Good one. This is wonderful bullshit. I especially like how you lump several BS phenomena together with the statement "from first year quantum physics" and not terminating your observations on that bent before going into your hyperbole.
I love the "lookup table", but to truly achieve compression of random data, your key will have to have as many entries as possible bit combinations in the random data. I would suggest keeping the key in hexadecimal (base16) so that each character can resolve 4 bits of binary. This alone will give you 4-1 compression of your binary bitstream. Ain't I a genius? You could just send your data in hexadecimal instead of binary and then you'll have compression without your fancy key!
Uh, I would suspect that Burst should provide the missing 35 weeks of data and if it's truly missing, Microsoft can just accept the data as-is. They could provide their version but if the two records don't match, it would be simple to argue in court that the party who has not claimed data loss has the accurate record.
Since when is this practice referred to as a Golden Parachute? I was under the impression that a 'Golden Parachute' was a clause in an employment contract that allows an exec to collect pay even if he's fired.
I believe what you are referring to is called stock manipulation and is illegal and can lead to major prison time if done intentionally through fraud. Anyone?
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didn't read the article, eh?
The fish are plastic.
RTFA.
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I still remain convinced of two points, regardless of your argument.
1. This asshat was arrested because he chained himself to a building.
2. Protest in itself is not inherently disruptive of the democratic process. Protest, and the right to petition one's government for redress of grievances is a necessary and healthy part of a thriving democracy. However, intentionally blocking roadways with ones body, blocking access to a building etc. cannot be viewed as a protected right, as it directly conflicts with another's right to movement and access to his or her property and public facilities. No one person's rights (no matter how vocally proclaimed) may take precedence over another person's. I am also quite libertarian but I think the activist mindset is long on talk, short on fix. Instead of simply protesting X injustice, seek to remedy it with work.
Pfafrich was still arrested for chaining his dumb ass to a building. No amount of rationalization will change the simple fact that in America and most parts of Europe, you don't get arrested for just having views contrary to corporate interests. You get arrested when you take action which harms another person or entity. 'Nuff said.
Disagree if you must, that's the beauty of it all. You can.
Yes, I am familiar with George Orwell. I was merely giving examples of how ludicrous it is to engineer the various human languages so that no offense can be conveyed between people. I am saying that calling a fat person "generously cut" is a patronizing and gratuitous use of newspeak.
Did you ever notice how only OLD products can't be repaired, but the latest ones ALWAYS can? I always wondered why this is, since the old product was once a new product, and problems cannot be adequately predicted by companies like Microsoft. I would wager that NT 4.0 and even 3.5 could be patched, but it's not economically feasable because refusal to do so leads to revenue via upgrades to repairable product. Fixing the problem is "no profit".
yeah, but don't all the atoms between the probe and the ground station have to be also linked? And how much power is needed in order to elevate the quantum state of this long chain of atoms which must be also somehow held from drifting away from the probe? I call BS on your physics teacher if he says that by causing two atoms to have the same spin that they will remain the same after being separated with some sort of psychic bond. I'm not a physics major but I know enough to see that there isn't some way to link two atoms together regardless of distance between them. That concept would require two things that don't exist: One, a medium to transport the quantum data between two disparate atoms without loss of energy, such as a beam of 0 width, and a method to measure the quantum signature of an individual atom without changing it in the process. Good luck with them both.
No kidding. Computer Science majors tend to be rather "liberal" when it comes to use of force, and will totally miss the point that the US military, like many first world militaries, would like to only have to destroy military targets, and would really like to moot the point of placing military targets like SAM sites next to daycare centers. People who do things like that are doing so because they know that they are fighting people who value human life. My life experience has tought me that "liberal" means a person is intolerant of things like religion, and a "conservative" is intolerant of things like Public Display of Affection. The conservatives really chap the liberals' skin when they object loudly to things like public *n*l sex in restaurant bathrooms. The liberals chap the conservatives' hide when they object loudly to public display of religious artifacts such as the Ten Commandments.
Okay, I see how having a system entirely tailored and compiled for my own system is great, sorta. Aren't there thousands of other people using AMD Athlon processors? Why should I have to compile a binary that everyone else has already got on their Athlon? I can see having several versions of the binary to cope with INTEL/AMD discrepancies but how much optimisation is really done with a custom compile?
By new speak, I suppose you mean such things as calling black people "African American" even if they're British, or spelling the word "Womyn" or referring to racial advantage systems as "Affirmative Action" or perhaps eliminating the following word from your vocabulary:
"Fat", "heavy", "blind", "niggardly", "terrorist", "bald", "Mexican", "retarded", "crippled", "deaf", "poor", "queer", "dirty", "perverse", and "asshole", and replace with "Plus size", "big boned", "vision-impaired", "frugal", "freedom fighter for the other guys who suck", "hair deficient", "hispanic person who happens to hail from the olde land of Mexico and that's o-kayyy", "special person who just so happens to have a severe case of Down's Syndrome which happens to render him or her incapable of proper decision making", "without walkingnessitude", "hearing impaired", "person without capital or assets but probably having debt", "alternatively sexual", "sexually experimental", and "person of unusually antagonistic nature which leads others to believe incorrectly that he cares only for himself and not others which is in fact not the case at all since he only has difficulty properly articulating the fact that he deeply cares but sometimes things come out of his mouth which are plainly aggravating and insensitive but he can't help it because he's really kind of an a-s-s-h-o-l-e if you get my drift but I am not really saying that he really is one but kind of looks that way most of the time don't you know because he isn't concerned with other people's impressions of his character and it shows real bad once in a while like the time he casually mentioned to his aunt Janet that she had a serious case of body odor that in his words melted his eyebrows off when he hugged her and you see he says these things which may lead others to believe that he cares not for polite conversation but would rather cause you discomfort or even anger because the things he says are so inflammatory such as the time he told Mister Jackson that his lips were fucking gigantic and that he thought only negroes and jews and angelina jolie had lips like that and that maybe the lip fairy came by more than once in their house but that's just his way and you shouldn't take it personally I heard that his father was kinda like that you know?"
I kinda hate PC too.
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A masterful troll. But a troll nonetheless. As ingenious as you may think it is to take the side of your opponent and hyperbole it out of the park, there are some who will see it for what it is.
BTW- I grew up with a Christian Conservative family and I know how they think and this just ain't it- it's more like a silly caricature of all the wacky beliefs usually found buried beneath the surface all rolled into one guy. That almost never happens. When it does, people die. Usually so does the wacko.
But, again, masterful troll. fucker.
It is not against the law to succeed in overthrowing the government either. It IS, however, illegal to attempt to do so and fail.
Ironic, isn't it?
no, that's not irony (learned that from/.)
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dumbfuck, you WERE NOT ARRESTED FOR YOUR BELIEFS. You, one arrogant sonofabitch, decided to violate the law imposed on you in a non-totalitarian country in order to usurp the powers granted to the government by the people through their votes. You used physical force instead of democratic pressure. I hope all you dumbfucks who have to resort to this due to your being a superminority in your area can see that you are attempting to deny your countrymen the right to democratic process via the rule of law.
Protest against REAL injustice, you petty little powderpuff! IN THIS WORLD, there are people raping and indiscriminately beating women just because they can! And to all of you neomarxists spoiled by wealthy living, quit your bitching and HELP PEOPLE. Don't destroy public or corporate structures, feed people. You whiny activist-mentality rejects can suck my dick if you think that any of the brain-dead things you do will affect genuine change in the world. Goddamn
Here's what you're missing: Those problems that have vexed mankind for a hundred or more years do so because they are DIFFICULT to solve. It's not as simple as 'quit making nukes', or 'don't buy a gun'. Damnit, you have to somehow convince everyone to make a change in their attitudes, behavior and choices. This is why, from 1930-2003 not ONE problem has been solved by student activists. Think about that.
Both of your analogies are completely flawed and without merit. The reason is that in your analogies, a bi-directional communication is established, and the equipment that you are using is owned by another party. There is a difference between intercepting and decoding a radio transmission and hijacking an RF device by simple proximity to the device.
For example, I can purchase a license to use commercial radio service between two mobile sales trailers which have opened to sell gyrocopter plans. Like the ones you see advertised in Popular Science. I transmit the information in FAX format between the trailers so that I only have to store the information at my office downtown which has more security. Lets say someone intercepts this info and builds a gyrocopter using my plans. They don't distribute the plans, they just build to my plans. They haven't broken any laws, especially if they didn't make a copy on paper and sell it to anyone. Information cannot be copyrighted, only the original words can be.
The same thing can be said for DirecTV. If I don't make copies of their works when I program a card, and the info on the card was created purely by reverse engineering the transmission format, I haven't broken copyright laws unless I then copy or resell the data I intercept. That is, until recently congress gave digital works more protection than analog works by passing the DMCA.
This clearly violates constitutional equal protection guarantees and fair use provisions of US copyright laws, and as such, needs to be rewritten or struck.
you don't know anything about RF. This is the CARRIER FREQUENCY (900MHZ). The data rate in bits per second (baud) determines the deviation and band-width of the signal. In no circumstance have I EVER seen bandwidth exceed 1/8th carrier frequency for free-space signals. To get 17GB/s you would need a carrier deep in the microwave spectrum, and an extremely efficient DPSK or QPSK digital modulation. Your mathematical analysis is nice, but completely based on you plugging in numbers without knowledge of what those numbers represent in the real world. And sure, you could probably deviate a signal to 17.9gb/s but at 900Mhz you would be using every bit of the spectrum from 1 hertz to around 2 gigahertz. It just can't be done in a practical way. How do you design a resonant circuit that will resonate at one hertz as well as 1800 megaherts? and every frequency in between? And how do you tune your transmit antenna so you don't reflect waves back into your amplifier? The formula you use here is completely useless in the RF spectrum. What you have there seems to be designed to calculate bandwidth based on transmission in a cable or waveguide, and clearly states that RC where R is data rate and C is channel capacity.
In this paragraph, it states that these cells operate at a higher temperature than PEM cells, then goes right ahead and states that this LOW temperature requires more platinum than PEM cells. It's worded in such a way as to suggest the writer is kinds fuzzy on his knowledge of fuel cells- Is a lower temperature reaction MORE or LESS efficient, and does lower temperature lead to MORE or LESS catalyst being needed? And finally, is your fuel cell actually low-temperature or high-temperature compared to PEM?
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What's ironic is that the mention of religion bashing as an instance of intolerance and hate is immediately followed by religion bashing as follows:
he profound lack of social support systems in modern society is as equally the fault of apathetic "I don't have time to listen to this, so get me my beer or get lost!" as it is the fault of Christian Repressionist "You must have demons inside you, let us drill a hole in your head to make it go away" ignorance.
Now THAT's Ironic.
Get used to the hate. Embrace the fact that those who are evil and hateful do not count you among their friends. If you allow this to bother you, you will have wasted your good times angry with G-D that he put these people here. He didn't. He only is responsible for two of them. After that they pretty much bred like rabbits. Who knew?
If you can be bothered to check your history, every nation which has attempted to destroy the Jewish people have met with defeat. Sometimes at the hands of Jews such as Israelis, sometimes with the help of other states such as the USA and Great Britain. You may pound yourself against a rock, but the rock will win. And the rock will not resort to pounding itself against you.
Israel has less than one fiftieth of the other arab lands. Still they cannot be tolerated by these blinded hysterical madmen. For any anti-semites and jew haters out there, I would ask when was the last time Israel attacked another sovereign nation unprovoked? Sure, they blasted Iraq's OSIRAQ nuclear power plant preemptively, but can you blame them? From the designs of that plant that I have seen, and its distant location from any city, I would say it was probably intended as a breeder reactor in my opinion. I mean, why would you need nuclear power when you have oodles of oil and low population density for 80% of your lands?
Booyah, you hypocritical dickhead! You, Senator Hatch, embody NONE of the ideals and positions that the newer republican party claims to. You are no different, a nasty old whore for large industries, giving robber barons a separate bill of rights from the common man.
I would join the Democrats except for the obvious fact that they whore to the trial lawyers, whom I find only a tiny smidgeon more despicable than the media conglomerates.
It's a good thing there are still some good men in both parties. In the future I plan to be more careful with my vote, and to choose a man on his merit and not party affiliation. It's a pity that most senators are such asshats. It really is.
I sent Senator Hatch a letter- lets see if he responds. My adopted congresswoman responds personally- she must be new.
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Good one. This is wonderful bullshit. I especially like how you lump several BS phenomena together with the statement "from first year quantum physics" and not terminating your observations on that bent before going into your hyperbole.
I love the "lookup table", but to truly achieve compression of random data, your key will have to have as many entries as possible bit combinations in the random data. I would suggest keeping the key in hexadecimal (base16) so that each character can resolve 4 bits of binary. This alone will give you 4-1 compression of your binary bitstream. Ain't I a genius? You could just send your data in hexadecimal instead of binary and then you'll have compression without your fancy key!
Nerd.
wait,... I read your resume.
You are an accomplished nerd.
Uh, I would suspect that Burst should provide the missing 35 weeks of data and if it's truly missing, Microsoft can just accept the data as-is. They could provide their version but if the two records don't match, it would be simple to argue in court that the party who has not claimed data loss has the accurate record.
Since when is this practice referred to as a Golden Parachute? I was under the impression that a 'Golden Parachute' was a clause in an employment contract that allows an exec to collect pay even if he's fired.
I believe what you are referring to is called stock manipulation and is illegal and can lead to major prison time if done intentionally through fraud. Anyone?
IANAL YMMV
didn't read the article, eh?
The fish are plastic.
RTFA.
I still remain convinced of two points, regardless of your argument.
1. This asshat was arrested because he chained himself to a building. 2. Protest in itself is not inherently disruptive of the democratic process. Protest, and the right to petition one's government for redress of grievances is a necessary and healthy part of a thriving democracy. However, intentionally blocking roadways with ones body, blocking access to a building etc. cannot be viewed as a protected right, as it directly conflicts with another's right to movement and access to his or her property and public facilities. No one person's rights (no matter how vocally proclaimed) may take precedence over another person's. I am also quite libertarian but I think the activist mindset is long on talk, short on fix. Instead of simply protesting X injustice, seek to remedy it with work.
Pfafrich was still arrested for chaining his dumb ass to a building. No amount of rationalization will change the simple fact that in America and most parts of Europe, you don't get arrested for just having views contrary to corporate interests. You get arrested when you take action which harms another person or entity. 'Nuff said.
Disagree if you must, that's the beauty of it all. You can.
Yes, I am familiar with George Orwell. I was merely giving examples of how ludicrous it is to engineer the various human languages so that no offense can be conveyed between people. I am saying that calling a fat person "generously cut" is a patronizing and gratuitous use of newspeak.
Did you ever notice how only OLD products can't be repaired, but the latest ones ALWAYS can? I always wondered why this is, since the old product was once a new product, and problems cannot be adequately predicted by companies like Microsoft. I would wager that NT 4.0 and even 3.5 could be patched, but it's not economically feasable because refusal to do so leads to revenue via upgrades to repairable product. Fixing the problem is "no profit".
yeah, but don't all the atoms between the probe and the ground station have to be also linked? And how much power is needed in order to elevate the quantum state of this long chain of atoms which must be also somehow held from drifting away from the probe? I call BS on your physics teacher if he says that by causing two atoms to have the same spin that they will remain the same after being separated with some sort of psychic bond. I'm not a physics major but I know enough to see that there isn't some way to link two atoms together regardless of distance between them. That concept would require two things that don't exist: One, a medium to transport the quantum data between two disparate atoms without loss of energy, such as a beam of 0 width, and a method to measure the quantum signature of an individual atom without changing it in the process. Good luck with them both.
No kidding. Computer Science majors tend to be rather "liberal" when it comes to use of force, and will totally miss the point that the US military, like many first world militaries, would like to only have to destroy military targets, and would really like to moot the point of placing military targets like SAM sites next to daycare centers. People who do things like that are doing so because they know that they are fighting people who value human life. My life experience has tought me that "liberal" means a person is intolerant of things like religion, and a "conservative" is intolerant of things like Public Display of Affection. The conservatives really chap the liberals' skin when they object loudly to things like public *n*l sex in restaurant bathrooms. The liberals chap the conservatives' hide when they object loudly to public display of religious artifacts such as the Ten Commandments.
Okay, I see how having a system entirely tailored and compiled for my own system is great, sorta. Aren't there thousands of other people using AMD Athlon processors? Why should I have to compile a binary that everyone else has already got on their Athlon? I can see having several versions of the binary to cope with INTEL/AMD discrepancies but how much optimisation is really done with a custom compile?
By new speak, I suppose you mean such things as calling black people "African American" even if they're British, or spelling the word "Womyn" or referring to racial advantage systems as "Affirmative Action" or perhaps eliminating the following word from your vocabulary: "Fat", "heavy", "blind", "niggardly", "terrorist", "bald", "Mexican", "retarded", "crippled", "deaf", "poor", "queer", "dirty", "perverse", and "asshole", and replace with "Plus size", "big boned", "vision-impaired", "frugal", "freedom fighter for the other guys who suck", "hair deficient", "hispanic person who happens to hail from the olde land of Mexico and that's o-kayyy", "special person who just so happens to have a severe case of Down's Syndrome which happens to render him or her incapable of proper decision making", "without walkingnessitude", "hearing impaired", "person without capital or assets but probably having debt", "alternatively sexual", "sexually experimental", and "person of unusually antagonistic nature which leads others to believe incorrectly that he cares only for himself and not others which is in fact not the case at all since he only has difficulty properly articulating the fact that he deeply cares but sometimes things come out of his mouth which are plainly aggravating and insensitive but he can't help it because he's really kind of an a-s-s-h-o-l-e if you get my drift but I am not really saying that he really is one but kind of looks that way most of the time don't you know because he isn't concerned with other people's impressions of his character and it shows real bad once in a while like the time he casually mentioned to his aunt Janet that she had a serious case of body odor that in his words melted his eyebrows off when he hugged her and you see he says these things which may lead others to believe that he cares not for polite conversation but would rather cause you discomfort or even anger because the things he says are so inflammatory such as the time he told Mister Jackson that his lips were fucking gigantic and that he thought only negroes and jews and angelina jolie had lips like that and that maybe the lip fairy came by more than once in their house but that's just his way and you shouldn't take it personally I heard that his father was kinda like that you know?"
I kinda hate PC too.
A masterful troll. But a troll nonetheless. As ingenious as you may think it is to take the side of your opponent and hyperbole it out of the park, there are some who will see it for what it is. BTW- I grew up with a Christian Conservative family and I know how they think and this just ain't it- it's more like a silly caricature of all the wacky beliefs usually found buried beneath the surface all rolled into one guy. That almost never happens. When it does, people die. Usually so does the wacko.
But, again, masterful troll. fucker.
It is not against the law to succeed in overthrowing the government either. It IS, however, illegal to attempt to do so and fail. /.)
Ironic, isn't it?
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dumbfuck, you WERE NOT ARRESTED FOR YOUR BELIEFS. You, one arrogant sonofabitch, decided to violate the law imposed on you in a non-totalitarian country in order to usurp the powers granted to the government by the people through their votes. You used physical force instead of democratic pressure. I hope all you dumbfucks who have to resort to this due to your being a superminority in your area can see that you are attempting to deny your countrymen the right to democratic process via the rule of law.
Protest against REAL injustice, you petty little powderpuff! IN THIS WORLD, there are people raping and indiscriminately beating women just because they can! And to all of you neomarxists spoiled by wealthy living, quit your bitching and HELP PEOPLE. Don't destroy public or corporate structures, feed people.
You whiny activist-mentality rejects can suck my dick if you think that any of the brain-dead things you do will affect genuine change in the world. Goddamn Here's what you're missing: Those problems that have vexed mankind for a hundred or more years do so because they are DIFFICULT to solve. It's not as simple as 'quit making nukes', or 'don't buy a gun'. Damnit, you have to somehow convince everyone to make a change in their attitudes, behavior and choices. This is why, from 1930-2003 not ONE problem has been solved by student activists. Think about that.
I will also buy this game, even if only to send a message to other developers.
Both of your analogies are completely flawed and without merit. The reason is that in your analogies, a bi-directional communication is established, and the equipment that you are using is owned by another party. There is a difference between intercepting and decoding a radio transmission and hijacking an RF device by simple proximity to the device. For example, I can purchase a license to use commercial radio service between two mobile sales trailers which have opened to sell gyrocopter plans. Like the ones you see advertised in Popular Science. I transmit the information in FAX format between the trailers so that I only have to store the information at my office downtown which has more security. Lets say someone intercepts this info and builds a gyrocopter using my plans. They don't distribute the plans, they just build to my plans. They haven't broken any laws, especially if they didn't make a copy on paper and sell it to anyone. Information cannot be copyrighted, only the original words can be.
The same thing can be said for DirecTV. If I don't make copies of their works when I program a card, and the info on the card was created purely by reverse engineering the transmission format, I haven't broken copyright laws unless I then copy or resell the data I intercept. That is, until recently congress gave digital works more protection than analog works by passing the DMCA. This clearly violates constitutional equal protection guarantees and fair use provisions of US copyright laws, and as such, needs to be rewritten or struck.
you don't know anything about RF. This is the CARRIER FREQUENCY (900MHZ). The data rate in bits per second (baud) determines the deviation and band-width of the signal. In no circumstance have I EVER seen bandwidth exceed 1/8th carrier frequency for free-space signals. To get 17GB/s you would need a carrier deep in the microwave spectrum, and an extremely efficient DPSK or QPSK digital modulation. Your mathematical analysis is nice, but completely based on you plugging in numbers without knowledge of what those numbers represent in the real world. And sure, you could probably deviate a signal to 17.9gb/s but at 900Mhz you would be using every bit of the spectrum from 1 hertz to around 2 gigahertz. It just can't be done in a practical way. How do you design a resonant circuit that will resonate at one hertz as well as 1800 megaherts? and every frequency in between? And how do you tune your transmit antenna so you don't reflect waves back into your amplifier? The formula you use here is completely useless in the RF spectrum. What you have there seems to be designed to calculate bandwidth based on transmission in a cable or waveguide, and clearly states that RC where R is data rate and C is channel capacity.
I agree. That was the most impressive use of Flash I have ever seen. Ever.
In this paragraph, it states that these cells operate at a higher temperature than PEM cells, then goes right ahead and states that this LOW temperature requires more platinum than PEM cells. It's worded in such a way as to suggest the writer is kinds fuzzy on his knowledge of fuel cells- Is a lower temperature reaction MORE or LESS efficient, and does lower temperature lead to MORE or LESS catalyst being needed? And finally, is your fuel cell actually low-temperature or high-temperature compared to PEM?
What's ironic is that the mention of religion bashing as an instance of intolerance and hate is immediately followed by religion bashing as follows:
he profound lack of social support systems in modern society is as equally the fault of apathetic "I don't have time to listen to this, so get me my beer or get lost!" as it is the fault of Christian Repressionist "You must have demons inside you, let us drill a hole in your head to make it go away" ignorance. Now THAT's Ironic.
That is all.
Get used to the hate. Embrace the fact that those who are evil and hateful do not count you among their friends. If you allow this to bother you, you will have wasted your good times angry with G-D that he put these people here. He didn't. He only is responsible for two of them. After that they pretty much bred like rabbits. Who knew?
If you can be bothered to check your history, every nation which has attempted to destroy the Jewish people have met with defeat. Sometimes at the hands of Jews such as Israelis, sometimes with the help of other states such as the USA and Great Britain. You may pound yourself against a rock, but the rock will win. And the rock will not resort to pounding itself against you.
Israel has less than one fiftieth of the other arab lands. Still they cannot be tolerated by these blinded hysterical madmen. For any anti-semites and jew haters out there, I would ask when was the last time Israel attacked another sovereign nation unprovoked? Sure, they blasted Iraq's OSIRAQ nuclear power plant preemptively, but can you blame them? From the designs of that plant that I have seen, and its distant location from any city, I would say it was probably intended as a breeder reactor in my opinion. I mean, why would you need nuclear power when you have oodles of oil and low population density for 80% of your lands?
Booyah, you hypocritical dickhead! You, Senator Hatch, embody NONE of the ideals and positions that the newer republican party claims to. You are no different, a nasty old whore for large industries, giving robber barons a separate bill of rights from the common man.
I would join the Democrats except for the obvious fact that they whore to the trial lawyers, whom I find only a tiny smidgeon more despicable than the media conglomerates.
It's a good thing there are still some good men in both parties. In the future I plan to be more careful with my vote, and to choose a man on his merit and not party affiliation. It's a pity that most senators are such asshats. It really is.
I sent Senator Hatch a letter- lets see if he responds. My adopted congresswoman responds personally- she must be new.