Except that its is libs like Obama who are ignorant. For example, when did Future President Elect Palin state that the earth is 6K years old ? And how come Palin knows that unbounded government spending and taxation kills the free market, a lesson which Obama stubbornly rejects ? Or how about the man made, CO2 induced global warming science hoax (what about CO2 levels and average global temps more than 600K years ago ? Oops CO2 has been as high as 4000 ppm with global temps at typical ice age levels). Score Palin 1, Obama 0

Ditto for death panels (Grandma is better off taking a pain pill).

And here is yet one more thing Palin knows that Obama doesn't, It's the economy stupid ! That is why the dems were routed in 2010 and she will win in 2012 (this is also why Obama won in 08 ). The vast majority of Americans who legally vote in this country are royally pissed at Obama for wasting our time on Health Care Reform instead of working on the Economy, which what the whole reason he was elected in the first place. And by pulling the economy-HCR bait and switch, he has lost the independents who put him there in the previous cycle.

Most Americans now know all of the lib's trick plays. Calling any conservative "stupid" (Goldwater, Reagan, Bush, Palin) works as well as the wildcat offense, everyone gets the gimmick now and ignores it.

Lastly, most of what you think illustrates Palin's lack of intelligence are merely faux-pas which get played over and over and over by the leftist media. Don't believe me ? Okay, did you know Obama said there were 57 states ?

Or how about Obama's vast vocabulary, including words like "epancipation"?

And we can't forget his mastery of medicine !

Everyone is blaming the WikiLeaks guy, PFC Manning, etc. But its is the job of the State Department to make sure it's cables are secret. Yeah, I know she is not the actual computer nerd responsible for State's IT department, however she, and she alone is ultimately responsible for this mess. You see, the government knew PFC Manning had the State Department's cables months before this mess blew up from his pending court martial (http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Charge-Sheet-redacted-Manning.pdf) .

AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS DONE NOTHING TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION !

Hillary ... buh-bye !!!

There is TONS of prior art on this. Every single OS does some variant of this, after all that is the job of an OS in the first place. I can't understand how this got past the examiners !

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> That's because the slashdot summary and the article are sensationalized. They aren't patenting "shutting down."
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Um ... yes they are ! Why do I say this you ask ? Well let's examine patent #7,788,474:

• It's title is "Operating system shut down"
• The first sentence in the patent's abstract states: "A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system."

What the hell else should I think they are trying to patent ?

Typical ... read the article a bit and you will see it only works in drier climates where evaporative cooling systems work.

But in areas where you need Air Conditioning (i.e. cooling + humidity reduction) in a humid climate it is useless (i.e. Gulf Coast, deep south, Florida). And this area is where the bulk of energy use is used for (indoor) climate control.

So why don't researchers work on a solution for the 80% that could use it instead of the 20% where it doesn't matter ?

Maybe we need to move their labs out of AZ, CO, and CA down to TX and FL and only allow them to use their own inventions to cool the lab.

'Nuff said

The current windows OS stack with NT lineage can run on any processor as long as it supports Little Endian. Many processors including ARM can run in either big or little endian mode, so NT can be ported to it.

I am surprised it took this long to happen, but it was inevitable since the industry switched their ATM's over to Windows:

IBM bids OS/2 farewell

When will people learn ... windows is bad for you !

I think you meant to post this on DailyKos or HuffPo instead of Slashdot comrade

Notice that the exploit is not so much an adobe one as it is a windows one (http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-121422-3337-99).

Badly designed OS's let badly designed apps, do bad things.

What is surprising is that an Operating System vendor (Microsoft) has so poorly designed it product to allow an application (often running in user space) to access proctected resources.
This violates the very definition of an Operating System, and what worse is that MS has done absolutely nothing to address these issues despite the vast resources at their disposal.

Interesting, but I don't get your point about #10, the way I read it, its not so much about scaling up to a large physical country (or population for that matter), but rather balancing a large number of varying opinions (ie. factions) an trying to give them a more equitable voice via a representative government.

As for your point about Adam Smith and the sub-prime mortgages, this is clearly the fault of the government for not properly safeguarding the mortgages via oversight, which it has a very poor track record in doing in general, which gives me one less reason to trust them with overseeing health care.

As for your last point, the middle class in the 50's payed somewhere around 20% income tax. Adding mandatory health care to the mix (still waiting for you to sight the constitutional authority on this) is still yet to be seen, but I would venture to guess it will be an extra 10%, and as will only get higher, yielding an average tax rate of about 30% (top rate of 70), which is what we had in the mid 1970's, and we all know how good it was for the middle class back then. And don't forget all the fees, state income taxes, sales taxes, etc added on to that.
And I believe the middle class was financially at its strongest from the mid 1980's to the mid 2000's, with a maximum income tax rate of around 35% for the period !!!

In good faith, I will retract my racism assertion, and apologize for calling you an idiot.

In order to move forward on this issue, distractions such as this must be off the table.

As to you second point, I am glad to see that we agree on a more reasonable number of uninsured. This fact alone just chopped the projected cost in half.

In general, I agree with you that it looks bad for even that many people to be without insurance, but here is the catch: What constitutional power does the government have to force anyone to get insurance (hint: a number less than one). And even worse, how many of the uninsured DO NOT WANT insurance at all ? Can you legally force them to take it, even if they don't want it? For those who need it but can't afford it, we can start with income tax credits to make it more affordable.

Lastly, back to my last point, most companies value their employees, so they will tend to keep them happy, if not they tend to go out of business (by the way I have worked for more than one company that switched carriers due to employee complaints, I only mentioned the one above because I was closely involved with a dispute with the carrier).

So to sum up single payer is a supremely bad idea for the US. Sure it may work in some European countries, but they have populations vastly smaller than most states here, and often have extremely strict immigration policies. But lastly, I encourage you to read the Federalist Papers and Adam Smith instead of Krugman.

The only hope for a lasting democracy is a vibrant middle class, which will be buried by a single payer system.

I will be blunt only be cause your post deserves it:

Both you and Paul Krugman are idiots.

1. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with race. My circle of friends have an informal rule about arguing in which you automatically loose when invoking Nazis to bolster your position. This should also apply to bringing up racism as well (P.S. Just so you know, I am not white).
2. About half of the 40-50 million uninsured your are talking about are foreign nationals, the vast majority of which are Illegals.

I will split the difference with you about your last point. I have personally had problems with a carrier which did not properly honor it's claims, but my company was able to switch to another one because we had a choice. Single payer WILL (as admitted by many democrats including Barney Frank and Mr. Obama) eventually drive out all private sector carriers.

What was left out of the article is the obvious, virtually all of these platforms run some variation of MS windows .... tick, tick, tick .....