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Comment Re:Constitution ? What "constitution" ? (Score 0) 114

heir subjugation of their subjects (aka, people like you and me) did not start yesterday. It started DECADES AGO, it's only now that they have gained so much power that they have become SO EMBOLDEN that they dare to publicly dis-regard the Constitution and everything that was stated inside the Constitution.

Who is to blame for it ? Them in Washington, D.C., or us, the voters who voted them in, every fucking four years, without fail ?

The biggest need we have right now if we want to remain a free people is NOT the formation of a third party, at this point we DO NOT EVEN HAVE A SECOND PARTY!

NEITHER party opposes the transformation of this Republic into a tyrannical Regime with unlimited power and authority. The DemocRAT party orgasms whenever the name OBAMA!!! is uttered. The Republican party is led by a bunch of RINOS who's only meaningful difference with the Democrats is that they will lead us to bankruptcy and slavery a couple weeks later.

Comment Re:You know that things are bad... (Score 1) 114

Biggest threat to Microsoft's business was their massive blunder with Windows 8, and the failure of Windows 8.1 to fix it in any meaningful way. So what if we get the "start" button back only to be taken back to the retarded touch interface of monochromatic tile bullshit where you can't find your applications!

Comment The government has NO AUTHORITY (Score 2) 114

...to pass laws abridging THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, or the PRESS...

These companies don't need to beg the government or grovel before any court. The Constitution grants them the right to free speech, INCLUDING the right to disclose what the GOVERNMENT is demanding of them to violate their customers.

It's time to quit ACCEPTING the premise of this kind of government power and authority. It's time to start showing the Obama Regime the SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT it's showing to the Constitution!

Comment Re:Good luck .. (Score 3, Insightful) 230

Have you spent much time with Windows 7? I would say it's UI is in every way better than Windows 2000.

I disagree. Windows 7 was where I started using Classic Shell (which will also make Windows 8 bearable). The last OS UI that, IMHO, could be argued as an improvement over it's predecessor was Windows XP, and the differences between it and Windows 2000's UI were very minor and mostly thematic.

Windows 7 attempted to be a poor copy of the Mac OS UI (encouraging you to dock all your programs to the taskbar) and Windows 8 attempted to be a piss poor copy of an Android/iPad/iPhone touchscreen UI on a mouse and keyboard PC desktop...

Comment Re:Good luck .. (Score 1) 230

What do you know, overpopulated three-level menu clusterfucks and the institutional separation between menus and toolbars were the pinnacle of UI design accordingly to some people.

It at least had the virtue of making some logical sense. And it's certainly better than the atrocious toolbar "ribbon" scheme of Office 2007/2010/2012 and the clusterfuck of disorganized colored tiles to find your applications arrayed for a TOUCHSCREEN that is Windows 8x...

Microsoft's current program and UI designs aren't even as sensible as Windows 3.1's...

Comment Re:The Constitution is clear on this (Score 5, Insightful) 107

Unfortunately, judges who will enforce the constitution are few and far between. Every sitting member of the supreme court has already failed to do so on multiple occasions.

It's way past time for Americans to stop allowing judges to have the kind of absolute power they have right now. It's also way past time for Americans to accept by default orders handed down by government in general.

The Federal Government doesn't have rights. It has enumerated POWERS. The Constitution is written as such that they have those powers (plus extra ones amended in) and no more. If we want to put a stop to what the NSA and this unlawful Regime in DC are doing to us we need to INSIST that the government restrict itself to those enumerated powers.

Comment The Constitution is clear on this (Score 5, Informative) 107

Government has to get a warrant in an OPEN COURT. It has to describe SPECIFICALLY the person or things to be searched and seized. Government has no rights, the People have ALL rights. Government has no more authority to collect everyone's e-mails than it does to send a black van down each street, pull the mail from everyone's mailbox and photocopy it...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I don't see any "Because TERRORISTS!", or "Because Someone doesn't like Obama" exceptions in there, do you?

Comment Re:College Funds? (Score 2) 74

Yes. It's why there is a TRILLION dollars in student debt.

The education bubble is LONG overdue to bust. People are graduating with more student loan debt than a nice house costs and finding they can't get jobs (because what can you REALLY do with that degree in 16th Century Feminist Studies?)

Colleges and universities are going to have to prove their value from scratch again by remaking themselves to efficient operations that do not waste their customer's money and deliver their product at a reasonable cost...

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