Yes, and I suppose firefighters are just anti-fire zealots. You see, the religious are causing active harm. They are persecuting minorities, they are advocating praying away our problems, they are causing psychological damage to children scaring them with stories of hellfire and punishment. These fools refuse to take any long term threat seriously because "God will save us" is a reasonable notion to them so they have no reason to plan ahead.

When the theists only had sharp sticks and rocks to use to murder in the name of their various gods they were much less of a threat. However, now we have nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and a very real ability to end all human life on earth. These irrational and delusional beliefs should have been challenged long before now, but now they must be challenged before they wind up destroying us all.But hey, I'm certain Iran will be more than happy to play nice with nuclear weapons...

Religious moderates are paving the road to ruin that the religious zealots will drag us all down.

You are totally right...I mean except for that part where your entire statement is complete and utter bullshit typed on a computer connected to a network where everything is powered by electricity all thanks to various corporations. Oh and your clean water, your food, and all of that other stuff that you enjoy today in any first world nation. All of these things have basically been delivered by those "parasitic life" corporations.

There are plenty of reasons to be pissed about various corporate behaviors, and plenty of ways to try and control some of the more disturbing abuses of power we have seen. However this "corporations are all evil" neohippie bullshit is the product of mental masturbation by people with too few braincells. But hey, I would much rather live as a permanent peasant under the boots of some totalitarian government given all the powers required to crush those evil corporations...

Hush you! You must be a Fan Boi or something to dare say something that could be construed as non negative about Apple! What kind of irrational freak are you to not demand your cake and eat it too (despite that phrase not making any damned sense in the first place).

Actually pigs do like rolling in the mud. Though it has to do with staying cool and keeping the sun off rather than liking the dirt.

Jailbreak :) I played with an Android a while ago and was not terribly impressed. Exchange and Cisco VPN support were major issues for me and getting that working on an Android was a nightmare. It may be different now, but at the time it was an insane mess. If android gets to a nice "Just Works" level like the iPhone then I can see it offering some serious competition outside of the geek arena. However, the geek arena alone is not exactly a well catered to market that carries much weight.

So you restated what I said with roughly the same point. You don't need GPS. It isn't mandatory. It is a significant advancement over other cars with no GPS. The rusty pinto comment is to illustrate how whiney it is to complain that you didn't get *EVERYTHING* you wanted out of a device that was considerably more advanced than the previously available devices. Welcome to reality, you don't get everything you want just by throwing a tantrum about the people that build stuff. If you want it different, you go out and build it. Use your cash to build the next iPhone killer rather than whining that the current iPhone isn't everything you want. Pretty simple. Hell, what really amuses me is that the iPhone could cause the major carriers to really compete on plan options if they break the exclusive dealing crap. At which point all of the howling about how evil Apple is would actually benefit AT&T a great deal. I don't know about you, but I will take Apples "draconian" behavior over AT&Ts actually pretty draconian behavior. Wiretaps for freedom baby!

Well, I think the point was that before the iPhone there really wasn't much of a sane market for cellphone apps. I totally agree with you on the walled garden crap, but the iPhone was still leaps and bounds ahead of most smart phones at the time. It's like bitching that your brand new shiny sports car doesn't have leather seats and they won't let you put in aftermarket leather seats without voiding the warranty while conveniently forgetting that you were driving a rusty pinto before. Now that other devices are catching up it is putting pressure on Apple to play a little nicer and be less draconian. I don't expect an overnight change since big part of their success is that they can deliver a very simple and identical user experience across the board. The worst part is, that if they just opened the gates for whatever app and a malicious app made it through they would be taking flak from the same people that howl about their strict control of the gate. You know, the same way Microsoft takes so much crap over shitty third party software crashing worse than a heroin addict in rehab. Also, people that don't like them don't have to buy them. However, they seem compelled to go on at length about how that device is evil and doesn't actually meet the needs of the owner and that they know exactly what would meet those needs. You know...kinda the same crap that those companies pay their marketing departments to do. The only real difference is that the marketing company actually knows more about the competing product than what they read on the internet, and they have a vested interest in getting people to switch.

Well sure, but the GP was talking about "liberal" policies stopping military members from doing their jobs right. I'm saying it isn't liberal policies causing the problem. The funny thing is, this Republican bias crap is a relatively recent development. I suspect the driving force was the anti-military behavior of the left leaning civilian populace during Vietnam. It was some of the most divisive weak minded behavior possible. Prior to that military support was fairly united regardless of political leanings. WWI/WWII vets were heroes. The braindead hippie attitude that blames the military instead of the politicians is pathetic. Sadly, it even extends into today serving to keep the military a mostly Republican base. I love listening to these idiots whine about how the military should just not do X, Y or Z thing they don't like. I just calmly explain that what they are asking for is a violation of the constitution. The constitution promises a publicly controlled military, and if the military is doing what it wants instead of what it is told then it isn't publicly controlled. So, effectively, they are demanding a military coup. If that doesn't get their little hippie brain in a panic I ask "And what makes you think that the military, the new owner of all of the power, is going to do what YOU want them to do now that they have been liberated from taking direction from elected leaders?"

Wrong. All of that only applies to civilians. The UCMJ is what makes disparaging remarks made about the officers appointed over you (to include the POTUS) a punishable offense. That is what irritates me. I watched more than a few people get tongue lashings for saying bad things about Bush, and then those same people giving the tongue lashings say some insanely derogatory shit about Obama. This lopsided enforcement basically implies that you aren't allowed to talk bad about Republicans, but others are OK.

Oh pft. That only counts when the wrong person is president. When a Dem is president it is apparently perfectly acceptable to go on long anti-government/presidential rants while wearing the uniform. In fact, as far as I can tell that whole "disparaging remarks" bit is completely reversed when a non Republican is in office. Go ahead and try to report someone saying "someone should just shoot him" through a long chain of people who vocally agree.

It isn't some liberal whining policy nonsense that stopped anyone reporting and any attempt to blame that is just more of the same political scapegoating bullshit. What it was is that those people were spineless no integrity clowns just happy to write a shiny review and pass him off to someone else. God forbid they jeopardize their own ability to make disparaging remarks when they don't agree with their leadership or have to actually show an ounce of leadership ability while dealing with problem troops. Honestly, if those people were paying any attention to anything other then their own self absorbed world they probably could have headed off the problem before Mr nutjob went totally bonkers. I am 100% certain that he had to listen to the same crap I have heard for years. Babbling about kill all the muslims, cheering at civilian casualties, other such disgusting behavior. I had a friend take shit for being an "arab" because he was dark skinned... He was a fucking Hawaiian. There is an identical total lack of leadership in dealing with that kind of crap. We have soldiers of arabic descent that have their lives threatened on a daily basis in the field by the very people who are supposed to be serving with them. If your own team is constantly threatening you, what do you think that will do for unit cohesion? Do you think that guy is ever going to believe they won't just leave him to die somewhere? Maybe they will just kill him and cover it up. A total and complete lack of integrity is tearing the military to ribbons, not some liberal agenda.

Just watch, that kid that supposedly leaked those documents... When it turns out that they include a bunch of dirty dealing of the Big O and Hillary they will be cheering that he is a hero instead of a traitor. However, if it implicates Bush/Cheney then they will still be screaming "off with his head".