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  1. Re:Count me in on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, the Nation of Islam and the Million Man March did it first, then the Promise Keepers did it, now it's goddamned political theatre.

  2. Why do it? on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: -1, Troll

    It'll just add more publicity to Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers, then they get to complain they are being harassed by the "Mainstream Media", of which Glenn Beck is a chunk of (formerly of CNN and now with Fox News) while the other side of annoying asshats like Olbermann use it to hammer on Beck which turns into more reaction from Beck and asshats on the other side.

    I swear the echo chamber of windbags on TV from all sides is annoying.

    Limbaugh is fine, he is just a junkie windbagging on AM radio, it's easy to avoid him and you really have to opt in to hear his wargarble, besides I think he is purely doing it to spin people up and make money, he is just an entertainer. Olbermann/Beck/O'Reily really believe in the crap they spew, it's dangerous and bad.

  3. Re:Culprit ? on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    The trailers came out and then it was never in a damned theatre.

    So a good six months after I saw a trailer I asked at Blockbuster if it was on DVD yet and their reply was, "its still in theaters". And yet until the Oscars I never saw it playing anywhere.

    Maybe a lack of release is why it bombed at the boxoffice.

  4. It sucks on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1

    I use iTunes everyday and it's sucked ever since Apple bought SoundJam MP and renamed it iTunes. No wait, SoundJam MP sucked too.

    iTunes is the hillbilly armored Humvee, sure it "works" sometimes but it's still an old clapped out rig with a bunch of crap bolted on to it.

    http://www.bartcop.com/chick-jeep.jpg

  5. Re:car analogy on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1, Informative

    So not having Flash is the same as being stranded 100 miles from home.

    I've been stranded a 100 miles from home and I'll tell you, I don't get the same feeling from no flash on my iPhone as I did from that.

  6. Re:Not on Mac? Really? on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    Yea? How well does the software my work has me use run on Linux?

    Final Cut
    DVD Studio
    Photoshop
    Illustrator
    Word
    Duxbury Braille Translator

  7. Re:Not on Mac? Really? on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    Really, I've got dual Xeon Mac Pro whose specs meet and whose price beats a Dell workstation with similar hardware.

    As soon as Apple released the Xeon Mac Pros I went to an Apple Store with my friend who is an engineer at Intel and just had gotten a new workstation for his AutoDesk programs, he just cursed at the price, went to Dell.com and looked up his new station, a full $980 more than the similarly spec'ed Apple.

    Yea, he could have saved close to a thousand dollars and bootcamped with XP.

    But keep telling yourself that

  8. Re:Asus G71 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    I got it at the first of May in Anchorage, even if it had sat in a warehouse up here, it wouldn't have been hot ;)

  9. Asus G71 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    I got an Asus G71 a couple months ago and had no problem with the residue, maybe it's the coating on the laptop, but they peeled right off and left nothing.

  10. Re:Ban Oil, Nuclear, AND Coal ( +1, Clean ) on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thats what we do in Alaska, however our close in Natural Gas reserves are falling off.

    We'd be alot better off with a nuclear power plant but we don't have enough people here to make it economical.

    The US and Canada would be better off replacing natural gas and coal generation with nuclear and exporting the natural gas and coal.

  11. Re:Drilling Moratorium on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was an operational rig, not a drilling operation so the moratorium has nothing to do with this.

    "Coast Guard officials said they do not yet know if there is any type of leak associated with this explosion.

    They said there are reports it was not actively producing product, but they will investigate whether there is any type of environmental impact.

    The rig is known as "Vermilion 398."'

  12. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    Did they verify that the documents didn't have stuff in them that would get people put on hit lists? No, they just threw up names and places willy-nilly and to hell if anyone died from it.

    Newspapers don't post the names of rape victims and their addresses, but Wikileaks would.

    They edited the Apache video so it'd become anti-American propaganda.

  13. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Well, I know on my material grandmother's side back to 1720s. On my material grandfather's side to 1712.

    No generation had more than six total and no more than four survived childhood. This is in Prussia/Poland and Cornwall.

  14. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    None of mine did.

    All immigrants who went to the Great Plains after 1900 or American Indians, none enforced Jim Crow laws

  15. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    None of my great-grandparents had more than four children. None of my grandparents had more than three, my mother had two total.

    One of my granduncles has five from two marriages, another had two, another had three and another had zero.

    My sister has two, my first cousin has three from two marriages and I have zero.

  16. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Ishmael and My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)

  17. Re:Ummmm....wikileaks is foreign on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    You never specified that we were talking about cars made before 1985.

  18. Re:Bill of Attainder on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    Congress can exempt an organization or business from a law.

    Look at MLB's anti-trust exemption, or the host of exemptions and loopholes made to get votes for NAFTA.

  19. Re:Ummmm....wikileaks is foreign on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    Wrong. There are very few of those grey-market automobiles in the United States because all cars sold in the US, even between private citizens have to meet safety and emissions rules.

    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations criminalise the possession of a vehicle not meeting U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Even Canadian-market vehicles may not meet these requirements. Exceptions exist for foreign nationals touring the US in their own vehicle and for cars displayed in museums.

    The Motor Vehicle Safety Compliance Act was passed in 1988, effectively ending private import of grey-market vehicles to the United States.

    Mercedes-Benz of North America and BMW are the folks who lobbied for that to get passed.

  20. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is what Wikileaks journalism? TFW says - Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues, and trends to a broad audience.

    Wikileaks takes documents that are provided to them, often stolen and just throws them up on a website without investigation or reporting.

    They edited the video of the Apache so it'd fit their worldview. They are less journalistic than Drudge or Fark.

  21. Re:I have a theory on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    As someone who is a quarter American Indian, I don't have any trouble with wheat, honey or sugar. But alot of people have a problem with alcohol.

    The enzymes for sucrose, fructose and glucose aren't the problem, alcohol is.

  22. Re:Nuke It From Orbit on The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located · · Score: 1

    Spalling would likely send sharp pieces of metamorphic rock through the data center though.

  23. Re:I have a theory on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    You do know that American Indians had advanced agriculture right? Primarily in the southeastern United States, Mexico and western South America.

    The hunter-gatherer idea is a Plains, mountains, jungle and Taiga thing, not for all American Indians.

    Drinking and Alcoholism in American Indians is different than in other ethnic groups in North America, 5.6 times higher alcohol related deaths for one. Obesity and alcohol use among American Indians isn't a problem because of "fried foods and alcohol and pizza and burgers".

    http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-4/253.pdf

  24. Re:I have a theory on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    Never been a Reservation or Native area have you?

    Alcoholism can cause obesity.

  25. Re:Religious post incoming... on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    Utah has some of the longest life expectancy in the US.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-11-life-expectancy_x.htm

    Hawaii, Minnesota, Utah, Connecticut are the top four.