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  1. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 1, Insightful
    We recently passed a bill called the ACA that actually encourages business to SHRINK, reducing their full-time staff. Instead of recognizing that problem, the left attacks the business owners who (in an admittedly public, jerky manner) announce plans to do so.

    Bill Clinton raised taxes. Low and behold, middle class got stronger.

    Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Ronald Reagan cut income taxes, EVERY class got stronger.

  2. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 0

    We are NOT productive, as far as tax receipts go. 46% of Americans pay no income tax, and all we talk about are going after the "1%", which would get us less than 10% toward the goal. WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM.

  3. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 2

    Thanks for raking out a bunch of hyperbole instead of suggesting a solution to the problem. The fact is that 100% of GDP will be taken up servicing the elderly and disabled by 2050, and the left is busy attacking the messenger or throwing out useless "solutions" like "taxing the rich". This is reality!

  4. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Do you think that once the legal weed crowd gets a taste of the freedom the people can experience through states' rights, that they might be open to other means of exercising that power: you know, through state-level control of health care, schools, guns? No?

  5. Re:Why not reduce emissions? on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Ooh, goodie! Start killing the brown people, because they make the most humans!

  6. Re:Why not reduce emissions? on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Front loading washing machines don't get your clothes clean unless you use specific detergents that create a lot of carbon dioxide to produce. I'm kinda wondering how conserving water is tied to climate change, as well. Do you get science?

  7. Re:RTFA on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    Business that require visible ID at all time tends to be in the sectors that screw up real bad (financial sector).

    I can tell you aren't a security professional. Frankly, unless you're one of those exceedingly rare businesses that has no confidential information and no assets, I think you need to have visible ID.

  8. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1
    Thanks for slapping around that straw man, but I didn't say anything about Jews in Brooklyn (or the Bronx, for that matter). But article 7 of the Charter of Hamas says, "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" And article 13 claims there will be no peaceful solution: '[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad: âoeAllah is the all-powerful, but most people are not aware.â From time to time a clamoring is voiced, to hold an International Conference in search for a solution to the problem. Some accept the idea, others reject it, for one reason or another, demanding the implementation of this or that condition, as a prerequisite for agreeing to convene the Conference or for participating in it. But the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is aware of the [prospective] parties to this conference, and of their past and present positions towards the problems of the Muslims, does not believe that those conferences are capable of responding to demands, or of restoring rights or doing justice to the oppressed. Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the nonbelievers as arbitrators in the lands of Islam. Since when did the Unbelievers do justice to the Believers? âoeAnd the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah [himself] is the Guidance. And if you should follow their desires after the knowledge which has come unto thee, then you would have from Allah no protecting friend nor helper.â Sura 2 (the Cow), verse 120 There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.'

    Otherwise everyone in the US who opposed ObamaCare would actually be in favor of all the deaths ObamaCare's free medical care for poor people will prevent.

    I should have read this idiocy first; then I would have known not to bother.

  9. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Hamas has been firing into Israel ALL SUMMER. The media SIMPLY DID NOT REPORT IT.

  10. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    His ass is speaking here. We never hear from the other end of Hatta. Israel is a parliamentary democracy, the most free in the Middle East, but that fact cannot punch through the field of cognitive dissonance created by the fundamentalist Arab people.

  11. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Kindness was offered many times; the most recent was the withdrawal from Gaza. Arabs answered by turning Gaza into a rocket-launching site.

    What makes you think that the Israeli government is not secular? It is an ethnically Jewish state, not religiously. The national holiday is independence day, not a religious holiday. The government is a non-theocratic parliamentary democracy. Several non-Jewish (speaking both ethnically and theocratically) political parties exist and are represented in the Knesset. The requirements for citizenship are complex, but Arabs (and other non-Jews) who resided in Israel prior to 1948 and their descendants are citizens, and others who become permanent residents can be naturalized after five years. Ask yourself: when can a non-Muslim, non-Arab ever become a citizen of most Arab states? Answer: NEVER.

  12. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    No, they are not entitled to the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. Those places were promised to Israel before AND after WWII. JORDAN belongs to the Arabs. And the fact that Hamas responded to Israel's concession of Gaza by using it for a death launching platform tells us they are not to be trusted with the West Bank.

  13. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Red herring. The religious belief, or non-belief, of the parties involved is irrelevant to the fact that two sides are in conflict over the control of a piece of land and/or the right to exist. Your elitist posturing does not place you above the conflict.

  14. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    You know, you could have at least read the first post in this thread-- mine-- and answered my allegations. What you are saying makes no sense, in light of the fact that it is the Arabs who have initiated the attacks on Israel and Hamas and the state of Iran that have vowed to eliminate the Jews. Israel did NOT start the 1967 war. No one believes that except the same Islamic radicals who believe Jews drink the blood of children. It was started on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, for crying out loud.

  15. Re:Most albums have index marks, unlike Amarok on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 1

    The CD format was released in 1982 so, yes.

  16. Re:Individual Song Downloads on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but 8-track was horrible.

    YOU! Shook me all... night*click*
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    LONG!

  17. Re:RIP Charles M. Schulz on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    I say, old chap, I haven't a clue what you mean! Things are right bully here in the year 1900! Why, the economy is booming under the gold standard, President McKinley has just been reelected, and I eagerly await the brilliant plans he has in store for his second term! What's the worst that could happen?

  18. Re:Properly configured hosts not impacted on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    If you saw this problem, consider properly setting your sanity interval.

  19. Re:The Y2K bug was REAL on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    2038 for unix, cuz greybeards used 32 bit signed offsets in seconds. Or perhaps 2027 if you forgot to make that single byte integer unsigned.

  20. Re:The Y2K bug was REAL on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 2

    This is why governments are only ever harmfulâ€"if they do any good, things would have gone well anyway, so they didn't need to spend all that money and go to all that effort

    That's funny, because I always see it in reverse with the US government: if we hadn't had the stimulus, unemployment would have been much worse, or if we didn't have federal loans, no one could afford college, or if we hadn't passed the Patriot Act, we would have had lots of terrorist attacks...

    Ignoring, of course, that we have unemployment higher than they predicted anyway, and we have young people racking up debt they can never pay off (and can't be discharged) to gets jobs that don't exist, and we've had terrorist attacks on our military bases, recruiting centers, and embassies.

  21. Re:Maybe they could improve the algorithm? on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    Simple answer: there is already a sanity limit to prevent adjusting the clock more than x seconds. You have to manually adjust the clock, or manually force a sync to continue in these instances.

  22. Re:Not an NTP glitch on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    Yes. I don't understand how this was a serious issue with any sane configuration.

  23. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why don't stop being ignorant of the fact that Hamas' leaders have made it clear that they want Israel destroyed and all ethnic Jews eliminated? Why don't you stop being ignorant of the fact that Hamas has been initiated this exchange since they acquired Iranian weapons capable of reaching Tel Aviv months ago? Israel never fires the first shot, yet they are called the aggressors. I'm tired, TIRED of ignorant simpletons and their rhetoric.

  24. Confirmed! on Biogas To Power Experimental Microsoft Data Center · · Score: 0

    Anyone who has had to use the bathroom after I've had Mexican food can confirm it's pretty powerful.

  25. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No government should be trusted. Ever. If you trust your government, you will be a sorry nation indeed.