Actually, Saddam was a CIA appointed dictator that left the reservation.

And like all the other petty dictators that we stopped supporting (Shah of Iran, Qaddafi, Mubarak ... ) it was replaced by something much much worse.

And I know that the Left loves to blame the USA for "meddling" into the affairs of radical Islamists, but I would like to point out that when the USA was a new country, having its merchant ships being attacked by the Pirates of Tripoli, it responded and thus formed the Marine Corps. In other words, if you're going to start issuing ridiculous "we started it" logic, go back to the beginning, and realize that it was Radical Islam that forced us into a permanent military class ;)

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Microsoft's influence over anything is slipping away. I'm finding less need for anything Microsoft in my IT world these days. The behemoth of each APP is crushing the life out of the lungs.

The problem you have, is that OFFICE is such a behemoth that it is almost unusable, but everyone requires people to use Apps like Word, when all they need is WordPad.

Google seems to get it just about right. The only complaint I have with Google is that they will whore out just about any AD, regardless of utility.

Do a search for MalwareBytes and take a look at the the ADs. Useful?

One year vaper, previously 20 year smoker. I've had the medical labs done to show how much damage was undone in just one year.

At 41, I can run farther and faster, keep up with young folk better than most of my non-smoker friends of the same age. 3 years ago this was not the case.

So says the AC chickenshit unwilling to taint their precious profile with garbage posts. Worse than a troll IMHO

Source? I would be interested if you're talking about actual subsidies (government giving money to airlines) (and apart from EAS) rather than tax breaks and such. What is the cost per passenger?

As a libertarian, I'm generally opposed to REAL subsidies for just about everything, simply because of all the unintended consequences.

And they (whoever "they" are) are forgetting Government Subsidies for those rail systems, which everyone pays via higher taxes.

IF government was OPEN and HONEST about how much things actually cost and compared with the benefits, many programs and subsidies would cease. But questioning effectiveness of government is tantamount to being "evil" these days.

I've seen government programs so expensive, that if we scrapped the program completely, and just paid the remaining people affected cash, it would be a fraction of the cost of maintaining the program.

I'll use the cost to build California's "High Speed Rail" system as an example. It would be cheaper, and more effective, to offer every man woman and child in California, 20 free round trip tickets via Airlines, and that is before a single train is run. The estimated one way price (as of today) is approximately $20 more than the cheapest flights available (and doesn't include ongoing government subsidies)

The point being, there are groups of people who are "in love" with certain viewpoints, where their emotional attachment overrides any logical points being made. In this case, there is NO economical sense in building out a rail system, UNLESS you're emotionally compromised by the idea of "high speed rail".

True. But Adobe already creates exploits for all the other OSes in the world, so they don't need to actually create an unsecured OS.

Problem is, I'm never likely to be elected to any office, including dog catcher.

I don't have the "pleasant" personality of a typical baby kisser. That, and I am a "radical" libertarian, which most people are afraid of.

I've come to the conclusion that most people like being sheep, as it is security for them. The problem as I see it, the sheepdog is actually a wolf.

Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malfeasance.

WE get it back by stopping being a "global" community, and start becoming "local" again. Support Local, wherever possible. You know, getting off the couch and stop watching TV and meeting your neighbors as you go outside for a walk.

There used to be a fiduciary responsibility to maintain the public trust. We didn't need laws to protect people, because there weren't unnamed unknown faceless corporations hiding nefarious activities.

This is why, I suggest that we start using the Corporation Death Penalty for gross violations of public trust. And use it in cases like this, where public trust is abused behind corporate greed.

THIS, backhanded, sleazy greed, this abuse of public trust, needs to be slapped down hard.

Security is not freedom.

And a number of them were from children born outside of the country, but since it is politically incorrect to actually track that kind of statistic, lets blame ANTI VAXERS!!!!!