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  1. Speaking Ill of the Dead on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    Being raised in a Baptist home, I'm at a loss to understand Margie Phelps's public activities. Throwing a Bible, or the Declaration of Independence, or the Bill of Rights, or an American flag in someones face is not why these objects were created.

  2. Re:Its true... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Given the bail out that has been reciprocated by lying to mortgage holders,(dual tracking BoA calls it), and the President publicly disrespected. This apparent DDoS couldn't have happened to a better person, errrrrrrrrr corporation. I am entirely grateful that a certain pin head isn't in a government position to bail these things out; again. if Bank of America closed their doors and dissolved tomorrow, so what.

    I do propose a going away party the day after Bank of America closes.

  3. Re:Wow on News From Apple's iPhone Event · · Score: 1

    If I were Steve Jobs, and the iPhone5 was not going to be presented today; what would I have done?

  4. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Is Off-Shoring a National Security Threat? · · Score: 1

    It is more than software, it is everything that is traded. It makes the landscape of Mad Max look pleasantly tranquil.

    I really question the motives that allow America's wealth to be drained in one way or another to the amount of a Billion dollars a week to other countries. I question the motive of the statement, "Manufacture or Service it in <country />, to maintain an competitive Edge." The wealthy are not investing in America. They then should have no tax breaks. And their parent companies costing issues should be ignored at tax time. <humor>And their access to the beach should be from 2:00am to 4:00am on odd numbered Blue Moons.<humor/>

  5. Mars? Maybe? on NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Could such an aircraft be configured for mapping the surface of Mars?

  6. Re:Many Problems I See Here on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Basically, I disagree with the parent article. The average person that makes a career working in government accepts a large amount of Mediocrity as part of the job. It has been my experience that only American Combat Soldiers ignore Mediocrity. I believe that there is not a single person one can point to, and state, "that person was wrong", and prove it. Instead, I believe it was the system used by the C.I.A.. And, I'm inclined to believe that bin Laden's group knew this system, and used it.

    I do not believe for a minute that bin Laden's group to be foolish. Instead, I see a group of people noticing that their culture is dying out. I call this dying culture, "Proto-Islam." It would be very naive to think that Islam is dying out. Instead, I have observed a new Islamic culture that is spreading, I call this culture "Neo-Islam". This culture is more cosmopolitan, and aware of other cultures.

    I make reference to the North American Indian's that called themselves, "Ghost Dancers". Because these people recognized their culture was dying out; and challenged the culture that was taking its place. The Ghost Dancers were not fools, just not accepting of the changes that were happening. Google it.

    Islamic culture referrers to Western Culture as Dogs. It is a negative term. I used the analogy of an Islamist walking into a pack of sleeping dogs and kicking one of them, a reference to the 9/11 event. I have encountered no documentation that supports that the same person having enough working body parts left to go into that same dog pack and kick another dog.

    I believe that who ever the C.I.A. person it was that was handling the Al-Qida group had the wrong job at the wrong time. I believe that Al-Qida to be acting like Ghost Dancers, they have realized that their way of life is dying. This is Al-Qida's last Hurrah, and it is a bloody one at that.

    These are just my personal observations. But so far, I see no definitive evidence that counterdicks my observations.

  7. Many Problems I See Here on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 0

    Everyone in the C.I.A., and the F.B.I. knows who failed, and why; it is a classic case of, "for all the right reasons, being wrong." I do not believe for a moment that those that deal with the worlds bad guys have an easy task. But it painfully appears that Proto-Islam, when it drew up its plans, factored in the frustration levels of the C.I.A.. Proto-Islam incorrectly factored in pack mentality when it planned for kicking a sleeping dog; it appears that the rest of the pack did not ignore the event. Proto-Islam can not alter itself, but something more devious may have occurred. Did Proto-Islam, allow themselves to be "Ghost Dancers", and indirectly help assist Neo-Islam to be born? Because the end result, today, is a Neo-Islam emerging where decisions by all contributing has begun.

  8. Re:Duplicate on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Given that project is a rehash of existing technology published several months ago, is it OK to agree with you? I RTFA, and was hoping that the prototype had gone into production. It appears that the development team is in an endless loop; maybe a business undergrad at Stanford could guide them out? The general business model using this technology was described by Poul Anderson in, "The Boat of A Million Years". It would have been nice if the team had demonstrated something a little more robust, like a collection of these leaves performing some observable task? A positive demonstration, using the same methodologies in the existing leaf technologies, could be to separate Sulfur from Crude Oil? Or TCP's from Ground Water.

  9. Re: much quieter? on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of calling it "Rover", but Tata Motors might become angry, oh my.

  10. HaZa! A New Business Model on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I think it would be very profitable if I created a phone list of all Government Employee phone numbers, and their nuclear family phone numbers to advertise products of an adult nature. Like "Vibrating Salad Dressing". And what's even better is that it would be Windows Root Kit Friendly! Glorious, I can see it now...

  11. Re:NASA, I am disappoint on NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space · · Score: 1

    When it comes to money spent, NASA is still the Red Headed Step Child. But from my backyard view of the Multi-verse, humanity currently comprehends 3 curious methods to climb out of our gravity well. Rockets, Elevator, and Anti-Gravity. One works,(but NASA Administrators act like Edith Bunker and won't use Burt Rutan's solution set). The Elevator is still being developed, and looks to be serviceable, eventually, given humanities comprehension of applied Newtonian Mechanics. Anti-Gravity is still the High School Prom Royalty that can not see me for dirt. The first two are mechanically problematic; but the third one, oh the third one, is the one I still have thoughts for.

  12. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    When I can have a WATSON App in my phone, interfaced to a medical cloud service, and pay $360 a year for health insurance; why would my family need Kaiser Permanente?

  13. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Is wise to speak for someone that can communicate more effectively?

  14. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Auto Insurance also.

  15. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Can one drive on Federal roads without Auto Insurance? In the case of "Obama Care", one pays at tax time, $360? Not bad in my book, I'm currently paying about $3,600 dollars; from my viewpoint, that is over $3,000 I can use to pay my credit card debt. Driving Uninsured on a Federal Road, one gets their car impounded. I'm still trying to figure out why a group of intimate pious hill billies are marching around their breakfast table praising the glories of Health Care companies that have become predatory aggressors. I find myself glad that applications like WATSON are emerging, the Health Care Industry has become an obsolete metastasized cancer.

  16. Re:Swords into Plowshares. on Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite · · Score: 1

    I can't but wonder if Peacekeeper missiles could be used to get stuff to the ISS? It would sure put to good usage things that only collect dust, expensively so.

  17. Bring Back Beaker and Dr. Bunsen ! on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    Only true science can be communicated with Dr. Bunsen, and lab assistant Beaker at the "helm."

    For real science, Pat Paulson's "Mr. Wizard" character was always an eye opener,(good times, good times).

  18. Re:Call them whatever you want on SCADA Problems Too Big To Call 'Bugs,' Says DHS · · Score: 1

    I will sleep better tonight in southern California because my electricity and cell phone feel good when their together?

    Or maybe someone at DHS has funny way of doing their job; but how American citizens were helped after Katrina is something I still clinch my remaining teeth about.

  19. Re:What Could Possible Go Wrong? on Could Open Source Investment Save HP? · · Score: 1

    Responding to an A.C.'s hysteria is slightly less pleasurable than wiping my hemroids with steel wool, but this A.C. has some confused allegiance to the tainted bottle blonde.

    Only the most simple minded would ask a fourth world refugee part time working at Fry's for technical advice. But when the part timer states, "Fry's is phasing out the selling of HP computers." Your not listening to a decision maker, but some economic slave parroting the ravings of their handler. I can't say it any more simpler, "HP optimized itself,(intercoursing with China, and India), into oblivion." HP's inability to solve manufacturing processes by neutralizing their manufacturing toxic waste caught up with them. We the public will lose a proven can-do-company, because the bottom line was decided by the likes of a blonde Cruella de Vil. The day that HP acted on, "the bottomLine > ( community || accountability || coprerateExistance )", was the day that all Sith smiled.

  20. What Could Possible Go Wrong? on Could Open Source Investment Save HP? · · Score: 2

    IMHO. It's been HP that has lead the way for corporations to outsource services to India, and manufacturing to China. Hell, at Fry's,(Fountain Valley), I was told HP hardware was being phased out. I use to like HP hardware, now the new stuff will become as tainted as the refugee from Goldman Sacks. If her job isn't to bring jobs back into the U.S., and manufacturing back to the U.S., then the only thing she has experience in is Mergers, and Acquisitions. I'll go out on a limb here and say, "SELL ! SELL ! SELL ! SELL !", because I wouldn't trust her engineering knowledge to properly plug in an extension cord for her portable hair dryer.

  21. OK, But... on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    Specifications? A Benjamin Franklin List would be useful. Benchmarks? Working ... Demos?

    Hay Intel! How about a Metaphysical Interface?

    Hay Google, How about a Protocol Definition?

    If Google, and Intel could combine a Metaphysical Interface with a Protocol Definition, maybe there would be something new to march around the breakfast table about?

  22. How Do You Find These Contracts? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Is there a web site, or publication that one could view? Let see for myself...

  23. Re:This is late, House did it on Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about an earlier work, Sten, in the story a similar device was used to obtain witnessed events from the viewers point of view. In the book, the technique worked, but was sometimes destructive of the viewers brain.

  24. Re:Doesn't the consumer lose regardless? on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Ya, like your rumor source has access to what any of the Telco's do or consider. I believe it; not.

  25. A Small Request From Us Trivial Types? on Adobe Releases Flash 11 and AIR 3 · · Score: 1

    A Debug version for us, low life, scum of the earth, lousy dirt bag, developers? Please?