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Barack Obama is just as ridiculous as John Kerry, or John Edwards, or Joe Biden, or Gary Hart, ... Bush, Reagan (was a good president, but he still was an actor). I think that you are being a bit unfair here. Believe me that I am not defending Diogenes list but his issue was experience and the two ...

I think it's worth noting that the fight against tobacco is being fought in large part on the social front, making tobacco uncool. The contest on this front must be won before prohibition will work well. With many other drugs, especially pot, this front is sorely neglected. This is a much better wa...

Killing the addicts - a pretty good idea. There are at most half a million in the US. If we did a thousand a day we could clear up "the problem" in under two years. Of course we will have to skimp a bit on due process if we are to process that number efficiently. And not counting any that came down...

Killing the addicts - a pretty good idea. There are at most half a million in the US. If we did a thousand a day we could clear up "the problem" in under two years. Of course we will have to skimp a bit on due process if we are to process that number efficiently. And not counting any that came down...

Heh, People on the right saying how bad the left is, then defending themselves. Walk into a group of lefties and they'll respond the same. Also like the part where I was told what to believe. Kinda validates the point I made. Not that it needed validation. Thanks Dj for demonstrating what I disliked...

Business's need to stop treating IT people as a liability. They are there for a reason, and you won't notice the lack of their presence until the absolute worst moment. Honestly I really hate the word "cloud", it means absolutely nothing. It's a marketing term used instead of IT outsourcing, which i...

And have either of you gentlemen noticed the rise of libertarian sentiment in the US? About 50% now favor pot legalization according to Rassmussen. It rises about a percent or two every year. It is no longer a fringe opinion. It is THE mainstream. ======= Your real beef is with welfare. I say we cu...

Corporate Executives being allowed to crash the global economy and get away with that metaphorical murder, or Sarah Palin (one of the more successful and accomplished female pols in the US of the last decade)? Sarah Palin went nuclear on public TV, I watched it with my own eyes. Anyone who's mind i...

Considering I'm young (29 in international age) reasonably well informed and in the rat race, I feel I'm the demographic being discussed. We're Repulsed by the current republican party, yes that's with a capital R. We are not stupid, we can easily find out all the information we want from the the va...

This is so for insurance companies as they are large and have little incentive to provide anything more than the minimum service required to continue business, whether they're contracted to do more or not. And that is part of the moral hazard. I was sorry to see Congress kill Medical Savings Accoun...

As a libertarian myself, I consider both the left and the right to be equally bad, just in different ways. This pretty much describes how I feel. Both conservatives and liberals are bad. The only thing that's been saving the USA is that those two groups tend to spend all their time and energy fight...

Honestly, I'm reading the bill and don't see a problem. It gives the IP owner the right to take legal action against those making illegal use of their IP, and gives the DoJ the authority to demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted sit...

An addendum to my above post. I was focusing on the DNS registrar's because that is the most effective way to censure a foreign site. The law doesn't actually state DNS registrars, it says that any entity assisting in the access, transmission or dissemination of copyrighted material is liable and th...

No requirement that the allegation actually be true. It's very very evil. I can't imagine this could be true. It would mean that every commercial organization that had a competitor would find themselves closed down based upon bogus complaints. I think you'd need to be pretty naive to believe any la...

Maybe in ten or twenty years, when the current bureaucrats who run it are dead or retired, we might get another new design certified. I have my doubts about that, sorry to say so. Hmm, possibility to organize an underground movement with the purpose of assassinating the current bureaucracy and repl...