Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1111 Editor's Choice: 9
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I heard the same thing a decade and a half ago from the homers in NC
[Read the article: Luxury community of "conscience"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They wanted to shoot all the Yankees moving in. Literally, we saw bumper stickers that said "I'd Rather be Shooting Yankees" At that time, in Raleigh, the state capital, there were 2000 households w/o running water or electricity and half the roads in the county were unpaved. I would often meet gomers who proudly told me they "Have never been more than 20 miles from the place where I am standin raght chyere." July 4th Celebration at the State Capitol building was a Civil War reenactment.
Then all of us Northunuhs showed up and the roads got paved the crime rate dropped 25% while the population tripled. You want us out? Sho nuff Cleetus, we'll just be a takin our runnin water and shoes with us.
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rodian
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah fuck the working poor. I mean seriously fuck them. Fuck them with a hot curling iron.
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When I was a kid our favorite day of the year was Mom's birthday
[Read the article: I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because she was too drunk to beat us.
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What is the distribution for failure rates in LED lights. Is it a event function long a Poisson curve?
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]50 or a 100 thousand hours are great. If you are >+4STD in the quality control area. But if the bulb fails early you are hosed. This is the tradeoff we learn from 6-Sigma; the cost to push from 5 to 6 sigma can be almost asymptotic for certain processes. And since no one will pay for that the actual failure distribution is far less than 5 or 6 STD, often less than 4, which sounds great until you churn out a billion units of something.
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The child soldiers I met in Africa had no such romantic Marxist notions
[Read the article: Che anything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They liked American logo wear like Nike. They knew who Michael Jordan was, never heard of Che. Such thing are quaint brand affinities for overfed middle class progressive anarchist dipshits.
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And yet here in NC, in Durham
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is expected, and I stress that word, expected, to get the Black vote, BECAUSE it's black. In other words either we assume that all or most black people will vote for Obama because he's black, or, the media believes this to be the case and the electorate is just going to go along. Faced with that, it doesn't matter a whole hell of a lot what any other candidate does.
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President Halle Berry?
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember when Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Oscars in the same year. It was a groundbreaking event, but in the press there was kind of sense of "Well it's their turn" about it as if their performances really didn't matter all that much. It was simply being in the right place at the right time. I think this is the aside the press would love to tell us about with Obama. Well...he might not be the greatest Presidential option there is, but he's good enough and by golly he's black and those people deserve their own President by now. Yeah it's kind of ugly, but liberal guilt always is.
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Trust in Xenu, My son
[Read the article: I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And remember to keep those checks coming.
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I'm sure it doesn't matter much either way
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One weak President is much the same as any other. And anyone who imagines this next administration, whoever it is, will be bold and adventurous is just being dense. You already don't want another Clinton, McCain is doddering and Obama is more flash than pan. When was the last inspiring President? Teddy Roosevelt?
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What is the mean failure rate over a population of bulbs
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the quality of manufacturing. If I buy 1 billion light bulbs how many conk out early. Given they cost a fortune, if there is a significant enough probability that any given bulb conks out then the obscenely high price of each bulb isn't worth the risk to me, unless the bulb vendor provides a warranty.
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Glenn's war on reality part MCMXLII
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yup we're definitely going to bomb Iran tomorrow morning, or the one after or sometime in deep dark distant future. Absolutely at some point before the sun explodes in the next 4 billion years. Yup.
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I think 17 people saw Made of Honor this weekend
[Read the article: Hey Hollywood, where my girls at?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So there's that.
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Oblamatrons will be
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the first people to act shocked when gender equality has to ride in the back of the bus in the Oblama Presidency.
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Air Force Vet in Amsterdam
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to laugh when bloggers complain that other bloggers have abandoned facts for opinion.
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If the Spiderman franchise go any more chick
[Read the article: Hey Hollywood, where my girls at?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They should make Spiderman a transgendered lesbian bipolar superhero struggling with adopting a handicapped child into a biracial gay couple's family.
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Women do not hang themselves.
[Read the article: Death and the D.C. Madam ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It almost never happens.
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The GOP secret weapon is to do nothing
[Read the article: GOP's not-so-secret weapon fails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And wait for the Democrats to eat each other.
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Of course the flipside of that is, so what?
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]African Americans are the #2 largest minority.
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TomRitchford
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as you're not the guy with a carton of dead bulbs @ $70 per. I've never found consumer oriented technology as durable and reliable as that built for commercial use. I've also yet to hear the reliability in the field of these bulbs under the dirty power conditions of most homes. I would be screaming if my under/over volts, square waves, surges and other distortions cause the bulbs to fail. People are not going to retrofit power conditioners into their home wiring. Yes the failure mode of the device, in the absence of all other factors is bimodal. But the failure mode of the bulbs in use under somewhat new conditions is not.
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My $40 t-shirt protests the ravages of rampant consumerism
[Read the article: Che anything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which kind of captures radical revolutionary Marxist tyranny quite well.
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Well at least we can blame the Jews for everything....
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only way out is up the chimney. All Hail Salon and LWM
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Yahoo branding
[Read the article: No victory: Yahoo feels the heat after Microsoft walks away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yahoo will become a brand of Google. The glittery front end that brings all the consumers into Google. Underneath, Yahoo will go away and won't even be assimilated into the Googleplex. What? Do you think Facebook is a technology company? No, it's a brand. Yahoo has the shopfronts, the vendor relationships, the soft fuzzy user experience. Google is the faceless soulless machine.