What, they're no longer including him in the poll options? Did I miss a memo?

What this story really illustrates is that we as a society have a bigger problem. Namely, we're letting crazy people run around loose. When will people like Mr. Thompson be confined and medicated for their own good? Is it really that hard to draw the line between dissent and stark raving lunacy?

"Why are we replacing free service with paid expensive service with lock in from the media monopoly of our choice?"
How much did those media monopolies donate to politicians last year? Just askin'.

WTF? Don't those idiots realize if they don't delay it, there are people WHO WON'T BE ABLE TO WATCH THEIR TV? How do they expect the country to survive a blow like that? I don't know about you, but I'm stocking up on canned food and ammunition.

Hey, if it's "obviously" a geologic process, would you mind exactly WHAT process it is? Keep in mind that Mars has no current volcanic activity. And if there is/was no life, it's not a fossil fuel.

Nobody is seriously talking about taking your guns away. With the modern mind-control technologies, it's really not necessary.

There were a lot more flavors, but 3.0 and 2.6 ganged up and ate them all. Don't even ask about poor version 3.14159...

And he serves for Virginia. As a resident of that great Commonwealth, I can't figure it out. :) Fortunately the Representative from my district looks to be more the typical reactionary obstructionist we expect.

ultrabot said:"(Apart from the obvious ones,such as the internet being full of a*holes)" Really? I hadn't noticed! ;)

Gorshkov (932507) said: ...there's a butt load and a half of network administrators working for the state that need to be fired - and the sooner, the better.

Unless Arkansas' IT department is radically different from those of states I'm familiar with, this is pretty much a given. You didn't really need the qualifying "if".

Why does this person as a parent frighten me?

Because like many others on this thread, you're drawing conclusions about his family life from a single post on /.. You don't know him, you don't know the kid, you don't know how they interact -- but you know enough to decide he's doing it all wrong. Personally, I like to have some data before I reach a conclusion, but that's just me.