Two sides of the same coin ;^)

Such vitriol over my little comment. You'll have to excuse me. I'm Canadian, we're all apathetic. You on the other hand are the type of person who amuses me most. You're one of those who reads the paper or watches CNN and believes what they're saying. My advice would be to pull your head out of your butt and read a Noam Chomsky book. And one final reality check, your country is 16 trillion in debt and nobody is buying what the U.S. is selling these days.

Anyone who watched one of the recent debates (yawn) would know there's really only two parties. And in actuality neither one runs the country. Big Money runs the country, Wall Street, the Oil companies, the so-called Military-Industrial Complex. Therefore anyone who thinks that it makes a difference who wins the election or that there will be real changes or that they will do what they say, well they just haven't been paying attention. One guy has made himself filthy rich by sticking it to the little guy his whole life and the other has done ... well, nothing. God bless America.

Google the failure rate of an xbox 360. It may be a computer, but it's a very crappy one.

Well, to put it simply, I think gay marriage as a concept is stupid.

Speaking as someone who's been down and out more than once, I'd concur that the Salvation Army is far and away .the most helpful organization when it comes to feeding needy people. I always make it a point to help them (if I can), and always tell people that they've helped me when nobody else would. Labelling them as anti-gay is a spurious argument. They ARE a church for goodness sake. Name one church that isn't anti-gay. They still help people.

You can believe what you like and I'll do the same. Let's say that to me it seems very implausible that the cell phone calls in question were made. Given the rural location, speed and altitude, your chances of making a good connection are dubious at best. There are still way more questions than answers. It doesn't surprise me that the people who run things would perpetrate or use this situation like they have, but that people who overwhelmingly state that they don't believe what their elected officials tell them are willing to do so with regards to 2001-09-11. We'll see the reaction when the other shoe drops.

After ten years of this charade I'm still shaking my head. There is NO way the World Trade Towers came down on their own like they did. You can't make a call on a cell phone from an airplane. And the Pentagon is the most unusual case with almost no (believable) physical evidence. And yet the United States has embarked on a "mission" to rid the world of evil, which has driven it to the brink of bankruptcy. I cringe every time I hear "God Bless America". And keep waiting for all this to make sense. Heroes my ass. And all the celebrating only makes the citizens of the U.S. look like the fools they are.

Plan 9? It seems too cool to die.

Like everyone here, I love computers and can see the good in them. I think we could all agree that there is potential for abuse and misuse of them as well. If you're one of those people who never goes near a computer, and I have many friends who know zero, couldn't even turn one on then all you would see is the sinister uses. And I believe that keeping track of every purchase made by every citizen is sinister. The problem is I don't see any way of stopping it from coming about. Quick note to Christians in India, the people who decide these issues are the ones who have the money and they don't actually believe the Bible. They may like to say they do but I'm sure you would agree that actions speak louder than words. Let's hope your number is a lucky one!

And my objective is to minimize their profits. I do this by using forums, bit torrent and rapidshare. Porn is just way better when you get it for free. And I wouldn't be getting carried away with calling it an Industry ... unless you want to start calling the Mafia and the Hells Angels the Enforcement Industry. I'm getting old, but the thrill of it is almost more in finding it (for free) than actually watching. After all, 90% of it is pretty poor, I've seen enough bad boob jobs to last a lifetime.

I've been ignoring people who play Farmville since it came out. Perhaps the biggest waste of bandwidth on the Internet. That would be a good topic, what's the biggest bandwidth waster out there? Perhaps the entire Facebook "franchise"? Hope I haven't kept anyone away from their virtual cows (snicker...).

So we will have to hope that the noble ruling class in the United States will continue to provide part time minimum wage jobs at WalMart for the unwashed masses. Of one thing I am certain, if things keep sliding in the direction they are and a lack of opportunities for educated individuals is only one example, reason will fly out the window. By nobility, you must be referring to the Bush family?

It's a noble concept you have, but not only is there a huge gap between those at the top and bottom, but especially with the slow malingering death of unions that gap is growing. And I see no sign of that reversing or even slowing. That is, short of fighting in the streets. That's the way it's been all throughout civilized history ... here we go again.