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I'm a bot, because I couldn't tell the difference between dogs and cats while using Rapidshare a few years back.

Why do projects name Xanadu always seems to mean some boondoggle?

Xanadu is a name of a mall in Jersey that was supposed to open in 2007 but got pushed back next summer. Even then, it might not even survive the recession.

I guess the lesson is never call your projects Xanadu or Duke Nukem Forever.

I am stupid, but that just means you're too smart to do my job.

What is so "right-wing" about Mackey's rhetoric? Is it assumed because he is a CEO? From what I'm reading, there's nothing much "right-wing" about it.

How is allowing consumers to purchase insurance across state lines right-wing? I can make the same argument for having an abortion instead of purchasing insurance.

Equalizing tax benefits for employer and individually purchased insurance? Who argues against that?

Price transparency? Tort reform? Tax deductible donations to the uninsured? Are you sure liberals are objecting to this?

Medicare reform is a pretty general statement.

The only position that can be considered "right-wing" is repeal government mandates for types of coverage.

Like the Congressmen that hasn't read their own bills, I have a feeling most boycotters haven't read the actual article. In this authors case, he seemed to skipped the most important part.

feature creep?

Regulating overdraft and overlimit fees doesn't lower the demand for overdrafting or overlimiting. Regulations that lower the penalties for overdrafting will likely raise demand.

If you regulate the demand side like limiting or banning overdrafts, let's just say drug dealers can do a bit more business with their pocket money.

Banks charge outrageous fees because consumers are willing to fork over a lot of money later for money immediately.

Wanna stick it to the banks and credit card companies? Don't overdraft and pay your balance in full and on time and collect reward points or cash back.

Wine tasting?

In keeping with the Dude theme, I would suggest Belgian beer tasting instead. There are trappists, lambic, framboise, witbier, or my favorite, all of the above.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is on top of numerous search results, so I do think facebook.com/... is viable.

Considering every musical genre is at or below my final SAT score (1380/1600), it could only mean:

1. SAT's are not an indication of intelligence. 2. There is no correlation between type of music and SAT scores. 3. All music, including Beethoven, makes people dumber.

Author claims this is funny? What's funny? People that listen to Soca, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Gospel make the dumbest students? Here's a correlation, which diaspora pioneered all four of those musical genres?

This is inaccurate. I love Lil Wayne. I don't remember the last time I enjoyed Beethoven.

I doubt that restaurants will do anything about it when there are sites like yelp and opentable that do offer mobile versions.

It would be nice if they do though, since that means more work for me.

Because teens do not have the right amount of self-importance required for Twitter until college.

That's how I started.

If cigarette and other "sin" taxes indicate, no.

I am for legalization but I wish people would talk up marijuana like its some miracle drug with great health and economical benefits.

Evidence. If he goes on trial he could plead the fifth and prosecutor will need evidence to corroborate whether he actually did what he said.

Oh 哪个 please!

I disagree with Chinese characters being difficult, at least the part about learning all the characters. There is a methodical approach to learning all the character (there are up to 3000 needed as the article states). I've been using http://smart.fm/ because they took this approach and wrapped it up in a neat flash app.

So while it takes years to master all the nuances of writing and speaking Chinese, I find that reading and understanding it takes less time.

Things the US can do

- kill Sarbanes-Oxley (and other burdensome regulations but this is #1 priority) - introduce a Hong Kong style tax system

I have no familiarity with how to combat "patent trolls", but something should be done there.

Its not enough to just be #1.

I just tell people I make the websites.

As a joke, I make developer and pornographer interchangeable. Too bad I don't do back-end work.

And then his fear returns when he unlocks the Nazi zombie mode...

Anyway. He makes no mention that COD:WAW's, Nazi zombie mode the objective is to survive as long as possible until the inevitable of being ripped apart by Nazi zombies.

For someone whose fear of Nazis came after the fact, I wonder what would his reaction to this mode?

No mention of killing Sarbanes-Oxley, which responsible of moving almost all the of the IPO market out of the country.

If venture capital is so reluctant to invest, then lower the barriers of bringing a company public.

For now, it helps Verizon every time they introduce FIOS to an area its often cheaper and better for existing cable customers.

Which is why I think eventually cable companies like Comcast and AT&T could easily take back Verizon customers with more aggressive pricing and upgrading their existing network, which costs a lot less than Verizon's fiber optic network.

What is irony? Using grids to help save time on a project only to discover dozens of competing frameworks each purporting to be better than the other. So you waste time learning how to use a few of them.

If you are like me, you then give up and spend time writing your own framework.

This is assuming netbooks took consumers away from laptops rather than attract consumers who otherwise would not purchase portable computing.

Netbooks were meant to expand the portable computing market, not redistribute it.

Porsche is a low volume automaker in America so they are exempt from CAFE standards. They also only sell high margin vehicles so they can take the high labor costs.

The issue is not GM being unable to build the best cars in the world (compare Corvette ZR-1 to a 911 GT2), it's the lousy way they approach CAFE standards (Aveo, Cobalt). Can Porsche design and market a car that goes 35 mpg?

I would like to see Steve Jobs deal with CAFE standards and union contracts.

GM doesn't need help creating high-end products either (see ZR-1, G8, CTS-V, etc. the marketing needs improvement though), so can jobs design and market the car equivalent of a Netbook?

"Do we have a right to be anonymous online?"

No. Not a right, especially when performing constitutionally-protected actions. I don't believe people should be required to identify themselves online, but I do believe that people who post anonymously should expect to be exposed eventually.

A better question would be whether legal channels should be used in the exposure of an anonymous person.

I believe so only if all other option are exhausted.

"Do the pros outweigh the cons?"

Yes, but only in place where free speech is not protected by the state.

Just stick ie6 only content between these two tags <!--[if IE 6]><![endif]--> in your html.

Two advancement are working in favor of fixed-width sites

1. Monitors are getting wider more than it is getting taller. 2. The latest browsers replaced "increase text size" with a zoom entire site feature instead.

Liquid layouts are useful if executed correctly and only if there has to be a lot of content to present.

Fallout? It's not fallout when facebook users use facebook to protest.

Why do people expect privacy in a website in which one's goal is to display their vanity to everyone?

My standard of living is doing just fine because I've adapted by improving and expanding my skillset and become one step ahead of outsourced and H-1B workers in my field.

Restricting foreign competition for jobs only foster complacency and increase the likelihood of my job being outsourced.

You could say my Libertarianism is malignant.

I am for the elimination of H-1B visas only if it means an even more lenient immigration policy.

Free trade means the free movement of capital AND labor.

Must be the smell of recession envy in the air.