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  1. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 1

    ANd what about people like me, who aren't rich but also aren't sick and don't have history of illness. Right now, when I do see the doctor, I pay $50 less because I don't have insurance. Hillary wants me to pay $700 a year instead of my current $200 every year. This is to subsidize not only the truly ill or broken, but also the people who won't take care of them selves and get the adult onset diabetes because they won't eat right or execise. Sorry, but good health is not a right. It's somethign you have to work for. Eat right, exercise, go outside to do more than get to the car. You're an adult now, taking care of you is your own responsibility.

  2. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    between Clinton and McCain. For a change, we may have a win-win choice

    Sorry, that's wrong. Hilliary Clinton is an ambitious dictator in a dress. Bush may be driving the bus down the road to corporate fascism, but if you hand the wheel over to Hillary, she'll happily take all the power given to Bush and use it to go full speed to corporate socialism.

    Did you know her health care plan will fine *you* if you don't get health insurance? This is not an aid to the people, it's an aid to the insurance companies. Wake up!

  3. Re:Three Cheers for NASA! on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just make sure you word you request for the Selenium properly, or Speedy will end up going in circles and you could die.

  4. Recursive weblogs? on Modeling Urban Panic · · Score: 1

    The summary links to a weblog [http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/modeling_urban.html] which itself links to a weblog [http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/06/modeling-urban-panic.html] which finally links to the article [http://www.geosimulation.org/crowds/]

    Sheesh.

  5. Re:Tsiangkun 2012 on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    2) I will tax the top 5% and distribute the wealth through increased funding for basic academic research, reimburse college loans for students carrying 3.2GPA or higher, national daycare programs, and national health care programs.

    Last time I checked, income tax accounted for only 15% of the Fed's income. How about knocking 15% off of the budget and eliminating the income tax completely?

  6. Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again on TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    The Federal Aviation Administration has found that fire-protection systems in the cargo hold of passenger planes can't put out fires sparked in lithium batteries.

    And you can still carry-on spare batteries, you just can't check them.

  7. Pre-reader? on DS Games for Pre-readers? · · Score: 1

    Six years old and just now starting to read? My son started reading before he was 5. Instead of video games, why don't you spend time reading to her? Get her more interested in books than games. My son has grown up around computers, but he would still rather read than play games.

  8. Re:Attend Next Spring's Political Caucuses on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    To which the sheeple will reply: "You're just paraniod! If you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide. Freedom of speech is too broad."

  9. Burma? on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's Burma? Isn't that next to Siam?

  10. Re:Question about ocean levels on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    When ice melts into salt water, the water level actually does rise. Because of the density of the salt water, the ice floats higher on the ocean. When it all melts in, it will incease the raise the water level. Not a lot, but there will be some rise.

    Ref:
    Ecology.com
    Geophysical Journal International

  11. A shortcut from Europe to Asia? on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    If you take a quick look at even ancient maps you might notice that Asia and Europe are right next to each other. The shortest route would be over the Ural mountains, I think.

  12. Re:logging firewall and TALKING on How To Configure Real PC Parental Controls? · · Score: 1

    Really? A BBS and a 9600 baud modem gave me hours of fun. Of course, I was 21-22 and had a dedicated phone line, so I could start the d/l when I went to bed with a command to disconnect when idle.

  13. Re:Fair Use on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "There is no right to fair use." -- Preston Padden, head of government relations for Walt Disney Corp.

  14. Re:Ever notice? on Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31 · · Score: 1

    If he was thinking of making vast amounts of money for his cronies from the invasion of Iraq, the Insurgency has taken care of that.

    Oh? Then why have the American oil companies raked in RECORD PROFITS these past years? Not record income, record profits. That's what is left after all other costs and expenses are removed.

    Thanks to this war, any and all oil price increases are justified and accepted.

  15. Re:I understand... on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    If his father was a donor, signed up as a donor, then the ARC had no business calling him in the first place. The existence of a donor card was all the permission they would need.

  16. Re:Vista? on Lenovo to Sell, Support Linux on ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    It's SuSE/Novell/Microsoft linux. Microsoft is not taking a hit whewn you buy this laptop.

  17. Re:Deja Vu on Red Hat to Enter the Desktop Market · · Score: 1

    As for LiveCD, it was really pionneered by Gentoo

    Um, no? LiveCDs were available long before Gentoo existed. Back in "the day" most major distros had live cds. According to Wikipedia, "The first GNU/Linux-based LiveCD was Yggdrasil Linux (went out of production in 1995)"

    My first experience with a live cd was mandrake. (Remember them?)

    (credit where due)

  18. Re:What about Venus? on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 1

    But will Lando Calrissian be the Baron Administrator? And will he sell us out as soon as Bush^H^H^H^HVader makes an apearance? These are things we need to figure out before we go.

  19. Re:300 lbs on MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, silly! A pound is a unit of currency. A stone is a unit of weight.

  20. Re:Fixed prices, in the USA, gods of capitalism? on Ban On Price Floors Abandoned, Internet Prices May Rise · · Score: 1

    Microsoft may not benefit, but Wal-Mart certainly will. Without price floors they can sell anything at any price. Widget X may cost $30 to make, but Wal-Mart will gladly sell it for $25 until the competition is effectively dead, then mark it back up to $50. It's how monopolies are made.

  21. Re:Everything old is new again on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 0

    Holy crap! THE word is THE. teh is NOT a word, and it makes it real hard to read.

    Learn to fucking spell!

  22. Re:Cookie?? on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm going to modify the word "Blog" in some way, and annoy everyone

    You mean "I'm going to modify the term web-log in some way, and annoy everyone"

  23. Re:I had a teacher... on The Fallacy of Hard Tests · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How did you get an A with a 58%? Grading curves are crap. If you only know 58%, you should only be rewarded with a 58, not a 90. If you're the top person in the class, and only know 58%, something is definately wrong, but you should not pass.

  24. Not News on China Censoring Flickr · · Score: 3, Informative

    China censors the internet. It's what they do. How about an article of what China is *not* censoring?

  25. Re:McCain's Bad Taste on McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet · · Score: 1

    Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were not bombed out of existence by the RUC and British Government,

    Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were the RUC and British Government.