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annoying my parents and everyone around me in the process!!! LOL

You still do.


-Colin

Give credit to the real source and not the ad whores. Wikipedia on the Hindenburg Disaster.


-Colin

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

Would have been nice to hear about before the election.


-Colin

Bush must think were all stupid..

Well, we did vote him back into office : \


-Colin

Nice to see that Bush is off to such a good start making friends in the international community in his second term : \


-Colin

Why sign something you know won't be ratified?

Because it's the right thing to do and so it at least has a chance of getting ratified.


-Colin

At least we now have a chance of seeing Clinton 2008.


-Colin

What depresses me the most about this is when GWB was elected, we didn't know what he was going to do. Now, with this election the American people have said "I agree with what you've done and would like more."

I'm an American in London and used to be able to tell Europeans that I hope most of the American people don't approve of Bush and wouldn't have voted him in if they knew what he was going to do. Now I see that I am wrong and I despair.

George Bush told me not to believe everything I read on the internets.


-Colin

Just curious, but does anyone know if there are any election-watching events scheduled for tomorrow night in London?


-Colin

This is not one of those McDonalds Hot coffee lawsuits

Neither was the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuite


-Colin

Secret Service Reads Livejournal

Well, I guess somebody has to.


-Colin

the ten-thousand plus Americans overseas certainly do not consider themselves a statistically negligible group

Just so you know, it's a much bigger group than that. There are about 250,000 Americans living in the UK, including myself.

If the rest of the world blocked Americans from international websites, how long do you think it would take most Americans to notice?


-Colin

Well, if the main character is the rock, now I can understand why he can't use a gun and a flashlight at the same time.


-Colin

Don't forget to bring a flashlight.


-Colin

And the second verse:


Splishy splashy in the sea
Power equals I times V


-Colin

(Personally, I find the garish clothes, arrogant demeanour and lack of any interest in speaking local languages enables us to do this pretty easily anyway).

Best way to spot an American in a crowd: white trainers.


-Colin

Wasn't there a story last year saying they were putting G into semi-retirement, due to long term overexposure?

Please read the bold type in your own comment.


-Colin

You are in TOTAL control of what you perceive and your reaction to what you perceive.

Tell me that again next time you are in pain.


-Colin

That's a giant, obvious black hole of apathy, not a 'hidden' swing state.


-Colin

Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence.

[tinfoil hat] Yeah, that's what the conspirators want you to think. [/tinfoil hat]




-Colin

from the until-there's-an-ipod-nano dept.

Am I the only one thinking, WTF Timothy?


-Colin

He may be a genius, but history is replete with examples of genius going hand-in-hand with mental instability.

Just curious, but are there any studies out there showing that historical figures have a higher instance of mental instability than the general population? People often make the above statement, but I wonder if it is because when a person with power goes nuts we really take notice.


-Colin

I just wish they would pay me for doing my own bagging and scanning!!!!!

I wish people had to pay for superfluous exclamation marks.

Incase it never occurred to you, companies do all they can to externalize costs. That's one of the reasons supermarkets will adopt this cart. By getting you to do your own food scanning, you are essentially acting as an unpaid employee.


-Colin

I'm off to join the Freemasons.

If you plan to run for the presidency, don't forget to join Skull and Bones.


-Colin

What major stories has indymedia broken?

Well, they may not break stories, but they do give accurate on-the-ground coverage of events. Back in November I participated in the London protests against George Bush's State visit. All the major media painted a pretty distorted picture of what happened whereas Indymedia did a good job. I had always known about media distortion, but it's a different thing when you experience it first hand.

Meh. Yet another vapid insult marked "Insightful". Clue Three: None of them wrote their answers.

I'll bet Kerry is at least capable of writing his responces and that Nader really wrote his. Nader's answers at least sound the way he speaks. My point is that I don't think that Bush would be able to write anything decent without tremendious help from others.


-Colin

I don't think bush wrote that:

Clue One: Bush didn't mention Hard Work once.
Clue Two: It wasn't written in purple crayon.


-Colin

The Senate voted against it 99-1. No one supported it.

There are other countries you know, like Canada, People's Republic of China, India, Japan, New Zealand, and all of the European Union.


-Colin

They destroy legitimate sources of advertising income.

Yes please, won't someone think of the advertising.


-Colin

Sys Log 23:14:04: Realized system has no moving parts
Sys Log 23:15:04: System waiting for eternity to end.


-Colin

A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths are a stastic.

--Joesoph Stalin


-Colin

An abstract of the article concludes cheerfully enough that 'greenhouse gas-induced warming may lead to a gradually increasing risk in the occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms

What make you think it was cheerfully concluded? Did they end the paper with a smiley?


-Colin

Can you give the details for the next London flashmob?


-Colin

(huge spoilers, of course.)

Not for those of us who can read.


-Colin

But I hope they put these little suckers in some little 'rat rescue' uniform ... heck, maybe a little rat loud-speaker saying "don't panic, this is a trained rescue rat" on a loop or someting.

I think if I was trapped under a building for days and a little rat in a uniform came by me saying he was on the rescue team, the first thing I'd do is ask if he's from NIMH.


-Colin

Great, I just started to get my teaching certificate at King's College this week and the Indians have started to outsource my job : \


-Colin

And supported laws that hinder health care


-Colin

If you're an American overseas and still want to vote, I think the easiest way is just to drop an email to the US Embassy in your country telling them what state your from.

For Americans in the UK, there's a form you can fill out on the embassy webpage here


-Colin

Mechanical Pong
from the pronounced-the-same dept.

Err... so the Mechanical is silent?


-Colin

Show me a CEO of a transnational corporation who has the power to tax me, throw me in jail if I use drugs he doesn't like, or confiscate my firearms, and you might have a point.

Take a trip to the third world.


-Colin

Grandparent: They fail to see one aspect of humanity. Power corrupts.

Parent Umm... That's why the LP fights consistently against the concentration of power in the hands of the government.

Yeah, much better than an unelected CEO of a transnational corporation.


-Colin

I guess that depends on the ideology ;-)

You have to like a Presidential candidate who uses a winkey smiley.


-Colin

Really, I don't know what so many of you are so disgusted by; this is Capitalism 101

That's why.


-Colin

No kidding. Next time I go to a hospital with a serious problem and they tell me to `go sit over there by the green chairs' I'm going to collapse on the floor instead.


-Colin

I have it on good authority that overseas voters are registering in huge numbers this time, maybe double or triple 2000.

Just wanted to pipe in that as an American living in London, this seems to be true. There is a big push by Europeans to get all the American ex-patriots to register to vote.

However, as I understand the election laws, absentee votes aren't counted unless the vote is really close. Can anyone confirm or deny that?

I got it from here. He has some screenshots of it somewhere.


-Colin

I am starting to think that both skins and customization are highly overrated. What's needed is a single good skin. The ability to custmoize is nice, but far less important than having a good skin already there.

Can't agree more. When I used windows and, especially, linux I would spend hours trying to get all the themes to look just right. Then in a few weeks time, I'd feel the need to change it all again.

Now, with OS X, everything looks just right all the time. The only thing I did was remove the brush metal from safari. Otherwise, it's perfection.


-Colin

I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it

So what, you're trying to tell me you wanted Greedo to shoot first, but that you were unable to do so 30 years ago?


-Colin