I don't know how things are in the U.K., but here in the U.S., if any politician so much as suggested trying this, there would be such a massive hue and cry from a huge section of the country about "Government overstepping their bounds!" and "Socialism!" that they wouldn't know what hit them.

In other words, government will never be able to stand up to corporations and take "effective and severe action" against them. We're pretty much screwed.

Darn those Democrat politicians, in the RIAA/MPAA's pocket, like the sponsor of this bill, Rep. Gerald McCormick, and the Governor who will sign it, Bill Haslam! Thank God the Republicans will come to the rescue!

Oh, wait . . .

According to TFA, this guy worked for Diebold.

He shouldn't have fled. After what he did they probably would have promoted him to a high executive position.

But . . . it's not called "Do not track"! Dont' you understand? It's obviously inferior!

In other news, Firefox has bookmarks but it still doesn't have a feature called "Favorites" like Internet Explorer does. When will it ever get with the program? Oh, and when will it ever catch up to IE9 in version numbering???

Broken Windows Edition

OK, Mr. smart guy, then what's the ultimate example? Android? BlackBerry? Something else?

None of this is happening.

Nuclear power is safe. No one will suffer. No one will die.

This is all an overreaction by environmentalists and sensationalist media. If you read that anything bad is happening or anyone has died, it is a lie. Nuclear power is safe! I repeat SAFE! SAFE!!!!!

Sincerely,
The Slashdot Propaganda Machine

. . . that that is a joke site that isn't created by anyone "on the left" at all, don't you?

Look at their Sponsored Ads (which change when you reload the page). Would someone that really thinks Obama is the Messiah have sponsored links like "Obama advisor tied to 60s domestic terrorists, a must read for Americans," "Inflation Hedge - Obama’s spending is out-of-control. Protect your wealth from inflation," or "Health Care Nightmare - Why Obama is pushing ’reform’ so quickly, in shocking video testimony!"?

Your objections are precisely why the individual mandate is a necessary part of this plan. The entire idea of insurance is that payments from everyone- including the healthy- go into a pool out of which the costs of health care provision are paid. If you don't require healthy people to pay into this pool, they don't, and, as you point out, you wind up w/a pool consisting of only the sick. Since a pool wherein the sick subsidize the sicker is not sustainable, you *need* the healthy to pay into the pool.

The payoff for the healthy is that good health is, almost by definition, temporary. You will get sick. You will have an accident and break a limb. Even if, by some miracle, you manage to avoid aging, you *will* get old. And, at that point, you begin to draw money from the very pool into which you have been contributing.

The math isn't exactly complicated.

according to conservapedia, the entire universe has a strong liberal bias

Fixed that for you.

My question is what falling temperatures are you talking about? There is no evidence that temperatures are falling. A 2006 study found you get more snowstorms during warmer years than you do during colder years. See http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1552454&cid=31165324 for details.

Who can you believe? It is a good question; I'm not sure I can answer it.

I am not surprised that people get confused by the news; most people are only watching from the sidelines and we are perhaps getting to much information nowadays. It's like politics (and sausage-making, if one is to believe Bismarck) - you may enjoy the end result, but it is better not to watch how it is made.

Many people expect that science sort of progresses in a noble and dignified manner, but the truth is that scientific discovery often is the end result of a protracted, global fight over words. It has to be that way - these are people with huge talents and quite often egos to match.

What saves the day is the scientific process itself: You make your theories freely accessible to a forum of your peers, and they try their damndest to take them apart. The result is that once your theory has survived that procedure, it will take someone with a huge amount of insight and a very sharp mind indeed to kill it.

And that is why you should pay more attention to the claims of climate scientists than to the claims made by the skeptics. Whichever arguments the disbelievers come up with, you can be reasonably sure that they have already been tried out many times by the scientists themselves.

So, the IPCC got something wrong? It doesn't matter, really - it is not as if what they say is the only argument in favour of climate change caused by humans. The only reason we hear a lot about this now is that there are powerful, economic interests that don't want us to make the necessary changes, and who don't care about those who are going to be hit worst. We have seen this over and over: the tobacco companies that paid for "research" that found no connection between smoking and cancer; the religious fringe that pays for research into discrediting evolution - and so on.

If you want to find a conspiracy to do with climate change research, look no longer than to the very, very big and powerful energy production sector, who stand to lose money if we change the way we produce energy.

Highly skeptical. Citations needed.

If it ever succeeds in the market, I'm going to use your comment as the "Less space than a Nomad, lame" equivalent for the iPad.

Right, so my initial point stands - one opinion from a guy on /. who doesn't like the iPad (and real mature on the name there, I see what you did there. Should I just go back to writing M$ for instant mod points?) doesn't qualify it for a place on this list.

The list itself is pretty stupid - listing PowerPC as one of the entries. I don't whoever wrote it really understood what they were writing, since PPC was by no means a failure or a "worst product" by any stretch of the imagination.

I personally have no idea if the iPad will succeed or fail. It will probably do better than anything based on LameDroid though. oooooh I went there.