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  1. Re:In the sense that all laws are based in moralit on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Well you have some reason for caring about people coming to harm, so there's some kind of "irrational" morality there; call it what you will.

  2. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's simply wrong. I wish they had, but they haven't. Non-military, discretionary spending under Bush has increased at twice the rate it did under Clinton. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/browne4.html/

    Decreased spending on medicine? Does the prescription drug giveaway, the first new entitlement in 40 years, ring a bell?

    And besides, when the media / politicians say "cut", they mean "decrease in the rate of interest". I can't recall, in my lifetime, anything being truly cut.

  3. Re:Blimey. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, friend; your cohorts discovered my post. :-)

  4. Re:Here's what I've been saying all along on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Because it can't be proven or disproven; because if the Earth really is in a natural warming trend it will keep happening no matter what; because no progress can be shown, they can continue to scream about us all dying soon.

  5. Conservatives on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 0

    I see you don't have any problem defining exactly what other people believe.

    People who are homeless may or may not be lazy, but that doesn't grant them the right to what others have earned.

    Rich people get tax cuts because (drumroll please) they pay taxes!

    In the sense that all laws are based in morality (at some level), they should be/are in some way based on God. Notice for example that members of the Southern Baptist Convention specifically advocate freedom of religion and that the state has no place in it.

  6. Re:Socialism by the back door. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Bravo, sir. My earlier post was but a feeble attempt at this one.

  7. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lots of people have something to gain by hyping global warming. Politicians looking for power, actors trying to look "caring", socialists making another attempt to weaken the United States.

  8. Gmail?! on What Would Be Your Dream Machine? · · Score: 1

    The guy's got a gmail address, so it can't be too old... I can't figure out what's going on here!

  9. Central Standard Time? on What Would Be Your Dream Machine? · · Score: 1

    I guess Dell is having is having trouble with the new DST rules...

  10. Re:How does document.write mess up your DOM tree? on Googlebot and Document.Write · · Score: 1

    There are some instances where it is unavoidable.

    Can you give an example?

  11. Re:How does document.write mess up your DOM tree? on Googlebot and Document.Write · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're using document.write, you're writing directly into the document stream, which only works in text/html, not an XHTML MIME type, because there's no way to guarantee the document will continue to be valid.

    In this day and age, document.write should never be used, in favor of the more verbose but more future-proof document.createElement and document.createTextNode notation.

  12. True on Googlebot and Document.Write · · Score: 1

    I doubt Google will notice DOM-created elements, either. But the author should re-test with that. And I would suggest that he post the result only if it turns out Google can see that, because we all assume it can't.

  13. The Results: on Googlebot and Document.Write · · Score: 5, Informative

    Save a click: No, Google does not "see" text inserted by Javascript.

  14. Re:Who didn't know this? on Novell Releases OO–OOXML Translator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OOXML has to be able to store every piece of data that the word *.doc file format stores

    Not true; Office 2007 could have a WMF -> SVG converter in it. Storing graphics as SVG would then just be part of saving into an XML format.

  15. Re:Corporations: No Taxes at All? on Tax Accounting Evil at Google? · · Score: 2

    You're not missing a thing; it's one of the big reasons the FairTax makes sense: corporations don't really pay taxes, they pass them along to people. There's a whole chapter on this in the FairTax book, I really suggest you read it; it's at least interesting even if you don't end up agreeing (but I think you will).

    That's a non-referring link, but I don't know what I can chop out and have it still work, so I left it all in.

  16. Re:FairTax! on Tax Accounting Evil at Google? · · Score: 1

    I agree with the sibling AC, and also wish to point out that the FairTax is the only plan which completely removes all tax obligation from the poor.

    Even when their income tax rate is zero, there's plenty extra they're having to pay for everything because of the income tax on everything else. When it's a sales tax, after their prebate, they have paid $0 in tax.

  17. FairTax! on Tax Accounting Evil at Google? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Support the FairTax, bring corporate headquarters back to the US and end this ridiculous waste of everyone's time.

  18. Actually on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    It's only approved for women. There's not even a test for HPV for men.

  19. Dyndns.org on ICANN May Act Against RegisterFly · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dyndns is the answer to all your problems.

  20. Re:It just seems on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Can you explain the "to his own advantage" part? Approval ratings are at an all-time low and the media hates him. It seems to me he's doing what he thinks is right, defending the American people as he sees fit, regardless of the consequences.

  21. Correction on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    I agree with some of what you said and disagree with the rest, but I would like to point out that the Constitution does not give us any freedoms. The Constitution prevents the federal government from interfering with freedoms that God gives us.

  22. hmm on XML::Simple for Perl Developers · · Score: 2, Informative

    It only claims to support a subset of XML, and of course it is called "Tiny", so I guess I can understand not supporting CDATA or attributes (...maybe). But for a ">" in a CDATA block to cause it to fail? It doesn't seem very useful.

  23. Re:Non-PDF? on Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online · · Score: 1

    Try this, you'll like it. Great piece of software.

  24. Absolutely on Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used their free dynamic services, and now they've earned my business long-term. Great registrar, no gimmicks, no games. Even if it's a few dollars a year above some of the other places, it's absolutely worth it.

  25. Re:Politics = Terrorism on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1, Funny

    The environmentalists do, because the environment is not what they (okay, their leadership) really care about. They're trying to sneak socialism in the back door by pretending to care about the environment.