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Comment Re:Gawd, I love that man (Score 0) 95

I doubt you could possibly be more blatant in demonstrating how your love for your party trumps all concern you have for everything that used to make our country great.

Tell me, would you tolerate any of these from Joe Biden?
  • Threatening to usurp power that was never assigned to the VP to break a supreme court tie?
  • Holding secret meetings with industry leaders to use to dictate legislation?
  • Telling someone on the senate floor "go fuck yourself"?

And that is hardly even scratching the surface of how Cheney was blatantly using the constitution as toilet paper and showing pride of doing it. I wouldn't tolerate it from Biden, nor would you. However when it comes to a republican you celebrate it while I continue to condemn it.

Comment Re:Gawd, I love that man (Score 0) 95

Here I always thought of him as the antithesis of YOLO. He's had around 5 heart attacks (that he'll admit to) and several surgeries. I just hope that nobody in my family is his same blood type or we might be called upon to be the source of his next donor heart (and hence have to promptly leave the country forever). Really, he should have died some time ago but with the medical staff that he keeps around he is more indestructible than Keith Richards.

The real irony though is that the same publicly funded research that he has tried to destroy funding for is what keeps him alive.

Comment Re:The problem is ... (Score 0) 95

As for Cheney, he'll believe what he believes. And if he's stupid enough to believe that torture will work against people who see pain as a reward, well, his name is "Dick", right?

Indeed his name is spelled D-I-C-K though some will say the correct pronunciation is D-A-R-T-H.

Comment Be careful with ubuntu 14.x (Score 1) 7

I learned the hard way that both 14.04 and 14.10 brought in a couple of really awful wifi drivers. Cards that work beautifully (both intel and non-intel wifi chips [including some realtek chips amongst others]) in 13.10 and earlier are sporadic at best in the driver firmwares that ship by default in these releases.

The rest of the stuff that people bitch about so incessantly in newer versions of ubuntu are just pissing matches by comparison.

Comment Re:Why are we afraid of international lawsuits? (Score 1) 82

no firm wants to be on the receiving end of a subpoena

I understand that, but what is a subpoena worth in a court in another country? Generally nothing, really. Sure if you fail to show up for a civil trial in another court they could find against you because you didn't show up but they still won't be able to get far with that unless you have assets in that country that they can seize.

I can understand companies wanting to avoid dealing with it in the US court if they can, but I don't see the point of being so paranoid about it in other countries.

Comment Why are we afraid of international lawsuits? (Score 1) 82

I don't see any reason to be afraid of being sued by Russian criminals. A few jobs ago I once had a webpage up (which attracted very little attention) that somewhat similarly exposed a particular registrar as being overwhelmingly spammer-friendly. My employer got nervous and pulled down said web page on my behalf (it was being hosted on their server at the time - yeah, I should have had it elsewhere) because they were afraid of being sued.

Frankly I don't see any reasone why it would even be a bad thing to be sued by these goons. They usually are doing their "business" in countries that don't have any kind of extradition (yeah, I know that usually doesn't matter in civil suits) agreements with the US or any other way to force me to show up for their lawsuit or be bound by its findings.

Comment Re:You were almost - accidentally? - rational (Score 1) 27

You seem to have larger contiguous chunks of free time than I. I haven't had time yet to go through the large chunk of text that you most recently provided random running commentary on. Once I get to that I will offer up another part of the manifesto.

Your taunting won't help any part of your cause, though.

Comment You were almost - accidentally? - rational (Score 1) 27

OK, you came back as close to reality as to no longer be trying to call for the Lawnchair administration to be assassinating random Americans in the US to advance their NWO agenda. Unfortunately you only went as far back towards reality as to claim that the administration was not directing the killings. You then went right back off the deep end in the supposition that the administration is spending until quadrillions of dollars concocting untold billions of different plans to be able to at a moments notice spring the NWO upon us should the right death occur somewhere in the country.

I guess, then, it is good for you that the Lawnchair administration is so wholly inept at actually deploying such plans as to have not managed to make even one of them work so far. It's a good thing we can count on good citizens like you to warn us about their attempts to roll out such plans, or given a few more thousand years they just might by chance succeed with one!

Comment Re:Politics, plain and simple (Score 4, Insightful) 116

There is more at play here than just people afraid of actual scientific data ever being generated in regards to climate change. Remember that most of the GOP is strongly anti-science in virtually every aspect - and even more so when it is science funded by the federal government. The GOP will be spending untold millions the next couple years to try to uncover loose change like this to try to slow down science as much as possible. This first hearing alone likely cost the taxpayer more than the total sum of the wasteful spending.

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