You're suggesting that evil corporations forced 3 year olds into the factories? That's just priceless. And FYI, Ma bell was created because of government not inspite of it, as government sought a solution to the proliferation of small telephone companies that were reluctant to serve the less profitable rural areas. So government created the monster that was Ma bell. Then you would give them credit for their breakup -- attempting to fix a problem that they, themselves, created. Wait, this is sounding very familiar... Government causes the home mortgage crisis, then try to fix the very same problem they have caused. Finally, perhaps the Government isn't out to get me through their onerous regulations, but their well intentioned efforts on the whole, have diminished the quality of my life.

I Wouldn't mind paying my $10K for the war if that was all I had to pay. $10K/6years -> $1700 a year rounding up. It's a bargin compared to the amount I will have to pay for Obama's failed stimulus plan just this year. $800B/140M tax payers in the US = $5700 per payer. But, since I pay more in federal income taxes than 90% of other tax payers, the amount I get to pay is actually much, much greater. It's a great country isn't it.

Perhaps I did deserve George Bush, and frankly, I am glad of it now that I can see how damaging the Obama administration has become. I never suspected that "W" would look so good in hindsight. America, I hardly know ye...

If cabjf agrees to grow up, will you agree to grow a sense of humor? This story should not be any surprise to California residents -- Just business as usual for the CARB.

The lamest sig. ever? Really? Is this your first day on Slashdot? Actually, I thought the sig. was quite clever -- Now, if only I had mod points this week...

Taxation _always_ hurts the economy whatever its source. My question is: Is the service paid for by the tax worth the damage it causes? The problem is the economic damage is not so readily apparent. It's a more diffuse kind of trouble -- like a slow leak in the GDP. (Or not so slow more recently). It is a rare thing indeed to find good value in government.

A much better solution then, would be to end the sales tax in the various states to promote more competition with the internet retailers. I realize that taxes are a necessary evil, but let us not spread that evil any further that it has already gone. Every time the government sucks a penny out of the economy we are all the worse for it.

Excuse me, but 40 knots and and 300ft/min decent do not indicate a stall. Not even close. A normal landing approach would be well in excess of 500 ft/min. If the plane had actually stalled it is doubtfull that a recovery could be made in at the altitude Sully's troubles began. Even in the small private planes I fly, a fully developed stall requires 500-800 ft to recover and the aircraft takes just a few seconds to cover that vertical distance.

I've been a designer of hardware using FPGAs since 1990, which is close to the beginning FPGAs. In that time, about nineteen years as I add it up, I've rarely done a board that didn't have several of both major varieties, Xilinx and Altera. I can say confidently and without fear of contradiction, that the worst software between the two is the one you're currently working with.

Yes, yes, there are a lot of rules we must follow, but it's for your own good... Or it's for the children. Either way... Government knows best. Right?

...Ahem, I think Mr. Whiledo was exercising much needed sarcasm with his 'IQ of a showel' comment and so I now feel compelled to call you an insensitive clod!

Excellent analysis, Aurisor. He could have easily opted for any of your four points and had a better day. However, I believe that people taken into custody and then not charged are done a minor injustice. The responsible police officers should have to pay him $500 out of their own pockets...

If you think Obama is center right then perhaps you are viewing his policies from a far left perspective. As to your other point on eliminating income tax deductions and credits, that would be a good start, but it still falls far short of basic fairness as long as the rates are progressive.

Yes, but the application would open in 100ns...

Ahh no, actually, judical activism 'generally' gives the worst possible outcomes. No doubt, because they are the furthest removed from the democratic process. If they weren't absolutely essential, they (judicial activist judges) should be the first up against the wall -- as it were.