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  1. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    ...CNN did a poll that showed over 60% of Americans support the tax cuts for rich thinking they would provide jobs...

    But in reality it just means the rest of us get trickled down on some more.

    Consumer demand, i.e, demand side economics, not supply side, creates jobs as people try to make money fulfilling that demand. No demand, Mr. Rich Guy is just going to stick the extra money wherever it can draw the most interest. Only if he sees consumer demand is he going to plow some of it into a business to try to profit from selling into that demand. In order to have consumer demand, consumers have to have money to spend. Demand can spur the creation of more supply. Rarely can supply spur the creation of more demand, and then almost always because excess supply drove down prices.

    The fact that Obama is considered radical left by most mainstream Americans is outstanding and you can't deny America is not going further to the right as a result.

    Obama's considered radical left by those who don't really know what radical left is, but have been conditioned by Fox News to believe it's anybody who isn't to the right of Ghengis Khan.

  2. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I live in rural southwest, and the amount of coworkers who watch/listen to Fox news is about 90%.... for the simple fact it's about all we get. I've had countless conversations/arguments with coworkers about "libtards" and teabaggers and contend with the crap they regurgitate after hearing it from the Almighty Rush.

    But at least you can get both kinds of music on the radio, country AND western!

  3. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Or will they just bypass that step entirely and go straight to violence in a couple years.

    Probably, at which point it'll be mighty risky to be working any kind of manual labor, even if it's mowing your own lawn, while looking even slightly Hispanic, or to be anywhere doing anything while looking vaguely middle eastern.

    These are the kind of people who stop off at the castle to borrow some lit torches and then go burn down their own village.

  4. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Who on earth thought GOP/TP represented regular people?

    The idiots who voted for them?

  5. Re:Image elicited by headline: on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    The real weight was in the base of those things--the part with the dial.

    I suspect there were probably real life cases of people being bludgeoned to death with those things.

  6. Re:Found it! on Join a Worldwide Planet Search · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought, that a worldwide search would have returned a maximum of one result.

  7. Re:Two years...? on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Something very interesting in that article--apparently Stuxnet used 4 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 7, including a couple that apparently no one else had found so far, which leads one to wonder, considering all the lead times involved, if perhaps those ZDVs were placed in Win7 on purpose.

  8. Re:Jews playing with fire when hurting Iran! on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Somebody mod this up!

  9. Re:Uh... on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    "Here's an interesting mental exercise - put yourself in Iran's shoes. Which course would YOU pursue? You've had a front row seat for the invasion from Iraq*...

    There, fixed that for you.

    *circa 1980

  10. Now, if only... on The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    Now, if only someone could "hack in", as the kids call it these days, and add all of the French government sites to this list, especially the no doubt web-facing browser-based administrative tool used to maintain this list...

  11. Re:There they go again... on The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    What were all those "The south will rise again" bumper stickers ...

    Viagra ads.

  12. People don't watch Fox News to become informed... on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...having already made up their minds and not wishing to be confused with the facts, they go there to have their preconceptions re-enforced.

  13. Re:Sure would be funny on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    You're being sarcastic, right?

    You do know that since his mother was a citizen he could have been born off-planet and would still be a "natural-born citizen", and therefore eligible for the office upon reaching the 35th anniversary of his day of birth.

  14. Re:*Yawn* on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    Somebody get the machine gun, there's some fish in this here barrel.

    Too bad you don't have a user account*, you've already got a great sig.

    *666 doesn't really count.

  15. Re:Sheesh on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    What was that, more of an agravator? : - )

  16. Re:How wasteful we humans are. on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    ...provide one example where Israel launched a war of aggression.

    How about every time they took over any of the land in that area of the world, starting in the Old Testament and going up to 1948.

  17. Re:How wasteful we humans are. on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Israel never removed a country's inhabitants from the map.

    Haven't read our Old Testament, have we?

  18. Re:Go Stuxnet! on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    And if, back in 1980, Saddam Hussein had thought that Iran had nukes, that would have saved a *whole lot* of Iranian lives as well.

    They don't want 'em just because they think it'll get 'em chicks.

  19. Re:SIGINT? on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    So, Signal, Shut The File Up, then?

  20. Re:Sounds like a plot to a horror movie on Small Fujitsu Device Harvests Both Solar and Thermal Energy · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...because you expect it to fail instead of being able to continue at its current rate?

  21. Re:Plot holes on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    Good writers have a built-in spell checker that they developed by years of reading good writers.

  22. Re:I declare vaporware. on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    It has controls on it ... and, seriously, it beats Tachyon Pulses or Wesley Crusher.

    Even with the polarity of the warp coils reversed and the phase shifted by the deflector array?

    Or was that supposed to be with the phase of the warp coils shifting the polarity or the deflector array?

    Or was it deflecting the shifting of the phase of the polarity of the array of warp coils? The warped array of coils? The coils of warped arrays?

    And then there was the time that Geordie thought that Picard said "Make it *snow*, Mr. LaForge"....

  23. Epic Fail? on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 2

    It appears that you have to find a way to click yourself out of shopping-enabled Wikipedia into regular Wikipedia in order to be able to search Wikipedia for anything that's not already on the main page.

    Also, the shopping-enabled main page is under the impression that today is October 23. When you live near a Marine Corps base, stuff like

    1983 – Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers of the international peacekeeping force.

    tends to catch your eye.

  24. Re:DHT? on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Is this honestly the same organization behind providing supplies to Katrina victims, as protecting private businesses against business models in crisis?

    Now you see the kind of innovative thinking that allowed the George W. Bush administration to achieve its stellar level of excellence and efficiency.

  25. Re:One of Our Cancers on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 1

    "We may not be able to catch Bin Laden, but by God we can damn sure make it slightly more inconvenient for him to download warez!"

    ---unnamed high-ranking DHS official---