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The download button appears to be broken for 32 bit Ubuntu 8.1 systems running Firefox 3.0 with Flash 9.

What change? We have a trillion dollar pork bill getting bludgeoned through congress right now. Essentially the President said to congress "Just make it big, and make sure we have …

When was the government ever run with an eye on efficiency?

He's just a journalist, dude, doing what journalists do.

The Ad Council is my least favorite government agency. It takes billions of dollars from the public. In exchange it produces such necessary propaganda as "if you smoke pot, you'll …

It sometimes affects what I write, but not in a bad way. If I see a comment that I wrote has poor karma, or a critical response to a comment I wrote has high karma, I will often go…

The most strict libertarians I can think of are the anarcho-capitalists. Even they do not desire a society with the absence of laws, but rather they desire a market it law and law …

The funds have the $billions. If you want a piece of it, you go to them. Or perhaps financial firms should hire hackers to talk to investment funds and tell them how irrational the…

From what I remember, there was nothing in the article about gay marriage, or the pledge of allegiance. The author wasn't even particularly religious, though he hinted at deist ten…

I'm fascinated by how impossible it is for geeks to have an intelligent conversation about religion. This was a good article that many people chose to misread. Yes, there is no inv…

Do you throw out your jets after one year? My little firm did billion dollar deals, and we used private jets to flit our management teams from one investment fund to the next. Citi…

There were surely some bits worth celebrating in the thousands of years of prologue to manned spaceflight.

As far as I know, it is mostly restricted to certain strains of American Protestantism.

To throw away Christianity is to throw away Western Civilization and much of our heritage. I enjoyed this bit from TFA: "Arguably, the highest achievements of the human species hav…

Ha! Another UR reader. One day we will all be rounded up in some sort of camp. That's impressive for a blog comment. UR's comments will never decline in quality, because the masses…

This is a reddit article. And not one of the better ones. It's even from the NY Post . Ick.

Say an executive saves 400 hours a year by flying private. If that makes him a few percent more effective in a company the size of Citigroup, it's worth it.

Trips on commercial airlines takes hours longer, mostly due to security precautions.

Your wife has a linux expert at home. Sadly, none of my friends that knew linux were close enough/evangelical enough to help me with my driver issues.

>"Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times." One loses track of all the moral obligations of c…

Let's see, official recessions are 1907, 1918, 1929, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1973, 1980, 1990, 2001, and 2007. The evidence looks pretty weak, although it's hard to eyeball. It would be …

What I'd really like, though, is deaths per mile with and without a helmet.

Yep, and the site didn't provide those stats, so all its data is essentially useless for ascertaining the safety effects of wearing a helmet.

That's not the answer to the question. That's "government statistics". It's meaningless to refer to a safety statistic like "45 to 88 percent of brain injury can be prevented by a …