Uhm - don't bother the left with facts... or simple arithmetic. It just gets in there way.

This is ignorant. Yes he bought QDOS, and yes he had people working for him to modify it. This doesn't take away the fact that he was heavily involved in building the BASIC that was loaded into PROM on my PC-1! For the first several years of the company Bill coded. He also was very astute at guiding the financial and business aspects of his company, and being at the right place at the right time multiple times. Don't forget that he pointed IBM at Digital Research FIRST, before he went and purchased QDOS. At the time - Microsoft was a language company. They specialized in creating language compilers. That is how IBM had Pascal, etc. available for the PC the first day it was introduced!
GAWD - you're making me defend Bill Gates - STOP THAT! (Now I've got to go and compile a linux kernel or something to make up for this!)

Ah - that ain't so. I live/work in Silicon Valley. I've worked at two companies owned by Indians with the majority of employees being Indian. The owners of one company were jack-asses, the owners of the second company were good, kind people. I've got VERY close friends who are Indian. I've also know idiots who were Indian.

Conclusion - they are just as diverse as any other group - whose personalities/qualities span the spectrum.

This is BS of the first order simply because of the number of interceptors that we're talking about. The US can shoot down maybe 90% of incoming warheads on a good day - note INCOMING - not out-going, i.e. launched from near-by neighbor Moscow. Further - there are a limited number of interceptors - where the Russians have hundreds of warhead - we'll likely have less than a couple dozen interceptors at any of these sites. The ability to overwhelm such a system is obvious. The Russians have more than enough throw weight to do so - such a system is really ONLY a deterrent to states that have a hand-full of missiles, i.e. North Korea and Iran.

The only way this is really a threat to Russia is if they are a paper tiger in the nuclear ball club.

It needs a Fan? Enough said! If you want I/O look at http://www.beagleboard.com/beaglebone

This is a COMPLETE non-starter for me - and I'm exactly the kind of user the BeagleBoard,Beaglebone, or RasberryPi is trying to attract, i.e. a hobbyist nerd that does software & hardware projects.

Hmm - me thinks you are a fan of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.. Which of the 3 ships would YOU be on?

Actually - it doesn't. The original poster was EXACTLY right. Any MALE ( a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes) can marry any FEMALE (a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes). He can not marry any other MALE. Giving a MALE the right to marry another MALE (or FEMALE) is adding rights.

Now you have two choices here. Add Homosexuality as a protected class under the constitution OR legislate the right into existence. Some states are doing that. However as the law stands at the federal level, those that are homosexual and those that are not have exactly the same rights under the law with respect to Marriage. Whether you want to admit it or not (because it isn't convenient to your argument...) being Gay isn't a federally protected class in the same way discrimination based on Sex, Race, or Religion are protected.

Consequently, the argument that you are denying someone their rights by denying the ability to marry someone of the same sex is bogus legally. Such a right does not exist under current law at the Federal level that I'm aware of.

Uhm - nope. You are confusing Fiscal Conservatives with Republicans...that isn't the same thing!

In this case let's call them all US Politicians and agree that they LOVE spending our money exponentially. Doesn't matter which party.

Dufus. natural gas production goes hand in hand with oil production. The US is sitting on huge reserves and letting itself ger economically mauled for not developing it. Wait till you get to buy gas once a week in a line because of rationing. We just one misille launch in the middle east away from that.

I concur - the simple facts are that we have a hand-full of anti-missile missiles. Russia has hundreds. They can overwhelm the system trivially. The system is only good against bad actors with a small number of missiles, i.e. North Korea and potentially Iran. Russia is more likely pissed off about the Radar near their borders being able to see stuff they shouldn't, but they use the anti-missile aspect of it as the whipping boy.

And you have the market cornered on Monster cable too I'll bet.

According to my reading at Groklaw - it's going to likely be more like $20-$30 million. There is a good chance that the third report(and extraordinary even having a third chance at the apple in and of itself) didn't rectify the problems the court directed Oracle to fix. They may loose ALL testimony on damages. They have managed to shoot themselves in the foot quite satisfactorily.

Let's highlight this last "LightSquared were Idiots!" because they were trying to do something that any amateur radio operator that has been on a Field Day with more than one station would understand - wasn't going to work without even TRYING the experiment.

No - of course they don't define what is "adequate" research, likely anything that agrees with their own narrative. The facts are that the research IS ambiguous. There are likely just as many studies that say it is bad as there are saying it's benign.