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Comment Re:You Cannot Give Offense (Score 1) 783

Say what you want about the Right (and being an equal opportunity center-of-the-aisle kind of snark, I've said a lot...), they have much thicker skins than the Left, I've noticed."

Except if you make a comment about religion, or abortion, or raising taxes, or anything that makes the pundits on Fox News and AM radio go nutty. If they really were thick-skinned, they wouldn't be reacting with so much illogical rage to everything.

Every joke made about the current administration can never really be just a joke about the current administration, it's either borne of "racism" or a "disturbing indication of a growing violence and unrest."

Except that they actually are making death threats to Obama (at twice the rate that Bush got them), most notably in their "water the tree of liberty" signs (which is a reference to an old quote about violent action). Or have you not noticed the Birthers and Teabaggers carrying those signs (many of which involve racist images of Obama as a witch doctor, monkey, or eating fried chicken and Kool-Aid)?

Funny how you use anecdotal evidence to show a lack of outrage on the part of the right (as we know that works so well) whiloe giving no evidence for your claims that the left is obsessed with being cool (last I looked, the "cool" factor was about being outside of the mainstream, whether people are on the left or right).

Comment Re:FITD vs DITF (Score 1) 592

That is a load of pseudo-scientific neo-nazi bullshit. Modern science does not recognize race as a natural construct, but as a social construct. None of what you said would be accepted by any real biologist living in this century. It's sad that something like this gets treated as "insightful" on a website that is supposed to have people educated in science amongst its membership.
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Submission + - Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation

ReadWriteWeb writes: "Information about the next versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer suggest that the two biggest browsers are heading in different directions. Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed "Gran Paradiso". Among the mandatory requirements listed for FF3 are improving the add-on experience, providing an extensible bookmarks back-end platform, adding more support for web services "to act as content handlers" — all of which show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Also in the works is Microsoft's IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product "within 18-24 months". Looking ahead, it's obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers.

So while IE7 and Firefox 2 were more alike than different (feature-wise they're practically identical!), with IE8 and FF3 we will likely see the two biggest browsers head off into different directions."

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