Really is there anything that LG makes that is not utter and complete crap? Perhaps I just had some uniquely bad luck with the LG products I've purchased but at this point I'd buy almost anything made of conflict diamonds and pureed kitten claws over anything made by LG.

They've got ATMs all over the place. They run this Ponzi scheme where people give them money and then they loan out almost all of it to other people. Eventually this money gets re-deposited and again they loan out almost all of it. This cycle continues until the total amount of money that they own to depositors is substantially larger than the actual money they can ever get their hands on. They try to re-coup this by charging crazy fees on their ATMs and monthly fees for getting to play in the scheme but in the end like all Ponzi schemes, this one crashed.

So get this, then, they have these other dudes with guns who force people to pay them money so that it can be funneled back into the Ponzi scheme to keep it going.

On second thought, what we have here is far worse than in Russia. Damn Bank of America.

There certainly is no perfect language but I find any programmer that really spends time learning Ada, or Python or other language really well ends up being a better C++ programmer in the end too. Brief interludes don't really cut it either.

It is posts like this that make be both wish that I had mod points and that there was a very insightful option that transferred a fraction of karma points to the the poster.

Lacking that, moderators should feel free to mod up the parent and mod me down!

Not a surprise at all. Conservatives were more than willing to cheer as their rights "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" were destroyed by the Patriot act as long as the party in power had the right letter in parenthesis as they talked about it.

Liberals are dancing in joy about a law that confiscates wealth from all citizens to give to the insurance companies as long as we call them evil as will fill their pockets. I suspect no complaints from them about this attack on the Constitution because it is 'their guy' doing the attacking.

The answer is certainly not moderates who a are pretty much happy to give up any right as long as you do it slowly.

Enjoy the scenery on the road to serfdom because when we get there, I think we will find that the collectivist paradise promised by the political elite will leave us wishing were we are the promised land of the "South of the Border" tourist trap. Hopefully we will at least get a nice bumper sticker out of the deal.

Actually, when it bounces back up it is due to inertia but thanks for playing.

Oh well then. That is settled. Nothing to worry about. Cool. By the way, I have setup cameras outside your bedroom window and have been taping the sex acts you and your wife have been involved in. Since there are laws that outlaw rape, murder, etc nobody that I distribute this to will getdo anything to her...and who would.. No one is out to get you. Life is not CSI.

Umm... NASA also relies on "unsubstantiated claims" and need to overcome major technical hurdles before they can safely carry astronauts into orbit. The shuttle has about a 1 in 65 chance of catastrophic failure resulting in loss of the crew. For all of its vaunted simplicity, the Apollo flights only flew 18 times and had one very very close loss of the crew in space (and of course one actual loss of crew on the ground). I honestly don't know if private companies will do better or not but it is not as if NASA's record in this area is all that great either. Having a somewhat adversarial relationship between private enterprise and the government as we have with airlines appears to have contributed to overall safe air travel. I think it is worth a shot to try it in space. When the government is both the provider of a service and the one auditing it, you end up with no independent evaluators except at the accident boards.

Sure there are some shows that were killed for being 'too cerebral' where it was true, but plenty of shows that received the ax with that phrase had a slightly different underlying problem. They were too f*ing boring.

'Too cerebral' allows the network to break it off without hurting the feelings of the fans or the producers. It will be interesting to see which category this pilot falls into...Maybe if it does not turn out well the pilot and I can just be friends.

The submission claims this is "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"...huh? No. This law is like throwing away the poop you washed off the baby along with the bathwater. The original analogy is trying to say that to get rid of something of no value, you also threw out something that had value. These other items you listed as untended consequences can cause the same sorts of distraction based accidents as cell phones but it is just not in vogue to hate them.

Distracted driving is distracted driving. People love to hate other people's cell phones but think nothing of twiddling with the radio or turning to face their passenger as they have a conversation. In general I think these laws on top of laws are a bad idea because there are generally already distracted driver laws. Trying to single out specific items in the law is just silly and is an attempt to cater to those people that want an ever increasing number of laws and power for the state. So great, we outlawed hand held electronic devices. I guess I will have to bring out a mini-Victrola with a crank. Sure it will be hand held and a terrible distraction for the driver but it is not electronic so it must be safe.