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December 8, 2010 by taltamir
While a little outdated, I haven't heard about this or seen it until today, I thought I would share. http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2009/09/connecticut-budget-solitaire-photo.html House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, far right, speaks while colleagues play solitaire on their computers as the House convenes to vote on a new budget for the fiscal year in the Capitol on Monday [AP Photo/Jessica Hill] ... On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman ...
November 24, 2010 by taltamir
The day the earth stood still was a movie from 1951 where aliens set to kill off humanity because it is a dangerous and warlike race, who is stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (nuclear weapons) and has a "shoot first, dissect later" approach to alien life. It is plausible, and it ends with humanity proving itself as capable of peace and rising above its baser nature. So how does the 2008 remake fare? well, its about the same, only instead of warlike destroye...
October 17, 2010 by taltamir
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/10/france-to-fight-piracy-prop-up-music-industry-with-new-subsidy.ars?comments=1#comments-bar The french government decided that piracy is a big problem, and they have the solution... they will teach young people to buy music... by subsidizing music purchases with taxpayer money. They declare it as a dedication to preserving their culture, alongside that push they also intend to subsidize books over ebooks, and purchase "free" subscriptions to newsp...
September 29, 2010 by taltamir
Lately I have been hearing some debate on talk radio about illegal immigration. One of the points liberals have been making is "we are all illegal immigrants anyways, after all, this used to be the land of the native americans; anyone who is against illegal immigration is thus a hypocrite!" And I am saddened by how pathetically bad the counterpoints that have been offered to this are. So I have decided to pick up their slack and answer this myself! There are two main ways to approach the p...
September 21, 2010 by taltamir
Remember kids, "help your parents shop for energy saving appliances"... Also, get them to buy solar panels... This is quite an interesting website, the most interesting bit is that: 1. It is being actively advertised in other websites (I got there via a link from one) 2. It targets kids. 3. It is a .gov website... meaning it is run by the USA government.
September 16, 2010 by taltamir
It is better that we lose to the Democrats than a Republican win with RINOs. RINO stands for Republican In Name Only, it refers to liberals who are chosen by the republican party as their candidates, that is done because republicans have been operating under the quite flawed policy that stated "Pick the most conservative candidate that can win". So they will pick a highly liberal candidate who is slightly less liberal than the opponent to run in liberal states, for the purpos...
June 3, 2010 by taltamir
Neutrality is pure unadulterated evil, unbiased Impartiality is good... what is the difference? Lets say John Doe kidnaps, rapes, and murders a little girl. Biased (mother of the victim): I want to personally cut him up with a rusty knife for what he did to my baby. Biased (John himself): I admit I have a problem, but I should not be held accountable for my actions. Impartial (me): I have no stake in the case either way, but I can tell you his act is inhumane and atrocious and he des...
May 25, 2010 by taltamir
Having seen the fall of biased opinion tabloid Newsweek (good riddance), left-wing extremist propaganda mills have united to form a new organization called, ironically, "Free Press"... They dub themselves a "media reform group" and demand that taxpayer fund their raving lunacy as more and more Americans are tuning off their vile propaganda in disgust and turning to real news sources. To convince us that it IS democratic to have taxpayer funded propaganda they cite the liberalism ind...
May 7, 2010 by taltamir
On tax day I went to the Tea Party protest in Grand Prairie... I met some friends there. I am a Hebrew (the race of jews), the guys I met were asian and latino... The speakers came from every possible color and creed you can imagine... There was a distinct lack of rich white old men or "rednecks" (which I never understood the animosity against). What shocked me the most though is when I told my youngest brother (who will be graduating high-school this month)... he learned in...
May 7, 2010 by taltamir
The FOSS community has a great way to explain what they mean by free... "Free as in beer" or "Free as in speech" helps differentiate between different meanings of the word "free". Many keep on calling communist healthcare "free healthcare". Presumably because they have failed economics. In many senses such a healthcare system is free... "free" as in "Free People's Democratic Republic of ..."; we have all noticed how tyrannical authoritarian governments refer to themselves...
March 16, 2010 by taltamir
Harry Reid would like to think that everyone but him is stupid.   He "does not accept the phrasology" that taxes are involuntary.
March 15, 2010 by taltamir
You boys are lucky down in the states with great deals on everything. Just browse over to bestbuy Canada and have a look at the video card prices... This is a statement someone just made on a tech forum I frequent @ anandtech.com I read pretty much an identical statement several times a week. I hear it often from relatives or friends in other countries...  Always how Americans are so "lucky" to make so much money, to have such cheap electronics, to have such cheap housing, etc etc e...
March 14, 2010 by taltamir
I have observed that naming something greatly influences how people perceive it without doing an in depth investigation. I am not the only one who has noticed that, it is a very often exploited tactics. "Big brother in your computer" has been named "trusted computing" (cia joke, you can only trust systems you have subverted); "Big brother in your cameras and phones" has been renamed "digital manners" (because they can enforce good manners by shutting your phone for you in the theater... of cours...
March 5, 2010 by taltamir
it is pretty ironic that the thing that pushed me most towards conservatism was that my liberal indoctrination as a child included: 1. The principles of science. And disdain towards blind faith & religion (liberalism is a religion:  http://soviet-overlords.joeuser.com/article/369367/Liberalism_is_a_religion  ) 2. The notion that good people (liberals) are open minded, and evil people (conservatives) are closed minded and bigoted. Lo and behold, actually listening to conser...
February 25, 2010 by taltamir
The inevitable collapse of socialized healthcare in Israel is now taking the country by a storm. If you check the link you can see patients lined up in beds sitting in the hallways. Every empty space has an extra bed crammed in it, to fill the overflowing hospitals. Waiting times are unbearable, even for true emergencies in the ER. Some hospitals are actually no longer receiving new patients, because their rooms, walkways, and every spare spot are full of patients and they don't want to sit them...