A Russian service often can't do all the same things. You think the Chinese govt. wasn't elated when Google was replaced by something inside the Great Firewall that they could control?

Sure, the Russians can rely on domestic second-rate suppliers. Does that benefit the Russian people?

That's Mayday the event, not the sound of alarm. Mayday is also known as International Workingman's Day.

Don't you remember the old newsreels of Soviet tanks and trucks bearing missiles, rolling through Moscow for the annual Mayday Parade?

Was it clueless, or was it deliberate?

Mayday, incidentally, should be a strikingly American day on the calendar, as it commemorates the May Day Massacre which happened in Chicago. The people killed were Communists and Anarchists, though, so it isn't gonna go on the Official Holiday Calendar in the US.

Or what about what happened to Obama's election promises about getting rid of lobbyists and being transparent? I do believe he was pressured by the incumbents into changing his mind. He might have been honest when he first got elected, but, as they say, the system is too strong. He got borged into it.

Or, he was a lying, conniving SOB from the start, and like any other politician said anything he had to to get elected. Our only option is to cut off the air supply (taxes.)

It's all about the power, baby.

'fair' is one of those words like 'good' that are really hard to pin down to what is meant when they are used. Let's substitute in another vague word:

Either good elections are important to you, or they aren't. The system you propose is the system we have already (by refusing to consider alternatives) and you will note that your proposal has already been tried and found to be ungood.

There. That didn't add to or change the meaning of what you typed at all.

They will have to queue in line at the window in that building downtown, to place an order through the Bureau of Foreign Purchases.

Where does the money from the taxes go? Why? Publish a full audit. Make sure it is available to all voters in an easy to review format soon before all elections.

Sounds like gas for motorcycles, climbing gear, chutes for skydiving, bicycles, and all sorts of other stuff should be much more expensive.

Many nerds are into things even older. I think you are confusing nerds with the gadget freaks who stand in line at Apple stores. It isn't all about 'progress' nor about the styling the fucks in marketing came up with last week.

Honda still makes the Civic. Just not the noisy little eggshell they did in 1980.

Not formats, just the size of the sprockets.

It works for Boeing, too. They just move out of state. Other parts of the country with lower costs can use the jobs.

I want a bumper sticker that reads: "I voted for Clinton twice, I voted for Bush twice, but at least I never voted for Obama."

It was well documented after the fall of the Soviet Union that there was a powerful network of communist infiltrators within the US government, and that Sen. McCarthy was right, though he had a horrible clumsy way of acting in reaction to it. Also, read about The Venona Project. The Rosenbergs deserved to die, they were guilty.

I love the picture on that page of the 'scud missile' they captured and are parading about. They almost certainly have neither the expertise to fire the missile, nor is it likely complete and able to be fired. They'd have a hard time even unloading the 'missile' off the parade-float truck it's resting in. They're a bunch of goatherds with rusty kalashnikovs and light pickup trucks.