"Unfortunately we have become the world's police..."

Got American exceptionalism?

"We'd taken several approaches with Saddam..."

Again, got American exceptionalism?

"It will still be 20-30 year before we know the true effects [of the Iraq war]...."

Hmm. Well over 100,000 civilian deaths, not counting the years of brutal sanctions. Oh, but Saddam, Uday, and a few other boogeymen are gone, not that you give a fuck. Because if you did, you'd be out there calling for war with every single blood-soaked shit bag who holds power, including dare I say the ruling class of the United States and Great Britain. At that point your sad little mind may crack. Take your regime change bullshit and shove it up your ass.

"The 'truth' is that Hussein provoked, prodded, and pushed the U.S. into this bloody war." Really? No one has ever pushed up into a war. Ever. We look for them, because there's money and power in it for the people who rule the country. We do not give two shits about atrocities, injustice, genocide, drugs, or terrorism unless we can use those thing to furthur our own goals.

Does US commercial journalism or editorial writing have any integrity or value to the public? No, especially the editorial writing. I don't see any reason to throw money away.

I hope you remembered to buy an extra LCD for that laptop.

Trade-ins might ruffle developer feathers, but they should know that without getting some value back on my old games I could seldom afford to purchase new ones.

This may look like trolling, but a fact is a fact. The lot of you went knee-jerk through the ceiling regarding a sensationalist British article that avoiding some pretty glaring facts to paint an alarmist picture. Do some research before you rally the troops to fight the great fight, and maybe people won't take you for fools when a real issue comes along.

Exactly.

It's another example of bad journalism that plays to emotions and doens't offer nearly enough analysis to be useful. I had to do a lot of homework to understand the actual context of the amendment. Bills and amendments are structured in such a way that you can easily take bits and pieces of out context. By itself an amendment is meaningless. They conveniently overlook the following from the description of her proposed amendment to Inouye's proposed amendment

Now, presumably they expect the reader to research what the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program is, because they certainly don't mention it. It's a broadband access subsidy program. See for yourself. http://www.foxrothschild.com/Newsstand/News.aspx?id=8888 I don't necessarily agree with the amendment, but it does appear to be an attempt to avoid letting subsidy funds be used for embarassing purposes.

If the vast majority of the action shots on SpeedNet's website (http://www.speednet.com/index.html) are any indication, hot women dig it as they must also dig surfing online with their laptops on the floor.

...they should change the bandwidth on all plans and decrease rates...

Implementing caps makes me assume that their infrastructure doesn't support growth in service to new customers. Therefore the rates on all their capped plans should go down in direct proportion to the reduction in service, or they should change the bandwidth on all plans to account for the growth in service without added infrastructure. If they're not doing either of those measure, then they're simply trying to milk more revenue out of their customers with no increase to their actual costs.

Insurance companies salivate at the prospect of large DNA databases that they can lobby their way into. If privatization people get hold of DNA data warehousing then sooner or later your DNA will be for sale.

What could have been. On the other hand. It could also have been Fannie Mae execs attempting to cover up illegal activities and fraud. In that case, nice catch!

Because he's not disclosing classified materials. If the NSA does something illegal, they have no protection against someone disclosing that activity beyond the usual intimidation and threats they'll make to shut people up. That's why we have whistle-blower laws.

I'm really looking forward to The Forever War. I've never watched a novel-based movie that matches the experience of actually reading the novel, but I read it several years ago and will probably be able to watch it without constantly making the comparison. Ironically I found the book in an airman barracks on Prince Sultan Air Base back in early 2001.