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Comment Re:Why do we keep talking about her? (Score 1) 1425

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp
You have been brainwashed. Only a moron who thinks the president is a muslim would believe that tripe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go38MgZ4w8
But when Palin claims to read all of the newspapers, do you believe that she may have slipped up, or do you believe that she actually does?

Comment Re:Why do we keep talking about her? (Score 2, Interesting) 1425

Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know that the Saudis (some of them) are sponsoring terrorists. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/shocker-admits-saudi-donors-chief-financiers-al-qaeda-leaked-cable/ The US government has given rise to just about every original terrorist out there: Taliban-Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Saddam... http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/dec/31/iraq.politics More recently, the FBI created a "terrorist" (Christmas Tree) almost from whole cloth. http://wonkette.com/431185/u-s-government-now-creating-terrorists-so-it-can-arrest-them Since we're kinda making terrorists ourselves, but ignorant policy and a more ignorant populace will keep the terror dream alive. I welcome the Wikileaks dumps. Our government has done more "harm" where terrorists are concerned than any other country on the planet. It's our own fault we keep doing this to ourselves, then ignoring it. Every administration since Regan has lead us to where we are.

Comment Re:"Men Who Hate Women" (Score 0, Troll) 122

I've seen the 3 Swedish movies after reading the books, and they are not that well done, with the exception of the "brutal" scenes. They were really creepy. The production value was really low, and only "Lisbeth" and the actor that played Blomkvist was even remotely good. The actress that played his best friend/lover was a total dog. No movie will live up to the books, so bring on Michael Bay with some 'splosions.

Comment Re:The Whistleblowers' Blues (Score 1) 632

Safeguards? Surely, ye jest.
See: Bradley Manning
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-08/state-department-anxious-about-diplomatic-secrets-bradley-manning-allegedly-downloaded/

Or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041001049.html

The news was the court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald reporting that Bush, through Vice President Cheney, had authorized I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak sensitive intelligence information in July 2003 to discredit claims made by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.

Comment Re:The Whistleblowers' Blues (Score 5, Insightful) 632

Obama, like Bush, has a horrendous track record of using "States Secrets" to cover the collective asses of this government and shield us from the big bad wars. Things like covering the illegal rendition and torture of innocents, like Maher Arar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar

He's also using it to continually detain a man proven in court to be innocent, Mohamed Hassan Odaini, who has been wrongfully imprisoned for the last 8 years, in defiance of a court order that he be released. Why? Because mid-term elections are coming up soon.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/21/pundits/index.html

The US government and MIC are monsters dressed in the stars and stripes and I thank %deityOfChoice% that there are sites like Wikileaks, and governments like Iceland who are beginning to see the light that is cast by transparency.

With the SCOTUS decision yesterday, the US can just put Wikileaks on the list of terrorist organizations, and Mr. Assange won't even be able to get a lawyer in the US, assuming he's still alive. The US government, or its people at large, don't care about rights of US citizens, who can now be extra-judicially assassinated (i.e. murdered). What do you think anyone would say if some Australian journalist disappears?

Only sites like Wikileaks can save us from ourselves. Getting the genie back into the bottle is a difficult task, indeed.

Comment My XP SP3 Experience... (Score 1) 351

I work at a retailer that uses custom POS systems running on XP. These are low-end systems (512-1024 MB RAM). After the latest round of patches, many of these systems either ran out of system resources or would simply blue-screen and reboot. I originally attributed it to a patch + Intel video driver + Symantec, since I could disable either SEP, or the Intel video driver, and all would be fine. We originally had end users hit F8 and roll back to the Last Known Good, and that would fix it...until patches are applied again. Interestingly enough, I've found that reducing the shared video memory in the systems' BIOS to 8 MB (from 32 MB) does the trick for these systems. I can basically re-create the entire problem by re-installing XP SP3 + all patches, latest drivers, then install Symantec, and the problem starts.

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