...poisoned by Foxconn in China!

When one of the parties has much higher environmental and safety regulations. Of course, this why the wingnuts will tell you we need to dismantle our regulatory systems. Yay! Race to the bottom!

But...why?

For example, they KNEW that the BOP (blowout preventer) was not functioning correctly. one of the 2 control systems was out, and they had been bringing up pieces of the rubber seal in the test fluid. They were cutting corners on their cut corners. You'd think this would serve as exhibit A to silence all the "GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R GOOD" nutcases in the USA today, but unfortunately it does not seem to have had that effect.

Not at all. They're all against big government, unless they are trying to cram their "morals" down your throat, or looking for a handout, or diverting tax money to their corporate overlords.

..while California doesn't even have a budget. This isn't their job.

Because they are going to need some, and soon. EVERY time they make a change to the privacy scheme, it's ridiculous and gets the whole user base riled up.

Bet they know what the engineers are doing...

Why is it that corporate types never understand that if the white hats have found it, the black hats have too...and are exploiting it.

Apparently you've been missing for the past 8 1/2 years. The Bush administration was using non-official email accounts to conduct official business, 'cause, you know, they never wanted anyone to know what they were doing.

While I generally like Rep. Grayson because he doesn't roll over and take it in the ass from the republicans like most democrats do, in this case he's going to end up streisanding this wingnut blogger.

One of the features of Diablo that made it more replayable than Diablo 2 was the generation of random(ish) maps....will this be included in D3?

What's not to understand? It clears the nose!

That's because it was a crappily designed PLAYER. The underlying video technology was fine, but whoever created that player really screwed it up. My former company was able to make some very cool Silverlight 2.0 players.

Riiight. And that's exactly what Ronnie was thinking about when he shoveled all that money to SDI. "Let's do this because we know the Russians can't possibly keep up and it will bankrupt them!"