Thank you, Andy Rooney. This way to your room, Mr. Rooney....

Deregulation led to Enron. Not one other thing. Deregulation led to collateralized debt obligations and the latest (and all previous) Wall Street scandals. Not one other thing. No more deregulation.

From "Enterprise", "Lexington", "Saratoga", "Yorktown", we're now reduced to naming carriers after dysfunctional U.S. presidents? I guess if we can go from "Operation Overlord" to "Operation Restore Hope" that's par for the course. Never has one nation sucked so hard at so much.

Jesus -- you're a rank combination of naivety, arrogance, and ignorance. I hope you're not working on anything life-essential. What a jerkoff.

Well then, you're a retarded guy working with a bunch of mouth-breathers. Postgres is used plenty, by people who want a FOSS database with real features, good performance, and great reliability. MySQL is popular for the same reason that Windows is popular -- it's easy to get started with. But -- it's also a toy.

Yes, I pity the poor, hardworking, impoverished studio heads and record company execs, who have always been the primary beneficiaries of royalties. The Beatles, as a group, got a farthing per record, BTW.

Shut up. He can dress up in hello kitty costumes and have tea parties if he wants, it doesn't invalidate the information. He is not the source of the information. He just put the boxes on the street.

To those who believe wikileaks was in the wrong, here's an example of what we're trying to cover up: we're pressuring the Germans not to arrest CIA agents who kidnapped, on *German* soil, a *German national* who was *mistakenly* believed to be a terrorist. We *tortured him*, then let him rot in a hole in the ground for years before letting him out with no acknowledgement of guilt or even responsibility. This shit needs to come to light. Assange may have his own axes to grind, but what he's doing is right and protected under US law (Pentagon Papers case, duh). The Times article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/europe/09wikileaks-elmasri.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

You're the stupid. MC and Visa have an almost total monopoly on payments. What the government is doing in shutting down payments via MC and Visa is justifiable only of Wikileaks is a criminal organization. I think that's a long way from being proved (remember the Pentagon Papers case? Ellsberg walks the earth today). So the government action is an egregious exercise in police power, and the hackers are heroes for practicing civil disobedience.

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Or, it's because men are a bunch of smelly tools. Suck it.

read "education" for "educator", goddamn it.

You sound like a really irresponsible guy, actually. Sarah Palin is demonstrably unprepared mentally to lead the United States. She has neither the basic intelligence, the educator, nor now the experience, to run the country. I didn't like Bush's policies, but I viewed him as consciously implementing things I didn't like. He wasn't a moron. Sarah Palin might, in fact, be a moron, in the dictionary sense. She scares me. You scare me.

And, don't forget, the trio of Fry/Laurie/Thompson were also on "The Young Ones". I believe that trumps just about any other goddamn thing.

And the world's slowest DNS servers. I have FIOS, and I love my throughput. But it's only usable part of the time because the router is constantly dropping connections or requiring reboots, and the dns servers require several seconds for one lookup. I know there are workarounds for this, but Jesus, how about fixing these problems instead of focusing on raw speed?