The Income Tax in the U.S. is indeed progressive, but that is only one kind of tax. The very rich don't pay full social security taxes, for example (regressive). They also usually make most of their wealth by investing in securities which are taxed at a much lower rate. Most of the spending done in the tax code (mortgage interest deduction, for example) goes to the wealthy. Generally speaking, the middle-class bears most of the cost of government. If I had my choice, I would love to see a much simpler, consumption orientated, tax system here in the states.

The U.S. Senate is perhaps the most cluster-fucked legislative body on the planet.

I want what this guy is smoking, drinking, popping, or otherwise causing these delusions.

As a member of this Congressional District I can assure you that Bill Posey is probably genuinely interested in technological research as he and his father used to work for NASA. That being said not supporting NASA in this district is political suicide. That being said, this area is very conservative and is almost entirely run by (R) from local up to federal. Bill Posey is another party-line douche bag, but I suppose most House members are. I've sent numerous emails to him and I regularly fill out his constituent surveys (which are multiple choice (R) talking points).

Ah....the old Java sucks, no it doesn't, C is better, no C++ is, garbage collection is for newbies, I can write some trivial program in that beats your program written in , blah blah blah blah blah. I've seen enough of these threads on /. to know that nothing useful will come of them. Including, especially, this comment. Pro-tip. Does your code meet required specifications? If yes, whodafuckcares.

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Apparently the OP hasn't seen My Cousin Vinny.

I'd like to clone him about 435 times and let them run the Congress.

The mere fact that you'd have to do it 435 times is statement enough about our government.

I respectfully disagree. Just the opposite has happened since my daughter was born six months ago. I get pooped on and laugh it off. I get vomited on and laugh it off. You have to have an uber sense of humor to make it through the rough days. Just my opinion, of course.

Meh. Why don't we just study with cosmos with proven telescope technology and don't try anything else. Why don't we just stop trying new things all together. It's a couple of fucking cells. They would thrown in the garbage otherwise.

Samsung has an official firmware fix for the GPS problem on the Galaxy line of phones. The firmware is scheduled for release in September. The forthcoming Epic 4G from Sprint will be released with this updated firmware. Engadget Story

in the form of a classic Seinfeld episode, The Abstinence.

Does your service come with free NSA eavesdropping too?

Holy guacamole! You can get 20Mbps for $17 USD? Shit, I pay $50 USD for 15Mbps. The US of A really sucks when it comes to telecommunications.