Believe it or not, despite this being a big political scandal, there is an even bigger one unfolding in Canada. This other one could make Watergate look minor. Actual Watergate criminals have expressed shock at how big RoboCon could be.

Some group conspired during the last Canadian general election to place (hundreds of?) thousands of misleading and/or harrassing phone calls to members of the Liberals and NDP predominantly, to suppress their votes. The Conservative Party was the benefactor of this plot, obtaining a majority government in our Parliament, giving the Prime Minister nearly unchecked power for 5 years. It's been calculated by a professor and independent researcher, LaRue, from Quebec (now living Stateside), that the Robocalls may have affected the outcome in as many as 18 ridings (12 gave the Conservatives a majority).

I've spoken with LaRue, and I trust his findings. His other unreleased allegations are also huge. I'm not exaggerating. I think he's ahead of the RCMP and Elections Canada in their own respective investigations.

Party names mean very little. When last were the "Republicans" major proponents of a republic?

Hearing NDP all of my life, the "new" part of the name has no literal meaning, it's all just mashed in with the rest and they are simply N-D-P. They are what they are.

It's a joke, that Coke, Convergys, Dow, and the Marines pay to get each day/week. That's a pretty solid joke. Who is the joke on, though?

I had the same thought, so I did a search before posting, and you sir took my idea before I had it! You should work at Google if you don't already, because they do that to me as well.

I too want an affordable electric car that gets decent speed and distance. Although, living in Canada where it's cold at least 4 months of the year, I'm thinking a plug-in hybrid may be a better solution so heating comes from burning fuel, instead of burning coal at the power plant.

So the question is, which one was IBM using on the computer(s) loading information onto the USB drives?

Which begs the question, what is the effect of reading /. in class? And is it opposite of the Facebook effect?

You shouldn't be looking at /. while driving at all, advertising or not.

Kudos to your sig about Soviet Russia too.

Smarter than average is currently running at 50%. Once it hits 51%, we'll know that at least 1% are lying.

It's because they aren't showing off their extravagant wealth by overusing water, that they lower their property value, and thus 'damage' the yuppies around them who only care about image and not sustaining life. It's cultural evolution at work.

Next time you go 1MPH over the speed limit you should expect a fine then?

It's crazy stuff that Homeland Insecurity does that has me nervous to fly into the USA in January for a vacation. I also don't want to go to Mexico, not because I wouldn't enjoy it, but because it'd mean another trip past thugs at DHS at the American border.