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"You do not have to be "radical" or even a "liberal"; to think bush sucks, and will continue to suck. And this has everything to do with science. Will we get funding for ACTUAL science? Or Junk science - like oil company funded research that claims global warming is not happening? Will his cleaner domestic energy sources be real - or is he just saying that? Has he lied about things in the past? Should we trust him now?"

Trust... No.. Bush's promise to "Break the Addiction" was broken in less than twenty four hours.

"What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels COULD displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.

But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are."

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/01/handheld_ unit_s.html

And according to this source, it has. Who's right? I haven't seen any figures for the US that I'd actually consider believable. My impression is that in the US, the 2005 numbers were neck and neck. However, considering that the DS sold for 12 months in 2005, whereas the PSP sold for 9, the PSP has a better trend.

Maybe you're correct, the Bush administration is only interested in snooping for anti-terrorists reasons.

I'd feel lucky, but I'm an American citizen and have to put with his shit for 3 more years. It's good to know the Google feature works. George Bush is a miserable failure of a president and a man. Being proud to break the law is not a quality you want in a leader. Supporting censorship, torture, extraordinary rendition, and other crimes is not what the leaders of a "free" country should be doing. Jack Abramoff and the culture of corruption pervading the Republican party are a disgrace to this country and American citizens everywhere. Bush, resign.

Mercury News is reporting that the Bush administration is asking search engines for portions on their databases. Google is apparantly going to trial to avoid handing their database over. Did MSN Search comply with the Federal order?

Microsoft Enters The Living Room
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2004 (AP)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/08/tech/mai n648325.shtml
[about the announcement of Windows Media Center Edition 2005, not the Xbox]

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360
REDMOND, Wash., May 13, 2005 (AP)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/13/tech/mai n695041.shtml

Xbox 360 beats PlayStation to Japan stores
HANS GREIMEL
Associated Press (Posted on Thu, Dec. 08, 2005)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/1335 5006.htm

Gates Highlights Windows Vista Program
By MAY WONG, AP Technology Writer Thu Jan 5, 3:53 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060105/ap_on_hi_te/ga dget_show_gates

MTV, Microsoft team up for online music
ALEX VEIGA
Associated Press (Thursday, Jan 12, 2006)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/enterta inment/13398835.htm

That's just from 5 minutes of Googling. Someone with a Lexis account could produce pages and pages of AP stories about Microsoft products.

Sure, the media likes to ooh and ahh over Apple, but the media likes to ooh and ahh over everything. It's ridiculous to suggest that a similar product announcement from Microsoft wouldn't go out over the AP wire.

Right...

When the suspect was with the victim the suspect touched the victim in a sexual manner. The victim refused the suspect's advances and the suspect stopped. (From here)

Santa Rosa police arrested Watts on Dec. 15 after the 14-year-old boy revealed details of the alleged relationship to his mother. (From here)

^ Indicating that the molestation was unwanted. As well, if he didn't "understand the power difference", it's unlikely that he would report it to his mother.

Besides that, even if he was a gay 14 year old, meeting a strange man one met over the internet is still a stupid thing to do.

Why does this make slashdot when in the last two days we've had bush resisting torture legislation and his complicity in kidnapping citizens of allies

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/br eaking_news/13415110.htm

"Apple has also recently made market share inroads in the United States, according to IDC. After years of hovering between a 2.5
and 3.7 percent share of the U.S. PC market, the company finally cracked 4 percent in the first half of 2005, Daoud said.

Apple's market share of PC shipments was 4.4 percent in the third quarter, an increase of 43 percent from the year ago period,
while the overall PC market expanded by only 2 percent, he said."

So where's the XBox 360?

On EBay, which currently accounts for 10% of all 360 sales. Looks like prices from $550 to $1000. I kept wondering why the XBox was being manufactured for shortages, when M$ wasn't taking advantage of shortage pricing, but instead pricing under cost*. One article raises the speculation that the secondary market might be intentional.** Maybe M$ decided it prefers an auction economy, perhaps to dodge allegations of price gouging, which are apparently all the rage, for better or worse.

So where's the congratulatory hype?

Here's some, though we're probably not seeing a huge amount of post-release PR because they can't meet extra demand such PR would generate anyway. And they probably gave their PR department a holiday after all their pre-release work.

Or maybe they fired them after all their ads got banned from TV.

Where are our promo boxes?

The other comments have covered this pretty well. Really, if M$ sent a big heavy box in the mail to the editors of /., would any of them actually risk opening it?

Or maybe yours just got smashed uh... "in the mail."

*Another estimate of XBox cost/unit, from BusinessWeek.

**I don't actually think M$ planned to sell direct on Ebay to capitalize on created shortages, but it's still an interesting idea.

not to grouse about my previously rejected story, or run this discussioin off-topic, buuut: I was amused b the fact that two of the "worst" games reviewed were put on the "avoid" list because they contain cannibalism. This makes me wonder; ifone of the characters is a zombie, does that still count as cannibalism?

This book is very similar to the Parable of the Broken Window by Bastiat. You can remove Microsoft from the PC equation and maybe see a savings of $450 per PC, but you're forgetting about the unintended consequences of that action.

I'm not being a Microsoft fanboy here, I just wanted to make it clear that Microsoft is producing a huge market than many of us here rely on. Microsoft uses their profit for positive benefits to society as well: 1 2 3 4 These are just a few from November, 2005.

Also, Microsoft employs more than 12,000 people. These people likely buy products or use services that your employer produces.

Sure, ending Microsoft's majority-control of the operating system market and office processing market sounds like a great idea, yet there isn't a viable alternative that is as widely supported, YET. Give it time. Thousands of companies this very minute are working on the next replacement of both the OS and the office processing software.

The market compensates for consumer demand, and no company (that I know of) has had the ability to perform at the top for more than a decade. Microsoft has been on top for a while, but it isn't anything unnatural -- they've created a product that billions of people LIKE using. That product has created a third party market that has put food on the table of millions of contractors, programmers and hardware manufacturers.

Would the money saved over Office and Windows be spent elsewhere? Of course it would. I believe that money will be best spent over time, as individual consumers make individual choices. Yes, going to F/OSS software would likely save $500 per PC that could be spent on food or cars or drugs or hookers or a new roof, but such a change couldn't happen overnight.

If Linux fanboys want to convince, they need to make a product that works as well as the competition.

In my experience (I'm 31 and have been watching freeware since 1984 when I started my first BBS), that hasn't happened often.

Looking at the editorial closer:

Bove is correct that Microsoft's practices over the years have discouraged innovation and stunted competition. Stunted competition? Microsoft's platform has offered millions of programmers a fairly amazing platform to make software that not only works in a standard way familiar to users, but also interacts with other programs.

Two of the companies that Microsoft has been accused of destroying are Novell and WordPerfect. The editor is right in laying the blame at Novell and WordPerfect. My company only maintains a few Novell servers and we HATE them. WordPerfect was always terrible except when it was running solely under DOS. They never produced a product that was user friendly (I know, we still support some WordPerfect desktops).

While a Mac is not necessarily cheaper than a Wintel system, the Mac OS X is considerably more resilient against attacks. I'm not sure this is really a big deal. My security company offers corporations the ability to be virus and spam free for less than $250 per user per year. For a 50-user network, you're looking at only $12,500 to bring us on. Considering most of my customers bill out at $150 per hour, for only 83 hours invested, we're likely saving them hundreds of hours in time saved. If they switched to a Mac, they're still going to need someone working on their spam and other problems, and I don't see a huge savings there over us.

Chapter 3 deals with what worries Microsoft the most - Lin

Like the way Disney is losing tons of money from the boycott imposed on it by Pat Robertson and others for Disneys support of gay rights. Not to mention allowing gay groups to hold activities at their parks.

Boycotts only work if the vast majority of people observe them. South Africa is a good example. The vast majority of countries observed the boycott of South Africa due to its apartheid activities and in the end, due to both internal and external pressure, apartheid was abandoned.

It may not be a pleasant idea at first, but many academics should consider leaving the US for greener pastures. Many European and Asian countries would gladly welcome true scholars from America who wish to advance knowledge, rather than fool around with religious fundamentalism.

You mean like these two did?

"Make it the commander Ronald Reagan."

Yep, good thing americans weren't involved in that, um like this guy or maybe ...
this guy ,and don't forget about the guy who pardoned him.
And last, but not least, his lawyer

-k

It seems that the game they used in the study is not a game called "Metro3D" but a game BY Metro3D called "London Taxi" (warning - babelfish translation), a Crazy Taxi-style game. More information in this blog.

From this morning's San Jose Mercury News (URL: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12 798126.htm )

Is Google's NASA campus a search for a tax break?

By Jessica Portner and Julie Patel, Mercury News

Just how sweet of a deal will Google get by building a major research park on a so-called federal enclave at Moffett Field that sits just beyond the reach of local tax assessors?

Depends on whom you ask and how you slice it.

NASA/Ames Research Center's Michael Marlaire bristles at the suggestion that his agency's planned partnership with Google, unveiled last week, would provide a tax shelter for the Mountain View-based Internet giant.

Terms of the deal are in the works, but Marlaire said Friday that Google would help build the 1 million-square-foot project, upgrade infrastructure, pay fair-market rent and shell out about $4.5 million a year to NASA/Ames for services, such as fire, police, sewage and other utilities.

``I don't want people to think they are coming here for a sweetheart deal. That is not what is happening,'' said Marlaire, Ames' director of external relations. ``Google isn't going to save a dime for coming here.''

The company might pay less, however, if it builds services that other Ames tenants, such as universities and small tech start-ups, could use, he said.

Still, some local officials, such as Santa Clara County tax assessor Larry Stone, say such a setup would cost local taxing bodies like schools, nearby cities and the county up to $3 million in annual property tax revenue.

Google pays about $850,000 in annual property taxes on the 34-acre site it leases in Mountain View for its world headquarters, Stone said. The company would escape paying local property taxes by building its research center and up to 2,000 homes in NASA's research park, which sits on part of the former military base that local taxing bodies can't touch. State and local tax rules are invalid on land classified as a federal enclave.

Bustling neighborhood

NASA/Ames envisions a bustling 95-acre neighborhood to sprout up around the park -- complete with shops, cafes and parks -- where the chatter on the street is nanotechnology and supercomputers. Like a McDonald's and other shops already located on Moffett Field, those retailers also would probably be off-limits for local taxes, Stone said.

NASA has already prepared a 900-page environmental impact report that paves the way for the project. Mountain View officials will watch closely from the city right outside NASA/Ames' gates. But they won't have much say over the process, which the federal government alone controls and laid out in a 2002 study on the proposed mega-R&D campus.

Bayfront property

NASA's review looked at environmental impacts on air, land, water, traffic and storm water, as well as other issues. It calls for on-site housing and bike paths to reduce congestion and pollution, but environmentalists worry that NASA will overlook many of the ecological and traffic issues on the sensitive bayfront property.

``Nothing against Google, but this plan would have significant impacts,'' said Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight.

Mike Braukus, a spokesman at NASA headquarters in Washington, said the Google project appears to be the biggest of its kind for NASA, whose leaders say they want to transform Ames into something akin to a Silicon Valley company. The two sides have set a February deadline to arrive at a final deal.

Google would join university research groups and small start-ups that also rent space from Ames. Most pay about $4.50 per square foot a year for police, fire and other services.

Randy Nickel, the founder of Nxar, a start-up software company that rents a tiny workspace of a few hundred square feet at Ames, said his company's one-year lease

Since 9/11 however, things have tightened up at the border. The result is that now the farmers are crying about how they can't find farmworkers.

What they are really saying is that they can't find CHEAP farmworkers. There are plenty of people who are willing to work; just not at the wages that the farmers are willing to pay. Construction firms apparently come down to the farms, offer more money, and off go the farmworkers.

So here's another clear example that what companies want is the cheapest labor that they can get away with, in the form of bringing in immigrants - no matter what it takes. And these companies truly start crying when they can't get bring in these people who are willing to work for peanuts.

Here's the URL of the article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/1267833 5.htm

If you hit an issue with registeration there, bugmenot.com works just fine. But in any case, here's a copy from google's cache:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IZeb9ugcOlIJ:ww w.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12678335.htm+sit e:mercurynews.com+farm+labor+shortage

Mercury News says the laptop was sold to a South Carolina man who apparently called IBM's tech support line.

The CNN article seems to be missing many of the facts presented in the summary. Here's a better article, though I still find no mention of the fellow "being assured" that the laptop was legit.

Mightn't it have just a little bitty bit to do with so much of the National Guard being over in Iraq,

You can play the war card all you like but it has nothing to do with Guardman over in another country. Not *all* of them were over there so it's not like we didn't have any left here. There are plenty to go around; it is just a matter of mobilizing them which could have been done ahead of the hurricane hitting to put them on alert.

From mercurynews.com: "There are plenty," said Lt. Col. Mike Milord of the National Guard Bureau. "There are about 331,000 Army National Guard and 106,000 in the Air Guard, so nationwide about 437,000. Subtract 100,000 for all deployment operations, and you still have 337,000 National Guard available." And sure, it may take longer to get Guardsmen in place if the wrong ones happen to be deployed in Iraq but read this: "Asked why out-of-state Guard units didn't come to the gulf earlier, Senator Bond said Missouri's troops were "in place and ready to move" but "they weren't requested." http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/po litics/12554783.htm

Thanks to the Bush Administration's new extended hours for truckers, America's truck drivers will need an extra boost to keep them awake. Happy highway driving!

Mercury News has an interesting article about the new Google service. From the article:

This ``intelligent sidebar'' learns as it goes. It monitors Web searches and Internet surfing habits to deliver more relevant information and put it on a small screen that sits on the computer desktop.

Are we going to have another bout with Google about privacy concerns again?

Kaplan is hardly a kook. He is claiming that new information has come out in the recent antitrust trials, in particular, that Gates pushed Intel into dropping plans to invest in Go.

``I guess I've made it very clear that we view an Intel investment in Go as an anti-Microsoft move, both because Go competes with our systems software and because we think it will weaken the 386 PC standard. . . I'm asking you not to make any investment in Go Corporation,''

In his book, Startup, Kaplan describes how they shared trade secrets with Microsoft, something they were not keen on doing, but Microsoft promised to set a "Chinese wall" between their app division and the OS division, so only the applications people would know and that they'd be able to produce software in support of Go. In this excerpt from Startup, Kaplan details how Microsoft's app division made us of confidential information Go had shared with them to create Pen Windows, which, even as vapourware, effectively killed Go.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busines s/12021852.htm

[...]

"FBI case agent Julie B. Jolie's 11-page affidavit described the investigation, which took place largely over the Internet but ultimately included face-to-face meetings between Patel and the undercover agent, who was not identified. According to the affidavit, in 2003 an undercover agent began inviting warez operators from all over the country to store pirated material on his site. As the word spread, more storage space was added and numerous groups began storing their stolen games and films that could be uploaded and downloaded by hundreds of warez members. A member who uploaded three movies to the server was entitled to download one movie, many of them pre-released movies that were placed on the site long before a DVD was released to the public."

[...]

Reuters reports that Israel sells, to China, the second largest amount of weapons. Only Russia sells more weapons to China.

Many bigots in SlashDot distort the truth and play spin games. The bigots tend to be Chinese/Indian. How can we hurt them? We post links to reputable articles like the ones above.

Dave Nagel gave notice that Linux is PalmSource's platform for the future.
Dave Nagel also gave notice to PalmSource's board that he's stepping down as CEO.

Since neither link indicated that Mr. Dantzig had actually died, here is a link to the San Jose Mercury News article on him.

No login needed, just a quick edit of the url.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/lo cal/states/california/the_valley/11665968.htm

Substitute macon.com for any Knight Ridder paper's native domain name in the url. For brevity and a longer-lived link, also trim the path between the paper's name and .htm

http://www.macon.com/mld/mercurynews/11665968.htm

The Macon Telgraph doesn't require registration yet; all KR papers share article number namespace.

Since neither link indicated that Mr. Dantzig had actually died, here is a link to the San Jose Mercury News article on him.

I never realized that local california papers had such high readership in Bangalore or Boston or all the many other places /. readers read.

While interesting,

- Apple is not the government (therefore, any ridiculous cries of censorship are just a wee tad bit overboard)
- Apple can do what it wants with its own corporate stores
- Yes, this may result in more copies of the book being sold, but consider that this is not an effort to "suppress" the book; it's merely a retaliatory move. Apple is under no obligation whatsover, implied or otherwise, to carry any publisher's books.

In short, business as usual and a BIG yawner:

"It's certainly not unprecedented for a company to protest publication of a book or article it finds unflattering.

IBM, for instance, staged a six-year advertising boycott of Fortune magazine after then-Chief Executive Louis V. Gerstner took exception to a 1997 cover story.

More recently, General Motors withdrew its ads from the Los Angeles Times in protest of an April 6 review of its Pontiac G6."

(From the Mercury News story)

Think what you want, but businesses shouldn't be forced to support other businesses they disagree with.

Further, it looks like there's a referrer in the submitter's amazon link. :-(

• Search Engine Low Down - Google Tests Cost-Per-Impression Pricing and Targeting for AdWords
• San Jose Mercury News - Google changing the way ads are created, priced
• Silicon.com, UK - Google steps into banner ad world
• Houston Chronicle - Google testing systems that place ads on specific Web sites

Unfortunately, I don't see anything about this on Google's press release page yet.

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Conversions of Currency Rates of Exchange

Last quarter (February, IIRC), the San Jose Mercury News had an article in their Business section on the top 3 Indian Outsourcing firms' gross revenues. (Tata, et. al.). It came in with an underwhelming $1.5 Billion.

If you assume all of that is from outsourcing, and they charge $10,000 per engineer, that gives a grand total of 150,000 Indian Engineers. And these folks are all tied up with Western Outsourcing efforts. That's not a lot of Software people. A subset of Silicon Valley alone has 800,000 jobs in it and I'm guessing 5%, or 40,000 are Software. The entire U.S. certainly has a much bigger pool, dwarfing what it has taken India over 10 years to achieve.

So, yes, India and China have the motivation to join forces. But they don't have a pool of skilled people which begins to dwarf the U.S.. They also don't have a Venture funding pool with even approaches the U.S.. Nor due they have an adequate legal system to protect businesses when there are contract disputes. And both countries have a huge amount of corruption.

The only thing both do have is cheap Engineering talent.

And to top it off, many people are looking at China's balooning financial structure to "pop" over the next few years.

This is not a good base from which "to dominate the world's tech industry". To be a player, perhaps. But the U.S. can get cheap manufacturing anywhere, if it really needs to.

I'm sure we'll see a bunch of cheap products which don't work too well. But forgive me if I have doubts about their ability to dominate.

Small potatoes.

Why is slashdot posting a lawsuit of this magnitude but failing to post anything about the world famous (and more relevant) Lexar Lawsuit worth over $460 million and will cause a massive disruption in the supply/demand equations currently applied to the significantly growing flash USB key and card memory market?

For anyone who's interested, check out the write-up from the San Jose Mercury News.

For some of us, it's mostly about the other non-gaming features such as music, photos, video, and Wi-Fi. The games are a very nice bonus.

At $250 plus $120 for a 1GB Memory Stick Duo, I would get more value out of a PSP than a Portable Media Center or an iPod. For playing MP3's, the screen can be turned off and battery life will be long enough (about 10 hours) to be an acceptable music player. For photos, the PSP's 4.3" 480x272 screen blows away the screens on the iPod Photo and other photo-viewing music players. For videos, the PSP can play MPEG-4 video from the memory stick. Articles from CNET and the San Jose Mercury News hint that the built-in Wi-Fi will eventually be used for web browsing and e-mail. As a baseball fan, I'd love to be able to download stats at the ballpark.

Having all these features in one (non-phone) device is attractive to me. At only $250, Sony is making me reconsider my plans to buy a Dell Axim.

Link It should be noted that this isn't an atmosphere in the common sense. The air is continually created and lost due to internal sources and weak gravity.

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Or try a free Nintendo DS, GC, PS2, Xbox. (you only need 4 referrals)
Wired article as proof

The San Jose Mercury News had an article, and the memo that was sent to the employees.

If they want to lead the way, they should put cap on the number of hours worked and restructure their teams to allow everyone to get ample team off during the crunch times.

The San Jose Mercury News had an article, and the memo that was sent to the employees.

If they want to lead the way, they should put cap on the number of hours worked and restructure their teams to allow everyone to get ample team off during the crunch times.

Replying to say that the journalist who wrote the article is named Alan Clendenning, according to this page which shows the byline for the article.

He's primarily a business writer, with an occasional focus on international business in South America, which is probably why he took this story. I don't see any other technology-related stories carrying his byline, which is probably why he had no idea who Barlow was.

On the one hand, probably not the most authoritative source for what happened here. But on the other hand, probably a good perspective on how the average U.S. Business Guy might view the proceedings in Brazil.

Unless TS is offering briefcases with unmarked bills inside, I don't think this rises to the level of a civil tort.

I can't think of any other news organization so willing to cater to potential informants.

Then you're not thinking very hard.

The 1000 miles per watt award is fairly easy to get. I exceeded it twice recently, when I worked ES5MC in Estonia from California with 4.5 watts with my Elecraft KX1 and a pack of AA batteries and a 28ft wire in a tree in central California, and OH9SCL in Santa Claus Land (Rovaniemi Finland, news, news) with the same radio from a parking lot by the San Francisco Bay.

debunked

In other consipiracy smashing news (that doesn't get due press)... try this debunking of the myth that Bush's wins in democratic counties was statisticly impossible.

Ax: This ballot is spoiled and is not counted.

This is why I like the solution of machine generated, but human readable paper ballots. I think it can help cut down on ballot spoilage, which is often pointed to as evidence of political bias (and probably IS sometimes caused by political bias).

Before you write back saying that my answer to your first three questions (which was that the ballot is spoiled and is not counted) is unacceptable, ask yourself this: How hard is it to make a single, unambiguous mark (preferably an X as instructed) in a big white circle beside a candidate's name? And yes, to answer another question, for those people that have physical problems marking their ballot, they are allowed to bring an assistant or aide with them to mark their ballot.

Given the difficulty that people have had with paper and pencil in the past, I figure it must be pretty difficult!

I think we're both in agreement, though, that having a paper record (pencil- or printer- generated) is a good thing, and allowing all parties to inspect and recount them is essential for having an auditable and believable election.

We should be trying to remedy this work situation, not prepare people for it.

The Merc is carrying an article just today on a lawsuit against EA [reg may be req'd] regarding deceptive work environment practices. It seems to me that companies that behave this way are just asking for unions.

We should be trying to remedy this work situation, not prepare people for it.

The Merc is carrying an article just today on a lawsuit against EA [reg may be req'd] regarding deceptive work environment practices. It seems to me that companies that behave this way are just asking for unions.

Not until you meet this guy.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole, we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, It's your money, not the government's money is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least ... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It's too easy, asshole, they're blue states. It's not your money, assholes, it's fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let's talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It's fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of t