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  1. Re:"Mac-dotted" on iTunes 4.9 With Podcasting Support · · Score: 1

    At least they get social services for their taxes. All I got for my taxes is Iraq and what am I going to do with that?

    I suppose it should not complain, it's nice to know that my taxes are going to deliver socialized medicine and edication to iraqis, I am sure they could use free health care much more then me.

  2. Re:Speech isn't as free in England as the U.S. on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of footage we are not allowed to see over here. Thank god for the internet. At least people who can afford broadband and computers and who have the curiosity and knowhow can seek them out.

    Unfortunately for the majority of americans if fox tv says so then it must be true and if fox news doesn't show it then it never happened.

  3. Re:No not really on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    Everything you say is true and it really points out exactly how little human beings have advanced in the last 100 thousand years or so. It's still whoever has the biggest stick wins, we are still looking at the sky and pleading with some supreme being to help us.

  4. Re:Linux Games on Linspire To Run Windows Games · · Score: 1

    Did you do any research at all before switching? Everybody knows that ATI does not support linux very well and two seconds of googling should have made that obvious.

    It's nobodies fault by ATI. If you are somehow blaming linux or linux developers for not writing drivers for ATI then you are delusional. It's probably illegal for them to do so and nobody should risk jail time just to make sure you have a video driver. The job of writing the driver belongs with the maker of the hardware. If they don't support your OS complain to them.

  5. Re:Too late Java is not cool anymore on Java: One Step Closer To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Too late. Java has already been forked by MS and now it's called C#. Furthermore languages like python and ruby are already nipping at the heels of java as more and more programmers want a simpler way to code their applications. Java salwarts like Bruce Eckels have written much more eloquently on this then I can but there is no doubt people are migrating away from java in droves as java gets more and more complicated.

  6. Re:Safari's RSS? How about Firefox's on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    I put the firefox livebookmarks on my toolbar. they update automatically and I can scan the headlines quickly by running my mouse along the toolbar. The feed is sorted by date most recent first. If I am interested in a headline I just click on it and go. If I am not interested then I stay at the page I am at. This is exactly how I want rss to work.

  7. Re:Safari's RSS? How about Firefox's on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    If that is so I gotta hand it to the firefox team for making one hell of an improvment over apple's implementation. I love livebookmarks, so much more practical and usefull then the safari's use of RSS.

  8. Re:How? on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    WOW. This meme has been repeated like a hundred times on this topic already. The astro-turfers are out in force today.

  9. Re:Innovation on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    YEA!. When the new MS RSS reader comes out all other RSS readers are going to DIE. If you are using an RSS reasder you better stop right now and wait till MS comes out with their vastly superior RSS format and reader. It's a killer app, MS will be betting the company on it!. Truly, honest, you better stop using competing products because all those companies will go out of business the day the new RSS reader comes out.

  10. Re:What will they really do? on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    If MS is willing to tag all email not using their patented protocol as spam then they would indeed to break the existing standard. You think they all discovered jesus all of a sudden and are now going to act ethically? I think not.

  11. Re:Not as bad as it sounds... on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Don't take my word for it, ask the palestenians how those AK47s are working against the israeli military. The fact is the small arms are completely useless when you are trying to overthrow the tyranny of a well armed and trained army. The palestenians have resorted to car bombs and suicide bombs as the only weapon they can afford that seems to have any effect at all.

    So until the second amendment specifiacally allows you to build bombs in your basement and legally let you stockpile bomb making quipment and supplies it's useless. Your guns (and those of yoru neighbors) are useless against the might of the US army.

    Look at any armed insurgency in the last decade and you will see that the only ones that were successful were supplied with high power weaponry like stingers, chemical weapons, etc.

  12. Re:bush judges on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Fascism is about corporate control of state not the other way around. The rpublicans are all for that.

    The bush presidency while not totalitarian is unaccountable to the law domestic or international. Not much of a difference.

  13. Re:myopic and simplistic on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Just because somebody is independent that does not make them a waffler. What you are really complaining about is that she is not a rigid ideological zealot and is willing to consider the specifics of each case to make a judgement without feeling the need to adhere to some dogma.

    To me that's a virtue.

  14. Re:bush judges on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bush will probalby nominate a black or a hispanic religious fundamentalist zealot so he can call democrats racist when they oppose him. He has done this several times already.

    It will be interesting to see how the rise of american talibanism will shape our country. The afghan atliban destroyed priceless statutes of the budha, I wonder which public art works the american taliban will go after first.

  15. Re:LLLLWWCCC on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your comment was rated 5 insightful. What's really insighful to me is how you define people who do not fit your myopic and simplistic world views as "waffler". Apparently independent thinking does not exist in your universe.

  16. Re:Actually, it's worse than that... on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    G gordon liddly cracks me up. he advocated shooting at the heads of ATF agents because they will probably be wearing body armor. Support the troops but not law enforcement, them you should shoot to kill.

  17. Re:bush judges on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    I have never heard any republican politician call for the elimination of social security, medicare, medicaid, public schools, and govt subsidies for farmers, ranchers, loggers and miners. They are all socialists, they just believe the govt should benefit different people. Republicans believe that poeple should be taxed and that money should be turned over to corporations whenever possible. A different kind of socialism but socialism nevertheless. I suppose technically one can make a case that what republicans do is closer to fascism then socialism but i'll leave that for another day.

  18. Re:Yeah, first time I find myself agreeing with on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Wha? You mean thomas actually voted differently then scalia? I find that hard to believe.

  19. Re:All hail the rich on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. They will still need people to pick their lettuce, water their garden, wash their car and raise their kids. There is still room for you in America.

  20. Re:No, it's worse. on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Furthermore the medical marijuana was never transported across state lines. It was grown locally and distributed within the same state.

  21. Re:Not as bad as it sounds... on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Unless you are stocked up with high explosives, chemical weapons, biologial agents, tanks or car bombs the scond amendment is a JOKE. The idea that you are going to hold off the US army with a 357 or a shotgun is laughable. The second amendment is useless until it allows enough ordinance to repel a govt invasion of your property, today that means anti aircraft weaponry or terrorism supplies.

  22. Re:Not as bad as it sounds... on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough in this case the republican justices voted against and the democrat justices voted for (with the independent justices siding with the democrats in this case).

    It seems like the political parties have flipped their positions lately. The republicans denying state rights in medical marijuana and assisted suicide and the florida election fiasco while the democrats are affirming states rights in this case and the ones mentioned previously. Combine that with the shrinking of the govt during clinton, and growing the govt under bush. Fiscally responsible policies in clinton and spend like a drunken sailor during the bush administration and you have the makings of a complete 100% turnabout in what was thought the be the bedrock principles of the dominant parties.

  23. Re:Why.. on EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    Your so called explanation is simply saying "no it isn't". I am sorry but that's not good enough.

    Meanings of words change over time and right now conservative==republican just like liberal==democrat. Saying "no it doesn't" doesn't really have any impact.

  24. Re:Home workers on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    "Tell me what your favorite MTA can do that mine can't."

    Be configured by mere mortals?

    I'll twist the question for you though. I use postfix, does sendmail do something postfix doen't?

  25. Re:Only if other ISPs go along with it on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The thing to do would be for everybody who does not want an MS dominated email infrastructure to reject all email from servers that publish SPF records.

    Too bad nobody has balls to do that though. MS will own another vital infrastructure by throwing their weight around and shoving down everybodies throats. The rest of the industry will bend over and take it like usual.

    It's kind of a abused spouse syndrome. They keep getting slapped around and they are too afraid to leave.