Hey, I didn't claim to subscribe to any of their views. The right is just as screwed up as the left, but if I have to pick sides I'm leaning towards the right because they are at least smart enough to know that unions are bad and smaller government is good.

Umm.... I graduated college too. I just didn't drink the kool-aid while I was there. College is where much of the brainwashing I'm talking about happens. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-education, but universities have been overrun by leftists and *everyone* knows this is true. To deny this is like saying 2+2=5.

It's basic supply-side economics. Cutting taxes reduces the barriers to production, consumption goes up, businesses can afford to hire more people, and our economy thrives with 6% unemployment. Using Keynesian Economics, like President Obama, leads to the reduction of private economic control and puts more control in the government's hands. This is really bad because the government is the most inefficient organization in the country. Right now our "leaders" are resorting to easements which really mean they are "printing" money which de-values the dollar significantly providing foreign interests with huge economic advantages over domestic businesses. If you don't get what I'm telling you, go read about supply-side and Keynesian economics, then research how our liberal leaders think and what they believe in. It's frightening. BTW, I'm not a republican or a tea bagger! I just actually paid attention in college. What I saw happening was gullible students getting spoon fed a bunch of marxist crap (brainwashing) while they were sleeping through the important stuff like how macroeconomics work. Then they hit the real world with an elitist arrogance that is almost fascist in its intolerance for anything they don't agree with.

I stand corrected. I should have said "many" 23-year-old liberals. But, I maintain that today's young leftist progressives are most definitely brainwashed. If that's my imagination talking then so be it. I trust my imagination more than I trust other's opinions.

Yeah, those Black Panthers with clubs in front of the polling building were certainly right-wingers. The only double standard is that if a white cop arrested them for intimidating voters he'd be called the racist.

I know the majority here is bleeding sympathy for this clown, but he deserves the sentence in my opinion. DDoS-ing high-profile websites is a stupid/pointless activity and getting caught or admitting it is even more stupid. Look, people in the U.S. have the protected RIGHT to say and write their opinions no matter how left, right, or radical they may be. DDoS-ing someone's website is blocking freedom of the press just like book burning is. Most 23-year-old liberals think they have the *audacity* to silence people who don't agree with their brainwash-induced political views, but it's a violation of one of our fundamental freedoms in the U.S to prevent people from expressing themselves through speech or the media. Maybe having no freedom for a few years will teach this cat, and anyone dumb enough to follow in his footsteps, a valuable lesson about the true value of liberty and democracy.

I interviewed a recent grad from Dartmouth who informed me that he wasn't interested in any projects that were on a schedule or a budget. I told him that he should consider running for public office and he said he was an anarchist and didn't believe in organized government. So I suggested maybe using his own money to finance his own venture and he informed me that he didn't believe in capitalism. I really wanted to hire him simply to see if a few months in the real world would help him understand how life works, but I had other candidates who really wanted to work. I ended up hiring a person who didn't even have her degree yet and she did an excellent job. Colleges don't matter. People matter.

I think the word "cyber" loosely translates to "mind" which would make cyber-crime = mindcrime. Geoff Tate's lyrics have a whole new meaning to me now!

You really need to watch Apple's last two keynotes. They have revolutionized music, movie, book, and software delivery. I know there are a lot of complaints about how they do it, but they have created huge online content markets that didn't exist a few years ago. As an indie developer I've made thousands of dollars through their dev program. I've made significantly less through Google's. Google is following Apple's lead at the moment, and so is Microsoft - period. Google may be on top in years to come, but I doubt it. They just don't "think different" enough to set them apart from the rest of the tech noise.

Google stock has gone up 450% sing IPO. Apple's has gone up 1500% in the same amount of time. True innovation drives the market and Google is failing to bring anything compelling to the table. Your description of "business" innovation is spin bullshit. True innovation changes the way people work, play and live. Google has helped people slack at work and school by providing an extremely rich web search engine, but beyond that, their products haven't been the impetus for any paradigm shift. Apple, on the other hand, revolutionized computing decades ago and they are doing it again now with their devices and software. True innovation trumps "business" innovation.

"And Android as a smartphone OS blows the competition out of the water."

I develop on both Android and iOS and I can tell you with 100% certainty that this is not true at all.

Search -> Yahoo
Android -> Apple
Maps -> MapQuest
Mail -> HotMail
Chrome -> Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera

Yes, Google has improved on some of these things (except smartphones), but they seem to fail to bring anything entirely new and revolutionary to the market. Apple has released more innovative stuff this last year than Google has in a decade. Even their top "research" phd-holding peeps don't come up with much these days. The researchers at Microsoft are winning awards for all kinds of cool stuff while Google is getting left behind. Those little text ads are really the only thing they have going for them. I maintain my assertion that Google is a hack company based on web advertising, existing behind a veil of academic, elitist, technobull. Right now they are scrambling to buy companies because they know they don't have anything to bring to the market. Top employees are jumping ship. I give them 5 years before their stock is down 75%+.

WOW, that's amazing! Oh boy those Google people are sooooo brilliant and creative! Really, who cares about Wave? It's just another hack "product" from a company of hacks.

Nature will probably make those corrections on its own without humanity's help.