...the voters. Isn't it natural that the winning candidate will appeal to the journalists more aswell, than the losing one? Especially in a historic election as this one.
The media was against Regan in his landslide re-election. The media favored Gore in 2000. The media was against Bush in his re-election.
The folks that complain the loudest are usually either hard-left, hard-right or some minority political position.
Not entirely. Of a survay done a couple years ago, among registered Republicans around 80% said they felt the reporters they watched were more liberal than they were, no surprises, but it was quite surprising to find that among registered democrats, 49% said they felt the reporters they watched were more liberal than they were. In other words half of all liberals felt the media was leaning liberal, moreso then them.
Prior to that bogus claims of election fraud were levelled against an anti-poverty group, so successfully the right still thinks ACORN was the aggressor, not the victim, and many on the right think ACORN was actually submitting votes rather than registrations
Yes, because Mickey Mouse just happens to live in poverty. ACORN was victimized for trying to help him.
So what are you going to do to solve the other 98% of the Federal budget deficit after you get rid of earmarks?
Kill entitlement programs (Medicade comes to mind here), privatize Social Security and Medicare, freeze non-defense government spending, Reduce funding by at least 5% for all cabinet departments except the DOD, some like Education, Energy, Housing, Health, and Interior could take massive cuts.
And what's pork? Most Americans would view stuff that their own Congressman brings home as "economic development" and stuff that the other 434 bring home as "pork".
A constitutional amendment to grant the president a weak line-item veto (weak meaning simple majority to override) would solve this question.
Might it just be that some earmarks actually serve a valid purpose and that purpose is lost somewhere in all the discussion about the abuse and excess?
If it is so necessary for parks, museums, or other crap to be built in your district, here's and idea, why not have your state/county/local governments build them? A bridge in Alaska is not the responsibility of taxpayers in the other 49 states. A park in California is the responsibility of the people who live there.
we in Italy love to say we have impartial press, having laws mandating equal time share on media between candidates, and fines to whom doesn't comply. Guess what? It's not the time, is the tone. It's not who get's coverage, it is who control the outcome of the press. Our "beloved" mr. President controls 75% of the press and 75% of the tv, using some spectrum illegaly (search it yourself - the history of Rete 4).
Somehow I see your country becoming the model for the next "Fairness Doctrine" I forsee us being told that talk radio, the only conservative media, must be muzzled with "equal time" requirements.
Earthbound on Virtual Console. This game has consistently won on polls of what game people want for VC (oddly, the prequal Earth Bound Zero often polls 3rd or 4th, even though it never saw a US release). I WANT MY GAME/rant.
What country do you live in where you get to have tax paid for you by your neighbour? I pay taxes too.
In our insanely progressive system, about 45% of Americans don't pay a penny in taxes, meanwhile the top 1% pay about 40% of all taxes. This doesn't strike me as fair.
* Private companies tend to discriminate, making it unfair to anyone with any pre-existing conditions for example. I'm happy to pay for costs myself (whether towards a policy, or taxation), but I'd rather not gamble my health with the private insurance companies, thanks.
It's a risk pool, plain and simple. You pay to be covered in case you are sick. The problem lies in the fact that states and the federal government frequently require insurance companies to cover things like prescription drugs or doctor visits, and since this discourages people from shopping around, prices rise. Imagine if your car insurance was legally required to cover your gas, you would never look for cheaper gas and would never cut back on driving. To offset these cost, insurance companies raise prices and if they suspect fraud, they don't pay. Medicare is an example of what happens when someone doesn't care about fraud. It is estimated that about 35% of medicare claims are fraudulent. Most insurance companies still pay over 90% of the time.
The US has state schools does it not? Surely we should privatise schools instead of having this "socialist" schooling system?
Our public schools consistently lag behind those of other nations and our private schools. There have been many reformers calling for things such as school choice or vouchers so that people can take what would have been spent in tax dollars and use it to go to a private school.
And what about the military, what's this nonsense about Government funded defence?
Is this the same military that spent several hundred thousand dollars on a toilet seat? Wasn't it the NSA that was purchasing iPods for their employees claiming they were for "data storage"? You hear about how ineffective Haliburton employees are but the average Haliburton employee was still 3 times more efficient at the construction jobs than the average military employee. Don't get me wrong, our men and women in uniform fight bravely and we need a strong publicly funded and civilian controlled military, but as an organization, the military is far from efficient. If I could think of a safe way to privatize the military I would want it done, but the last thing I want is for the Patriotic Enron Army to turn on us so thus we have a publicly funded military.
Exactly. When NFL quarterbacks get millions and top-of-the-line math teachers get a few tens of thousands, guess which way a physically fit but also smart student would go.
If he is truly "smart" he would know that your odds of being drafted by the NFL are slim to none, he would take the deal if offered, but it is unlikely any "smart" kid will truly believe he has a shot.
Here's a list of people doing well in unions...
Cops
Teachers
Truck Drivers
Carpenters
Plumbers
Actors
Screenwriters
I don't know about cops, but well over half of the problems in public schools are caused by teachers unions. Schools piss away money on teachers who do a lousy job often because they cannot fire them. The trucking industry is near bankrupt. Don't know about carpenters. Plumbers have a sweet deal going, they never seem to show up on time, but they know you don't really have a choice. Your average actor never makes it "big time". In the acting field, you have a few big stars who do well, and thousands of extras who barely get by. I am not sure about screenwritters, but that strikes me as an easy job to replace.
Somewhere along the way between the early days of unions and now, the unions became the pigs of the Animal Farm.
That "somewhere along the way" was when the government began to support the labor unions. Our laws currently favor unionization, when they should be something closer to neutral. You could fix unions by:
1. Classify them as for-profit corporations. This makes sense as you hire a union to provide a service, namely negotiate your employment terms.
2. Apply anti-trust, anti-cartel, and anti-extortion laws to them.
3. Pass "right to work" laws which forbid mandatory union membership.
4. Ban unions from participation in politics, including baring them from political contributions and baring them for encouraging members to vote a certain way.
5. Keep the secret ballot in place.
6. Do not allow unions of government employees and of employees who provide critical public services (such as utility companies) to call strikes. This has been effective in many states.
7. When a government agency contracts with a private organization, don't favor (or disfavor) unionized workers, simply hire whoever does the best work at the lowest price.
I would argue that things are moving back towards the way they were in the 20s and 30s. We have large companies (walmart for example) that pay peanuts, and rake in huge profits. Could they afford to pay thier employees more? What about provide health insurance? It seems to me that there is an unequal distribution of wealth. Unions are not the sole answer, but a start in the right direction. Also, the Unions aren't bringing down the company, it's the pension plans that the companies agreed to pay out.
Companies agreed to said pension plans to appease unions and regulators. We are not moving back to the 20's and 30's. With exception to Detroit, there are few "company towns" left. If Wal-Mart doesn't pay you enough, you can quit. This was not the case in the 20's, if you didn't work for the local factory, there was pretty much no where else. Go on Craigslist or open the classifieds, you'll see plenty of jobs, even in a slow economy.
Moving jobs outside the country also moves all the money outside as well. Instead of paying 1000 workers $100/day they pay 2000 workers $2/day and one big wig a $25,000,000 bonus, which will get deposited in an offshore account and never get taxed.
America has one of the highest corporate income taxes in the industrial world, I feel these companies have the right to take their business elsewhere until America offers them a more reasonable cost of doing business.
One day you will need Viagra. These people are old, give them their pleasures.
When did a boner become an entitlement? ER coverage sure, but an erection is not a right.
If you want to cut out loopholes, how about start with the tax system.
It is estimated that 25% of all taxes owed are evaded, and not just by the rich. When a waiter fails to report tips, that is evasion. When the millions of illegals don't report, that is evasion.
There is a simple solution: don't tax income. Taxing sales is far more practical and since over 90% of the average shopper's money is spent at one of the 600 big box retailers nationwide, it is much harder to evade.
It seems that the more money you make, the more exemptions are available to you.
A national sales tax also does away with this, no exemptions = no loopholes.
IMHO, off shore bank accounts that are used for tax evasion are one of the biggest prolems right now.
With a sales tax, there is no way to do that, and in fact, America becomes a sort of tax haven, which will bring in jobs from overseas.
These criminals are stealing from the less fortunate (you and me) by not paying their fair share of taxes and rely on the average citizen to make up their shortcomings.
The top 1% pays about 40% of the taxes in this nation. Who are these ultra-wealthy people in the top 1%? Mostly small business owners. The top 50% pays about 97% of the taxes, so the wealthy certainly pay their fair share, and well beyond that.
The world is (and always has been) ruled by the elite, for the elite. I would like to have it run by the elite(i'm a realist), for the people.
The "elite" have 1 vote, I have 1 vote, and presumably, the "elite" you speak of are in the minority.
Private pensions aren't actually that good an idea. Lot of industries (steel, auto, airline) that gave pensions to employees are currently struggling under massive pension debt because of technological advances that have substantially reduced the workforces in those companies
That wouldn't be a problem if they had properly funded the pension plans to begin with instead of making promises that they had no intention of keeping.
Which, on a much larger scale, is how social security and medicare work. Every year they produce surpluses, congress then pisses away the surpluses. In a few years they will not produce surpluses (congress will simply take on debt), eventually we will have massive debts as SS's surplus is replaced by a massive debt. This could be enough to completely bankrupt the USA.
Palin has been a Governor and a Mayor, and is currently the only person with any real leadership experience in the entire presidential race.
Sure Palin is a hard right social conservative.
While many on Slashdot have contempt for social conservatives this is and area McCain needs to win, and the social conservative vote is far larger than the paranoid geek vote.
> But she also happens to be an ex-beauty queen
Yes, she is also a former highschool basketball star, a "hockey mom", she managed some trucking company, and she is married to a fisherman. She is interesting, and even though he lead an interesting life (being a POW for 5 years or so), McCain kind of has that Al Gore-ish dullness to him. Palin can offset this with some personality.
with an ethical scandal in Alaska.
She was the one who cleaned up the scandal. Frank Murkowski was the former governor of Alaska and he and a few others were violating a few ethics laws regarding Alaska's oil sales. Palin worked for the Alaskan Oil and Gas Commission, and as soon as she figured out about the scandal, she resigned in protest, and then defeated Murkowski in the GOP primaries (and defeating an incumbent seaking re-election in the Primaries is incredibly rare). When she became governor, she and the legislature passed several ethics laws to prevent this from happening again. The oil scandal was no more Sarah Palin's than the watergate scandal was Ford's.
The social conservatives claim that women should be at home, not running for the Vice Presidency.
Not really, the Representative for the district I live in, Maralyn Musgrave, ran almost entirely on a socially conservative platform, and she is a woman. She has won re-election a few times as well.
I think that you'll find that Palin and her big breasts are a huge liability for McCain.
No more than McCain's wife already has. Cindy McCain is occasionally criticized for wearing unprofessional, form-fitting clothes. Palin seldom does this.
If nothing else, she'll emphasize that he's very old.
McCain doesn't seem to know how to deal with the issue of his age. He needs to stop with this whole "old but still young enough to lead" thing and admit openly who he really is; a cranky old guy. He really just needs to say, "Yes I am old, but Bush, Clinton, and Bush Sr. were all fairly young, it is time for a cranky old guy to get things done. The last cranky old guy we had was Reagan, and he turned out well." He could also go out and campaign with his 95-ish year old mother (yes, she is still alive, and still mentally sharp) and emphasize the the fact that he will still be alive in 4-8 years.
In America, if an adult cow is grazing, it's almost certainly a dairy cow.
Not true at all. Travel to Wyoming some time. The cows there are used for meat, but they keep plenty grazing around to produce more cows. You are right about the steers, but at my grandparents ranch, several of the best cows (females) are kept each year to replace older cows which are nearing the point in their life where they don't give birth anymore (they are sold a few years before the cow akin to menopause). These cows sit around all day and graze.
The only way Apple could reasonably sell OS X for generic x86 or x86_64 hardware is to have a huge list of requirements similar to the "Vista Capable" debacle. And it would cost a lot more than the $129 it costs now. Prices would be similar to what you pay for the latest boxed version of Windows, because currently OS X is subsidized by the premium you paid on Apple's hardware to run it in the first place.
So what? Lets say Apple loses this case, all that happens is Pystar gets to keep selling pre-installed OSX on their machines, Apple is not obligated to support such an action. Apple could simply say "we can't support OSX when it is run on machines that it is not designed for". You can still run OSX on a Pystar, it is just Apple won't have to help you when it crashes. Apple could simply ignore Pystar and refuse to help clones, all this case would say is that they can't use a EULA to block clones.
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and then there is Apple
it's a phone, what should we call it? iPhone
it's a new Mac, what should we call it? iMac
it handles all your tunes, what should we call it? iTunes
great, boys, we're done here
Don't forget Microsoft.
We make software for microcomputers, what should we be called? Microsoft.
A window manager for DOS (origionally), what should we call it? Windows!
Some office software? Office
A piece of software that can virtualize a PC? VirtualPC.
except for when you dont have internet connectivity, then you cant get them even if your life depended on it.
Two words: Google Gears
...the voters. Isn't it natural that the winning candidate will appeal to the journalists more aswell, than the losing one? Especially in a historic election as this one.
The media was against Regan in his landslide re-election. The media favored Gore in 2000. The media was against Bush in his re-election.
The folks that complain the loudest are usually either hard-left, hard-right or some minority political position.
Not entirely. Of a survay done a couple years ago, among registered Republicans around 80% said they felt the reporters they watched were more liberal than they were, no surprises, but it was quite surprising to find that among registered democrats, 49% said they felt the reporters they watched were more liberal than they were. In other words half of all liberals felt the media was leaning liberal, moreso then them.
Prior to that bogus claims of election fraud were levelled against an anti-poverty group, so successfully the right still thinks ACORN was the aggressor, not the victim, and many on the right think ACORN was actually submitting votes rather than registrations
Yes, because Mickey Mouse just happens to live in poverty. ACORN was victimized for trying to help him.
So what are you going to do to solve the other 98% of the Federal budget deficit after you get rid of earmarks?
Kill entitlement programs (Medicade comes to mind here), privatize Social Security and Medicare, freeze non-defense government spending, Reduce funding by at least 5% for all cabinet departments except the DOD, some like Education, Energy, Housing, Health, and Interior could take massive cuts.
And what's pork? Most Americans would view stuff that their own Congressman brings home as "economic development" and stuff that the other 434 bring home as "pork".
A constitutional amendment to grant the president a weak line-item veto (weak meaning simple majority to override) would solve this question.
Might it just be that some earmarks actually serve a valid purpose and that purpose is lost somewhere in all the discussion about the abuse and excess?
If it is so necessary for parks, museums, or other crap to be built in your district, here's and idea, why not have your state/county/local governments build them? A bridge in Alaska is not the responsibility of taxpayers in the other 49 states. A park in California is the responsibility of the people who live there.
we in Italy love to say we have impartial press, having laws mandating equal time share on media between candidates, and fines to whom doesn't comply. Guess what? It's not the time, is the tone. It's not who get's coverage, it is who control the outcome of the press. Our "beloved" mr. President controls 75% of the press and 75% of the tv, using some spectrum illegaly (search it yourself - the history of Rete 4).
Somehow I see your country becoming the model for the next "Fairness Doctrine" I forsee us being told that talk radio, the only conservative media, must be muzzled with "equal time" requirements.
Tell that to ACORN.
but it doesn't support PowerPC OS X?
Rumor has it, neither will OS X Snow Leopard.
Earthbound on Virtual Console. This game has consistently won on polls of what game people want for VC (oddly, the prequal Earth Bound Zero often polls 3rd or 4th, even though it never saw a US release). I WANT MY GAME /rant.
I've hit 2GB, however I have a lot of homebrew apps.
You could just spend the $12 and buy another 2 GB SD card. How big of a ceiling is that? SD is cheap.
What country do you live in where you get to have tax paid for you by your neighbour? I pay taxes too.
In our insanely progressive system, about 45% of Americans don't pay a penny in taxes, meanwhile the top 1% pay about 40% of all taxes. This doesn't strike me as fair.
* Private companies tend to discriminate, making it unfair to anyone with any pre-existing conditions for example. I'm happy to pay for costs myself (whether towards a policy, or taxation), but I'd rather not gamble my health with the private insurance companies, thanks.
It's a risk pool, plain and simple. You pay to be covered in case you are sick. The problem lies in the fact that states and the federal government frequently require insurance companies to cover things like prescription drugs or doctor visits, and since this discourages people from shopping around, prices rise. Imagine if your car insurance was legally required to cover your gas, you would never look for cheaper gas and would never cut back on driving. To offset these cost, insurance companies raise prices and if they suspect fraud, they don't pay. Medicare is an example of what happens when someone doesn't care about fraud. It is estimated that about 35% of medicare claims are fraudulent. Most insurance companies still pay over 90% of the time.
The US has state schools does it not? Surely we should privatise schools instead of having this "socialist" schooling system?
Our public schools consistently lag behind those of other nations and our private schools. There have been many reformers calling for things such as school choice or vouchers so that people can take what would have been spent in tax dollars and use it to go to a private school.
And what about the military, what's this nonsense about Government funded defence?
Is this the same military that spent several hundred thousand dollars on a toilet seat? Wasn't it the NSA that was purchasing iPods for their employees claiming they were for "data storage"? You hear about how ineffective Haliburton employees are but the average Haliburton employee was still 3 times more efficient at the construction jobs than the average military employee. Don't get me wrong, our men and women in uniform fight bravely and we need a strong publicly funded and civilian controlled military, but as an organization, the military is far from efficient. If I could think of a safe way to privatize the military I would want it done, but the last thing I want is for the Patriotic Enron Army to turn on us so thus we have a publicly funded military.
Consepshun, ur doin it rong.
Exactly. When NFL quarterbacks get millions and top-of-the-line math teachers get a few tens of thousands, guess which way a physically fit but also smart student would go.
If he is truly "smart" he would know that your odds of being drafted by the NFL are slim to none, he would take the deal if offered, but it is unlikely any "smart" kid will truly believe he has a shot.
Here's a list of people doing well in unions... Cops Teachers Truck Drivers Carpenters Plumbers Actors Screenwriters
I don't know about cops, but well over half of the problems in public schools are caused by teachers unions. Schools piss away money on teachers who do a lousy job often because they cannot fire them. The trucking industry is near bankrupt. Don't know about carpenters. Plumbers have a sweet deal going, they never seem to show up on time, but they know you don't really have a choice. Your average actor never makes it "big time". In the acting field, you have a few big stars who do well, and thousands of extras who barely get by. I am not sure about screenwritters, but that strikes me as an easy job to replace.
Somewhere along the way between the early days of unions and now, the unions became the pigs of the Animal Farm.
That "somewhere along the way" was when the government began to support the labor unions. Our laws currently favor unionization, when they should be something closer to neutral. You could fix unions by:
1. Classify them as for-profit corporations. This makes sense as you hire a union to provide a service, namely negotiate your employment terms.
2. Apply anti-trust, anti-cartel, and anti-extortion laws to them.
3. Pass "right to work" laws which forbid mandatory union membership.
4. Ban unions from participation in politics, including baring them from political contributions and baring them for encouraging members to vote a certain way.
5. Keep the secret ballot in place.
6. Do not allow unions of government employees and of employees who provide critical public services (such as utility companies) to call strikes. This has been effective in many states.
7. When a government agency contracts with a private organization, don't favor (or disfavor) unionized workers, simply hire whoever does the best work at the lowest price.
I would argue that things are moving back towards the way they were in the 20s and 30s. We have large companies (walmart for example) that pay peanuts, and rake in huge profits. Could they afford to pay thier employees more? What about provide health insurance? It seems to me that there is an unequal distribution of wealth. Unions are not the sole answer, but a start in the right direction. Also, the Unions aren't bringing down the company, it's the pension plans that the companies agreed to pay out.
Companies agreed to said pension plans to appease unions and regulators. We are not moving back to the 20's and 30's. With exception to Detroit, there are few "company towns" left. If Wal-Mart doesn't pay you enough, you can quit. This was not the case in the 20's, if you didn't work for the local factory, there was pretty much no where else. Go on Craigslist or open the classifieds, you'll see plenty of jobs, even in a slow economy.
Moving jobs outside the country also moves all the money outside as well. Instead of paying 1000 workers $100/day they pay 2000 workers $2/day and one big wig a $25,000,000 bonus, which will get deposited in an offshore account and never get taxed.
America has one of the highest corporate income taxes in the industrial world, I feel these companies have the right to take their business elsewhere until America offers them a more reasonable cost of doing business.
One day you will need Viagra. These people are old, give them their pleasures.
When did a boner become an entitlement? ER coverage sure, but an erection is not a right.
If you want to cut out loopholes, how about start with the tax system.
It is estimated that 25% of all taxes owed are evaded, and not just by the rich. When a waiter fails to report tips, that is evasion. When the millions of illegals don't report, that is evasion.
There is a simple solution: don't tax income. Taxing sales is far more practical and since over 90% of the average shopper's money is spent at one of the 600 big box retailers nationwide, it is much harder to evade.
It seems that the more money you make, the more exemptions are available to you.
A national sales tax also does away with this, no exemptions = no loopholes.
IMHO, off shore bank accounts that are used for tax evasion are one of the biggest prolems right now.
With a sales tax, there is no way to do that, and in fact, America becomes a sort of tax haven, which will bring in jobs from overseas.
These criminals are stealing from the less fortunate (you and me) by not paying their fair share of taxes and rely on the average citizen to make up their shortcomings.
The top 1% pays about 40% of the taxes in this nation. Who are these ultra-wealthy people in the top 1%? Mostly small business owners. The top 50% pays about 97% of the taxes, so the wealthy certainly pay their fair share, and well beyond that.
The world is (and always has been) ruled by the elite, for the elite. I would like to have it run by the elite(i'm a realist), for the people.
The "elite" have 1 vote, I have 1 vote, and presumably, the "elite" you speak of are in the minority.
Private pensions aren't actually that good an idea. Lot of industries (steel, auto, airline) that gave pensions to employees are currently struggling under massive pension debt because of technological advances that have substantially reduced the workforces in those companies
That wouldn't be a problem if they had properly funded the pension plans to begin with instead of making promises that they had no intention of keeping.
Which, on a much larger scale, is how social security and medicare work. Every year they produce surpluses, congress then pisses away the surpluses. In a few years they will not produce surpluses (congress will simply take on debt), eventually we will have massive debts as SS's surplus is replaced by a massive debt. This could be enough to completely bankrupt the USA.
People on site who's catch phrase is "news for nerds" deny nerds are dishonest, news at 11.
But don't vote for them just because one of them happens to be female.
I am guessing women won't be any more tempted to vote for here because she's a woman then blacks would vote for Obama just because he's black.
Oh wait,..
Palin has been a Governor and a Mayor, and is currently the only person with any real leadership experience in the entire presidential race.
Sure Palin is a hard right social conservative.
While many on Slashdot have contempt for social conservatives this is and area McCain needs to win, and the social conservative vote is far larger than the paranoid geek vote.
> But she also happens to be an ex-beauty queen
Yes, she is also a former highschool basketball star, a "hockey mom", she managed some trucking company, and she is married to a fisherman. She is interesting, and even though he lead an interesting life (being a POW for 5 years or so), McCain kind of has that Al Gore-ish dullness to him. Palin can offset this with some personality.
with an ethical scandal in Alaska.
She was the one who cleaned up the scandal. Frank Murkowski was the former governor of Alaska and he and a few others were violating a few ethics laws regarding Alaska's oil sales. Palin worked for the Alaskan Oil and Gas Commission, and as soon as she figured out about the scandal, she resigned in protest, and then defeated Murkowski in the GOP primaries (and defeating an incumbent seaking re-election in the Primaries is incredibly rare). When she became governor, she and the legislature passed several ethics laws to prevent this from happening again. The oil scandal was no more Sarah Palin's than the watergate scandal was Ford's.
The social conservatives claim that women should be at home, not running for the Vice Presidency.
Not really, the Representative for the district I live in, Maralyn Musgrave, ran almost entirely on a socially conservative platform, and she is a woman. She has won re-election a few times as well.
I think that you'll find that Palin and her big breasts are a huge liability for McCain.
No more than McCain's wife already has. Cindy McCain is occasionally criticized for wearing unprofessional, form-fitting clothes. Palin seldom does this.
If nothing else, she'll emphasize that he's very old.
McCain doesn't seem to know how to deal with the issue of his age. He needs to stop with this whole "old but still young enough to lead" thing and admit openly who he really is; a cranky old guy. He really just needs to say, "Yes I am old, but Bush, Clinton, and Bush Sr. were all fairly young, it is time for a cranky old guy to get things done. The last cranky old guy we had was Reagan, and he turned out well." He could also go out and campaign with his 95-ish year old mother (yes, she is still alive, and still mentally sharp) and emphasize the the fact that he will still be alive in 4-8 years.
Do you honestly think that we should be teaching creationism in science class?
I think that should be what we ask our local school board candidates, not our Vice Presidential Candidates.
Brad Wardell is also calling for:
* Ponies for everyone
OMG Ponies
In America, if an adult cow is grazing, it's almost certainly a dairy cow.
Not true at all. Travel to Wyoming some time. The cows there are used for meat, but they keep plenty grazing around to produce more cows. You are right about the steers, but at my grandparents ranch, several of the best cows (females) are kept each year to replace older cows which are nearing the point in their life where they don't give birth anymore (they are sold a few years before the cow akin to menopause). These cows sit around all day and graze.
So what? Lets say Apple loses this case, all that happens is Pystar gets to keep selling pre-installed OSX on their machines, Apple is not obligated to support such an action. Apple could simply say "we can't support OSX when it is run on machines that it is not designed for". You can still run OSX on a Pystar, it is just Apple won't have to help you when it crashes. Apple could simply ignore Pystar and refuse to help clones, all this case would say is that they can't use a EULA to block clones.