Roads. Fire protection. Police. A thousand other services that make the quality of your life what it is. You don't work for free and neither do the people who do those jobs.

Yours is a typically short-sighted view of taxes, particularly regarding education. If you don't think that you've never benefited from school taxes, ask your doctor where his undergraduate degree came from. Or the pilot of the next plane you fly on. Or the architect who designed your house. Oh, you say, I just meant direct benefits. Well, sorry, pal, we don't differentiate between direct and indirect benefits. You pay to send your neighbor's kid to school and you get the indirect benefit of a more educated citizen. It seems odd that your private education didn't cover the value of benefits such as that.

Now if you want to argue that tax money may not be spent wisely, I might agree with you on that point. Narcissism doesn't really serve us all that well.

Oh, the response may be negative, but there's a difference in shrillness. Sort of like the difference between a firecracker and a ton of TNT.

I'm no fan of Bush, but even I know that the president isn't the only player in the economy. Not by a long shot. For that matter, the government isn't the only player. You should have paid more attention in your civics class. Assuming that they even teach it anymore.

Don't worry, it's change we can live with. Change dammit. And hope. Yeah, hope. And stuff.

Oh, and regarding the title of the story, isn't the AG the top DoJ post?

Now that's funny, right there.

Not only does everybody think that your idea is stupid, but it's also pretty safe to say that almost anyone entering college as a CS major is getting just a little ahead of himself if he's worried that some professor is going to steal his ideas. Or maybe has been watching too many movies.

DRAM manufacturers have been selling for less than cost for the past 6 or 7 quarters. Commodities prices are not driven by cost of manufacture, they're driven by the market.

You didn't actually listen to or read the interview, did you? Because if you did, you'd know that Griffin does, in fact, believe that global warming is happening.

The fact that he does not believe that the Bible of Global Warming is not the literal word of Al Gore does not make him a heretic - he's just not an evangelical Global Warmer. And that's OK - we welcome any believer into the Church, my brother.

Pfft, Al Gore got one of those by making a PowerPoint presentation. How tough can it be?

"And the award for worst misuse of the term 'free country' in a /. thread goes to..."

But...are they chocolate pictures? Mmmmm...chocolate universe...

Be sure to tell your employer that your crack team of lawyers from Slashdot is advising you. That'll get their attention. Maybe not in the way that you'd like, but, hey, it's attention, right?

w00h00! The monopoly is broken! Microsoft will never dominate the operating system market like they used to again!

"Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wi..." Wait, 80 what percent? Rats.

Inattentive driving is still against the law. And in 2004, SB1800 would have banned texting, among other things. I guess it didn't pass.

I'm pretty sure that an inattentive driving citation is a moving violation - worth points against your license. Talking on a cell phone is an infraction. No points.

It's that damned metric system again. This whole recession thing is probably just a conversion error.