I take exception to you singling out Republican's here. Democrats, far more often then the big red, seek public outcry to get their policies passed. Sure, the big elephant in the room likes to point out all the big nasties and immoral things that we do, but the asses like telling us that every little thing we do is killing the polar bears. Between sharing my wealth with the inner city poor who can't stop having children and raping my wallet for gas/energy costs... I think I'll take the moral guilt over liberal idiocy any day.

The two (blogging and being a former R party official) are not mutually exclusive. Your assertion that she is being fraudulent is purely conjecture... just like Grayson's.

It's a pity when sanity gets in the way of a good political snipe.

He did say blob... compared to an amoeba... nah... still a hard comparison some days.

I don't have any points to give, but I'll give you real life karma if it makes you feel good! I was frantically searching for the "All of the above" button too :(

Lets hope we see the smallest amount of value before the American economy completely implodes.

I would love to debate the merits of individual policies all day long. Between the stimulus, bailouts and healthcare we've already got a hole that can't be filled that was dug by policies that were short sighted and badly engineered in the first place (yes, some from Bush). Sure, they all have redeeming principles in them, but the actual implementation leaves much to be desired. All of that aside, Obama's biggest problem is one of scope. You can't quadruple the national deficit in one year and add nearly $5 trillion (number from the CBO) to the national debt in as many years and then go on to (at a minimum - again numbers from the CBO & WSJ) double the energy costs for the AVERAGE American... We've already passed the legislation necessary to completely destroy the economy... this will just help it come faster.

Obama and his administration seem to only consider the ideal situation... the one in which their policies work out exactly as they intended... unfortunately they aren't and will continue to go awry, cap&trade included.

I, like you, see our destruction of the environment as a debt to future generations and actions must be taken to protect the world for the future, however, please consider the fact that our children won't have a future if we've spent out economy into oblivion. If you are ok with the United States going up to 25% unemployment again, people by the tens-of-millions living on the streets on in shelters, and your children having little to no education (or an advantage really) to speak of all for the protection of the environment, then I guess such considerations need not be made. I, however, will give my votes and support to people who are willing to find a hybrid between prosperity and environmentalism.

That's right... ignore any viable argument against your world view an insatiable desire to be "good willed" and "right" at any cost... just accuse the person as having no basis for argument and they'll go away? Is that what liberalism teaches now a-days?

See here for a source cited argument against your stupidity.

Rosa Parks' argument was that she was no less a human being than the nice white people who got to sit at the front and that no matter how you argue separate is not equal which therefore gave her the same natural right to sit at the front of the bus as the WASPs.

Are you intending to argue that listening to music that was produced by someone else (at a cost to the producer) is an inherent natural right of human beings and therefore downloading it (without compensation to the producer) constitutes no moral or ethical injustice?

If you're a programmer, have any juicy source code for me to look at?

Insightful... really?

I understand the anti-Microsoft sentiment. Being in IT and software development I tend to share a lot of it... but if you're going to spread hate, try to make sure your facts/analogies are in the ballpark of being accurate

Windows comes complete with door locks and windows, its the $1000 Bose surround sounds with bluetooth link and iPod dock that you pay extra for. Not to mention Microsoft hasn't even come close to releasing a version of Windows requiring a yearly subscription. Sure they talked about it, but the reaction from the community was enough to stem that tide.

I don't know about you, but I don't have to break any laws or void any warranties to get into MMC or the registry or the hardware manager. This part of your analogy seems to be aimed that the idea that windows is closed source but its completely flawed. A better analogy would be that its really freaking hard to cast all your own parts to build an engine from scratch... which is true.

Kill switch that other drivers control? I don't even understand this. Unless your talking about domain controllers having the ability to forcibly shutdown or restart an AD attached computer... but then your analogy would be like to stupid go carts which the pissy little 16yr old attendants turn a rev limiter on just because you bumped your friend a bit...

15 manufacturers to get a basic car? If opera and mozilla have their way that might have some semblance of truth, but the base windows install (excluding drivers) is all Microsoft. Most cars have after marked parts from dozens of companies, why shouldn't an operating system? If you want to bitch about mismatched software and wedged in modules go take a look at a linux depot.

You have a point about the whole driving legally thing, but when a company can argue that ~30% of China doesn't use a valid copy of their product, I think they get some leeway.

When was the last time your local car shop issued a recall on your car? What? Never? You mean its the manufacturer that discovers and fixes all those problems? Oh man... what a shock. I guess that's the state of closed engineering these days...

P.S. You only have mandatory product activation if you buy a retail version of the software and install it yourself, OEM comes pre-activated. In a way, that product activation is like you getting the title to your car. If you buy from a dealership, they do all the paperwork and everything comes to you automatically in the mail. If you build your own car or buy it used, you have to fill out a few forms and get them notarized and approved before you're technically allowed to drive it legally. Again, when their software is pirated so much, they do have the right to try to protect it. That isn't greed, that is intelligent business.

Not to try to bring this thread down... but Christians and Muslims have been fighting over political dominance for 15 centuries. Russia and China have been struggling for political relevance for decades. India and Brazil are currently trying to set themselves up as world leaders... Renewable energy isn't going to change any of this. There are people in the world who just want power. There are others in this world who want to be the only ones in it (see the Holocaust, Darfur, Sudan, Gaza, Palestine, South Africa, Iran, Iraq and others for modern day examples... the Crusades, the Hun, the Spanish Inquisition and others for historic references). Cheap, renewable energy isn't going to solve the world's problems because scarcity or resources is only one driving force behind the atrocities we see daily and by no means does it trump fundamentalist idiocracy.

Seems you merely played the closed beta or the first week of the slightly less closed beta. The game evolved a lot over the second beta and is most definitely worth playing now... even with sycophants like your self running-a-muck.

I am actually in. Was in the beta as well.

This is NOT Microsoft's responsibility. As long as they aren't actively limiting the ability to install other pieces of software or creating an environment in which other programs can not run, Microsoft has done their job. I don't know much about EU law, but it is ridiculous to think that Microsoft should be forced to bundle their operating system with competitor software... that's up to the distributors/OEMs, and if people buy direct from Microsoft, they can't bitch that non-Microsoft software isn't included.

"The three-app rule includes applications running in the background" So, I assume they'll be bludgeoning HP, Dell, etc for installing crapware after crapware to the tune of nearly 30 extra processes on first boot? Or HP (again!), Logitech, Cannon, Intel, etc etc for their awful driver packages that can leave more than one "background" task running?! I know the monkeys at Microsoft aren't the brightest bulbs, but you would think that the marketing department at least USES Windows... if only on occasion.