Don't get out much, eh? In case you haven't noticed, the middle class is going downhill and sinking fast in the midst of "everyday low prices" at Tar-Mart.

When nobody (ok, the "99%") has enough money to live with any quality of life, it doesn't matter what prices are - people can't buy stuff.

Domestic manufacturing and middle class employment / wages per capita peaked in 1977. I seem to recall a lot more people were doing better then than they are now.

Free trade and removal of tariffs have devastated the middle class. Granted, unions contributed with greed, but the majority of the cause is exporting real jobs overseas and replacing them with "welcome to Tar-Mart" for $7.39/hr.

I believe the goal is to feed at the military-scientific-industrial complex money trough while 20% of our citizens go hungry.

I'm stunned by the testosterone posturing on this thread. America needs more weapons like a fish needs a bicycle.

I hope the "supercommittee" fails and the military budget is cut 20%. Won't happen but I wish it would.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair.

not to mention that the incidence of fracking is exponentially greater than it used to be when "his daddy" used to do it.

DiVX was a DVD that self destructed about 36 hours after you first played it. Once you watched it, you threw it in the trash. This stupid idea contributed to the eventual downfall of Circuit City...

...prevents such revocation. you cannot deprive a "person" of property without due process. it's in the constitution. you'd have to go to court (not Congress) and it's doubtful that the SCOTUS would uphold your position.

I agree with you in principle, I just know how the lobbyists play this game...

You make excellent points. Here's two things to consider:

(1) Why won't the "media" ever talk about campaign finance issues?

I'll answer a question with a question: who ultimately receives campaign funds?

That's right: the media. When you hear that Obama will spend $500 million on his campaign, where do you think he's spending it?

(2) Who does the establishment's hatchet jobs?

The media. When DHS, FBI, et al needed a scapegoat for the anthrax murders, all it took was a whisper in a few ears and Dr. Stephen Hatfill was delivered on a platter.

When the victim of that hatchet job fought back unexpectedly, Dr. Bruce Ivins was served up. He did what they expected and killed himself, wrapping the story up in a nice consumable package for the sheeple.

As an Austrian politician once said, "Killian is lying to you"

The "free press" isnt the solution, it's the problem

Ever been in the men's room when one of those idiots was perched on the throne in the next stall chatting away? When you answer them (before you realize they're on a bluetooth headset), who do you perceive as more stupid - you or them? FML...

When Siri starts shouting at you and telling you your work is shit and that you're a fucking idiot, then, yes, they've transmuted Steve's personality into Siri.

If I never had to use the shitty iOS virtual keyboard ever again, I would be a happy man indeed. How many times have I deleted, fatfingered, and otherwise mangled text because of that crappy keyboard. Days, weeks even, of lost productivity.

I HATE the iOS keyboard. If I knew that I could always speak my text and have it typed accurately, I'd sell my iPhone 4 tomorrow and buy a 4S.

I receive google news alerts in gmail from google that are always marked as spam.

Even when i've marked them as not spam more than 100 times, they continue to be flagged as spam. Same for gmail password resets.

WTF is that, artificial ignorance? If their voice recognition is engineered like their spam recognition, Apple's gonna eat their lunch.

At google, does PhD stand for "pointy headed developers"?

Price, quality, service: pick any two:

(1) a high quality solution provided quickly is expensive
(2) a high quality solution provided slowly is cheap
(3) a low quality solution provided quickly is cheap

In the 21st century, given the corporate mindset of privatizing profits and socializing losses, engineering usually delivers #3.

This report begs to differ with your assessment.

Ignorance frequently leads to astonishment. I assume you work in the nuk-u-lar industry. Want to know more about the history of subterfuge in the atomic power industry? Read We Almost Lost Detroit. Many well meaning people thought nuclear power was safe. To quote Sinclair Lewis: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

That pattern of thought, combined with a general corporate mindset of privatizing profits and socializing losses, is what led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster . Yes - when you have TV images of reactor containment buildings blowing up one after the other, that's pretty much a disaster.

slashdot is right wing? who moved the goal posts?