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  1. "Failure ... of subprime mortgages" on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    Now there was a cogent analysis, thank you.

    Made the thread worth reading.

  2. "I would happily pay double my existing taxes"... on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    Well, you will... but you WON'T get more benefits. We're broke here in the US.

    You'll need to pay a tax rate of about 78% (GAO figure) or 80% (CRS figure) to keep what we now have going, in about 12-15 years.

    Sorry about that, maybe you should have been more politcally active instead of watching the latest Transformers movie, or playing with Legos.

  3. Re:Umm... have a look at their taxes.... on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the unfunded OUT years, pal.

  4. Umm... have a look at their taxes.... on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    ...nothing is free.

    Those highly-socialist countries have huge problems ahead when the bills come due.

  5. You coulnd not be more wrong... on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...about "completely unbridled market capitalism".

    What we have here is the exact opposite: Central-planning. And it has gone haywire, as it usually does.

    Throw in a touch of the corruption that centralized power allows, add a little protective legislation, and you get what we have today.

    Methinks you tend toward Marxist-style central control.

  6. "May or May Not Be"? on Baiji River Dolphin May or May Not Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    Not a trace of weaseling there.

    Like there's a third choice.

  7. That's "Kernel", not Kernal... on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 1

    ...and yes, it DOES matter.

    Well, only if you want someone to actually _find_ what you wrote later.

  8. "Popular Mechanics shares..." on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 1

    Awwww..... did they learn how to share in pre-school? How cute....

    (Ugh... think about it people, that usage is a sickening New Age-ism)

  9. Ballmer == instant "don't care" on Ballmer Teases Software-Plus-Services in '07 · · Score: 1

    'nuf said...

  10. "Gained"? How quaint... on iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell · · Score: 1

    ...why not just "got to", or "accessed"?

    "Gained"?

  11. RESEARCH???? That is NOT research... on iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell · · Score: 1

    ...as we know it.

  12. No, it's *not* like a mechanic's car, it's like... on 800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    ...clueless power-mad bureaucrats, who care not about your safety, but only for their precious pensions.

    The central question (to them) about this incident is "Was anyone's pension endangered?"

    Look like.... no.

  13. Cant "find" the computers? Then... on Pressure Is On IBM To Forgive Millions In IT Debt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...this invalidates the forgiveness part of their plea: Unaccountability encourages corruption.

    "What you subsidize, you get more of".

    Have the school district *try* a little harder to find out where it all went.... a good first step.

    If the taxpayers het mad enough at the failure to do this, *then* you'll get some accountability, although late.

    BWilde

  14. If you're going to write about science, at least.. on ISS Goes Solar · · Score: 1

    ...GET IT RIGHT!!!

    They didn't just GO solar, they've BEEN solar.

    Jeez.....

  15. STUPID "issue"... on A "Bill of Lights" to Restrict LEDs on Gadgets? · · Score: 1

    ...almost too stupid an "issue" to need to point out the stupidity (but not quite).

    Why not go after poverty, hunger, etc.?

    A wasted life....

  16. Stupid question... on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    ...do whatever YOU like. Why ask for ideas/permission/approval?

  17. "CA" is a postal zone.... on CA Solar Use Falling Because of Economics · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and "Ca.", "Calif." or California is the state.

    They happen to coincide in boundaries, but one's a Federal bureaucratic invention only.

    Note to editor.

  18. "Acadamia"? on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 1

    "Acadamia"?

    As in nuts?

  19. The shots may be cheap, but... on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 1

    ...the bill is OUTRAGEOUS.

    And there's the point.

    See if you can find "Financial Report of the United States Government" (PDF), get back with me on how much of that crap is really productive...

  20. Hooray for web-based apps.... on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    ...they're SOOOOO convenient!!!

  21. Who cares? on Birthplace of Silicon Valley in Shambles · · Score: 1

    Really.

  22. Fear-mongering... on Billions Face Risks From Climate Change · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...at it's best.

    Run! NO, stampede!!!!

    (like good little sheeple)

  23. Another Central Planning success story!!! on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    Whoopeee! That's what you get with central planning.

    No surprise it was a flop. Duh.

    Can't wait for scoialized medicine!!!!

  24. Coomerce? Prove it!!!! on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    "then carbon dioxide emissions in one state interfere with the ability of another state to conduct commerce".

    Great. Now prove that. Go.

  25. What's really needed is... on First Look at the DirecTV SAT-GO · · Score: 1

    ...what is also the big feature on thios unit: An antenna (formerly "dish") that DOESN'T NEED AIMING!!!!!

    This could be used for mobile purposes (RVers) w/ a std DirecTV receiver. Probably in the works now.