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  1. Inauguration Anthem on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    Inauguration Anthem
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    Barry Obama, voters at your feet,
    Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet.
    Who'll finance imports, who will pay the debt?
    Just eleven trillion and we'll be set.

    Petro-bucks are borrowed in profusion.
    Middle kingdom creep in like a nun.
    Dodgy automakers' cash infusion.
    See how they run.

    Barry Obama, bailouts for the banks.
    Wonder how you'll manage when all else tanks.

    See how they run.
    Barry Obama, soon in Lincoln's bed,
    Listen to the lobbyists in your head.

    Monday afternoon is never ending.
    Tuesday morning coronation fun.
    Wednesday night your promises absconding.
    See how they run.

    Barry Obama, voters at your feet,
    Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet.

  2. Re:"guarded, transported to a central location" on Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System · · Score: 1

    guarded, transported to a central location


    Better to count them at the local polling station, observed by local reps of parties.

    Once you have them in a central location, who is guarding them? The incumbent regime, of course.
  3. "George Whackjob Bush" on XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    Google for "George Whackjob Bush".

    There is only one item.

  4. Governments are ALLOWED to write their WP articles on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Well, not exactly, but it is an unwritten WP policy that info about countries comes from their governments (mostly via the US CIA "Fact"book).

      Attempt to question these "facts" and you will be told "that's how we've always done it for all the other countries".

  5. They were ordered to fix this 3 years ago. on CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations · · Score: 1

    Also they've been working on two more reactors but they are years behind schedule.

    Fortunately, where I live in western Canada, we get our isotopes from the Netherlands. Go figure.

  6. What, me worry??? on Nano Safety Worries Scientists More Than Public · · Score: 1

    Bozos worried about nuclear test fallout and anthrax and guys in caves in Afghanistan wanting to take away US "freedom" (haha) and Arabs trying to hold us hostage by keeping "America's petroleum lifeline" to themselves (GREEDY BASTARDS!!!).

    Well, you get the idea.

    Strangely. I've come back to this page after some surfing & can't remember what is about ( there is no indication on the page - try it ).

  7. Re:Complete Disregard for Life and Suffering. on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 1

    "Only" nine people died. The 3991 others did not mind having their thyroid glands removed ?

    How many of the 3991 could afford the cost of the operation? (Remember this not in the land of the "free")

  8. Re:Other New Jersey Legislation on Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey · · Score: 1

    "Another piece of New Jersey legislation requires business owners to disclose to the public whether or not they have ties to organized crime."

    Can you get a business in NJ if you don't?

  9. Re:*sigh* on Russia's New Cosmodome Approved · · Score: 1

    But which is right, the title or the blurb? And what's a drome?

    My K-spellchecker thinks Cosmodome is OK, but not Cosmodrome, cosmodome or cosmodrome.

  10. Penguins on Lexmarks on Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out · · Score: 1

    The Penguins on Lexmarks guarantee they won't work. The more expensive Lexmarks work fine with Linux.

    Of course the cheap Lexmarks are boat anchors when attached to any operating system.

  11. Working at job you hate so you can buy crap ... on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 1

    Working at job you hate so you can buy crap you don't need to impress people you don't care about and who don't care about you.

    Is that a mental disorder?

  12. Are LP's & 78's obsolete ? on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    I carry my LP collection around in my backpack, so I can listen to it on my portable turntable thru my vacuum tube amplifier powered by lead-acid batteries.
    And I pull along my 78 collection in my little red wagon.

    (There actually were boom boxes with turntables, though not with tubes)

  13. Provincialist Americans on Google Admits to Using Sohu Database · · Score: 1

    In the US, a list of words in lexicographic order is not necessarily copyrightable (eg. phone books).

    Is it also so in China? And does China have laws making databases IP like the US?

    Americans seem to think that their bizarre and extreme notions of IP are universal law.

    Perhaps someone here is an expert on Chinese IP law - did Google-China do anything illegal?

  14. Only with Abdussamatov's patented Space Limbograph on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can only measure the changes with Habibullo Abdussamatov's patented
    Space Solar Limbograph

    I am not making this up.

  15. editors get disgusted and leave. on Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that in certain controversial topics, edits favouring one side will be deleted instantly, while edits favouring the other (even if they are totally loopy) will stay around for a long time.

    So evil people can have a lot of fun filling up these articles with loopy claptrap. Try it!!!!

  16. Is "Armed Robbery" patented yet? on MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers · · Score: 1

    I suppose there would be "prior art", so how about "Armed Robbery using computers and the Internet" ?

  17. Re:Brilliant! --- D'oh on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I put CF's in the basement in pull-string fixtures. They were the 1-second delay kind. So I pull the string and nothing happens. So I pull harder and the string breaks. D'oh! Then the light comes on.

  18. Bushies control research funding on BBC Wants Evidence of Climate Science Bias · · Score: 1

    The Bushies don't control all research funding, but enough that there should be no lack of funds for sceptical research.

    And they also fund scientific journals, so there should be no problem publishing the results.

    In any case, there are so many independent journals I can't believe they are all in on this conspiracy.

  19. Re:A little context on BBC Wants Evidence of Climate Science Bias · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how you define "Right". Opposition to "centralized control of the economy"? Do you hear any rich folks or corporations complaining about this? Of course not, they own the legislators who make the rules (This is the definition of Fascism, which is sometimes identified with "Right").

    And BTW, Red now seems to represent the Right, at least in usa.

  20. Re:Smoke screen on my car. on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    A really dumb thing described in a cool way.

  21. Re:What's so alarming here? on FBI Taps Cell Phone Microphones in Mafia Case · · Score: 1

    Can I set up my own cell tower and take over people's phones?

  22. Re:NTP Server EULAs? on D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers · · Score: 1

    And then start sending bills to D-link's corporate customers. Tell them you will serve them the wrong time if they don't pay. Hire a collection agency. Sue, sue, sue!

    Isn't unauthorized use of a computer a crime in some places?

  23. Re:hold on hold on hold on on Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught · · Score: 1

    There are human rights movements in Palestine and Saudi but they get little support from the US.

  24. Re:Sorry Rupert... on Adapt to New Technology or Die · · Score: 1

    notice the heat?

    What, me worry?

  25. Re:The Google Way on Adapt to New Technology or Die · · Score: 1

    If history is any guide (and this includes recent history - I.E. blogs) people chose which they will read on the basis of bias. Their only care about content is that it not annoy them too badly.

    In the US it is either R.or D.

    That is the extent of discourse.