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  1. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 1

    All of W's military records show that he met his obligations. One FORGED document claimed he had not. And you claim that "combat dodging fuckup" is a truthful observation? The plane they trained him in was no longer needed for combat. Can't blame that on him.

  2. Re:shitty summary strikes again! on Canadian Charges Against US Manga Reader Dropped · · Score: 1

    The Salem witch trials had nothing to do with prudishness, or even witchcraft. They were about stealing property.

  3. Re:Get ready for....nothing! on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1

    How much for your inverter, charge controller, and other electrical upgrades? How much for batteries or the grid-tie hookup? I've found that these cost as much or MORE than the panels. Your ROI without subsidies will be at least 10 years.

  4. Re:Get ready for....nothing! on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1

    Here's a bit of advice: if you want anyone to listen to you, don't start with an insult. I am aware of the subsidies for other industries, and they stink too. I am not in favor of them because they rarely improve the "public good" more than they increase corruption and pick who wins in the market.

  5. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    That is too complex for these cretins to understand past their own purposeful ignorance. Clearly, if you have an issue with the quality of the wages and health care provided to workers at your local Wal-Mart, instead of complaining to the CEO in Arkansas you should go to your local store and yell at the manager on duty.

  6. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Obama was born in Hawaii, but lived in Indonesia and Illinois. Is he a Hawaiian, Indonesian, or an Illinoisan?
    Some terrorists captured in Afghanistan were born in America. Does that mean we should attack ourselves?

  7. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Do you think that Santorum could pick worse justices than a "wise latina" and a woman without the decency to recuse herself from a case that she had herself prosecuted in the past?

  8. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 0

    I hated unnecessary restrictions on stem cell research.

    What restrictions? Oh, you mean you didn't like that my tax money wasn't being sent to labs run by big pharma so they could perform research involving a moral issue that, while you may not agree exists, it does for many or most of your fellow citizens and their opinions should be respected in a republican democracy.

    I can't help but notice that almost every one of your wants involves taking more money from hard working people and sending it to you or your pet causes. I also see that you aren't concerned about how you get them. If you were, that would trump your desire for largess. We're talking about a President who calls his opponents names, ignored a court order to being processing oil drilling permits, says he wants energy prices to go up, increased the cost of health care for the military, makes lies about his opponents (saying they want "dirty air", for example), and talks about creepy theological concepts like "collective salvation" that would infuriate the left if he wasn't one of theirs.

  9. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Stop making sense, you insane fascist theocrat Repuglican!

  10. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Everyone thinks that the answer is more democracy, when that has been done before and has failed. I guess this time it will be different, right? We're smarter and more educated than those guys. There's a reason the USA is a republic, but this isn't being taught in our schools anymore for a reason.

  11. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    It shows that he is not willing to stop and research something and use valid logic to come up with an appropriate conclusion.

    Why don't you just call him a heretic and be done with it?

  12. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. Economics and government are not inextricably linked. That's a socialist idea, but other concepts of government expect the government to protect the rights of the people, not enhance corruption.

  13. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    I wonder if when mandatory insurance was put in various places if the number of uninsured drivers went UP or DOWN. Naturally, the progressive would not see the unintended consequences as a fault of the regulation and assume that if a law doesn't work, you need more laws.

  14. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    People who drive uninsured don't do it just because they're all dicks (admittedly, many of them are), but because they're priced out of the freaking market by companies with a license to print money.

    ... which they got from the government. So who's at fault: the companies, or the government regulations that enable them?

  15. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Killing all the top Al Qaeda leaders, capturing Saddam Hussein, and signing Medicare part D. One conservative, one neocon, and one progressive win for each President.

  16. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    Kind of a bummer if the thing's dirty or covered with ice.

  17. Re:And brittanica did not see the threat on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    The New Book of Knowledge used to include rather in-depth articles, pictures, and diagrams. It was for kids, but frankly a classic encyclopedia is only useful to kids anyway.

  18. Re:And brittanica did not see the threat on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    I have 1,000,000 Flooz that says you're wrong.

  19. Re:Finally on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    The cheater's way was to cite the citations... although I was too paranoid to actually do this, and always ended up obtaining a copy of the work cited before I dared to include it.

  20. Re:City overpaying? on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    You mean, Mussolini kept the trains running?

  21. Re:Get ready for....nothing! on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With the subsidy factored in

    Goody! I can have renewable energy, and all I have to do is make my fellow citizens pay for it!

  22. Re:Hegemony, schmegemony on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1
    Forced relocation of dihydrogen monoxide to higher elevations.

    That being said, it's nice the panels are getting cheaper, but hasn't anyone noticed how expensive inverters (especially grid-tied) and transfer switches are? You'd think they were being made out of special 24K gold components.

  23. Re:Ion Cannon on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1

    To be sure.

  24. Re:Just beware of the potential misunderstandings on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    It's California. They need illegal narcotics to to do that.

  25. Re:Problematic on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    +5, Clever. What's more dangerous to police: firearms, or cameras?