Do people really think that socialist countries will not have over-sized pointless militaries? The whole issue is that most things government run becomes oversized and useless.

Yet every time someone want to rein in the spending in the US, we hear "we have a paying bills problem, not a spending problem."

It's hard to correct course when you have a mindset that all spending is now set in stone (not counting the automatic increases each year.)

And yes, the war in Iraq caused a lot of that but the idea that we can use this to justify every increase in debt is silly.

Well, our president says it at least once a year and everyone is impressed by his accountability. Since this is what now counts as accountability, Pao has done a great job.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Yet 6 US dollars a month was considered an insurmountable problem for college students going to Georgetown University.

Taxi companies are turning (have turned) into the same type of company as the MPAA. They refuse to accept their business model is dieing and instead tries to legislate anyone that disrupts their business model out of business.

This is great:

right after saying

It won't. The driver support won't be there

I'd have to say this is one of his biggest failures. I have never seen a president try to play races against each other as much as this one. "If I had a son, he would look like Travon?" WTF?? Can you imagine if Regan/Bush Sr/Clinton said "If I had a son, he would look like [insert white victim killed by black man]"

This reminds me of Office Space and Michael Bolton

It's cute the way you image how people different than you think.

Cute.

What part of my post do you think requires an advance degree in environmental science and climatology?

As demostrated by quoting incorrect information in a slashdot summary, you screwed up and showed that you will belive anything that backs your bias without doing any research.

Or do you think I need a degree to click the link on the summary?

I love your post. It demostrates how much blind trust you have for infomation that is pro-climate change.

I'd be willing to bet that any anti-climate change info you read, you do the same lack of research and simply assume it's a lie from Big Oil.

You blindly believed and quoted (without any independent research) the summary of a slashdot article.

The article itself gives a different number and submitted mentioned that the 98% was a typo.

http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

That number made sense to you because it agreed with your viewpoint so you did no research and blindly accepted the information you were told (and proudly changed the subject line.)

Because that should definetly be the benchmark, right?

My comment was toward the quote (which I quoted in my comment) that buisnesses should not be expected to live up to their promises and the implciation that profit is evil.

To answer your question: if I was losing money working for a company, yes I would break my contract and leave - and I would understand that I may be sued for breach of contract.

I've read several articles on this and while Verison is not blameless, the issue is not as simple as you make it out to be. Should they break into the buildings/apartments that refuse to allow to install FIOS despit the tennants wanting it? A lot of apartments have deals with existing internet companies.

That said, Verzion should be sued for breaching their contract with the city and let them defend themselves in court or pay up whatever fines were agreed too.

Nice claims but I honestly doubt that verizon (or anyone else) cares if they are paid with drug money, employeement money, wall street money, etc.

I don't work to break even on my monthly bills. I work to make as much money as I can - even if it's more than I "need." I do not understand why people think that buisness should be started and ran with a different principle.