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I live in Atlanta, and lived here in 2002. "King" Roy Barnes and Max Cleland didn't get "robbed" of anything. They lost their elections because they were both liberal Democrats running in a conservative state in a big Republican year. Barnes in particular had become so personally obnoxious that a good many in his own party crossed over to vote against him out of pure spite.

Good grief, people. Put the tinfoil hats away.

Really? Trolls have a posting history as long as mine? I must be one dedicated troll.

Because I disagree with another poster and the groupthink.

You honestly expect me to believe that there isn't groupthink and bias here? It's almost gotten as bad as Digg and Reddit.

Maybe I'm not a troll? Maybe I'm someone that - gasp, horror - disagrees?

Uh, yes, I do.

Sorry there, buddy, but it wasn't a "fringe" view. Claiming it was, now, is pathetic CYAing because it didn't turn out that way.

And the science is perfect now, right? Those guys back then had it wrong, but you have it right now?

Dude. Seriously. Fuck off. Call me when your neighbor is eating you alive and the temp is 150F.

Damn hard to get funding when the world doesn't want to hear a dissenting view.

Technically you're not far from the truth - Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy allowed (among other things) all business owners to purchase a $100,000 hummer h2 and write it off completely.

That could, in a sense, be considered forcing people to drive them if it was the only affordable option.

Yes... it was simply inhuman, the way the B*sh administration ruthlessly and systematically forced so many innocent people to buy Hummers and drive them around all day long.

Oh, stfu. You ain't sufferin and you won't be.

The same fucktards that said - by the year 2000, folks! - we'd be eating each other to survive and predicted a global ice age during the 70s are the same fucktards behind global warming.

Fuck the planet. After we're done raping this rock for every resource, we'll move on to the next one.

Not trolling, not trying to flame - it's how I truly feel. Since I'm not worshipping "Gaia" or bashing "Bush", I'll get modded to hell... but, you know, I care about that as much as I care about the fucking spotted owl.

Hm. KFO. Kentucky Fried Owl. Sounds yummy!

But so what?

There's nothing in the article or summary that hasn't already been covered in the other 76 articles about Firefox in the last 2 months.

Firefox team is still developing Firefox... shit, so is Opera, so is IE, Safari, etc, etc...

I think it's a little more than that. Apple is manufacturing their own "high end" status. They are marking up this service and the parts, when comparable (if not identical haven't RFTA) parts and labor are much more cheap elsewhere. It a common gripe with Apple, they leverage their software to push their price inflated hardware. To me that sounds a lot like what antitrust is designed to thwart. But hey it's not like they did something awful like preloaded a media player into their OS or something.

As a Canuck, I can tell you that the human rights tribunal stuff is very scary...because they operate under the effective assumption that you are guilty until proven innocent, they do not conform to the crimina code of Canada, and there is no jury of peers.

Essentially it's a kangaroo court that is allowed to issue 'sentences' that are themselves not in keeping with the criminal code, but are legally binding in the sense that you can be charged with contempt of the court.

It's the dark side of over-liberalization, and the belief that you have the right to NOT be offended.

Tolerance does not mean you have to like someone...just put up with them.