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  1. Re:What a surprise! on The Digital Differences In Americans · · Score: 1

    Internet is definitely #1, after heat. So I guess it's #2. Except for drinking water... OK, that makes it #3. Except for sewage, which seems to make it #4. Except for refrigeration, which I guess makes it #5. So I guess that once you have a home, with heat, water, sewage, and refrigeration, you can use all the leftover tax dollars to give everyone free internet. It's that important.

  2. Re:What a surprise! on The Digital Differences In Americans · · Score: 1

    They are refreshing to hang out with, and I must conclude the GOP bashes them out of envy

    No, the GOP bashes people who think we should have a policy that claims people must follow a needlessly convoluted immigration process while ignoring the hordes of anonymous people who make dangerous trips through lawless areas in order to sneak in.

    I know of one brickyard owner who only hires (legal) Mexicans because they are so productive.

    Again, as far as I can tell the GOP doesn't have a problem with legal immigrants. Are there prejudiced folks? Yup, in both parties (and neither).

  3. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Your little social experiment seems to be ignoring the fact that Beverly Hills is filthy rich. I know that society has been dumbed-down such that we associate poverty exclusively with black neighborhoods, but I assure you that white "trailer trash" areas are alive and not well.

  4. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Well, it's self-evident that Harlem is now an irretrievable hellhole, and back in the golden era of jazz and big band WHITE artists had to "Take the A Train" to be considered legitimate.

  5. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    The basic issue is the asymmetry between the sexes.

    Gee, I kinda thought in your example it was in motive... because if you claim that a guy who had to use the ladies' room to take an "emergency leak" is automatically a "creep", then you are sexist.

  6. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Not all of them.

  7. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    I was certain he was referring to Reagan/Bush selling missiles to Iran, funding the Contras, paying terrorists to hold Marines hostage, setting up the original Al Qaeda training camps, and so on, and so forth.

    Citation or it didn't happen.

  8. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    And if you do not feel bad about a country where the majority are discriminated and brutalised against because of their skin colour, why yes, you are a racist.

    Straw man. Do you see anything in his post that says he didn't care?

    The ANC were democratically elected, the fact that they had previously had to use terrorism to further their aims of bringing freedom to South Africa is irrelevant.

    No, it's not. Torture is OK because their enemies were evildoers? Summary executions are OK? Killing innocent civilians in bars and restaurants is OK? How about incompetence and recklessness, such as killing more black people than white?

  9. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Well, no, because there isn't a "Racist" mod. You garnered both "troll" and "flamebait", however.

  10. Re:Iis a little old place where we can get togethe on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 2

    Black AND white? We only had black! Those were dark days, I tell ya.

  11. Re:Extend the lifespan of B-52 beyond 2040? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, they totally scribbled it on the back of a napkin during lunch. Only thing is, that lunch lasted something like five years and six different configurations (some using turboprops) and involved wind tunnel testing, which must have been really hard to set up in that hotel room. I would be surprised if 1960s designs didn't outperform it, but it did hold speed records in the 1950s.

  12. Re:This couldn't happen last week? on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    But the guy has a boring mid size family sedan, an Accord. I put 225-50-16 Goodyear Eagle GTs on my slightly less boring mid size sedan for $120 each, I think. They handle and wear quite well.

  13. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    Like concrete?

  14. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    Philadelphia had to pay the superintendent of schools nearly a million dollars to fire her. Instead of finding ways to reduce costs, they paid a firm over $200,000 to lobby the state for more money.

  15. Re:Historically, all politicians like to impose ru on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1

    Hey, Captain Straw Man: I propose that we tax fairly and equitably, and if that's not enough to finance what the government want to do, then THE GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING TOO MUCH. The pockets of the rich are not a cornucopia of plenty from which one can pluck forever. 10% of a rich person's take is a lot, 10% of a poor one's is very little.

  16. Re:As Arab cities go... on Why the Middle East Is a Good Place For Women Tech Entrepreneurs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Would the person who modded me "troll" please point out where my information is incorrect? Read the sayings of Mohammed as recorded by Al Bukhari: "A nation headed by a woman shall never succeed"; "If I have commanded kneeling for somebody, I would command a woman to kneel for her husband", "Women lack brain and religion". And the Qur'an, I think it's in Sura 5, "As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of other punishment)." Don't deny the truth.

  17. Re:I wonder how libertarians blame the regulations on How the Sinking of the Titanic Sparked a Century of Radio Improvements · · Score: 1

    Clearly, Chernobyl did not have enough regulations. If the Soviet Union had just been a little more socialist, the accident would not have happened. Because of the USSR's laissez-faire capitalism, Pripyat is still uninhabitable.

  18. Re:As Arab cities go... on Why the Middle East Is a Good Place For Women Tech Entrepreneurs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Correct. Islam is the main problem. The Qur'an says that beating women is a step in the process of obtaining obedience, and there are several references in the Hadith of women being inferior.

  19. Re:Well... on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    OpenVMS 5.5-2 was released in 1992 and it's still supported... although next year it will finally go into "Mature Product Support", which basically means that if you want something fixed you'll have to pay for it.

  20. Re:Alternative title? on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    It's trivial to configure Windows to disallow the use of removable media. In addition, if you set default-deny on all incoming and outgoing connections, you're only in trouble if you don't keep the presumably still-supported hosts that client trusts protected.

  21. Re:Cutting the chord on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Not much proofreading going on at Network World, huh? I also found the new phrase "hey-dey". What the heck is a "dey"?

  22. Re:Non issue on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that configuring a local firewall to default-deny for both incoming and outgoing, and only allowing network access to authorized hosts would take a little more work but be a lot more convenient for the users.

  23. Re:Wrong on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that there was a "documentary" episode, hosted by Troy McClure, where the Simpsons were referred to as a "suburban Kentucky family".

  24. Re:Haven't had bad luck lately... on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    Micro Center has $10 HDMI cables in plain plastic bags.

  25. Re:Conservatism on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1
    Obama also decreed that there be no drilling in the Gulf, and when a court ordered it lifted, simply passed another executive order more restrictive than the first.

    We also have the folks who banned kids from wearing American-themed T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. I don't think anyone's going to call them "conservative", right?

    And finally, we have L.A. trying to ban sexist or racist speech from the radio.