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"Most consumer goods come from China these days, and we're told China's interests rarely intersect with the US?"

Not to mention Chinese corporations illegally funding Republican election campaigns via the Chamber of Commerce.

Senator wants Chamber investigated
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/70341/20101010/commerce-elections-funding.htm

"schizoid?

Or maybe, just dumb?"

Or maybe deliberately deceptive?

Translation of that post can be summed up as:

You have an intriguing and valid point but because it conflicts with my ideology and imposed beliefs, I will totally ignore it on it's face, insinuate some pretty clever (at least for his IQ level)strawman points that neglect the reality of the issues, and go on to pretend that I won this argument without ever bringing a counter point up or disputing anything with merit.

Here is what is wrong with the reply.

So you're right wing and believe that freedom is about the right for the rich to be happy while the poor suffer, got it.

Whether he is a right winger or not is irrelevant. He said nothing about anything that would insinuate that only the rich should be happy. He stated that a limit of 20% is the most any government should be taxing without infringing on your freedoms. How is limiting the amount taxed only making rich people happy? Especially if government could be structured to operate on that limit and provide the needed services we have come to expect from it?

Yes, that's flamebait from my side but the way you argue suggests that you don't understand how important the services provided by taxes are.

You mean the services like funding a campaign to show African males how to wash their pecker after sex to slow the spread of aids and VD in South Africa that was funded by the US stimulus money? Here is your problem, you automagically assume that government services are important. Some are, some are simply a waste of funds. However, the efficiency of government can be vastly improved in most situations making providing many of those services less costly in the end. You seem to be totally ignoring both the reality of the situation and imposing some artificial cover to it.

bla bla bla evil gubmint bla bla bla

Ah, you're one of those guys. American I assume?

Yea, this alone probably makes you unqualified to comment on this. Lets see, you dismissed his comments without ever providing a country or showing how he was wrong, yet you seem to be ignoring everything in order to do so. Here is a hint, reality is whatever doesn't disappear when you close your eyes, I suggest you start paying attention to what it is you are commenting on and then structure your comment appropriately to it. If you do that, you won't seem like the ideological ass you come off as while pretending someone else is and you might even realize the truth of the matter which is that life and government is not strictly a left verses right issue and neither ideologies are perfect.

See, for example, BBC: Dementia 'losing out' to cancer in funding stakes, which refers to Dementia 2010 Report. Or more recently, Alzheimer's disease to cost 1 pct of world's GDP in 2010.

Sure. For the first point:
1. Reuters: $246k per job
2. International Business Times: $118k-179k per job, but they include the nebulous figure of "saved" jobs, which is nearly impossible to truly quantify.
3. ABC News: $160k-248k per job- the latter number is using the official number of jobs created, the former also adds the White House's estimate of "jobs saved."

For the second:
1. Seasonal workers rejecting landscaping jobs, prefer to stay on unemployment.
The story links back to the Detroit News, which has since placed the article behind a paywall.
2. Workers not applying for new jobs until unemployment runs out
3. I have also personally run across several construction workers who stated they were staying on unemployment rather than working as "they'd lose their benefits" if they started to work again. It's an anecdote, but it tells me that behavior is going on in my area as well.

I think they've found it in a fairly thick layer of oily sediment on the ocean floor. Here's the first example I could find. Nice pics of oily goodness covering the sea floor. Apparently there's a nice layer of freshly dead marine life just below the layer too.

wondering where the pictures is...

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2010/07/08/13866-batfish.jpg

I could not get my eyes from that advertisy pic.

Must...read...article.

That figure is the alleged cost of upgrading the security of these systems after the attack, not the result of any 'damage' that he may have caused

I think you're probably right that this represents a subsequent upgrade. Note that the article linked from the earlier slashdot piece actually claims he caused almost a billion dollars worth of damage!

[that he is an Asperger's sufferer] has NOTHING to do with this issue.

Except that his condition was the central issue in his judicial review so it has plenty to do with this. I was initially going to write "alleged Asperger's sufferer" - would that have made you happier?

No. The open cavity was made by Microsoft. This bloke was a hobo looking for interesting stuff public places.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/22/237807/expert-challenges-ufo-hackers-700k-bill.htm

The US had not taken reasonable steps to protect its security and now expects McKinnon to pick up the bill, said an expert witness statement made in McKinnon's ongoing appeal against a US extradition order. ... But Sommer said, "Every intrusion detection system I have come across would flag up the installation of a remote control program like Remotely Anywhere. Any firewall also ought to block the 'ports' [internet access points on a computer] used by Remotely Anywhere. On this basis, the costs claimed for are features that should have been there in the first place."

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090123/hacker-wins-court-review.htm

McKinnon said he was looking for evidence of Unidentified Flying Objects and was only able to [sic]success because of the lax security.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4715612.stm

"I found out that the US military use Windows," said Mr McKinnon in that BBC interview. "And having realised this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn't secured it properly."

These weren't gated communites or locked houses with security fences around. These were toliet blocks on parks that a hobo went through their garbage bin, then climbed into the ceiling to get to the cleaner cupboard.

Remote Anywhere is a traveling mechanism; while he was there he may have bashed a few locks in... after being invited in, but the incompetent owners and purchasers of well known Operating Sieve MS Windows are to be held more accountable than this twerp.

I hate the multiple page thing, wish submitters would submit the 1 page version that is usually lurking about:
http://www.ibtimes.com/services/pop_print.htm?id=241147&tb=bh

Specialists (the people who help match buyers and sellers in floor trading) can make seven figures and the average salary of a securities industry worker in NYC is nearly $300k.

• Blu-ray player sales dominate HD DVD, 3 to 1
• Latest Japanese data shows Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD 9:1
• Blu-ray outselling HD DVD 2 to 1 this year
• Blu-ray Winning Europe 4-to-1
• Sony claims Blu-ray had 95% Australian HD market in October
• Blu-ray Dominates HD- DVD in Holiday shopping
• Disc Sales: 'Pirates' Leads Blu-ray to Decisive Weekly Win Over HD DVD
• PS3 to Go Blu-ray Profile 1.1 With New Firmware Update
• Blu-Ray Wins a Battle in the High-Def War

A number of analysts agreed that Microsoft was losing about $50 each on the units at launch. Microsoft themselves hinted that it was a loss-leader product, and they expected to take two to five years to start making a profit on the device. Of course, since the losses from such a low-volume product are reported in the same bottom line as the black hole of cash that is the Xbox 360, it's hard to tell exactly how much they're losing...

I used to like Spitzer, but don't like some of the things he's done now that he is governor:

http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/14/spitzer_wants_ c.php
http://ibtimes.com/articles/20070417/ny-spitzer-vi deo-games.htm

• DVD was released late 1996/early 1997 and the PS2 was released 3 years later
• DVD movies were available for (almost) every new movie at many/most video rental stores
• The PS2 launched at the traditionally acceptable price of $300 US
• Besides resolution and Sound Quality the DVD format offered several benefits to everyone who would buy it (not just early adopters who had high end TVs and Surround Sound Systems

• No rentable content: in Canada (currently) both Blockbuster and Rogers Video have no plans to begin renting out HD movies (in any format) in the near future; the answer I have been able to get from them is that they "will start carying small quantities of certain titles in both formats sometime in 2007."
• Expensive broadcast content: locally I have to spend $600 on a HD-Digital Cable box in order to be able to receive HD-TV and that only includes 6 basic channels; they sell HD-Channel packages so your cable bill will go up by $10-$20 per month for HD-TV.
• Expensive equipment: $1000 to $2000 for a TV and $500 to $1000 for a HD-Player may not sound like a lot of money, but it is more than I can justify when I know I have a $1150 rent payment at the end of the month.
• No Content: Currently there are almost 100 HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies, there are thousands of DVD movies, even if I could rent every HD-Movie there is not enough content at the moment to make any purchase reasonable.