Fact: all my guns are safer than a car driven by Teddy Kennedy (or even a less lecherous drunk).

Guns are tools like any other; it's the people who make them dangerous or not ... but I'm sure you've heard that before (because it's true).

You know, if you just went ahead and put everyone into a concentration camp, the job of the police would get very easy and very safe ... just sayin'. The fact of the matter is that the safety of any law enforcement personnel is not and should not be a motivation to impune civil liberties. If you don't like having a job with some risk, find another job.

I guess if you don't want to pay for programming help this is an alternative, especially when you can't import half of India on H1B visas like Bill Gates would like to do.

Did you ever consider that scientists change their `findings` to stay (the most) gainfully employed just like software engineers change programming languages? If someone who works for a `climate denier` (such a biased, loaded term ... tsk tsk) and thinks they can do better professionally and financially working for a `climate hoaxer` (good for the goose, good for the gander) do you think they're not willing to `reevaluate` the `research` to position themselves to do so? I'm simply pointing out that there are other things at play here and the scientists who supposedly are doing the work have their own, self-centered agendas. To think they're perfectly unbiased (in either direction) is, I would claim, both very naive and very, very flawed.

I guess calling for unrestricted H1B visas wasn't enough? Now Bloomberg figures he can use the taxpayers' money to school up software engineers (without a college degree = even cheaper labor) for his IT operation, along with the financial companies that won't pay Americans enough to go work in NYC, without having to change immigration law. It's actually quite the good (but evil) scheme on his part.

I don't care what kind of hardware or architecture they adopt, but the damn thing better well play all my PS3 games which I have spent A LOT of money on. It was bad enough going to the XBOX 360 and finding out not all my titles were compatible ... there's enough horsepower in the hardware today to at least guarantee that older titles can run in some emulation mode, even in a different hardware family.

I understand the reference to the Countess of Lovelace, but given Ada is best known (in this country, anyhow) as being something of a dead language I'm not sure I'd have gone with that name.

The women obviously prefer to get paid! Right on! :)

The more chicks the more better ('specially if they're hot!). :)

Just as your point 1 is equally denial.
Point 2 is far from `blindingly obvious`; in fact, gas prices here have gone down a bit in the last year ... when did they run out again?
Far from being Creationists, the global-warming scam scientists are just crying wolf to get some attention and, most importantly, more funding and influence (they're really jealous of the finance people these days ... finance people make lots of money, drive fancy cars and get laid).
Point 4 is simple pragmatism which is unacceptable to liberals given they typically feel they can't survive if things go bad (`lock and load` is not a term they're typically familiar with).
George Carlin, while not perhaps being scientifically trained, at least doesn't have a self-interest like self-aggrandizing and propagandizing pseudo-scientists with lousy career paths.

Embarrassed for us? Really? You can tell us in person after you guys all go bankrupt in a few months and we show up with the title to pretty much all of Europe. I'm looking forward to owning a beach in Greece! :)

Oh yes, this is definitely what they need to be concerned about and not their huge budget deficit and the flight of businesses out of their state.

I think German workers are more productive because they get other `services` besides a `cloud ceiling`. ;)

If they ever did then they're dumber than we all originally thought. A less cynical and more elegant engineering solution would have been to harden the OS and software development guidelines to make it more reliable for its users, eliminating the need for a software `reset` ... oh, but wait, this is Microsoft we're talking about.

And why do we give a steaming bag of monkey spunk what the U.N. says or does? They eat taxpayers' money and act like little self-righteous, spoiled princes while they enrich themselves through back-door deals and spend money on prostitutes. The sooner the U.S. kicks them out of the country the better.