Another vote for vomit-inducing. DICE please take notice because it was strongly conveyed in comments of the beta announcement: I, and many like me, have had /. our homepage for 15+ yrs and read it several times a day. If you go with this godawful layout I expect you'll be lucky to have 10% of your current traffic. I will certainly not be one of those remaining... It makes me sad that a single company can singlehandedly kill a beloved site/brand like this... It now seems inevitable...

they plan to re-engineer the Flu virus to come in pastel colors and to manufacture vitamin D.

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The same researchers plan to do a study on the new electronic social networking phenomena. All of the test subjects will be given pagers for two hours a day.

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Encrypting the data certainly isn't a bad idea, but unless I'm missing something here, encrypting the data is nothing more than a lame case of security through obscurity. If the browser stores the data encrypted, then the browser also needs to store the KEY to re-open the file. If someone can get a hold of the file, then they can also get a hold of the key to decrypt that file.

If there's a security problem here, it's the Restore Session functionality itself. Perhaps secure sessions shouldn't be restorable?

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... emitted whenever a politician speaks.

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It's always comical when bigots and oppressors try to whine that they are the victims, try to pull the "show tolerance of intolerance" crap.

If someone wants to deny people equal rights, deny people the right to get married, based on the color of their skin or their religion or gender, then I will defend their rights such as free speech. However I will not invite them to my dinner table. I will not welcome them in my home. I will not welcome them in my social circle. I will earnestly endeavor not to put on damn dollar in their pocket. And I will damn well use MY right to free speech to call them a vile bigoted scum.

Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance-of-intolerance is self contradictory. Tolerance does not mean I need to be polite or accommodating to a Ku Klux Klan group who are directly harming innocent people, or who inflict or advocate indirect harm of innocent people via laws or other force of government to deny them equal rights.

Whether it's interracial marriage or gay marriage, I do not need to be "tolerant" of the HARM inflicted or advocated in denying people equal rights.

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Most polls use the sample size to obtain a 3% or 4% error margin. The percentages I posted was the midpoint of 6 polls taken this year, and they were all within +/- 3% of what I posted. Very consistent. The vast number of polls over the last few decades show a strikingly clear and steady shift.

The political and other major events on the subject don't seem to be really pushing the numbers around. It seems that this is something that's just plain percolating through society, and the political fireworks and the court battles and the news items are more like an effect of this process rather than a driver of it.

I suspect almost the opposite. I think positions are changing faster than feelings. I think a lot of the shift is people who are still "uncomfortable" with the idea of gay marriage, but who are actively overcoming that discomfort to try to "do the right thing". I suspect a lot of the ideas and attitudes and understanding developed during the interracial marriage shift are directly responsible for the speed of the gay marriage shift. I think a lot of people are recognizing that "doing the right thing" here means supporting other people's equal rights, even when it means taking an uncomfortable position.

All of the complex factors behind it is why I find it particularly striking to compare it to the equivalent polls on interracial marriage. The shift on gay marriage is almost exactly twice as fast. Whatever the forces and processes are, they are twice as fast this time. That's huge.

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Polling on interracial marriage showed it increased in acceptance at a fairly steady rate of 1% per year.
Polls show acceptance of gay marriage rising 2% per year. It's currently about 55% support vs 39% against.

Approval of gay marriage is overwhelming among the younger generation, who largely view it as a civil rights issue. The strongest opposition among senior citizens, who are literally dropping dead day by day. There is nothing that can stand against the force of a generational shift.

You lost this fight. You lost this fight several years ago. YOU are the gadfly that has been swatted. Get used to the word "bigot", because you're going to be hearing increasingly often.

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Being a criminal is not remotely justification for a Darwin Award.
Being a criminal with really bad luck is not justification for a Darwin Award.

I haven't seen the truck or the Cobalt container, but the only way these guys might warrant a Darwin Award is if they ignored flagrant radioactive warning labels.

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so..... you're saying they need to spend a bit more on PR?

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And if you do demonstrate that you're a complete fuckup and destroy multiple companies, and a coke problem and a drunk driver, you may instead be handed a Texas governorship and a mere six-figure salary position as president of the United States. Only the not-total-fuckups get the more valuable seven- to eight-figure salary positions.

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In 1981 the top tax rate was 70%, and kicked in at $108,300 for individuals and $215,400 for couples. That's hardly "fictitious". We also cut capital gains taxes, which pretty much only apply to the wealthy, which is why Mitt Romney with a net worth of a quarter billion dollars paid a lower tax rate than his secretary. That's not "fictitious".

Under Reagan the overall tax burden (all taxes paid by all Americans, divided all income of all Americans) ranged between 29.2% and 31.1%. In 2010 the overall tax burden was about 26.9%. So overall taxes are down, taxes on the wealthy are WAY down, and taxes on the poor and middle class are up.

For the last thirty years we have been shifting taxes off of the rich and onto the poor and middle class. That's Wealth Redistribution. Government tax changes over the last 30 years is exactly why the rich have been getting richer while the poor and middle class have been getting poorer, and the economy has stagnated. A strong middle class is the core driver of the economy.... the middle class 200+ million majority having money to spend is what drives the economy. And the middle class has been systematically decimated under delusional Trickledown-Economics Wealth Redistribution.

WTF delusional "very high taxes"? In 1981 we had a top rate of 70%.... and now we have ignorant idiots are screaming that a 30-odd percent top tax rate is "socialism" and "wealth redistribution". Well, they're half right, 30-odd percent *is* wealth redistribution, from the poor and middle class to the wealthy. It's ludicrous to call 30-odd percent or even 40-odd percent to be "very high taxes" when we had 70% top rate while Saint Reagan was president.

Google "raise my taxes".
Google says About 830,000 results.
Results for page 1&2:
Raise My Taxes, Please! - James Kwak - The Atlantic
Google Millionaire Tells Obama: 'Raise My Taxes, Please ...
Please Raise My Taxes Says This Millionaire - CNBC.com
'Raise my taxes,' town hall attendee tells Obama - Los Angeles Times
Wealthy Man Asks Obama 'Please Raise My Taxes' - ABC News
Question to Obama: "Would you please raise my taxes?" - CBS News
'Would you please raise my taxes?' | Nealz Nuze | www.wsbradio.com
Former Googler Asks Obama: Please Raise My Taxes! - Forbes
Buffett: I beg you to raise my taxes - Politico Staff - POLITICO.com
Raise My Taxes, Mr. President! - The Daily Beast
Daily Kos: So, I voted to raise my taxes * photo diary *
Rich man to Obama: 'Please raise my taxes' - USA Today
'Raise My Taxes,' Town-Hall Participant Tells Obama -- VIDEO ...
Dow Chemical chief: Raise my taxes too - Nov. 18, 2011 - CNN Money
Warren Buffett: Please, Raise My Taxes : The Two-Way : NPR
Audience Member Asks Obama: 'Would You Please Raise My Taxes ...
Tell President Obama: Don't Raise My Taxes | Heritage Action for ...
15000 Illinois Protesters Chant "Raise My Taxes" - Mish's Global ...
Jay-Z says President Obama can raise taxes as Congress debates ...
A millionaire for higher taxes - Washington Post

Ummmm..... how about because their job is to help the nation, help the economy, benefit the American people?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm living in a fantasy land where politicians make some attempt to do their jobs and strengthen the country. Better than living in some fantasy land where cutting total taxes and cutting the top rate from 70% to 30-odd percent is "very high taxes", and where ideology is more important than economic reality, where ideology is more important than deficit and the debt, where ideology is more important than middle class majority American households struggling to pay their bills. Because somehow lowering the top tax rate, and shifting the tax burden and debt burden off off billionaires and onto the poor and middle class will magically cause money to rain down from billionaire-heaven onto everyone else. It's an exact mirror image of the blind faith ideology of Marxist Utopia. Massively shifting the tax burden off of the rich has been tried over the last thirty years, and it has proven to be a failure. It's been a massive government wealth redistribution program, robbing the poor and decimating the middle class to turn a few millionaires into billionaires.

Cutting the top tax rate from 70 percent to 30-odd percent has been a government Welfare handout to billionaires.

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It's the creationist side wielding the knife to cut Critical Thinking skills from education, and the science side fighting to defend and promote critical thinking in education.
A Google on oppose teaching " critical thinking skills" returns the following page of links:

Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of 'Critical Thinking ...
Jun 29, 2012 ... The Republican Party of Texas' recently adopted 2012 platform contains a plank
that opposes the teaching of "critical thinking skills" in schools.
talkingpointsmemo.com/.../texas-gop-s-2012-platform-opposes-teaching-of- critical-thinking-skills - 50k - Cached - Similar pages

Texas GOP rejects 'critical thinking' skills. Really. - The Answer ...
Jul 9, 2012 ... Knowledge-Based Education â" We oppose the teaching of Higher Order
Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and ...
www.washingtonpost.com/...critical-thinking-skills.../gJQAHNpFXW_blog. html - Similar pages

Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills ...
Jul 7, 2012 ... The Texas GOP's hidden curriculum against critical thinking and other ... Texas
GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in ...
truth-out.org/.../10144-texas-gop-declares-no-more-teaching-of-critical- thinking-skills-in-texas-public-schools - 62k - Cached - Similar pages

Texas GOP chair explains controversial "critical thinking" platform ...
Knowledge-Based Education â" We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS ...
http://www.kvue.com/news/Texas-GOP-chair-explains-controversial-critical-thinking-platform-language-163615606.html

The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform - Forbes
Jul 1, 2012... with the portion that opposes the âoeteaching of Higher Order Thinking Skillsâ and
âoecritical thinking skills.â Although a partial retraction followed, ...
www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/07/.../texas-gop-platform/ - 115k - Cached - Similar pages

Texas GOP Platform opposes teaching "Critical Thinking Skills"
Jun 27, 2012 ... This kind of stuff I expect from know-nothing Republicans, but opposing the
teaching of critical thinking skills in schools? Who needs critical ...
www.dailykos.com/.../-Texas-GOP-Platform-to-ban-teaching-Critical- Thinking-Skills-in-schools-The-stupid-IT-BURNS - 158k - Cached - Similar pages

Gail Collins says Texas GOP platform calls for schools to ... - PolitiFact
Aug 11, 2012 ... We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values
clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply ...
www.politifact.com/.../gail-collins-says-texas-gop-platform-calls-schools/ - 40k - Cached - Similar pages

No Comment Necessary: Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes ...
Jun 29, 2012 ... We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values
clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply ...
takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/.../no-comment-necessary-texas-gops-2012- platform-opposes-teaching-critical-thinking-skills/ - 61k - Cached - Similar pages

Half True: What Politifact Got Wrong About the GOP and Critical ...
Aug 18, 2012 ... Knowledge-Based Education â" We oppose the teaching of Higher Order
Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and ...
www.austinchronicle.com/.../half-true-what-politifact-got-wrong-about-the- gop-and-critical-thinking/ - 129k - Cached - Similar pages

GOP Opposes Critical Thinking - The Austin Chronicle
        Jun 27, 2012 ... "Knowledge-Based Education â" We oppose the teaching of Higher Order
        Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and ...
        www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/.../gop-opposes-critical-thinking/ - 127k - Cached - Similar pages

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There is no such thing as "6000BC".
The world was created 6000 years ago, therefore no dates exist prior to 6:11 PM November 11, 4013 BC.

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Exactly. Which is why Intelligent Design conclusively proves Christianity and all the other monotheistic religions false.
Only a committee would make specifications for a sewer line discharging right through the middle of a reproductive/recreational area.

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