Comment Re:Surprised? (Score 1, Flamebait) 705
Please cite when in history cutting taxes led to increased revenue. Otherwise, we thought you were dead Mr Reagan, so please act that way.
Comment Re:I disagree (Score 2) 791
What the hell are you smoking?
Teachers don't make anywhere near that, even when you adjust with their benefits:
"In May 2009, preschool teachers in Wisconsin earned an average salary of $23,460, elementary school teachers earned $51,240, and secondary school teachers earned $49,400. (2) Education and experience level also make a difference in teacher salaries: secondary school teachers in the 90th wage percentile earned $69,550, while the entry-level teacher salary is generally in the $30,000s. (3)"
http://www.teacher-world.com/teacher-salary/wisconsin.html
That's not factoring in their retirement, which from an older WI gov site looked to be around 6-12% (hard to gather as the PDF wasn't talking about that).
This $100,000 lie is crap thrown out by political opponents trying to make teachers be the next welfare queens. It's a lie.
Comment Re:Another drive by hit piece (Score 3, Insightful) 962
Yet another "if you don't subscribe to the current global warming facts you are an idiot"
Well, yes, if they are facts, then 'not believing' in them makes you an idiot. You can still debate, but there are certain facts in the global warming debate that are not debatable.
The article is talking about those who completely deny all facts. The fact you get offended and consider it 'the voice of the democratic party' means you're probably more in the ideology camp than you are in the science camp.
Comment Re:Is anybody really surprised? (Score 1) 395
Orly?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Comment Re:Paid for? (Score 1) 1026
With money?
Comment Re:seems simple (Score 1) 1219
Those damn cockuckingers!
Comment Re:As a hillbilly from a desert island, I have to (Score 1) 685
Loved this!
Comment Re:More Info & Dashboard (Score 4, Informative) 1657
So...you point to the now completely debunked 'climategate' bull, and a book on amazon.
You must have a Ph. D. from liberty university!
Comment Kdawson is the problem (Score 4, Insightful) 149
What I want to know is - when will kdawson not be such a tool?
Comment Re:Cue the teabaggers. (Score 5, Informative) 807
However, it has not been shown that humans are the primary cause of this warming.
Incorrect, it has: Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming
Comment FUD article (Score 5, Insightful) 409
Stupid article - so three coders (JRuby team) quit, and Sun's losing in sales to IBM (which they were doing anyway before the merger).
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" 206
An anonymous reader brings us another bump on the bumpy road of Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, which we discussed a week ago. Now the Times (UK) is reporting on a dustup between Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Recently Gladwell reviewed, or rather deconstructed, Anderson's book in the New Yorker. Anderson has responded with a blog post that addresses some, but by no means all, of Gladwell's criticisms, and The Times is inclined to award the match to Gladwell on points. Although their reviewer didn't notice that Gladwell, in setting up the idea of "Free" as a straw man, omitted a critical half of Stewart Brand's seminal quote.
Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support 587
An anonymous reader writes "The monetization of Java has begun. Sun released the Java 1.6.0_14 JDK and JRE today which include a cool new garbage collector called G1. There is just one catch. Even though it is included in the distribution, the release notes state 'Although G1 is available for use in this release, note that production use of G1 is only permitted where a Java support contract has been purchased.' So the Oracle touch is already taking effect. Will OpenJDK be doomed to a feature-castrated backwater while all the good stuff goes into the new Java SE for Business commercial version?"
Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only 695
CrustyFace writes "Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
Comment Proving that.. (Score 2, Insightful) 324
Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip and using the latest tool so that they remain popular, than they do about having a site that stays up 7 days a week.
