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Comment Sounds like propaganda. (Score 1) 368

by faraway on Monday September 20, 2010 @04:23PM (#33641278) Attached to: BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well

These numbers sound like the wishful thinking propaganda we were always bombarded with.... 5,000 barrels a day!!!! Sure.

Comment Re:yes moron. (Score 1) 654

by faraway on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:51PM (#33579360) Attached to: Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen

Also, it is interesting to point out that the "weird May 6th market crash" where the market lost 1 trillion in value was followed 2-3 days (May 9th I believe) later with an announcement by the EU of a 1 trillion dollar bailout package; despite only a few days earlier having said there is -no way- they would do a bailout. But /. and all other propaganda sources had a story ready for the May 6th crash the second it happened: someone's fat finger hit B instead of M......... sure. And they're still "unsure" of what the root cause of the flash crash was.....

Comment Re:OTOH, there's jury duty... (Score 1) 654

by faraway on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @01:41PM (#33577112) Attached to: Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen

Uhm, the US allows dual citizenship? I have US-EU citizenship? What are you talking about US insisting you give up your UK citizenship?

Comment Re:Welcome Aboard (Score 1) 654

by faraway on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @01:37PM (#33577032) Attached to: Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen

Don't forget America's love with Socialism: Privatize profits, socialize losses. Did you know PG&E is trying to get the PUC to approve rate hikes to cover losses due to fires? They had millions to spend to install new Smart Meters, MILLIONS to spend trying to enshrine into the California Constitution a protection for them to be the sole energy suppliers, millions in bonuses for executive.. but somehow no money to maintain their existing infrastructure.

Comment Re:9th Circuit (Score 1) 758

by faraway on Friday September 10, 2010 @07:24PM (#33540728) Attached to: Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software

Our 'consumer' rights? -heh- Everyone's so brainwashed that 'consumer' takes the place of the word 'citizen'. Consumer protection agency... as if consumer's got burned in the 2008/crash/banking handout. 1. Consumers buy, consume, and defecate shit. 2. Citizens produce, pay taxes, and bail out banks which in turn take shit, revalue it (usually more than its worth), and then convince consumers to buy it via debt. 3. Go to #1. Somehow though, the word 'citizen' does not ever come up in anywhere.... wake up people.. citizens make up America, not consumers.

Comment Re:Sex (Score 1) 703

by faraway on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @09:09PM (#31770370) Attached to: Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed

I am a European-American. A European Christian (and I assume a NZ "Christian" isn't the same as mid-west American "Christian" - consider mid-west American "Christians" more like the Taliban). Here's a terrific example of American Christians at their best: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978158624

Comment Re:The Constitutional Question (Score 1) 776

by faraway on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @11:32PM (#31518768) Attached to: ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones

<quote><p>No, they are targeted because the intelligence and, in many cases, the targets themselves say they are engaged in combat operations against the United States.</p></quote> Because intelligence on much bigger things such as invading another country for the bountiful supply of Weapons of Mass Destruction they had was excellent top notch intelligence. 1 million dead Iraqis later.. still looking for those weapons of mass destruction. The President is not a King, nor a tyrant. Only Kings and Tyrants decree someone needs to be executed while they are driving around in a car or sleeping in their bed at night. If they're on the battle field with a weapon, they're fighting a war and are military targets. Otherwise, they're Americans who have been denied due process. Innocent until proven guilty and all that... I like our rights as Americans. Maybe you don't. Oh hey!! I think the warrant-less wiretapping network just picked up on you telling your grandma you are "Shelving the bible on the second shelf".. apparently that's code for bombing the pentag0n. You are now an enemy combatant.

Comment Re:I did the same for a while... (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @02:00PM (#31232270) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

PatHMV remembers spending those hours too, except he spent them working so he could build missiles and warships used to subjugate brown people... and then wonders why they fly planes into his buildings...

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:56PM (#31232194) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

Health insurance / month in the US for 1: $450. For a family, $1300/mo.

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:55PM (#31232170) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

America, the great. :-D

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:54PM (#31232140) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

He has the liberty to die. That's what Rackoon, the man with the 37th best health care system in the world wants. Needless to say, places like France which enjoy the worlds #1 health care system in the world, are also the most productive people / hours worked. DAMN THOSE LAZY SOCIALISTS WHO JUST WANT TO STAY HOME, AND GET FREE STUFF, and a nice 3-4 week vacation a year, and reasonable working house... and be more productive than their US counterparts at the same time.

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score 4, Insightful) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:52PM (#31232100) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

Liberty means death? Brainwashed socialists :-D Only Americans, can, after cutting their taxes on the upper class thereby shifting the burden of society onto the lower and middle classes, and then giving the upper class big bonuses for almost destroying the country, only Americans can complain about socialism for the middle and lower classes. Socialism for the upper class is entirely acceptable in their brainwashed "Liberty to die" culture.

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:50PM (#31232042) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

But all consumers prefer that there, than instead of a system where for profit determines if they get healthcare when they get ill. What? You are sick now after having paid premiums for the last 15 years? Sorry, our corporate death panel has determined the date on your application was invalid so we have voided your insurance. Thank you, come again.

Comment Re:You're fucked (Score 1) 1197

by faraway on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:45PM (#31231960) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

It's state-by-state, check out "group of 1" coverage. This at least helps you get past the pre-existing condition clauses, and might get you a group discount.

Comment Re:Where's India's domestic economy? (Score 3, Insightful) 1144

by faraway on Monday June 22, 2009 @04:01AM (#28418191) Attached to: Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable"

1 1 0 1 1 1 0 - 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 ---------------- = 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 or t t f t t t f - t f t t t ---------------- = t f t f t t t ... by your argument trinary uses logical catagories true, false, and maybe ... ... and sometimes notates them using the symbols '0', '1', and '2', which coincidentally are also the symbols conventionally used to represent numbers zero, one, and two. .. by the time we reach the decimal system we have true false, possibly, maybe, and all variants there between. Please. let's use correct terminology. Boolean logic deals with true/false which happens to adapt well to a binary numerical based system. But Boolean logic and binary number systems are different things.

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