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I've spent the last eight years being ashamed of my country. I don't have to be anymore. And to everyone fretting about Prop 8, the early returns always come from the small towns, and exit polls are showing Prop 8 failing by a margin of 4 points. I wouldn't start worrying until LA and San Francisco ...

Locking.

Palin takes prank call from fake French president By Charmaine Noronha, Associated Press Writer | November 2, 2008 TORONTO --Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday...

The biggest thing wrong with that picture is that Ted Stevens is leaving the courtroom without a new set of silver bracelets.

I just looked at Apple's and Google's announcements of their opposition to proposition 8, and I still can't believe my eyes. A few years ago it would have been inconceivable for enormous and well-known companies to spontaneously come out and officially support gay marriage. In public. In a tone tha...

California is indeed different from a place like Alabamba, but CA is a state with a lot of land area, and outside of a few major metropolitan areas it's all cow towns and agriculture. Prop 8, the measure that would recriminalize gay marriage in CA, is by no means guaranteed to fail, and is in fact ...

I'm not sure about a scandal, but it's definitely an overblown claim. The pipeline hasn't even been built yet, and she's carrying on like it's saved the country from dependence on foreign oil.

IQ at age 10 may be linked to adult alcohol use Study: People with high scores as kids more likely to have drinking problem Reuters updated 12:47 p.m. PT, Tues., Oct. 21, 2008 NEW YORK - Contrary to expectations, higher intelligence scores at age 10 may be associated with higher levels of alcohol i...

What possible contribution can these people make to a government controlled by the Democrats? Keeping us honest? The Republican propensity for making shit up to slander their opponents suggests that they *should* be all over any real, serious corruption like white on, well, the Republican Party. Co...

David Frum seems to think that McCain is a lost cause and that the Republicans should try salvaging what they can. And from what I've read in other places, the McCain campaign is going to disintegrate into a snake pit on 4 November. A lot of advisers are standing ready to lay the blame squarely on S...

Covenant, that's correct as far as I know. Businesses are not taxed on revenue, just on profit. Just like if you sell $50,000 worth of stock that you bought for $25,000, you aren't taxed on $50,000 worth of income. If you were, there'd be no point in investing.

Fuck...I've never made $250,000 in the last 10 years I've been singing my ass off. I could take that one sum and be able to nearly buy a house off in Downtown Toronto. Personally I think he's setting the bar a little high. I think it should start around $150,000 a year. That's where you really star...

A video of John McCain as a POW has been released. On the one hand, it's very harrowing and sympathetic. On the other, it shows McCain cooperating with the enemy to produce a propaganda video. He tells them who his father is and details about his mission. I'm pretty sure I don't have the stones to g...

Boo hoo. A hate monger got punched in the face.

Cry me a river.

Oh, so they're NOT just using vectors for everything? I don't have a good understanding of how the whole raster/vector thing works, but if it's 'resolution independent' on a display with a physical resolution and they're not either interpolating or calculating it from raw vectors, how ARE they doin...

I donated $275 to Obama and $100 to the campaign against Proposition 8 here in California.

Obama Leaving Campaign Trail To Be With His Sick Grandmother WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, his communications director...

Well, it didn't work for Hillary. So it's bound to work for McCain, right?

Jesus, his campaign stinks of desperation.

I've ranted on this topic numerous times before. Diebold is almost certainly guilty of negligence. If they're not, they should stop receiving government contracts on account of severe, almost unconscionable incompetence. Writing software to tabulate votes simply isn't that hard and doesn't require t...

10% of self-proclaimed Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ exited or was the son of god and instead pray to Baal.

How ridiculous does that sound?

Just noticed one thing, I am dissapointed when Obama didn't mention nuclear as an energy source, yet at the same time, talk about BIO-FUEL? Agreed. That's the only thing I agreed with McCain about. This nonsense about nuclear power not being "safe" is horse shit. McCain said we've got sai...

Oh yeah, I forgot about crazy modern font technology. :) Resolution independence applies to the entire GUI. It's not just scaling up some fonts. All the UI elements have to scale as well, and consequently, they have to not look like ass. This also means that those little hacks that invariably make ...

And Bill Ayers, the Republicans' October surprise and the staple of McCain's campaign, passes through the voters' minds without so much as second thought. If McCain was either (a) decent or (b) smart, he'd take these debate results to heart and quit whining about Bill Ayers and missed town hall meet...

Perhaps more oddly noteworthy is that FireWire has been completely dropped from the new MacBooks. Not terribly surprising. Other than backwards compatibility is there any kind of reason at all to use Firewire over USB 2.0? From a purely technical standpoint, FireWire is a far better-designed bus. T...

Quetzalcoatl wrote:Will Obama make change?

I have no doubt that, were I to give Barack Obama a dollar bill, he could give me 4 quarters.