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  1. Re:Mark Cuban Say Politicians Puppets Of The Elite on Time For Anti-Trust 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Do you sell your tinfoil hats?

    Granted the only factual statment you made was the Marines are deployed 10/90%. Not true:

    The Marines have more than 176,000 active-duty troops. In addition to the 25,000 currently in the Iraq mission, there are also 4,000 Marines in Afghanistan, 1,500 in Haiti and 1,600 in Africa.

    Thats closer to 20%. 18.23... to be exact. Either way, to paraphrase Ghandi, 176000 Marines cannot control 300 million angry Americans if they do not consent to it.

    As for the investment advice... well, I invest in all that stuff so that when I retire or can't work I am not relient on the good will of the government to pay my Social Security and medical benefits.

    Being relient on them Cradle to Grave is far more insideous in my opinion.

  2. Re:nanotubes: price? on Intel Experimenting With Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    First, how much would a chip really use? Likely less than a tenth of a gram, but that is a SWAG. Certianly less than a gram unless the process is wasteful.

    Second, it is likely initially for supercomputing or network superswitches, where price is less of an issue.

    Third, if they up the demand, more will be made and the price should come down.

  3. Re:SunRay Thin Clients on Successful Alternatives To Password Authentication? · · Score: 1

    We are doing this right now for just us SA's.

    Citrix gives us the couple of applications we can't replace. Visio and Lotus are really the gotchas.

  4. Re:I hope you voted on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    Now that it is passed...

    Medicare and Medical are seperate items.

    Welfare/Unemployment is the missing 5th.

    Interest is actually 6th, suprise suprise.

    BTW, the current yearly defict and the amount we pay on interest are about equal. We would be balanced if we were not servicing ~8 Trillion in debt.

  5. Re:Simple political quiz: on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    I ran out after Intrest on Debt, Military and Social Security.

    Medicare?

  6. Re:gop and dirty tricks? how surpising! on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 1

    I find it amusing how you split hairs instead of adressing the basic fact, in the 1959 election, because you know that the election is held the year before the president takes office, and in later elections, democrats have rigged elections.

    And JFK vrs Nixion is the first modern election. Why? because they debated on television.

  7. Re:gop and dirty tricks? how surpising! on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 1

    Then you don't know that Eisenhower is the 50's? That was the bar YOU set in the OP!

    Typical weaseling.

  8. Re:gop and dirty tricks? how surpising! on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 1
  9. Re:But wait, there's more! on Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace · · Score: 1

    The version the orginal poster shows from channel 29 also starts the video AFTER the shoulder check the guy performs on the guard that tackles him.

    CNN shows the whole event.

  10. Re:But wait, there's more! on Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace · · Score: 1

    Look here, from the CNN footage shown:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/31/video-allens -staffers-toss-kos-kid-to-the-floor/

    they have the whole segment.

    He shoulders the bodyguard from behind, intentionally. He braces and throws his shoulder into it, not an accidental contact.

    What is next? this sort of shinnagans:

    http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id =2265&lionshare=cc8ae8c5c2fc3764cc08ec0a260f6837

  11. Re:But wait, there's more! on Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace · · Score: 1

    I read a lot of your comments you have posted. I would think that you are far more Libertarian than Republican. Which is fine, Republicans can learn a few things from Libertarians.

    Watching the video and reading his blogged intent to be disruptive he got off easy. Honestly, had Allen been a foreign dignitary or the POTUS (or even a POTUS candidate) and he pushed past the bodyguards he would have been carted off.

  12. Re:Ironic on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    Well, considering you would rather invoke godwin than discuss the issues, I will write you off as a loss.

  13. Re:Ironic on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    It has invaded Iraq many times.

    Here is one from April 25th of this year,

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/05/01/wiran01.xml

    While Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war with an invasion, Iran had invaded Kurdish Iraq several times.

    It has also invaded US soil by taking the US embassy in 1979.

  14. Re:Google has a PAC on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    Yes I did. It may or may not be have been developed in parallel, because, as you know things are often obvious. It came out of a discussion of how many "one time users" we had on the sandbox machines and how only the productive programmers actually used it.

    K5, under "Snowblind" is "There is but one Kernel, and Root is his Prophet". That came out of a heated discussion with the VMS dinosaurs and their many flavors of syspriv.

  15. Google has a PAC on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google has recently registered a Political Action Committee.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1930008,00. html

    So we will see how they react to it. The claim is that it is for advocating the free distribution of information so it will be interesting to see if they intervene and if they do, how they intervene.

  16. Re:Rights on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    You mean like this fellow here:

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867 ,20646437-601,00.html

    Who thinks women are like pieces of meat and are responsible for triggering the violence against them?

    FTFA:

    In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?

    "The uncovered meat is the problem."

    The sheik then said: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

    He said women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men.

    "It is said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement (igraa)."

    Yep, give that nutter a blog.

  17. Re:Those who give E-voting a bad name... on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    He said
    "Toss out enough "spoiled" ballots from poorer (black/college) Democratically leaning areas,"

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

    Spoiled ballots means that it was not punched/marked correctly. Perhaps he, and you, ment some deeper nefarious end to these ballots, but my tin foil hat protects me from such crazy theories as the two of you appear to share.

    Elections have been unusually close lately. The country is split fairly evently on what path to take to the future. Harsh retoric and crazy theories are to blame for it, not some nefarious Republican plot to take over the world.

  18. Re:Those who give E-voting a bad name... on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 0

    I am astounded by your racism and class warfare stance. Poor black people can't vote correctly? Poor college attenders can't vote correctly?

    First, more "whites" than "blacks" are poor in America as a raw number, but not percentage, so THAT little bit of racism is out the door.

    Secondly, if your logic and knowledge is an example of what colleges are producing... well you might be right on that one.

    The really astounding damage is done by conspiracy hacks like you who undermine the system and claim to be in favor of it. What you really want, deep down, is a nice Benevolent

    Representative Republics suck, but they are still the best form of government.

    Me? I am voting for a one or two seat margin either way, the current government works best when gridlocked...

  19. Re:Novell? on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    They owned UNIXWARE.

    Too Silly! Too silly! Stop it this instance!

  20. Re:As a point of logic, on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    I am not refuting his claims because you cannot prove something did not happen.

    I can prove with evidence that the terrorist piloted the planes and crashed them into buildings.

    I can't prove the Isrealis didn't know and didn't tell us. You also can't prove that the US government didn't know and didn't do anything.

    What you have to do is prove that something DID happen and take all the evidence into consideration, unlike the 911truthers.

    He has circumstancial evidence with no REAL evidence i.e. government documents saying "Let's keep the plot from the Americans so we profit from it"

    What he has is this MAY have happened, or this MAY have been held back.

  21. Re:It is scrubbing for Google merger. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    Where is this editorial process for Daily Kos? Can you point me to it?

    Seems like the rank and file don't have it, I have an account there and I cannot submit or vote for articles like I can on K5.

    Is it limited to subscribers?

  22. Re:As a point of logic, on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    Antiwar.com touts books claiming Isreal could have stopped 9/11 and that they have infiltrated the Pentagon.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595 296823/antiwarbookstore/

    So I maintain that the bias is clear.

  23. Re:It is scrubbing for Google merger. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    I don't see an editorial process for DailyKos, it is Kos's opinons and a bunch of blogs with comments. I looked over the website, it does not show an editorial process mentioned. I am fairly sure Kos breaks news stories as well.

    If that is the case, then the objections for LGF falls flat. They do break new stories, for example the AP photoshopping and the exposing the forging of Bush National Guard documents.

    There have been others, but those are the two big ones.

    MM address's this in her post that I linked:

    Something's definitely screwy. In my letter, Google News said "we do not include sites that do not have a formal editorial review process." Is the presumption that group blogs have a formal editorial review process because they are run by more than one person, but that an individual blog is incapable of satisfactory self-editing? If an individual blog does investigative reporting or publishes original documents, as LGF has done and as this blog occasionally does, is the "formal editorial review process" requirement waived?

  24. It is scrubbing for Google merger. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 3, Informative
    Disclaimer: I vote my way, that tends to be conservative, but I have voted for Democrats in the past, such as Clinton in 1992.

    They have banned several Conservative video makers, including Michelle Malkin and HotAir. They have done so recently, despite carrying the videos for over a year without any issues.

    Now, Google, the company that bought them, has refused to carry Michelle, LFG, and others as NEWS sites based on the fact that they blog, not present new news. Here are the letters from Google:


    Hi Michelle,

    Thank you for your note. We have reviewed www.michellemalkin.com but cannot include it in Google News at this time. We do not include news-related blogs or other news-related sites that are written and maintained by a single individual. Similarly, we do not include sites that do not have a formal editorial review process. We appreciate your taking the time to contact us and will log your site for consideration should our requirements change.

    Regards,
    The Google Team

    And LGF:


    Hi Charles,

    Thank you for your note. We reviewed http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog and cannot include it in Google News at this time. We do not include sites that are purely news aggregators, and we were not able to find any stories on your site that were not from outside sources.

    We will log your site for consideration should we alter our policy. Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

    Regards,
    The Google Team


    BUT they allow several other blogs to be indexed as news, as Charles from LGF points out:


    Note that the Google News index now searches quite a few blogs (including Power Line, Polipundit, and Wonkette) and includes other sites with, to say the least, serious credibility problems (including hard-core anarchist site Infoshop, and Justin Raimondo's paleocon antisemitic site antiwar.com). In this context, Google's reply to me seems rather odd.


    Other sites of questionable news worthyness but indexed as news: Democratic Underground, Uruknet.info, and Dailykos.

    Now if you want to hold yourself out as a "News" indexing service that only indexes news and claim no bias, you have serious issues. Lets point out that Google donates almost exclusively to Democrat candidates and causes and you have a clear bias.

    A clear bias when you claim to have none is a problem

    I am resonably convinced, barring YouTube or Google coming out and saying it, that they scrubbed the videos as part of the merger deal. As in, no scrub, no deal.

    Source for above info: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001431.htm . Yes yes, she is involved and has an axe to grind, but she also puts together the facts nicely.
  25. Re:i'm going to head off the anti-us/ pro-us bs on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Don't tell CNN. They immediately went for the "Aggression from the US made us do it." angle. That was 5 minutes after the story hit the newswires.

    I am with you on this one, the only Americans at immediate risk are the ones on the Korean DMZ.

    Scarer is who they might sell these weapons to, or who they use them on someone fails to back down from an aggression.