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  1. Vodafone also owns 45% of Verizon Wireless. on Vodafone Customer Database Breached · · Score: 1

    Vodafone also owns 45% of Verizon Wireless.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Wireless

    "Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is a wireless phone provider that owns and operates the largest mobile telecommunications network in the United States, based on a total of 93.2 million U.S. subscribers, 400,000 subscribers ahead of the second largest provider, AT&T Mobility, in Q3 2010.[1] Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey,[2] the company is a joint venture of U.S. telecommunications firm Verizon Communications and British multinational mobile network operator Vodafone, with 55 and 45 percent ownership respectively."

  2. Re:Not Just Hateb by the Left on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    Did not the upper 2% EARN that money?

    What I find really interesting is that most of the wealthy people I've heard discuss this topic that were self-made millionaires/billionaires don't mind paying the higher taxes and are actually grateful to the society that allowed them to climb to such a position in life.

    Wrong. Most will tell you they succeeded IN SPITE of taxes and regulations.

    I have an uncle who fits into this upper 2% bracket. I can say he has not had a vacation in 35 years. He started his own company and works an easy 14 hours a day. It happens to be an offshore oilfield supply company. IN SPITE of the health care bill and Obamas offshore drilling ban his company has not had to have a lay off.

    In the USA we all should have a chance to succeed and not be punished if we do.

  3. Re:Why do we keep talking about her? on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    He worked for tax payers the whole time. How about Start a company? Employ some people. Make wealth. Have a job where your salary is not paid by tax payers? His "community works" was ACORN. Which is a bunch of non profits funded mostly by government grants. Teacher, Politician and Lawyer.

  4. Re:Not Just Hateb by the Left on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    unfairly redistributing wealth (healthcare).

    Huh? How is providing healtcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?

    And while we're on that topic, why is always considered a bad thing when wealth redistribution benefits the lower-middle income, but it's a good thing when it benefits the upper 2% (e.g. tax breaks for the wealthy)?

    BECAUSE the Dems will now have over 50% of the population hooked on government programs. They have a built in majority now. Just like with SS, education and Medicaid. The Dems will now be able to point at the Republicans and say "Those rich white raciest are going to cut your money for ______."

    Another thing. Did not the upper 2% EARN that money? Did they not go to school and sacrificed to make that money? Why should ANYONE be required to support any person other than their own family? Taxes are wealth redistribution. Government takes money from the earners and gives it to people who did not earn it. Simple as that.

  5. Closer to Obama than most people know. on From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left · · Score: 2, Informative

    John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta is BPs lead lobbyist. John is the founder of the Center For American Progress and the former Clinton chief of staff. I know it is from Beck. But DAMN.

    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42150/

  6. Re:Ahh, the NYT on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 0

    http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinion/don-9006-america-favorite.html

    Fox News also told me that Portugal is FUCKING BANKRUPT. Just like Spain and its Green economy crap.

  7. Re:WHAT!?!?! on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: -1, Troll

    We live in a democracy in the U.S

    WRONG!! We have a Representative Republic. You need to watch more MSDNC or read more HufPo. Genius.

  8. BULLSHIT on Louisiana Federal Judge Blocks Drilling Moratorium · · Score: 0

    John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta is BPs lead lobbyist. John is the founder of the Center For American Progress and the former Clinton chief of staff. Hopefully they can discuss in court just how much BP stock was traded in the 4 weeks before DWH blew up when it was known by BP/USGC/MMS to be an out-of-control well, by whom, and why! I now know why Obama didn't talk with the BP CEO for so long. John Podesta's FUCKING BROTHER is BPs lobbyist.

    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42150/

  9. Re:Interpret it correctly on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 0

    For starters it doesn't mention how the militia should be regulated, what constitutes Arms or where they have the right to keep and bear them.

    Lifted from Dictionary.com. Note #4. to put in good order. Meaning training.

    ****A well TRAINED militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.****

    reg-u-late

    1. to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.:
    2. to adjust to some standard or requirement, as amount, degree, etc.:
    3. to adjust so as to ensure accuracy of operation:
    4. to put in good order:

  10. Allaboutcircuits.com on Where To Start In DIY Electronics? · · Score: 0

    http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/ Very good and free info.

  11. Re:more competition on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 0

    Build it and they will come.

  12. Re:Oh well on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 0

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59933 "What Washington Post Didn’t Tell You about Its Own Poll: Most Americans Say They Want a Smaller Government"

  13. Re:Get ready for network disruption. on US Coast Guard Intends To Kill LORAN-C · · Score: 0

    As far as MCI/Worldcom/UUNET we installed Loran PRS (Primary Reference Source) and SRS (Secondary Reference Source) for the initial OC-48 SONET build out in 1993. We swapped them all out for new units that were GPS by 1996 and upgraded ALL of them yet again in 1999 for Y2K. Then about 6 or 7 years ago the manufacture (Datum) went out of business. Spares were unavailable. So all equipment was replaced yet again. Losing Loran will not be an issue. It was supposed to die in the late 1990s and has been kept on life support for almost 15 years.

  14. Re:well on Most Security Products Fail To Perform · · Score: 0

    http://www.icsalabs.com/press-release/icsa-labs-study-finds-most-security-products-fail-initial-certification-tests ICSA is owned by Verizon who I work for. MY BS meter is going off. This sounds like a push to sell ICSA approved software. Of course Verizon will offer it.

  15. Re:False Statements on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 0

    A child in this study is defined as a person 18. A child is 12.

  16. Re:Highly subjective is right. on The Worst US Cities To Work In IT · · Score: 0

    As a New Jerseyan, I am absolutely insulted and appalled that you think there's a state in this great nation more corrupt than us!

    WHAT?!

    How about Louisiana. Any one?

  17. Re:Nothing good can come of this... on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How this isn't considered "ethnically cleansing" cities is beyond me. It seems as if the only people who would be affected negatively would be minority groups.

    It is simple. I depends who is in power and who wants to do it. Do not forget the waste land of New Orleans. Democrat = Urban development. Republican = White raciest trying to take Black and Latinos homes.

  18. Re:You too can be an armchair scientist. on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 0

    They may just like sun on their backs and not in their eyes. Not everything requires 'scientific' conjecture (which is, I think, your point.)

    OK the sun rising and setting east to west the cows have a 50/50 shot at facing north or south. They face north in the northern hemisphere. Do cows face the south pole in the southern hemisphere? Or do they also point north?

  19. Re:I never really hear what is wrong with plastic. on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 0

    Not Spaming. I built my deck with this material. It is much better than wood. http://www.trex.com/whytrex/EnvironmentallyFriendly.aspx Trex outdoor decking and walkway material. Trex is one of the largest plastic bag recyclers in the United States. 7 out of every 10 recycled grocery bags in the U.S. end up at Trex (about 1.5 billion per year)

  20. HA! on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 0

    "A hard head makes for a soft ass"

  21. Bastard! on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 0, Troll

    May he burn in Hell.

  22. Re:Amazing what 40 years of politicization will do on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    No. It started with CARTER budget cuts.

  23. Re:Now is about the time... on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    That's related to why Walmart makes virtually every employee a "manager", right?

    Nope. Management can not unionize. So if 70% of the work force is an assistant manager problem solved.

  24. Re:Whew, your telcos are safe. on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    It is all about IBEW and CWA VOTES! Telco is one of the most heavily unionized industry in the US. They are an automatic democrat vote.

  25. Re:Interersing trend... on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 1

    Myth said: "Oil companies have leases all over America to drill for oil. They are currently only using 20 percent of these leases."

    Oil is only present on 20% of the leases. Just because you lease a piece of land from the Feds does not guaranty an oil strike.