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  1. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Fox News is going to have a field day with that. Imagine the Glenn Beck chalkboard....

  2. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    How does writing a GUI app suck in Java? Care to give some examples? If you want to write apps specific to Windows, and have a ton of money to throw away on proprietary, super expensive microsoft tools, C# works. Want to write a cross platform GUI? C# sucks ass while Java rules.

  3. Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok. So when these people show up at an Emergency Room with a bone hanging out of their arm, and do not have cash in hand, they should be turned away. It is their responsibility to have the foresight to have insurance. it is not mine to have higher rates because they are leeching off my insurance company making my rates higher.

  4. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    care to include references? Did they spend more than was taken in? Did the national debt go up or down?

  5. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give the dude a break. Glenn Beck or o'reily said it so it must be true. Like all the fantasies, i mean fair and balanced stuff, the Fascists on Faux News say.

  6. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Hate to bring some reality to your rant, but McCain is actually responsible for the "...situation we are currently in". how long has he been in office? The economic problems of today were hardly created since Obama took office. The government has been on an unsustainable path for decades. The only thing which has been constant during this time is the great con job of a two party system. How did the debt look under Carter? Regan? Bush Sr? B Clinton? Bush Jr? McCain was in office how long again? And as you know, the president merely submits a budget. Congress approves it. Putting Republicans back in power will do nothing to solve anything. The only sensible thing to do is vote out _ALL_ Republicans and Democrats as they are all corrupt; we can't do worse.

  7. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    So by you, if someone can not pay for life saving treatment they should just die and leave behind their spouse and children. Or get the treatment, have to deal with declaring personal bankruptcy, losing their house, car, etc... and be homeless. YEAH! right on! That is the American way!

  8. Re:Cross platform? on Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about Windows Mobile 6.1?

  9. Re:Cross platform? on Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, i do not get it. What is so special about this? Looks primitive to me, and you still do not have a cross platform solution yet. I can make that game even easier and truly cross platform....HTML, Javascript and CSS. Sure there needs to be some hacks to support broken browsers like IE, and yeah it will run in a slow browser like IE, but it the same code runs on Windows, OSX, GNU Linux, Iphone OS (touch, ipad, iphone), Blackberry, Windows BMW 7 Series (sorry could not resist), Solaris, Palm Web OS, etc...

  10. Re:Apple is the new Microsoft on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    At lease Apple shows the patents others are violating rather than saying..."hey, we have a whole bunch of patents you linux people are violating. Pay us some money so nothing bad happens" Microsoft is one of the worst companies ever.

  11. Re:Pot == kettle == black? on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 1

    Who has Google been anti-competitive to? the Microsoft astroturfing on this is crazy. Microsoft _is_ a convicted monopolist. they got to their current desktop monopoly through anti-competitive behavior. Microsoft is just pissed Bing sucks and is a total failure unless they pump hundreds of millions into advertising and paid search deals.

  12. Re:Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 2, Informative

    In what way does Bing suck?

    its results are horrible, that is how.

  13. Re:Open letter to Chinese computer professionals: on US Inadvertently Enabled Chinese Google Hackers · · Score: 1

    Sure they do. However, you lump all politicians together which is horrible generalization. Not to mention it shows you have been conned by the existing corrupt establishment. The fix for the US Government starts very simple, never vote for a Republican or Democrat. Ever. If all the people bitching about the goverment did that, it would sure shake things up a bit.

  14. Re:Hmm on PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams · · Score: 1

    What if my kid(s) go over to one of these students house to say spend the night? And my kid(s) are not in that school district? I guess i need to open another suit?

  15. Re:Why complain on FCC Proposes 100Mbps Minimum Home Broadband Speed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Socialist incentives voted in by Republican controlled government will bankrupt the USA. Oh wait...

  16. Re:Not even going to RTFA on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    Problem is C# is a proprietary, patent encumbered Microsoft Standard. Take a look at the link to the C# spec and there is a pdf saying so right there. C# is great if you like vendor lock-in to Microsoft and paying them a ton of money. For my company, I will choose Java any day of the week as it runs great on all platforms (no half baked patent entangled implementations) and has far more industry support. And best of all, i can implement Java solutions for zero cost of software.

    While Java is controlled ultimately by Oracle, there is a fairly open body stewarding it unlike the vendor dominated rubber stamp EMCA which really does nothing to control C#; Microsoft is the sole controller of C#. The evolution of closed vendor standards is of course faster than inclusive standards bodies. And the academic syntactic sugar of C# is really nothing of importance to the vast majority of software developers.

  17. here comes ... on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    Here comes months of Congressional hearings which will result in yet another bureaucracy with a name along the lines of: The Department of CyberEspionageChildDefendingPatriotAnti-TerroristJusticeBringers

  18. Re:Its a little too late... on New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents · · Score: 1

    Huh? No idea where you are going as your statements make zero sense in response to my post.

  19. Re:wrong assumption on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    I think it's taxes that are the problem! If I want to be paying money to someone else I'll go give to a charity, not have my money taken from me by force by the government!

    Ok, give up the paved roads, police, fire, public education, public defense attorneys, military, coast guard, the internet, banking, pretty much everything in the industrialized world and live like people did in the dark ages. that sure would be fun. atuuk a luka luka lonna....

  20. Re:wrong assumption on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    if i don't know about it, then i don't care about it. Precisely the parents point. If i want something i will seek it out. You have to be stupid to buy stuff based on advertising

  21. Re:LOL! Where's Your God Now Apple Fanbois? on Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice · · Score: 1

    Apples to Oranges comparison. Last i checked, Pespsi Co was not a convicted monopolist like Microsoft is. Monopolists have to play by different rules according to the law.

  22. Re:BING on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Bing = Bing is not good

  23. Re:HA HA on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 0, Troll

    The 20 to 30 apps you'll be breaking are not MS apps

    LOL. Yeah right. You have lots of pro-Microsoft posts i see.

  24. Re:I warned them on Google Sued Over Privacy Invasion On Street View · · Score: 1

    so what happens if I am having a family BBQ in my backyard and we take some pictures? Am i invading your privacy because your house is in the background?

  25. Re:Don't go there. on Google Sued Over Privacy Invasion On Street View · · Score: 1

    i hate to let facts get in the way of your fantasy but...the road the Google Van was on is public property. The people suing have a long driveway which they have marked as "Private Drive". The Google Van was _not_ on their driveway.