Mod parent up. People who want to raise taxes on evil "big business" seem to not understand that the end result is that those evil "big businesses" will have to fire people or increase their prices to remain competitive successful.

Big businesses employ big numbers of people. This concept is lost on most Democrats and populists that scapegoat big corporations. You can't just blame big companies for everything and expect that they'll ignore this and carry on!

Here in Wisconsin we are looking at a number of laws that will substantially increase taxes on corporations doing business in the state. As a direct result of the anti-business climate in the state, a number of businesses have either relocated operations that were in Wisconsin or actively decided to decline to locate their headquarters in the state -- for example, our famous Miller Brewing Company, formerly headquartered in Milwaukee, merged with Coors of Denver and decided to relocate their headquarters to Chicago.

I'll get right on it! Is Visual Basic 6 OK? ;)

Free as in beer, not as in speech. The article lists a number of alternatives with varying degrees of maturity and practical utility...

For example, I'm not going to install KDE on Windows just to read PDFs, and if I'm going to recommend an alternative PDF reader to one of my Average Joe friends, customers or relatives I'm not going to have them download one without an installer or from a website whose name has nothing to do with the product (MuPDF) that looks like it was designed circa 1997. Appearance is everything, you know, which is something that I think has greatly contributed to Firefox's success: both the product and the website look smooth, classy and refined.

Here's a great recent example. It happens all the time, difference is the conservative blogosphere and groups like NewsBusters are around to point it out.

Eliot Spitzer: A Man Without a Party

Yes, because Larry Craig, Tom DeLay and their ilk are still so very much sheltered by the Republican party..

Meanwhile, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank and the like are in the worst position for the country: rather than being prosecuted for sweetheart loans and campaign contributions from AIG, they're actually being entrusted with fixing the current mess that they largely helped create. Way to go.

How does this compare? My gut reaction is that, government subsidies aside, per kilowatt-hour, I'm sure just about ANYTHING is cheaper than solar at this point.

When will we finally start building cheap, efficient, and above all clean nuclear plants again instead of wasting our time with this solar and wind crap?

I work at a university dorm as a network technician (UWM, incase you're wondering!), and fix ten to twenty computers a week infected with malware, often exactly this strain of rogue AV software.

The utility called ComboFix almost always cleans these infections up with no hassle. If that fails, or if examination of the logfile indicates that it didn't quite get everything, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware should take care of the rest, and if anything gets past BOTH of those you can take note of the infected file names that couldn't be removed and delete them from Knoppix or a BART LiveCD.

I only reinstall Windows as a last resort, or if ComboFix detects an unremovable rootkit (this can be found in the logfile.)

I never bought that Obama was never actually a magical savior, though -- just another product of Chicago's Democratic political machine. I highly recommend the book The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso who is an investigative reporter for NRO. It's well-written, thoroughly sourced and strikes right to the heart of Obama's image, which is that he's a breath of fresh air in Washington.

He's not. He's just a gust of wind from Chicago, complete with all of that city's corrupt baggage.

Hear hear. Stop stuffing your bills with crap and be straight with the populace, for once. Anyone whose congressperson isn't, on either side of the aisle, should vote against them.

Of course, I'm not sure many members of Congress can count higher than about 400. "The vote on H.R. 21576 is called to order." "What?!"

Way to make it personal, asshole. I'm a college student so I can get away with charging 20 bucks an hour undercutting everyone else (high gas prices and an outdated website, you see; the website does no selling for me) and it's still a reasonable amount of money considering my expenses -- and I'm really good at what I do, if my continued referrals mean anything.

Discarding the politics of personal destruction and returning to the issues, it's silly of you to assert that only Democrats have dissonance within their ranks. There are many varied viewpoints in the Republican party, from the wacky (and IMO quite stupid) Creationists to the pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Giuliani conservatives to the corrupt idiots like Ted Stevens who I'm happy to see go. People like me consider the Ted Stevenses and the Arlen Specters and the Olympia Snowes (the latter two of which supported this pork-laden stimulus package in the Senate) to be, as you say, wolves in sheeps' clothing.

And unfortunately, Barack was pitched to us as a messenger from fairy land sent to save us all, that he would magically make everything better. He can't even instill his own purported values of transparency, freedom of information and clean government in his own party members despite his sweeping election. There is no hope for them; indeed, I think they've started to rub off on him -- there are no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill, but there are special spending projects and shovel-ready construction projects and countless other Democrat special projects that just can't wait to garner Democrat votes with government dollars.