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  1. Re:More distraction on Saving Democracy With Web 2.0 · · Score: 1

    And if you don't live in a swing state, you don't actually even get to choose between D or R. You can thank the Electoral College for that.

  2. Re:Democracy is a buzzword on Saving Democracy With Web 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Have guns actually brought freedom even once since 1800?
    The 2nd has a horrendous track record of protecting the 1st.
    The ACLU, however, has a much better track record.

  3. Re:I've heard this bedtime story before on Saving Democracy With Web 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You know what I would do if there was no government? I'd go up and steal your watch.
    You're bringing your friends? I'll bring my friends.
    And now we're back to square 1.
    Do you really think that removing the government completely would change anything for the better?

  4. Re:don't call list? on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. The "Do-not-call" list doesn't apply to political calls, but if you tell them not to call, they better not call.

  5. Re:Should do things the DNC way ... on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was one person. This is the RNC itself.

  6. Re:Or.. on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Of course, billions of years ago before O2-breathing animals existed, the Earth would not have been a hospitable place for humanity.

  7. Re:Or.. on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    No, but carbon dioxide levels haven't. They usually go somewhere between 200 and 300 parts per million, and they're currently at 380.

  8. Re:Empty? on Oceans Empty By 2048? · · Score: 1

    I immediately thought of that when I saw the article.

  9. Re:Harrumph on Oceans Empty By 2048? · · Score: 1

    Okay, get it in any peer-reviewed paper. You know, reviewed by people with Ph.Ds? Or is there some evil conspiracy theory trying to destroy the benevolent oil companies?

  10. Re:what a hard-nosed skeptic you are on Oceans Empty By 2048? · · Score: 1

    We partially understand the rise and fall of animal populations. When you make a significant change to something in nature, you destabilize it. This is fairly basic chaos theory. This is basically why we had 28 tropical storms in the 2005 hurricane season but practically none this season.

  11. Re:The best solution on New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows · · Score: 1

    He isn't an Admiral anymore now that Pegasus is gone. Lee went back down to Major too.

  12. Re:Saddam verdict on Sunday, U.S. election on Tues on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    College student income is a bit higher although it doesn't come to you in cash: Your dorm is much cheaper than a poor teacher's apartment(for several reasons) and besides your parents are probably the ones paying for that. And you may be able to walk to class but the teacher who lives two blocks away from school has to have a car in order to drive. You also probably don't have any children, that multiplies the food expense and requires much more than your cheap dorm.

  13. Re:The wrong lesson on Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus · · Score: 1

    No, but if they aren't wearing seatbelts the government and insurance company rarely give very much monetary sympathy.

  14. Re:time to pass Kyoto on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    Um, how the hell does Kyoto make China increase emissions? Oh wait, you're full of shit here. (And America is still the world's largest polluter.)

  15. Re:Execution = Mercy on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    That Saddam died the day he was put under arrest awaiting trial. At that point he wasn't going to be able to put anybody into terror anymore.

  16. Re:How about... on Giving the Gift of Ubuntu Linux for Christmas? · · Score: 1

    God forbid that somebody choose how much they will pay for supporting something.

  17. Re:Death Penalty on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1
    So killing bad guys and not allowing them to live is a sign of cultural inferority?
    Do you know how many innocents have been killed by the death penalty?
    Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
    From what, exactly?
  18. Re:Yay! on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Punishment is a very small disincentive to commit crime for the sort of person who would commit the type of crime that warrants the death penalty. And to everybody saying that there are no reversible punishments--There are different degrees of reversibility for punishment and death is the least reversible of all, at least until we have the Goa'uld sarcophagus.

  19. Re:And killing him will do what good? on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Mercy is the mark of a great man.
    Guess I'm just a good man.
    I'm alright...

  20. Re:Matthew 5:44 on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Nietzsche. Or does he just announce it?

  21. Re:A show trial in every sense. on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    90% of the Iraqi people want the US out. And that was a year ago. It's probably more now.

  22. Re:Saddam verdict on Sunday, U.S. election on Tues on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Cut welfare and then the Americans who actually do work won't be able to afford a home or even food.

  23. Re:Saddam verdict on Sunday, U.S. election on Tues on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Isn't fertilizer also used to make bombs? Interesting coincidence.

  24. The worst features of MSM and the worst... on Mainstream Media To Start "Crowdsourcing" · · Score: 1

    features of blogs. What are these people thinking?

  25. Re:And? on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    It's more like 300000 civilian deaths now.