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Non-Americans should watch this 1984 Saturday Night Live skit "The Question Is Moot" to get a feel for the American English meaning of the word.

Wonder no longer. You can behold it with your very own eyes. Also, check out this section for an explanation of how it was designed.

I hope you haven't spent years wondering about that, because it was answered with about five minutes on Google.

No, they aren't far right wing. And if you can't tell the difference between the neo-Nazi Stormfront and the Daily Beast, you need a depot level recalibration of your political sensibilities - something is fundamentally broken, malfunctioning, or miscalibrated. I understand from the far left the distance between them may seem to vanish, but it is a trick of perspective, they aren't even close... at all.

I'll get you started: In lieu of anything else, think of the difference between the Greens and Pol Pot's regime and apply. (And I think this is a generous narrowing of the difference.)

One other thing you might keep in mind: In American politics, the right did something the left has never been willing to do - drive out the dangerous fringe. Actual Nazis and neo-Nazis (including Stormfront), generally fringe nut cases in the United States in the last 75 years*, have not been, and are not part of the right in America. They are an offshoot of progressive & socialist politics. (Hence the Socialist in National Socialist.) Who Is 'Fascist'?

You might benefit from occasionally indulging in material from a viewpoint that challenges your views from a center-right perspective, and no, that doesn't include EDL or Stormfront. Since you comment regularly on American politics, some examples might include: National Review, The Weekly Standard, Commentary. You might try some reading on the first link in the previous post as well.

*Overlooking the regrettable and long gone German American Bund organization that had a hold in the German-American immigrant community for a time.

dumb crap like that is what makes our world a worse place...

You need to watch a little CK http://www.maniacworld.com/we-have-white-people-problems.html

Looks like this.

I abso-fucking-lutely hate GTK+. It's uglier than my shaved ass.

Right. I have both. My dogs are more easily trained, but my cats seem to figure out stuff by themselves. Dogs are baffled by things like cupboard doors, but most cats solve the problem fairly quickly.

But squirrels and birds are able to solve very complex obstacle courses themselves. In this sort of thinking, they put dogs to shame.

http://www.maniacworld.com/squirrel-obstacle-course.html

"He's dead, Jim."

They won't be shooting at protesters in the US anytime soon...

What the hell are you talking about?? They already have! Oh.. you mean with a drone... nevermind..

Have you forgotten?

NEVER FORGET!

PP did not put it properly. This is not technology to compensate for frailty; it's technology to compensate for judgement.

Glasses, windscreens, and headlights all provide the driver with the ability to better process the raw data. This technology seems to pre-select what the driver needs to look out for, which can lead to a dependence on it. What if the technology misses something important?

As an example, on a road with sidewalks, drivers do not look out for pedestrians (or similar) on the roadway, except at crosswalks. This allows the motorists to go faster, and thus increase risk because they are no longer thinking about pedestrians. The same goes for other traffic signs and signals. However, when you level off the road and strip off signs and pavement markings in urban areas, collisions are reduced significantly, because people are required to act for themselves--the government, through traffic signs and signals, is no longer telling them to behave uniformly (see Shared Space or this news video).

This new technology is another example of something that reduces the driver's perceived requirement to judge his or her surroundings, which will only make our roads more dangerous.

- RG>

That's actually not too far off from the "Naked Streets" movement, where removing traffic signs, signals, sidewalks and road paint force people to actually pay attention and think while driving, significantly reducing traffic and collisions: see video at http://www.maniacworld.com/no-street-lights-mean-fewer-accidents.html

- RG>

Not bad; better than Apollo 17's. Mod parent up, please. For the curious, here's the Moon version: http://www.maniacworld.com/Apollo_17_Strolling_Through_The_Park.htm

I, for one, refuse to trust my mail to any creature that can be this devious.