I couldn't agree with you more!

Most of the people emulating the habits of the elites have no idea why they're even doing what they're doing. The people taking these precautions for real have tens if not hundreds of billions of reasons why a "murderous gang" (NLP anyone?) might want to get at them... they might not be "ashamed of their success" (i.e shitting on people) but they're not stupid either... I'm all for hard work and reaping what one sews, but it's quite obvious that many of these folks have reaped waaaaaay more than what they have sewn. If one believes in the murderous gang meme, it's pretty safe to infer that they also believe in Terrorists who just want to kill us because they hate our way of life, Bloodthirsty Gangbangers (ironically ran by the police in most places with gang problems..) who kill indiscriminately, The tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. This is obviously a poor attempt to distribute the issues of a few people to the masses. Home invasion does happen, but the odds are so low, most people need not modify their architecture to compensate for this. All that being said; when I build a house, best believe it will be zombie proof! HUNTING SEASON OPENS SOON..........

vote? have you taken a look at the 500+ dead people that voted in the SC Primary? or the discrepencies in the Iowa Caucus? what about the debacle of 2000 or Ohio in 2004? To quote Mr Jay Electronica:
"Regardless who you vote for
If the mind don't grow
And the poverty line don’t go
But the dope keep coming
And the tv keep flashing images of a sports car
Then you bound for a coke war
The meek get clowned by the coke law
The sheep get drowned in the folklore
Then lulled to sleep by Tom Brokaw
What a pity, the hope on a politician's tongue
Never ever trickles down the city"

Ironically enough, I think that a transition can be made without firing a shot; the people that we speak of are cowardly and weak. They rely on underlings for their food, water, shelter and lifestyle. Without their fake incentive program, they'd die in a month. The game can't go on if enough people refuse to play.

+1 on that. Not much different from what happens to other proponents of peace and unity. I'm Pretty sure Ghandi wouldn't have wanted his likeness on the 100 rupee bill in India, yet it is..

if you read the headline, it doesn't match the quote at all - what he's saying is that while the technology is great and makes life more convienent, the product doesn't help create jobs in the American Job sector. I think this is a valid point. i don't think he's being xenophobic or technophobic, but pointing out the fact that our country doesn't produce much of anything anymore. Whoever came up with the headline, shame on you for the title, but THANKS for including the quote for clarification.

great! now we can pay triple or four tines as much for a service thats available in rural villages in france and the UK . america has shit internet for a country thats supposedly so well off. wake me up when 105Mbs is bundled with phone and television. for 40 or 50 bucks a month. oh , and comcast can eat a fat one.

I use a mac every day, and I can second that the filesystem sucks dog nuts - (journaling my ass!) have lost two one TB Drives to HFS+ and I also hate the fact that Adobe products and some other major products REFUSE to install on case sensitive HFS+ drives (had to jump through some hoops but made it work) and I also agree about the mousing and half-ass keyboard shortcuts- have the double wrist braces to show for it (well actually that's baseball AND bad typing/ mousing posture) That all being said, I still like the interface (once you hack it up just a bit) and the BSD utilities, albeit a crude mix-match. I spent much of my college (1.0) years haunched over a dell laptop running Linux ssh'ing and running X to connect to the labs over at Harvey Mudd where I took CS. once I found out P=NP ain't for me, I found audio engineering which seems the perfect blend of computer skills while interfacing with intriguing personalities, at least for me. OS9 was always a joke to me, but AT THE TIME OS X was the closest I could get to blending the *nix experience with a coherent GUI. Somewhere along the line, Apple quit giving a shit about serious Audio/Video people and decided to focus on ipods and the like. During this time Hardware upgrades to the Mac as well as serious (desktop) OS development slowed to almost a stop, forcing many serious Media Pros to jump ship (many of my video professors who do work outside of teaching use PC's running AVID or ADOBE Premiere) because of lack of support for modern graphics technologies amongst other things. Apple may have turned the corner on this with the introduction of Thunderbolt, but this is yet to be seen. lack of non mac filesystem support in os X is also a big pain in the crotch, especially since it would be trivial to do zfs and ntfs successfully and NTFS support (including writing to it! ) is soreley missed in the audio production side of things. It's 2011, there's really no excuse as to why I still can't write safely to my NTFS partitions without fear of severe data corruption (yeah I know Microsoft didn't document how to write to the filesystem) . So why do I stay with the Mac? Logic and ProTools which I use every day.
PS, will Microsoft and Apple please agree on a protocol to share files across the network? smb sucks on macs and afp support on Windows is the same. at least then Macs can play in mac world and PC's in PC Land while sharing files without names being too long or your network shared drive being full of .ds_store files and other .bullshit

I'm just wondering what the hell is wrong with the intense nuclear reaction a mere 93 million miles away from us, what it's too far away? Anyone who has ever tried growing plants under regular light bulbs knows this one: when the bulb gets too close to the plant IT KILLS THE PLANT. Has anyone considered all the radiation that comes off the sun that gets filtered out by our atmosphere? yeah let's create that planet-side !! why not just use the perfectly viable energy source that wakes our asses up every morning? considering that enough energy gets dumped on our planet every day to power our lives for years just makes it seem like we're not utilizing what's literally smacking us in the face very well.

"The Secure features a fingerprint scanner and a thermal sensor 'so that the finger alone, detached from the body, will still not give access to the memory stick's contents."
I'm sure that if someone went through the trouble of removing the finger to access the Secure Pro, then they'd go through the trouble of warming the dead finger up so that they could have access. seems kinda gimmicky to me...

I really don't care what they cut, can I get some RECENT Dr Who here in the states??? Please?!

damn, I was about to ask the same thing- Why try and play Creator, when we have perfectly good creation that has already been created that doesn't cost as much as a car? where is Johnny Appleseed when you need him?

"a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours [on this game] that was butchered by outside sources.' .... One of the [developers] made a post on the official forums saying they were 'effectively stabbed in the back,' and that much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy"

wow, if this wasn't talking about a video game, I would almost think they were talking about the real Army!

no you both won't be modded as trolls, just as shortsighted jingoist biggots.
        now if you would have taken the African from in front of it and just said american culture rejects learning, then you might have had a point-- case and point, the absolute drivel that you just allowed to pass between the gap between your ears that obvioiusly passes for thought in your book, and through autonomic movement alone miraculusly passed from said empty space to your fingertips where it ended up on slashdot--
do us all a favor take the satelite dish off the cave you live in because you're clogging up the airwaves with your prehistoric excuse for intelligence.
        As far as rejecting western culture, a culture that revolves around taking what you want, killing whoever gets in the way, god said it's ok, sex, drugs, and rock n roll (ok rock n roll is awesome for a cultural basis but follow along anyway) anyone with a brain would reject the poor excuse for a/an (mis)education that is talked down to most kids, not just African-Americans as you indicate, but all children that are put through pre-prison as I like to refer to our public school system as.
To say that African-American culture rejects learning and western culture in general indicates to me that you're indoctrinated so deeply and ignorantly in western culture that you obviously are another proud product of our public education system, an anonymous coward-- thanks for serving as case and point, at least you know your life's purpose has been served so feel free to jump off the nearest bridge at this point so we can reduce our carbon footprint as a nation ;-)

"dding to the brain drain is a problem with slow US visa processing, since last November or so, that has been driving desirable students and scientists out of the country. "

well if this holds true, then there should be plenty of room in the masters and phd programs for good ol' americans, wait, the average american public school student isn't prepared for college nevermind a masters or phd progam? the only higher level education that is still dominated by american students is law? oh.

-my point is that there needs to be a very concentrated effort to improve lower levels of education in this country so that they can even qualify as a "desireable" student!
I really don't think that that's gonna happen because this economy revolves around the ignorance and inaction of others.