I think that was his point. The Government has taken over Private Industry and ignored/site-stepped/thrown-out the laws of the of the land to do it. That is Fascism by any definition.

Lets be even more clear. If this passes the Senate, you start paying for this NOW, but it does not get enacted until 2013. If this topic is *so* important, why are they waiting until *after* the start of the next Presidential term?

Sewers take the shit out and the Internet brings the shit in?

...I wonder what the Capitol Building must smell like?

A lot earlier than you think. To have received this award, the absolute *latest* he could have been nominated for it was 11 DAYS into his Administration. Not months, not week, DAYS, because that is when the nominations closed. Whether you think he deserves it or not, 11 days is NOT enough time to decide anything, let alone this prize.

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore the Republic and restore the State's right to appoint their Senators. This will go a long way towards bring them back under the control of the individual States and not the PAC with the largest donation. (yes, we need other safe guards in place for the whole process, but this is the place to start.)

Because that huge station will be hit by all the small useless bit of junk, making more bits of junk to float about in orbit. Eventually, that solid station would look like swiss cheese and turn into a giant floating junk pile of millions of bits. That would be horrifyingly worse.

The part that is being left out of this discussion is the Copyright aspect of this. You should not be able to patent software, buy you should be able to copyright it. The algorithms you use might not be unique by themselves, but the way you combine them might be. THAT is the part that you should be able to protect for a period of time.

PNG Transparencies in IE5.5 and 6? DONE!

I found this a LONG time ago. I did not write it, but the link to the authors who did, sits in the comments at the top.

// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher. // http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 02-March-2004

function correctPNG()
      {
      for(var i=0; i"
                                  img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
                                  i = i-1
                          }
            }
      }
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

function fixPNG(myImage) // correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
      {
        if (window.ie55up)
                  {
                  var imgID = (myImage.id) ? "id='" + myImage.id + "' " : ""
                  var imgClass = (myImage.className) ? "class='" + myImage.className + "' " : ""
                  var imgTitle = (myImage.title) ? "title='" + myImage.title + "' " : "title='" + myImage.alt + "' "
                  var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + myImage.style.cssText
                  var strNewHTML = ""
                  myImage.outerHTML = strNewHTML
                  }
      }

Just a quick comment on this one line...

Did Jack-in-the-Box or Odwalla go out of business when they killed people?

I live in Chicago and I'm old enough to remember when Jack-in-the-Box was here. I also remember news stories about the people they killed and it left a lasting impression in my mind... and everybody else in Chicago. I won't even eat there when I travel... those memories keep me from doing so.

It has been almost 30 years and Jack has yet to attempt a return to the Chicagoland area for that very reason. While they may not have died a nationwide death, they have certainly been removed from Chicago and are not likely to ever return.

uummm... I hope your attempting to be "+1 Funny", because the UN was formed AFTER WWII.

...you mean Projekt creep?

Sorry, sorry... but you did leave the door wide open...

If, as you say, the piece is bring written by a Bush Administration hold-over nad is not the will of the Obama Administration, why is he being allowed to push it? Why isn't the Obama Administration shutting him/it down if it is against their policy?

*crickets*

Yeah... that's what I thought.

It was a Roman Catholic Priest who said it in relation to Evolution (I forget his name and I'm too lazy to look it up), but he said something along the lines of "Science is the How, God is the Why." That is pretty much the official stance of the Church on evolution. Seems to be that Texas needs to keep that in mind.

FAIL

"...Stuff that Matters."
EPIC. FAIL.