And as a True Believer, I tell you that religion (mine , specifically) still works too, even if you don't believe it.
Just try expressing your non-belief to St. Peter when he kindly asks you to step into the Hand Basket instead of inviting you to pass through the Pearly Gates....
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> I don't recall wanting/asking for these > fast-food chains to open in my city. > Yet here they are. It wasn't the citizens > wanting them, it was just one company's > greed ("capitalism" you might say).
If the citizens didn't want them there, they would probably go out of business for lack of customers. Apparently enough of the citizens want them there that they can keep their doors open.
Or are these greedy companies forcing the citizenry to be customers at gunpoint?
> The sole purpose of drinking beer, for the vast majority of those who do, is to get drunk.
It's not clear at all to me that this is the case.
I know a lot of people who drink beer (don't we all!) and other alcoholic beverages, and almost none of them drink enough to get drunk. But, I am a responsible middle aged adult, and so are most of my peers. YMMV.
Given the way candidates are nominated, I don't think third parties really have much of a chance.
What I'd like to see (though, I'm sure there's a flaw in it somewhere) is for all the states to have partyless primaries, like Louisiana, where everyone running for prez is on the same ballot, and the two top vote getters go to the general election in November, even if they're from the same party.
Of course, it has been noted that even this system locks out third parties, because the two top vote getters will always be the favorites of the two main factions. Say candidate A is the favorite of faction A, and candidate B is the favorite of faction B, and nobody in faction A would ever consider candidate B as a second choice, and nobody in Faction B would ever consider candidate A as a second choice. But if there is a moderate candidate C that everyone could live with, even if not their favorite, C doesn't have a chance in the Louisiansa system.
I would modify that system such that everyone votes for TWO candidates in the partyless primary. So that everyone gets to vote for their favorite, and second favorite. That way Candidate C ends up in the general election.
"Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy..."
Trying to retain control of content isn't workin' out so great either, is it? The rational thing to do is dump your stocks in the Content Control industry as soon as possible and invest in something else before it's too late. Something like Buggy Whip Manufacturing, or Cat Herding Services, maybe.
Gmail has a particular annoyance that bugs me. When I send a message to a mail list that I'm on, Gmail won't show the message as received back from the mail list until someones else replies to it.
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Heh. That's funny...
Those are some great comics. Thanks.
Hah!
And as a True Believer, I tell you that religion (mine , specifically) still works too, even if you don't believe it.
Just try expressing your non-belief to St. Peter when he kindly asks you to step into the Hand Basket instead of inviting you to pass through the Pearly Gates....
No, no. It's right.
As long as "4 hours" means a little less than 72 seconds...
Yeah, but apparently you gotta prove the government is violating your constitutional rights.
That's the sticky part.
Nope.
It's gonna be a polished silver helmet!
... by starting up your favorite audio recording software and selecting "wave out mix" as the input device while whatever DRMed thing is playing?
This works for WMA and RealAudio files.
You must be old here.
> I don't recall wanting/asking for these
> fast-food chains to open in my city.
> Yet here they are. It wasn't the citizens
> wanting them, it was just one company's
> greed ("capitalism" you might say).
If the citizens didn't want them there, they would
probably go out of business for lack of customers.
Apparently enough of the citizens want them there that they can keep their doors open.
Or are these greedy companies forcing the citizenry to be customers at gunpoint?
Yup.
And you have to accept a new SSL certificate whenever you change the lightbulb.
Do they run Linux?
RMS has always been known as RMS.
Likewise, ESR has always been known as ESR.
If that confuses you, you must be new here.
> The sole purpose of drinking beer, for the vast majority of those who do, is to get drunk.
It's not clear at all to me that this is the case.
I know a lot of people who drink beer (don't we all!) and other alcoholic beverages, and almost none of them drink enough to get drunk.
But, I am a responsible middle aged adult, and so are most of my peers. YMMV.
Given the way candidates are nominated, I don't think third parties really have much of a chance.
What I'd like to see (though, I'm sure there's a flaw in it somewhere) is for all the states to have partyless primaries, like Louisiana, where everyone running for prez is on the same ballot, and the two top vote getters go to the general election in November, even if they're from the same party.
Of course, it has been noted that even this system locks out third parties, because the two top vote getters will always be the favorites of the two main factions. Say candidate A is the favorite of faction A, and candidate B is the favorite of faction B, and nobody in faction A would ever consider candidate B as a second choice, and nobody in Faction B would ever consider candidate A as a second choice. But if there is a moderate candidate C that everyone could live with, even if not their favorite, C doesn't have a chance in the Louisiansa system.
I would modify that system such that everyone votes for TWO candidates in the partyless primary. So that everyone gets to vote for their favorite, and second favorite. That way Candidate C ends up in the general election.
Energy, Science Education, NSF Funding, Research?
Is that all that concerns you?
Frankly, I'd like to hear something new about Fiscal Policy, Foreign Policy, Social Policy, and so on, as well as Science Policy.
The sole purpose of smoking pot, for the vast majority of those who do, is to get stoned. Even those who claim it's for "medical use."
> ... the freedom to pay taxes ...
Straight from The Ministry of Truth.
... is really science.
My wife is a "domestic engineer" The garbage collector is a "sanitation engineer" Me, I'm a "software engineer"
... it has been found that violent, drug-crazed criminals are strongly represented by people who drank milk as babies! zomgwtfbbq!
Sealand.
"Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy..."
Trying to retain control of content isn't workin' out so great either, is it?
The rational thing to do is dump your stocks in the Content Control industry as soon as possible and invest in something else before it's too late. Something like Buggy Whip Manufacturing, or Cat Herding Services, maybe.
...they tell me that a man made a vegetable truck...
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Gmail has a particular annoyance that bugs me. When I send a message to a mail list that I'm on, Gmail won't show the message as received back from the mail list until someones else replies to it.
> IM- for talking to one person right now. We have telephones for that where I work ...
1 megabyte is 20 bits of address space. 16 bits only gets you 64k.