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  1. Re:The President believes? on Online Budget Database Planned by White House · · Score: 0

    Holy crap, W is running for Pres again? That is awesome...unconstitutional, but awesome.

  2. Yaaah ok on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The best antivirus protection is not to be exposed to viruses."

    Yeah, that's like saying the best form of birth control is abstinence...How obsurd!

  3. Re:The Democrats have no vision. on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 0

    Yes, Yes, Yes! Absolutely! Quit your b!tchin and tell me what your party stands for and what you're going to do to fix whatever it is you believe is wrong. What is your platform? Tell America what you stand for. If you want to be taken seriously grow the onions to tell the American people EXACTLY why your vision of the future is better.

    If Dems think they're going to ride the Bush bashing wave into the Presidency, they're nuts. Sometimes I wonder if they think Bush will be on the ballot in 2008.

  4. Re:Let's get it out of the way... on Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension · · Score: 0

    I wasn't aware that Dubya listened to phone calls and read emails himself. Last I heard he was the President, not a NSA operative. But anyway, about this FISA court. Out of 10,000 warrant requests there has never been one turned down. So how effective is that? Maybe I'll go get a FISA warrant this weekend, spy some broads at my local watering hole.

    Why are liberals so emotional?

    I'm sure there will be much trepidation should Hillary become President.

  5. Re:Let's get it out of the way... on Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension · · Score: 0

    Oh boy, this is going to sting a little..

    "Every president since FISA's passage has asserted that he retained inherent power to go beyond the act's terms. Under President Clinton, deputy Atty. Gen. Jamie Gorelick testified that "the Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes."..from an associate attorney general of Clinton's

  6. Re:Ever heard of Stasi? on Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension · · Score: 0

    "Put the money on finding terrorists"

    Uhhhhh, how do you find terrorists? Look them up in the phone book? Are they under "Terrorists" or under "Effing Insane People"? Do we look under "B" for Bin Laden? Nope, you use spying and cool stuff like that.. Secret stuff so they don't find out you're doing it and successfully evade.

    "diplomatic solutions to end hostilities"

    Exactly! Lets ask the terrorists to quit trying to kill us! Why haven't we thought of that before! They must be reasonable human beings, its not like they kill without reason..

    Let us not forget what the Patriot Act's primary objective is.. To allow all our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to share data. It was that lack of communication before 9/11 that proved disastrous.

  7. Re:It's Too Bad... on Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's not forget that the US government had ample opportunity to stop the Sept 11 attacks even without the PATRIOT act. They failed thanks to ossified bureaucracy, not a lack of police powers.

    Oh yes, thank you for pointing out that the last president completely blew it when it comes to preventing terrorism. He was too busy chasing interns I guess to worry about Al Qaeda.

  8. Re:a Goddamned piece of paper, surprised? on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ah, a lefty mouthpiece reports it... So it must be true, right? The libs are letting their hatred for Bush blur the line between reality and fantasy. These kooks are the GOPs best friends.

  9. Bongs! on EU Proposing to Make P2P Piracy A Criminal Offense · · Score: 1

    Now seriously how can they bust the P2P software vendors when companies such as Graphix have been making and selling bongs and other drug paraphenelia unabated for years.

    Not that I jump up and down when a head shop is closed.. but which is contributing more to the moral decay of society, pirating music or drug use?

    --
    That's why they call it dope bro

  10. Re:Don't know where this guy is stationed but... on VoIP for Deployed Soldiers? · · Score: 1

    I had the same experience with a good friend stationed on an airfield, north of Baghdad. He was "in charge" of their internet cafe(tent) which had a broadband connection. His wife sent him an external hard drive for his laptop and he downloaded about 8 Gig worth of music while there for a year and shipped it back.

    I also caught him on IM quite a bit and we would chat for an hour or two. Between him and a few other guys from the company, they had a worldphone that they shared minutes on, which all of their families had the number for. So they were in touch with folks here in the states on a regular basis.

    I'm sure its all subject to availability and the area of Iraq that they're in, but I can't see VOIP working effectively over the satellite connection.