That doesn't sound very patriotic citizen. Why do you hate America? Do you want the terrorists to win?

The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it's stupid.

Climate anomalies happen - almost like the climate is complex or something.

And it could be worse -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

I honestly don't know the answer to this - I'm not trolling . . .

Does the US have insanely high drug prices? Or does the rest of the world have insanely low ones? If the US suddenly paid what Canada was paying how much would Canada's prices end up increasing?

Why would you expect the Volt to sell better? It's looks to me like a $40,000 gimmick. I'd at least expect most people to wait a few years for the service data to become available.

Aside from some kind of weird hippy e-peen, what would recommend that vehicle over some other in or below it's price range?

This court didn't create corporate personhood, it just clarified that aspect of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Corporate personhood isn't the problem anyway, though for all it's vilification in the media you'd never know it. If you want to sue AT&T, you want to be able to sue AT&T and not some individual who works there - personhood makes sense in a lot of scenarios.

Citizens united just let corporations and unions be more honest about funneling money to candidates - now that it's more open we can address it. I call that at least a partial win.

Saw this comparison in an article a while back.

Command to install apache on linux -
sudo apt-get install apache2

The command to install IIS on windows server 2008 -

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-HttpRedirect;

IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IIS-ASP;IIS-CGI;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-ServerSideIncludes;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ODBCLogging;IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;

IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;IIS-ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication;IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication;IIS-URLAuthorization;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-IPSecurity;

IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;IIS-ManagementService;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;IIS-LegacyScripts;IIS-LegacySnapIn;IIS-FTPPublishingService;IIS-FTPServer;IIS-FTPManagement;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI

But, your use of, commas, has driven me to, bang my head, against my desk . . .

. . .resulting in CST. I got a gel pad though so I'll be fine in a few months.

Actually I realized that later on and wondered if anyone would comment - it's not a powerbook, I've just been buying apple products that long. It's a still covered under apple care 17" macbook pro - lightup keyboard, solid state drive, and it came with a free pony. Or it must have, considering what it cost. Maybe I misplaced it.

Farmville might not have a latency issue, but wild blue does.

I just did a speed test - my current connection got a download speed of .08 mbps, upload of .05, and latency was 163 ms. It's not usually quite this slow, but it gets there sometimes.

This is clearly horrible, but believe me - it's a far cry better than last year when I was paying wild blue 80$ monthly for 1.5 mbps service. This flipping FLIES compared to what I got with them.

Ha! Also I just realized the super old 15" NEC LCD I'm using looks a lot like that as well. They were geniuses! They copied apple before copying apple was cool!

Sorry, it's just a screen a keyboard and a weird shaped tower in stainless steel. Cool looking, but not a blatent copy of anything - though it looks a lot like a microwave and toaster I used to own.

I suppose I can see where you would get frustrated if you spent hundreds of hours designing a rounded rectangle and a flattish keyboard, but I don't look at that and think of apple - I just think it looks like some generic (cool looking) computer parts.

I bought my wife a 17" powerbook with all the fixins - we have other apple products and will buy more, so I'm by no means anti-apple . . . I suppose I'm a little bit anti 'being way to pretentious about a design element that seems really generic'.

That's one way to look at it. On the other hand, that polarization leads to stress inside the party that will lead to it's evolution over time. Both parties go through this kind of thing, though it's obviously more pronounced with the Republicans currently.

In the long run I think they'll emerge stronger, and until we get a viable third party (which is another, though less likely, possibility of the polarization you bring up) having two strong parties is better than having either party governing without viable opposition.

Couple things - the Iowa Caucuses aren't a 'vote' - they are a poll. It's very informal, and the idea is to get a close approximation of the support for the candidates. Last minute voting was common, I saw someone drop a ballot more than once, and the 18 year old kid making irritating comments behind me ended up doing the official tally.

And all of that is ok. Despite how it sounds, the people there did take the process very seriously- I was impressed with the discussion that took place. - it did what it was supposed to do, which was give a good idea of where support lied with people who cared enough to show up. The Democrat caucus process is a lot more organizationally rigorous. Same result either way.

Capitalism can be a lot of things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Types_of_capitalism

Socialism as well of course, but you still end up with a 'central planning' no matter what you do, and socialism tends more towards over reliance on that in the long run. Of the two I think capitalism is less likely to result in an extreme like the ones you mentioned.

Overall I'd argue that any extreme is a bad thing, and both systems have faults.

... leads to the concentration of wealth and power which naturally leads to dictatorship. Fixed that for you. Capitalism let me start my own business last year. Socialism concentrates the wealth I used to do that into the hands of a small minority who then control it's distribution.