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Comment Re:One More Bush Era Screw Up (Score 2, Informative) 410

One more example of how Bush and his greedy incompetent Republican asshats have screwed everybody. This stuff is used because of a conditional waiver that was issued in 2003, against the scientific advices of the experts.

It's just like the BP Gulf oil spill and the coal mine explosion in West Virginia. There are systems in place to protect people and the environment, but when the Republicans gain control they stop all oversight. It takes five to fifteen years to see all the failures, and by then everyone forgets who turned over control to the crooks and lairs.

They just wave the flag, blame everything on the government bureaucrats and illegal aliens, scream about the war on terror, and then lie and deny when the shit hits the fan. I guess as long as these morons continue to lie and cheat their way into power we deserve to have poisoned gulf seafood and the end of flowering crops.

Don't worry, you can just consume more high fructose processed food and get diabetes. The corn/agribusiness lobby will continue to do just fine with their massive tax breaks and government subsidies, and they're so rich that they can afford imported fruits and vegetables. If you get sick and loose your health care you can crawl off and die, and that will solve them problem.

Pssstttttt.... 15 years before the events you cited... Clinton was president.

Comment Re:Regardless (Score 4, Informative) 742

Install Windows Steady State on the machine after you set it up and before you give it to him. It is designed for places like computer labs, libraries, schools, etc... that don't want kids or malicious user wrecking too much havoc. Lots of features but the gist is you have full control over what users can do (by account), how long they can be online, what drives and resources they have access to, etc. There is even a rudimentary site blocker so you can allow playhouse disney, or whatever kids sites you know are safe without letting them have free reign over the net or having to manage this at the firewall. Highly recommend it.

Comment Re:Oh piss off (Score 1) 322

Maybe if you stop watching Fox News, you'd notice the leaders portrayed as demonic figures bent on bringing hell on earth are actually very pragmatic people and that's exactly why they manage to stay in power.

Well, yeah, *that* and election fraud.

p.s. I actually get most of my news from NPR, with some CNN, BBC, CSM and others thrown in. Somehow I doubt you actually take in the "other sides'" 'news' sources and just wallow in your own intellectual filth.

Comment Re:It's all BS (Score 1) 272

But your quiz is *not* representative of all car buying scenarios... much more often the scenario is as follows:

My family owns *two* cars, an SUV that gets 15 MPG and sedan that gets 25 MPG. Should I replace the SUV with a hybrid SUV that gets 25 MPG or the sedan with one that gets 45 MPG?

Comment Re:Sounds like a teabagger's wet dream (Score 1) 483

Lies. A single tea partier holding a sign referencing "tea BAGGING" is not the same thing as that person labeling the GROUP "teabaggers". If you have any credible proof that any tea partier referred to themselves as "teabaggers" I'd love to see it. If you were to say that tea partiers used the word teabag first in any context related to their group then you *might* have a case... although I am pretty sure I can troll the internet and find some earlier example of someone on the left derisively referring to them as such. Oh...and exactly what services do they want more of? Unless of course you are referring to the government actually doing its job of protecting the borders....

Comment Re:The pilots were incompetent (Score 1) 324

That isn't how I read the article... the trojans were infecting a central maintenance computer back at maintenance headquarters and would have absolutely no idea of the flap status during the take-off. The issues are completely unrelated. While it is interesting that such an important computer (saftey-wise) was so infected, from the wikipedia article and the accident investigation report, it doesn't seem that maintenance had anything to do with the crash at all. This is a simple case of pilot error. The pilot and co-pilot did not complete their take-off checklists having omitted placing the flaps in the take-off position. This is backed up by the voice recorder (they could be heard skipping over this step) and from the data recorders which record the positions of all the control surfaces. The ongoing lawsuits in spain likely have more to do with finding more people to sue than actually accepting what really happened that tragic day.

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