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  1. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, McCarthy is not a hero. He was a traitor. WorldNetDaily is the worst kind of Coulter-loving, Rush-smooching right wing wank-fest this side of freep. Don't trust anything you see on that site. The article you link to simply quotes another right wing crackpot organization, 'Accuracy in Academia,' a group dedicated to vilifying left wing teachers. Suck it, Prune. You conservative idiots had your chance, and you screwed it up so badly you nearly brought down the whole country. Just sit back and massage your ass until it stops hurting, the grown-ups are back in charge again.

  2. Re:Alien Technology? on Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites · · Score: 1

    Ah, see, but you've not gone far enough down the rabbit hole, my friend. The government knows that you know about their little diversion, and that is why they have actually moved their secret alien research center back to Area 51 from Montauk, NY. Now that they've admitted Area 51 exists, everyone assumes that nothing important goes on there. How wrong you are!

  3. Re:Time on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Your opinions are just that: your opinions. You don't like Clinton. Thanks for sharing. Personally, I don't like him that much either, he's far too right wing. But I see no evidence of him acting like a spoiled brat, care to share yours?

  4. Re:Time on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    You find it very easy to believe something you want to believe. How surprising.

  5. Re:Optionally on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I prefer to err on the side of individual freedom as well. But still, it's your interpretation versus theirs, isn't it? You argue, "I think this part means what I think it means," and they say, "No, hundreds of years of jurisprudence say it means what WE say it means. That is how it was meant to be. That is why we have a Supreme Court. Our laws and our Constitution are meant to be interpreted, based on the interpretations that have come before, not just on their supposed original meaning."

    Tat being said, I kind of agree with you that the current interpretation does not serve us. Your ideals would be better served if you argued from that position, rather than arguing from what is essentially an appeal to authority. Simply admit that the Constitution is open to interpretation and then argue as to how you'd like it interpreted, how your interpretation will benefit us, and how the current interpretation fails. There is no need to invoke the supposed authority of the founding father's intent.

  6. Re:Time on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Only about a hundred links on this very page. I thought posting another would be overkill.

  7. Re:Optionally on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    I've got a better idea, why don't we just go with YOUR interpretation of what the constitution means, as obviously only you have the One True Interpretation. Seriously, that's what your argument boils down to. It's not very convincing.

  8. Re:America, on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    You think their unemployment would jump 50-100%? Seriously? Germany is the fourth largest economy in the world. I doubt us leaving would even impact them.

  9. Wrong. on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    The GDP and employment figures had more than recovered by 1937. If it weren't for Republicans getting FDR to back away from the New Deal, the recovery would have continued more quickly, but by the time of Pearl Harbor, our economy was stronger than it was before the depression. Our industrial capacity WAS being used, so the broken window fallacy applies.

  10. Re:Time on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    How many times must this be debunked? At this point, it can only be considered a delusion to continue to believe this lie.

  11. Re:Right on. on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 0

    The Internet would be a far superior place if people were banned from discussing what they didn't know. Of course, not many people would talk much, now would they?

    Of course, you would have been banned from posting, as you don't know what 'clueless morons' will feel the need to speculate on. You don't know that your coworkers will bring this up. You also don't know that it is in SourceForge's indirect best interest to 'propagate misinformation such as this.' In other words, here's a steaming hot cup of STFU, served with a heaping tablespoon of your own medicine.

  12. Re:pln2bz is a strong proponent of EU theory on Spiraling Magnetic Signal Shows Up In the Cosmic Background · · Score: 1

    Oh, man, I wasn't trying to censor you, I was just trying to put this in context. Of course it's good to discuss this theory. But it's also good to understand that you are drawing conclusions that the scientists themselves are not.

  13. Re:willingness to relocate on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't see how dropping restrictions on people moving will necessarily destroy national sovereignty or identity. If a country has a strong and vital government and cultural identity, they can certainly retain control and identity even with an influx of new citizens.

  14. Re:willingness to relocate on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what happens when capital and goods can freely cross borders but people can't. Capital will simply chase poverty in a never ending circle around the globe. When one poor, desperate country starts to get wealthy, corporations will simply move to the next one, and let the first slip back into poverty.

  15. pln2bz is a strong proponent of EU theory on Spiraling Magnetic Signal Shows Up In the Cosmic Background · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He has a history of posting any story that can possibly be interpreted as supporting the electric universe theory, along with his speculations as to why the story proves EU correct. Just saying...

  16. Way to blame the victims there on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    Nobody would have gotten this treatment unless another passenger thought they looked dangerous. It was a frightened, idiotic, racist passenger who called a flight attendant. I'm glad the passenger who squealed was majorly inconvenienced as well, maybe they will think twice before opening their yaps next time. I mean, what did they think would happen, the family would be removed and the flight would leave on time?

    I could talk all day about the safest place to sit on an airplane and not have problems. The fact that they looked 'middle eastern' is what caused them problems. You can bet your ass that if ANY nine people had been kicked off a plane anywhere in the US, it would be news.

  17. Re:Open your mouth about security in an airport on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    All they did was wonder aloud what the safest place to sit on an airplane would be. Some racist idiot thought they heard "I wonder what the safest place to sit on an airplane is when there's a bomb onboard" which is patently ridiculous, as there is obviously no safe place to sit in that situation. They were not discussing security, they just happened to sit next to an engine and wondered about the safety of that.

  18. The weather sucks today on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Calling other people names is wrong because deliberately hurting other people's feelings is wrong. There is no reason to assume anyone is insane enough to identify so strongly with a company that their feelings would be hurt if the company were insulted. A company is a type of phenomenon. Stating one's dislike for a phenomenon is morally neutral. Would you be insulted if I said the weather sucked today?

  19. There is nothing wrong with insulting companies on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    A company is not a person. You can't hurt a company's feelings. People who identify with a company strongly enough to be hurt when someone insults it are total losers who need to get a life.

  20. Re:Oblig. Daniel Plainview post on Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii · · Score: 1

    Let's all go out for boiling chocolate magmashakes!

  21. Re:Huh? on Novell Cancels BrainShare Conference · · Score: 3, Informative

    We use a Novell back end for file and print services. You know it's all based on Suse Linux now, right? Novell dropped Netware last year, I think. Almost all of last year's Brainshare was about Linux. Good times, I'm sad to see it go.

  22. Re:Snarky article on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last mile is going to be a monopoly,

    Why? Just because you cannot think of a way?

    No, because the last mile is a natural monopoly.

  23. Mod Parent up on Torture in Games · · Score: 1

    Very informative and exactly the kind of evidence the OP was asking for.

  24. Re:Your ignorance astounds me on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    So it is fine in your book that colonial exploiters get to keep their ill-gotten gains? I'm not trying to excuse Mugabe's policies anyhow, just trying to put them in context.

    You know, during the Mutapa empire era, even more land was under cultivation. So your point is moot.

  25. Your ignorance astounds me on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Holy crap, you are frighteningly misinformed about a great many things. Firstly, the government in Zimbabwe is in no way socialist. Taking property from one private owner and giving it to another private owner could hardly be called socialist. As for white-hating, well, 1% of the population is white, but they owned 70% of the land. And they got it the old fashioned way, by stealing it.

    Your grasp of history is equally ridiculous. Security a problem for 1000 years? What about the colonial era, the Mutapa empire, the Bantu civilization?

    The Sahara has not been a forest for tens of thousands of years. It was a grassland, then it dried up, then the ice age hit, then it warmed up and got wetter, then drier. It's been a desert since about 3,000BC. Muslims had advanced and sustainable agriculture far in advance of what Europeans had. They did nothing bad to the Sahara.

    Where are you even getting your information from? Everything I'm saying can be easily looked up online, but I can't even find a single source for anything you claim. Are you making it up, or parroting it back from some right wing hate site?