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  1. Re:First thing I thought about... on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Did Wright say what he said in a different America, or are you honestly saying there is no more institutional racism in America?

  2. Re:Drunk wisdom on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Democrats and Republicans represent the same id on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    What is the criteria for "worthy?" I can put up at least two.

  4. Re:Democrats and Republicans represent the same id on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    We don't need smokestacks to get moving, we can build a lot of windmills.

    Incidentally, what drugs were you on when you thought Bush was going to be the same as Clinton?

  5. Re:Democrats and Republicans represent the same id on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Same here on all counts. I was a little disappointed to see Nader get a paltry 0.53 percent at the last count I saw. :-\

  6. Re:I'll Tell You What It Means on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I know 5 or 6 of them, and to their credit, yes they have admitted how stupid they were. All of those that I know voted Obama this time.

  7. Re:I'll Tell You What It Means on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    They have been making fun of Obama/Biden a little bit lately. Unfortunately, those two are not quite as funny as the rest... but whatcha gonna do. I suppose they'll go back to interviewing the average buffoon rather than politicians. :)

  8. Re:I'll Tell You What It Means on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I love when you morons bitch about tax and spend. News flash, chief: all your guy did was spend and spend. How is that better than tax and spend?

  9. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I can't stand FOX News and I am thinking the exact same things. I hope the answer to most of those questions is "yes." If so, no harm done, but I am very skeptical. I do have to be careful to tell people "no, I didn't vote for Obama because he's not liberal enough." I have seen people sigh in relief when I say that, assuming that I mean I'm voting for McCain. I actually sorta wonder how many people assume, because I'm white, that I would not vote for Obama.

  10. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Nope. I would say the majority of states I saw called last night were called with 0%. Who knows what the hell they were basing that on.

    MSNBC I believe incorrectly called Virginia for McCain earlier on.

  11. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    No, that's not correct. That's the biggest lie about Fox News -- the fact that they go out of their way to brainwash you that they're balanced. Look at their liberal on Hannity and Colmes. That's the best example they can come up with? He's not even really terribly liberal.

    What other channel spends so much time finding the conservative spin on everything and then claims that they are the only fair news source and the other side must be biased the other way. Does anyone honestly believe that O'Reilly is independent? Say you're a republican and maybe you won't take so much shit for the bias.

  12. Re:Lies vs. Truth on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I've got some news for you -- there are not two sides to everything. There are occasions where one thing is genuinely better than the other.

    The idea that the media is left-leaning is asinine. They are corporate, through and through, and that means whatever it happens to mean today.

  13. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I've been hearing that's not what will happen, but I realize that doesn't make life very easy for you. Good luck!

  14. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Those are not the average person. Racism is still very real in the real/non-Hollywood world.

  15. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure he strongly supports affirmative action.

    You have to realize there are still folks around here who grew up in school systems with one room for the entire primary school which were essentially a holding tank to keep them off the streets... really no formal education. Some of those people are only 60 years old. Is affirmative action the right solution? I don't know... but how do we actually make things right for people who got shafted so badly by our public education system?

  16. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know Republicans for whom Palin was the line they could not cross. I think the line should be drawn a lot earlier than that, but hey, it is what it is.

  17. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    His pastor was not a racist. I don't have a lot of respect for that decision. There are folks out there who have harsh, legitimate, criticisms of America. A lot of them are true, even if sometimes one exaggerates them in the heat of a moment, or a sermon. To abandon a pastor he's had for years for political reasons, and for statements that I even agree with... that's a little shameful.

  18. Re:Does Kubuntu have Long-Term Support yet? on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    It won't come with a KDE3 version, unless someone remixes one. The release is KDE4.

  19. Re:But will the wifi work? on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    Is there some good reason for erasing the thing that the manufacturer had worked on to make sure it functioned and then erasing it to replace it with the same thing NOT tweaked for your hardware? I'd love to move TO the Dell image if I could... but the Latitude D620 never had one.

  20. Re:New features on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    It's just been fixed, BTW, in 2.6.24-21 I think it was. It doesn't flash like it used to though to correspond to amount of data being sent, it just flashes at a constant rate when data is being sent.

  21. Re:The power of p2p? on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, good old American spirit.

  22. Re:Individuals' options? on Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security · · Score: 1

    I've seen "vote absentee" floated as the answer, though I'm not sure that works everywhere. I'm also not sure I consider that more reliable (what if it never gets there? how can I prove it?).

  23. Re:Hardware Work Around on Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security · · Score: 1

    I miss those too. Though I never got to use one, I went into the booth with my parents while they voted. How were the votes stored on those things?

  24. Re:One big difference: discounts. on Doing the Math On the New MacBook · · Score: 1

    RAM, in my experience, is much more than a slight benefit, as compared to CPU.

  25. Re:Another big difference: performance. on Doing the Math On the New MacBook · · Score: 1

    What's a fast one? I've only ever installed AVG or Symantec.