Really? Are you mad? You're saying that the president should pass a bill such that our soldiers won't get paid? Their families depend on that money to make ends meet. The optics alone would screw Obama over much less hte real damage it would do to military famiiles.

Don't worry, what people don't understand is that by killing species, we will eventually kill the critical link of interdependence for our own survival (eg bees) and we will not be able to survive. Nature WILL find a way to achieve the balance. In a history than spans millions of years, we are nothing but a blip. Nature will endure. The only reason we are saving species and protecting is to keep our species viable. Otherwise, our flaws will create the right mix to destroy us.

To some extent, that was true about Unix for quite some time. I could argue that it's just a continuous of it. It's not completely believable of course because the desktop is geared for everyone. That said, the kind of things you get in extensions is radically different than trying to build all those into the core and then have preferences exposing them. Extensions can change behaviour completely and override those hated gui designers ideas and you can turn those on and off as you want them. The problem with flexibility is that is that causes bloating and then you have people who just leave because it's just too heavy for them. There are always people who believe there is some magical place where you get all the options you want and your desktop will be light, efficient, and fluffy. It doesn't work that way. Every decision point is a lot more code to handle. More code, more change of human error etc etc. In the end, the same people who want the options will bitch on here about how bloated GNOME is and how it's taking 80Ms of precious memory out of the 6 gigs they have or it can't handle their 512M Pentium II computer.

You're just jealous that he owns a teleprompter.

Even better, they want to give a tax cut with no restrictions. So when corp A, takes the savings from the tax cuts, and opens a plant in India, China or Vietnam, the U.S. wins, right? Sacrifice, baby.

No Pakistan or North Korea? India's military hasn't been tested in awhile.. while the U.S. has been tested all the time.. like every 15 years or so. The U.S. will always be running around using their military.

Isn't that what Bush tried to do? I don't think it worked all that well.

see, this is why Islam bans banks that own interest. :-) Clever, huh?

The bottom 20% however do contribute to the economy. As long as they are contributing to economy my tax dollars are being used for a useful purpose. If some of those people turn around and manage to make more money and learn to save and what not then my tax dollars are again worth it. When I check out of this world, I hope that my donations to my country goes helps does in need. Now, there are instances of course of abuse, and well guess what, everybody abuses the system. They'll pay one way or another.

The way to combat that is to make yourself look dirty. Color your hair, your kids hair, have tatoos (temporariliy) and basically look as 3rd class citizen as possible. It'll fuck those people up, because really an HOA cannot control what you wear.