kyochan

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.

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.