Uh you did know that china had been communist for 41 years prior to tianamen square? Right?

The chinese people haven't given up and the china of 2012 is better than the china of 1989. There is more civil society
in china now than there was 20 years ago. China still has a long way to go but things have changed. Do you even think
20 years ago we would have even heard about what was going on in these factories???

Cutting off china won't make china free, it will just make it isolated like we did with North Korea and Cuba.
Embargoing Cuba has worked out great...oh wait Fidel Castro is still in power.

Having a "flu" is not like having a cold. Flu can and does kill children and the elderly. The flu shot is very safe because it contains no live viruses. The only problem is in people allergic to eggs.

Having unvaccinated children come in liability issue.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm

btw: If you had said no chickenpox vaccine I would have agreed with you.

IBM, Red Hat, Union Pacific(yes Railroads use linux), HP, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, Conoco, Omaha Steaks, Royal Dutch Shell, Travelocity,etc,etc,etc

France will be able to sell them plenty of spare parts(all those Field replaceable modules) and upgrades and weapons for the next 20-30 years.

We are not talking about 17 lives in 50 years. We are talking about 3 human lives lost during the entire 17 year Mercury, Gemini and Apollo eras with 0 lost during actual flight versus the 25 year shuttle era that lost 2 of the 4 shuttles with 14 crew in 50 flights. The problem is NASA spacecraft should be getting safer, less expensive and more reliable and instead were getting more expensive and less reliable and less safe. Project Constellation was more of the same with senators putting safety considerations secondary to contracts for their home districts.

The dassault rafale has the advantages of being more flexible in its roles, easier and less costly to maintain and has more
modular parts.

However the idea that a candidate can tell lame jokes and be a bit of a dork actually makes him more human and appealing. Maybe hes trying to hide his inner beanie. Im not going to vote for him but it doesnt hurt him with me anyway.

Nobody will be prosecuted....too many people already say "If so so doesn't vote my way Im not gonna contribute to his campaign." OR "If you support my bill I will contribute to your campaign" the promises are vague and non-specific.

"...if the payments are made in return for an explicit promise or undertaking by the official to perform or not to perform an official act. In such situations the official asserts that his official conduct will be controlled by the terms of the promise or undertaking." McCormick v. United States, 500 U.S. 257 (1991)

  On the other hand if Dodd had said "If you support SOPA I will give your campaign $50,000" that would be quid pro quo. A threat to withhold support is not bribery. There has to be an explicit offer or threat. Campaign contributions have a higher standard of proof for bribery allegations than say a private payment.

Actually Apple did steal a lot of their ideas for the Mac from the Xerox Parc

"No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set! - Bill Gates' response after Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of borrowing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) from Apple for Windows 1.0* "

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa043099.htm

LinEX is a debian based disto, so switching over to regular Debian is fairly simple and requires less maintenance.