If I had some mod points, I'd hand them over to you as insightful.

As a member of the Tea Party, I don't necessarily disagree with what you have to say. Most of us are pretty pissed off at how the government has dealt with our tax dollars.

The fact of the matter is tax cuts need to be met with spending cuts, otherwise they don't make sense.

Though, I disagree with personal income tax. While over time the income tax rate is historically low, there is a large percentage of Americans not paying any tax at all.

I'm not just some rich fat cat spewing anger and vitriol at those who get all their tax dollars back. I'm a 26 year old married individual with two kids who earns a combined 80k a year, with a house and debt to pay off.

I suppose that is a big bugaboo though, saying everyone in this country needs to have a stake in what's going on... Not just the upper middle class hitting the AMT and the, "super rich."

For me, it's ridiculous that we can't get any movement on cutting entitlement spending and government assist programs. Taxing our way to a balanced budget isn't going to fix our problems. We've simply got to cut how much money we're spending and not do it by 1% over 10 years.

Perhaps its just me, but this question is mixing apples and oranges.

JS/HTML5 are stand alone utilities in their own right, but you typically don't see a website these days without some form of ajax going on. You still need something to fulfill those requests from a server and .NET, PHP, Java and many others fill that role well.

So, why posture a question like this? Why would Microsoft want to kill .NET development and toss away all the progress they've made with ASP.NET, C#, WP and XBOX?

I do quite a bit of .NET development with MVC 3 and I'm not the slightest bit worried. Anyone who's doing work with Silverlight should be, because I can see that technology being axed in favor of pushing tools that use HTML5, JS and CSS 3.

"Power tweeted that he had called police but said they told him they wouldn't pursue the case unless he filled out an incident report."

Let this success story be a testimony that you can still rely on your neighbor when you're in need! Kudos to those who helped, when the police bureaucracy let it fall through the cracks.

I like you guys and all, but this is fucking dumb.

Comcast is a bit ridiculous on their data caps and pricing.

Having worked for a small-business ISP in the past, the cost of bandwidth doesn't match up to the cost in services that Comcast provides. It's a matter of fact that Comcast's rates well exceed cost and reasonable business profit of 20%.

If you use a resold bandwidth model of in/out of $0.18/$0.08, your costs should be about $65.00/mo per 250GB up and 250GB down. However, if you own your own infrastructure, those costs are significantly reduced. I'd estimate Comcast is spending no more than pennies for their bandwidth and are making an absolute killing on internet services.

I've contemplated going back into the ISP field, but this time as an owner. I imagine that a lot of customers see these rates and caps as nickel and diming, and people are sick of it. I'm sick of it.

I picked up Linux when I was 16, working for a local ISP. It was the first time I ever worked with a RADIUS server to auth our dial-up clients.

I was encouraged by the sysadmin to try out Debian and just go nuts with it. I remember doing a complete install, getting X to work and then proceeding to fuck everything up. By the time I was 18, I was proficient enough at setting up a LAMP stack from scratch on Gentoo and eventually getting a Tomcat and Apache to work together with mod_jk.

What sold me on learning Linux was validating my preference that I like things done a certain way. In terms of distribution, I love Debian. My fresh installs are 100% vanilla, all the way down to installing base packages. My web servers are clean and lite. I prefer knowing exactly package-for-package what is on the box, so I can easily maintain it and keep it secure. I still run a LAMP stack, but am looking at switching out Apache for Nginx, because of easier load balancing.

I think that's the ticket to really getting someone to pick-up Linux, is that they have to got want to do things a certain way. It's not enough to sell them on the philosophy, but fufill the answer, "what's in it for me?"

My proudest moment as a sysadmin was seeing one of my boxes round the 1000 day uptime mark.

A file sharing service being held accountable for a file a user posted?

While they are technically hosting the file, they did not originate the content. Kinda like saying a person who picked up a second-hand pair of boots off a dead guy is an accessory to murder.

This was the right call.

I don't understand why these things take so long? W3C and HTML5, IEEE and 802.11N... You think with this much "hype", these guys might get the HTML5 standard out the fucking door ASAP.

This will, by no doubt, be the greatest give to charity for the entire human race. Intel has bought McAfee, so it can finally be killed!

HARK INTEL!!!

This is what happens when you have a bloated government; lack of respect for people's rights and responsibility. It's also about the people who cock-up elections, because they believe they have a say in your life.

FUCK YOU!

I'm not just sick and tired of hearing about this kind of crap; I'm discouraged and insulted by it. Government isn't evil, but our friends in government who believe they know better than the parents in charge are inherently taking away the freedom of parents to raise their own children.

There was a comment above yours that I did respond to and I figure your post deserved a response as well.

Thinking about it, I am bias in my remarks. No sham in saying so, very few of us are ever truly objective, but just an opinion I've formed over the years. However, in regards to what you're saying, let me tack-on some clarification. I have worked with some very good CS grads, whom I've had this conversation with before. What we all tend to agree on is that, in general, a person with working-experience in their field is always preferred to one without.

Now, with that being said, I'm looking at Kagen and another appointee, Harriet Myers who was nominated by Bush. I thought to myself then the very thing I'm thinking now: why isn't our CoC finding more qualified individuals with actual experience? Regardless of politics, wouldn't it be beneficial to find someone who actually tried a case?

To me, I think there are many judges who have been trying cases for decades that are more qualified for the position than Kagen. Thinking about nominating an individual for the Supreme Court, I might have looked there rather than finding an individual that can easily be argued a judicial activist.

But, Obama's President and I'm not. You get what you vote for...

I guess we agree to disagree.

But I guess I do carry some bias towards those who are self-taugh, so I will admit to that. However, it seems to me that a self-made-man in America is a wrong thing these days, since their fucking knowledge isn't endorsed by an accrediting council. Personally, I'm looking forward to being done with my CS program. Figure I'd play the game, get my credential and get paid more money for doing the same thing.

If you wish to politik that's fine, but don't be an ignoramus.

Where are the dems standing up to Obama? Where were the repubs standing up to Bush?

Turns out that the Congress is one big fucking social club, where you're ostracized if you don't "play-along". If you hate that, then start standing up to your representatives and tell them what you want! They represent YOU!

And if they lack a fucking backbone, vote them out!