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Comment Re:Goldman Sachs All Throughout the Obama Admin (Score 2) 201

It is a well known fact that Bush's Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulsen, who railroaded the wall street bailout through congress, was a former Goldman Sachs CEO. It is unfortunate that very little changed under Obama, but the article is primarily discussing conditions prior to and during the 2008 financial collapse, before Obama was even elected.

Comment Re:Funny how this works ... (Score 1) 184

My opinion is that there would have been a benefit in having those directly responsible suffer the most so that they would be a warning to future crooks (err, I mean businessmen) and for us all to suffer a little so society learns to not let organizations get `too big to fail`.

How about a third alternative, given that there were very likely multiple violations of existing law? Charge those directly responsible and sentence them to appropriate jail time along with hefty fines. Oh who am I kidding, laws are made for poor folk.

Comment Re:Not True, I Saw It Online: (Score 1) 85

One thing I've found difficult to discover is what fraction of the US is purely European.

I don't think you read the article. Since 0% of Europeans are purely European, it seems unlikely the fraction of the US that is purely European would be any larger than that. In general, the only cases where there are persons who are 100% purely a member of any genetic group are identical twins (and triplets, etc.)

Comment Re:The Year of Windows on the Desktop (Score 1) 545

Now if only they could make the OS worth buying rather than forcing it on people that buy non-OSX prebuilt systems.

You do realize desktop Linux distros have been unbelievably easy to install (or even run from a Live CD) for the last decade or so don't you? Nobody has been "forced" into using Windows just because it happened to ship as the default for a very long time.

And yet it doesn't stop them from charging you for it.

Comment Re:Not good enough (Score 1) 323

a) false. You had to have your device set to allow automatic pushes.

Which is, of course, the default.

And, if I'm not mistaken, Apple defaults to downloading anything less than 100MB over cellular data. Which could be quite costly to people on more expensive data plans.

This exact thing happened to a family member. The do not ever purchase music or media through iTunes, so why not leave the default? The only thing that should ever come across are maybe software updates.

I wonder how much of a kickback Apple got from T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, etc. for this stunt.

Comment Re:Not much different than the fire starting laser (Score 0) 180

It's wavelength dependent. visible light will blind people but for the military combat lasers they probably use wavelengths that the eye is opaque to, meaning no focusing on the retina and damage due to minor scatter and reflections, but will still literally cook the eye if directly exposed.

So doc, you're saying I'll still be able to see perfectly well out of my cooked eyeball then?
And will I also be able to play the piano after this "procedure"?

Comment Re:Meanwhile in the real world... (Score 2) 427

Stating that climate change had an impact is neither the same as attributing it as the single cause, nor the same as equating climate with weather. If you expect climate change to never have an impact on weather, then either your definition of weather or your definition of climate is very flawed.

Comment Re:Meanwhile in the real world... (Score 1) 427

If climate != weather, then why is there always some global warming advocate on the news attributing every hurricane, tornado, drought, and heat wave to global warming? It seems to me that a more accurate representation of what I'm seeing on the news would be:

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Stop getting your news from shitty sources. On NPR news, this doesn't happen. Though for some reason, I have heard conservatives consider NPR to have a liberal bias.
As to your second question, I have heard the nutty right wing rant of the jews control the media, but never heard that the scientists control the media.

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