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• Commented on AIG necropsy: taxpayer billions, direct to their pockets.
  And the answer? Pretty good if you're Goldman Sachs. By the time the US Government gets through paying the interest......
• Commented on AIG necropsy: taxpayer billions, direct to their pockets.
  Too Big To Fail AIG bailout feeds the Goldman Sucks finance vampire. How's it feel to be the recipient of Wall Street Wealth Redistribution?...
• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  Pig farmers are the last people on the planet who should be worried about lowering property values, or should even be given attention whilst posturing and blustering. If the wind blows right, having one in the next county is detrimental...
• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  Thanks!...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Conservapedia "ain't ingorance grand" is a cockeyed view on the world, an alternative universe of weirdness that displays as much cant as a couple of the english version pro-Islam anti-US websites I've viewed....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  A ray of darkness carrying with it mandatory plugins, proprietary codecs, and ActiveX controls that all fight with each other and render your computer use worthless, or worse, trick you into adware/malware installs. We've all been there before when it...
• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  Seems he got his arm broke. Just a little simple harmless assault we should put up with for being red-headed, freckled freaks, eh?...
• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  The Lord helps those who help themselves?...
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  That gap between her right arm, the line from her upper hip does not flow through the draped cloth to her leg where it emerges under her hand. Sorry, but it was the first thing to get focus before I...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  How flaming annoying. Proof we've reached the shoe event horizon. Now Press The Other Button......
• Commented on Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists
  We have the best politicians that lobbyists can buy?...
• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  Great! A caribou barbie parrot who can't figure out that the reason the McCain campaign kept her bottled up was so the effervescence wouldn't escape. Despite that attempt, some of it did and some of us conservatives decided that we...
• Commented on Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch
  Isn't this like going back to Portals, except with pay? I remember when that was all the Web Blister rage back during the religion of capital burn and first to market and we'll make profits later....
• Commented on Real-time, global marine traffic map
  Exactly, they're often carrying sat phones, so someone on shore probably has been giving guidance. Combine that with GPS and it easily explains some of the intercepts....
• Commented on Real-time, global marine traffic map
  Heh! Probably we're the last to know and they've already been using it for months now....
• Commented on The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short
  Huzzah, , encore!...
• Commented on Ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff
  Meh, just don't buy a Kindle Book Burner... There's other readers out there that need your support....
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  For something to topple, the center of gravity has to fall outside its base. With it bolted down and properly reinforced, it would sway and scare the crap out of you unless there was structural failure which in this case,...
• Commented on TV admits it was wrong about PVRs
  Well, that observation came too little, too late for me. Barriers placed in the way of efficiently time-shifting shows I wanted to watch over time, eroded my viewing and I don't really watch TV programming anymore. I've got better things...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  And speaking of heavy, a heavy-lift helicopter company down the runway uses a 5 ton as a sort of dyno test for their freshly repaired helicopters. Kind of neat seeing the helicopter hovering there, turbines screaming as it attempts to...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  If that was in the US, OSHA would have shut them down in a heartbeat if they caught wind of it. I had an acquaintance who provided forklift training to meet the rules and do the followup refreshers. Certain violations...
• Commented on History of the IMG tag
  The <img src=""> tag. When HTML really came alive and separated port 80 traffic from being just another gopher... Yep, there was a lot of freaking out over it, but then it enabled what we have now... It forced the...
• Commented on Video: Robert Crumb talks about his illustrated Genesis
  ummm uhmmmm......
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  My life as a dress-up doll for my micromanaging, obsessive parent who had nothing better to do than live vicariously through me....
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  John Allen Williams AKA John Allen Muhammad...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: B.F. Skinner Makes A Pigeon Do His Bidding
  Pavlov's ringing metronome? I'd like to see one of those....
• Commented on Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads
  Why we need to eliminate copper in the streets, replace it with fiber optics and advertise the near useless value of digging it up. A good side effect would be that everyone could have broadband......
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  Nice to see that "Possession is nine tenths of the law" can pay a good dividend. For anyone thinking it's theft to take possession of one of these wonders, the reality is legally that no one owns it but the...
• Commented on Inexplicably expensive iPhone accessory (video stabilizer)
  Bogen could probably make it for $150.00 SRP and allow B&H to discount it to $105.00....
• Commented on XKCD's eye-watering Geocities tribute
  Kind of the point, most of the time hit counters didn't work, or worked too well and when my boss demanded one, I showed him how continuously reloading the page incremented the count, creating a false impression of activity....