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  1. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    And of course, they'll offer healthcare to their employees when they do get cancer...

  2. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    Simple - as has been suggested before - you make it illegal to import from companies that don't comply with EPA style regulations.

  3. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    You've just described the CEO and board of most of the corporations in the world

  4. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    I agree the money == speech ruling is stupid.

    The First Amendment only says you can say anything you want. To limit the amount of time you have to say something doesn't mean you are limiting speech per se. You aren't limit *what* someone is saying, just the amount of time they have to say it in.

  5. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    What other choices are there, other than fairy dust and unicorn horns?

    You mean homeopathy works? (*snicker*)

  6. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    Quite simple. Taxes up for the poor people (which more than likely means you, seeing as unless you're a billionaire, you're poor), and taxes down for the "job creators". Atlas Shrugged don't ya know!

  7. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 2

    By 40%, I assume you mean to pay those men and women who put on a military uniform, and to equip them. The vast proportion of the federal budget is spent on the military. If they shut down the military tomorrow and kept everything else the same, the government would have paid off it's national debt in about 30 years. Then you could see real drops in taxation for everyone.

    Of course, that would put everyone in the military out of a job, not to mention all the tech companies that produce new toys for the military, and of course all the manufacturers that rely on "defence" spending ....

  8. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 2

    But but but - what you're proposing is .... socialism!!!111

    Seriously, if you want to get rid of corporate/banking/old money interests, you have to get rid of the corporations, the banks and the old money. What you are proposing is socialism at it's core. Americans will never allow that because apparently every single American will one day become a millionaire through hard work.*

    * Except the vast majority don't.

  9. Re:Focus Will Be On Economy on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    PS Before you call me greedy - I'm not on minimum wage and never have been.

  10. Re:Oh please on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    It's often understood as this by people who don't have a clue what it actually means - typically Christians who haven't explored anything outside their own understanding of the world.

    I have an atheist philosophy, but I don't have a "materialist philosophy" and I'm pretty certain most of the atheists I know (which is most of my friends), similarly don't have a materialist philosophy.

  11. Re:Focus Will Be On Economy on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    Then make the minimum wage a living wage. Except that'll never happen because to get back to 1968's buying power for those on minimum wage you'll need to set it to at least $15 per hour - more like $25.

  12. Re:Not for being an antheist on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    I suspect you need to look up the word atheist. Let me do that for you:

    atheism noun the belief that there is no god. atheist noun. atheistic or atheistical adj. atheistically adverb. Compare agnosticism

    So no, not absurd. Accurate

  13. Re:News for Nerds???!! on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    You end up with a more balanced political debate here than on for example Fox News

  14. Re:Why is the water "gone"? on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Don't the farmers irrigate at night - or is that too simple a solution?

  15. Re:When you unbalance a stable system, it falls ov on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Won't a desalination plant like this be too slow/need an enormous amount of land preferably close to the sea?

  16. Re:Microeconomics 101 on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Modern day equivalent to "Let them eat cake"

    And that worked out so well

  17. Corporations are people? on Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I realize Rogers is a Canadian company, so the parallels aren't quite right, but how do the Americans feel this would have played out in the States given Citizens United?

  18. Re:...no on How To Deal With 200k Lines of Spaghetti Code · · Score: 1

    What's more, there may well be libraries to do some of the functionality. According to the article, it's written in G2 which is all but obsolete. Find a modern language that more closely matches G2's functionality and move to that.

  19. And I thought ... on Missing Paperwork Delays UK Broadband · · Score: 0

    ... the American government was incompetent!

  20. Re:You'll Have To Claw That Oil Out Of My Cold Dea on Existing Solar Tech Could Power Entire US, Says NREL · · Score: 1

    Unbelievably there are parts of the world where using a clothesline is illegal. Bizarre!

  21. Well, at least I could refuse to sell him anything at my store! Wha..? That's illegal too!

    Don't know how it works where you are, but in England it is completely legal to refuse to sell someone something.

  22. The difference is that to Christians the bible is true (to varying degrees, metaphorical vs literal) not a fairy tale. Even Christian adults don't believe the tooth fairy exists.

  23. Re:I deeply dislike the end-run aroudn the courts on Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA · · Score: 2

    If by that you mean the French don't enjoy getting raped by every company they deal with - then I'd take socialism any day of the week.

  24. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    And yet this is what the educational system in the UK is doing - and I suspect the US too.

  25. Re:LOL grammar nazis on Researchers Beat Google's Bouncer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apparently spelling isn't your forte either. And I'm not even going to get started on how much of a racist piece of shit you are.