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Comment XL is obsolete (for now) ... (Score 2) 437

... Bakken oil came through and made Canadian shale unnecessary. The US has more oil than God, now.

Oil companies are going to go all OPEC on us and start cutting back on production to manipulate prices for maximizing profits.

Canadian oil is a buzz killer. That's why you won't see much opposition to the veto.

Comment It's been done before ... (Score 1) 285

... Yahoo! groups was a "wild west" place to discuss just about any subject at all, period.

You name it ... it was there.

Some of the group headings got out of hand, like "14 year old boys," "8 year old girls," "gang rape," "snuff," etc.

There was a big bang when parents were finally made aware of these groups and Yahoo!, reluctantly, brought the entire group tree down.

It was a free site, so providing human monitors was out of the question, and the bad press for the Yahoo! brand offset the eyeball count.

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