off quite a bit. Stop reading bullshit about her and just try listening to one of her speeches. Even if you disagree with her philosophically, they are strong speeches.

It's the fact that I really don't trust her as a person. Basically every friend and political ally she's ever had has a story to tell about how she stuck a knife in their back

Well I guess you're not voting for anyone then, unless you are doing selective reading... you simply cannot get to that level of power politically without some people disliking you. Although I am personally dubious how many of the stories are real, more fabrications like the Alaska thing...

Even that whole "I can see Russia from my house" thing was never said by her, but by Tina Fey on a SNL skit.

Please don't play me for stupid. I was there in 2008 and saw her comment on Russia. Yes, it was not 'I can see Alaska from my house' --- that was a Tina Fey sketch made up later to ridicule her for the actual much more stupid answer she did give. This is about the saddest defense of SP I've ever heard. Please stick with 'she didn't know anything in 2008, but she's much better now'. At least that's colorable.

The actual story is here http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palin-top-10.htm if you're interested.

What really kills me about Sarah Palin is not her ignorance, though that is a dealbreaker. It's the fact that I really don't trust her as a person. Basically every friend and political ally she's ever had has a story to tell about how she stuck a knife in their back. A couple of bitter former friends like this are just par for the course, but this is not just a couple of stories. I don't understand why anyone would want to be friends with someone who's obviously such a bad human being, let alone elect them to be their leader. And don't even get me started on how willing she is to accept financial favors, from Wasilla to the present.

Go to court. This has all been thought out by some pretty smart people.

Sure, because government officials respect court orders. Oh wait, they don't.

And your statistic that we know what the government is doing 95% of the time is a complete fabrication. Analysis of these cables will produce the true number, and it's already clear that it's nowhere near 95%.

No, he probably would not have. He fought and defeated the Selden patent, which was just this sort of troll patent.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm

What Manning is in is called pre-trial confinement . This is, for all intents and purposes, the same a being arrested in the civilian world for a crime and denied bail, which happens all the time. A number of reviews are mandatory for this to happen, and a lot of people have to agree to it.

Alright I spent a minute looking it up... http://google.about.com/od/mapsanddirections/p/Latitude_WhatIs.htm

Location Sharing:
Latitude allows users to share their physical location with other users on their contact list. Likewise, they can see the location of their contacts.
Privacy:
Your location is not broadcast to the general public. In order to share your location, both you and your contact must agree to the service and explicitly turn Latitude on. You can disable Latitude at any point and either selectively or globally turn location sharing off.

Que? How many people in first-world countries have children at 22-25 now? Most people aren't even married until in their 30s. And if they have any sense, they'll leave it even later.

Have you checked the statistics? The average age of first child birth for women in the United States is 24.5. That's the average, so assuming a normal distribution, about half the people in the US are having kids before they're 25.

Marriage stats are about on par, with 25 being the median age for women and 27 for men. I'm 30, and I'm the only one in my group of friends that remains unmarried, which is why I thought your numbers looked suspect. After all, the group I hang with is a bunch of people with M.S. and Ph.D.'s, so if anything they're the ones you'd expect to be getting married at an older age.

Accusing Republicans of being idiots is standard operating procedure for all liberals; it has nothing to do with Palin. They exaggerate Republican mis-statements and even true statements (Russia is visibile from Alaska), while ignoring similar statements by Democrats (e.g., Obama and Biden). Private jets and designer clothes? Are you under the impression that Palin is rich? She may be now, after publishing two books, but she worked her way through college -- unlike Obama, Kerry, Gore, etc. She has no privileged background.

(see http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljoke-iraqinfominister.htm for background)