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  1. Re:Problem: on Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope · · Score: 1

    I mean Bush at no.2????

    Maybe the poll included Africans. Bush might've been a idiot warmongering fuckwit of a president, but he did do a lot to help fight AIDS in Africa.

  2. Re:Hit them back on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    1)*His* Repub conress? Clinton had to veto that Republican congress' budget to keep them from gutting social services and environmental protections, resulting in a government shutdown - and then they impeached him.

    2) The legislation that ultimately resulted in the balanced budget was not passed by the Republican congress; it was passed in 1993 by a Democratic majority. Of course, every Republican voted against it.

    3) The Obama administration inherited a 1.5T budget deficit from Bush. The vast majority of our budget is made up of non-discretionary spending and the military. The deficit cannot be eliminated overnight. To attempt to do so would cause major disruption in our economy.

    Until we have a true balanced budget amendment and term limits on all members of Congress nothing will ever change.

    No. Only when dimwits like you stop believing that Republicans care about the debt will anything ever change.

  3. Re:Just let it fail already on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 1

    Actually they are over-funding their pension liabilities.

  4. Re:Uhm... on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 1

    Then some *private* company...

    Like the USPS?

  5. Cloud Computing on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    The latest rehash of the dumb terminal/mainframe model of computing; its two main innovations being the use of platforms and the hosting of applications which are equally ill-suited for the model.

  6. Re:Linux on PC Era Forecasted To End In 18 Months · · Score: 1

    Based on Android device sales this year, I would say it has already arrived.

  7. Re:Donating on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because you've bought into the lie that government agencies cannot be efficient.

  8. Re:EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1, Troll

    Democrats - Clinton's White House created a "no person shall be turned down" policy in 1997 which directly led to the housing boom

    Bullshit.

  9. Re:I remain unconvinced on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've never seen an airplane contrail look like that before.

    I have. I live in Central CA, which is the "flyover country" of CA. You can see planes going between various West coast destinations every few minutes. When a plane is coming directly towards you, the curvature of the sky and the altitude of the plane make it appear that the plane is shooting straight up. It's an optical illusion.

    I've seen contrails that look exactly like the "missile" in question, as they were being created.

    I've also seen actual missile tests that originated from the coast, and they sure as hell didn't look like that.

  10. Re:Please Come! on Introducing Students To the World of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Or..... you can learn online at anytime by learning how to use git and taking a look at projects on github.... You don't need some guy to come to your school to teach you how to use widely documented tools that take virtually no time to start using...

    So what you're saying is, "RTFM n00b."

    You sound like the perfect candidate. Are you available to teach the course?

  11. Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    If he were alive to see the Federal government we have today, consuming over 20% of the country's GDP (nearly 40% if you include state spending), and involved in all sorts of things which cross paths with churches such as education and funding social welfare programs, he would probably be aghast and reconsider the metaphor since the situation he was applying it to clearly no longer exists today. Context matters.

    He might be horrified by it, or, given the changing times, he might be all for it. 1780 and 2010 are part of the context that matters.

  12. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    Americans are center-right...

    A nonsensical meme from the right. Whose political center are you comparing Americans to?

  13. Re:Lopsided summary... on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    Democrats kept spending and spending in the time of a recession--what did they expect would happen?

    An educated populace would reward Democrats for practicing sound fiscal policy. Now, if they continued unrestrained spending after the economy recovered, like the Republicans have done since Reagan took office, then they would deserve to be punished for their unsound fiscal policy, but we don't have an educated voting populace.

  14. Re:Caller ID, too on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    You mean facebook users?

  15. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    Pimped out cars?

  16. Re:No on Could CA Violent Game Law Lead To an Industry Exodus? · · Score: 1

    in fact, that cultural/technological evolution is directly proportional to sexual frustration

    That explains why those middle eastern cultures are so much more evolved than most other cultures.

  17. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    Considered by Keynesian school economists, which was largely discredited by the f'ing "great" depression.

    Truly Orwellian, you wingers are.

  18. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're a typical high school graduate, deficit spending in a downturn seems like a bad idea. If you're a college graduate (in something other than economics), it seems like a good idea. If you've got an Economics degree, you're not sure.

    What too many people forget is that for Keynesian economics to work, in times of prosperity you must run surpluses, or at the very least, reduce deficit spending to the point where the growth of the economy shrinks your debt ratio. Critics point to the last 30 years as evidence against Keynesian economics, either forgetting or not realizing that in the last 30 years, with the exception of the eight year span of the Clinton administration, our government hasn't actually been practicing it.

  19. I'd say... on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    ...Innes was near the right Pace at the right time.

  20. Re:ugh on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    He defamed himself via his behavior.

  21. Re:They've already busted that twice now on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obama did no actual work for any of that...he doesn't apepar to have learned anything beyond gaming the system

    And you would know this because? Are you a lawyer? Did you graduate from Columbia or Harvard? Were you editor of the Harvard law review?

  22. Re:I'm so sick of this... on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    If you had bothered to read the thread before spouting...

    You must be new here.

  23. Re:It's not open source on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    My windows mobile phone does.

  24. Re:I'm so sick of this... on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    In the US the only network that is capable of supporting the N900 is the AT&T,

    Your nickname is fitting in this case. The N900 works with T-Mobile's 3G network in the U.S.. Their 3G coverage is non-existent in rural areas but is decent in urban areas.

  25. Re:I'm so sick of this... on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in Nevada Sue Lowden just felt a disturbance in the force.