Electoral votes are weighted by population. California and New York do have a much larger say in the electoral process. All the electoral college does in the modern world is assure that the majority of a given state will drown out the minority voice. I live in the south, and I am truly annoyed by the fact that Kerry will win 35-45% of my state's popular vote while he wins none of our electoral votes.
If and when states re-write their laws to mirror Maine and allow electoral votes to be divided by percentage within the state will the system be valid.
Current shareholders are responsible for their actions with their own investments. This policy, however, would hold every shareholder and his/her life, home, family, ect. responsible for the actions of the corporate leaders. In Badnarik's conceptual world, a $15 investment in a single share of a start-up company could cost the holder of the stock thousands if not millions in the long term based on the behavior of the company's Board of Directors.
I also think you missed one of his main points. Although the upper class accounts for more stock ownership per capita, the middle class and the small investor fill out the market and provide needed capital for many companies. Without limited liability, there would be no small investor. This would allow only those who already have power and money the opportunity to make gains in the stock market.
"I have to say that in this case, I agree that the big corporation is probably in the right."
Can we really call MST3K the big corporation?
I remember watching a behind the scenes special on the Sci-Fi Channel during the last season of MST3K. On this special the viewer was given a backstage tour of the set, and they proudly displayed the new equipment that Sci-Fi had bought them. This earth-shattering new device was.... A Light!
I think the real issue here is that it is a blatant rip-off of format with content that doesn't meet the approval of Best Brains. As an avid MSTie I believe that if Mr. Sinus would either change their name or clean up their content they would avoid this lawsuit.
Sorry my sig didn't stand up to yours, but there are just so many dumb and frightening W quotes that I don't have time to sort through all of them. I do think its funny though that on dubyaspeak.com the "15 most recent dumb quotes" you never see one older than two weeks or so. Oh wait, there are exceptions when he goes on vacation for weeks at a time. After all, even with the War on Terror, the War in Iraq, and a dismal economy, Bush has taken more vacation time than any other president in history.
Not to sure Kerry would be any better on the vacation time front though.
Try reading the book of platform ideas Kerry had published. Then remember that Bush's highest level technology advisor has a B.S. in Biology and zero days in a tech sector job. Try reading the facts and figures from the Union of Concerned Scientists. This non-partisan group, whose report has been signed by 48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences, has determined that the Bush administration has made more decisions in opposition to good scientific data than any other administration in history.
When looking for facts and figures to back up your argument, I suggest you go to a source that is controlled by neither party.
"And unlike Kerry, Bush mentions specific areas: space exploration, nanotechnology, hydrogen power, fusion, etc."
With no shuttles launching, how is he putting money into space exploration? With our access to new oil reserves in Iraq, it has been at least a year and a half since Bush has even mentioned hydrogen power (although he did once proclaim that his administration would focus on hydrogen to make us energy independant). All Slashdot readers should know that recently the U.S. fusion program was cancelled. Besides, when you deny the No Child Left Behind Act nearly 40% of the funding you promised, how can you expect there to be future scientists to work on these breakthroughs?
Read the Kerry/Edwards platform book. There are some very interesting ideas on how to find funding for the important scientific and environmental projects that this administration has routinely ignored.
Or just go to http://www.ucsusa.org/ and look for the report on the Bush administration published in Febuary of this year and updated to include more troubling facts recently.
I am the lead singer for one of those bands you mention. In the band's press packet I'm quoted as saying, "If you have the money, buy our CD. If you don't have the money, download the CD. The music and its message are more important than the money."
Don't be fooled by the RIAA. The average yearly take home pay of a band that makes a gold album (sells 100,000 copies) is around $200,000. Divided down that means that in a 4 person band everyone makes about $50,000 a year. What happens to the other $1,600,000 - $1,800,000 that their album makes? Part of it is spent on publicity and distribution, but way to much is spent on corporate fat cats.
A little over a hundred years ago there was no such thing as a musician whose songs made him/her rich. Back in those days, it was the music and the message that mattered. Please, support your local musicians, but also do everything in your power to help bring down this organization who enslaves and manipulates our music industry and destroys promising musicians who won't 'play ball'.
Always remember that you will put more money in the musician's pocket by attending a concert than you will buying their albums.
Wouldn't it also be alot more likely that a patch would make it through the testing phase without crashing anything important if the patch maker had access to the source code of the OS?
So...add another argument! I say Open Source for our health.
I just want one judge to understand that most of these cases are the equivalent of one musician suing another over using the word 'love' in a song. I think the world would be a better place if software patents focused on the overall purpose and function that the code adds up to, as opposed to certain individual lines of code that add up to basic functions like a double click.
This is all in addition to the point that the good Dr. made before me that any lawyer is going to have a fun time trying to prove that Linus didn't write it first.
The patent office will one day be a forgotten entity, just like the Bee-Gees.
While I agree that Kerry is not Washington, I wanted to direct you to a figure that isn't based on a news orginization but rather the IRS.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/news/economy/inc om e/index.htm
I know that news orginizations like to focus on specific data to back whichever candidate they favor, but I also have read alot of economic data over the last year. I have found so much information on bad government policy under Bush that I wouldn't let the man balance my check book. Do keep in mind that this is one oppinion in a sea of many, but the many usually don't study as much about the candidates as I have.
Freedom and laws are always opposed to one another. The challenge lies in creating just enough laws and taking away just enough freedom to keep citizens from encroaching on the freedoms of other citizens. With that in mind, consider how many of The United States of America's current laws encroach on personal choices. Stem cell research bans, drug criminalization laws, censorship and banning of media(books, movies, TV, ect.), and countless other laws restrict choices that the government's jurisdiction should not cover. Also consider the new concept of "Civil Unions" for homosexual couples and remember a policy we once had on another issue where "Seperate but Equal" was our motto. Sadly, certain people just can't let others have the freedom to make their own choices, but we should look to the wisdom of those that have tried with all their being to fight for the ideas of true liberty.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." - Abraham Lincoln "Laws do not persuade just because they threaten." -Seneca "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there." - Claire Booth Luce "To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." - Claude Adrien Helvetius
I agree with alot of what you said, but mostly with the part about Bush Jr. scaring the hell out of us.
I personally think that based on one single appointment he has made that Bush should lose the/. vote and really the entire tech sector. Dubya, as I have began calling him, has a great tendancy to put friends and campaign contributors into high ranking political positions ignoring their level of qualification. The appointment that should concern everyone here concerns his highest level technology advisor. This man, advising the most powerful person in the free world, has only a B.S. in Biology and ZERO years experience in tech related fields. To give this some perspective, I want to point out that my father has his Master's Degree in Biology. I know for a fact that my father also knows alot less than I about what new sciences lie on the horizon. For that matter, I had to help him install a PCI sound card.
The point I'm trying to make is that Bush just isn't capable of doing his job correctly, and he insults all of the true professionals out there by doing favors for his underqualified friends.
Always remember that Bush has an MBA and yet has lost a net 1.5 million jobs and trillions of dollars for our country.
It would be a big waste of their money and we could start a movement to make sure that instead of buying it everyone who feels they have to run Office could just WINE the Windows version.
Do you think if we try really hard we could get MS to bankrupt themselves writing code for Linux? I just want it to happen for the irony factor.
I am a resident of TN and after reading an earlier/. article and following up with a little research on this piece of legislation I took the time to write both of my state Senators. I am putting this post here and hope it gets modded just high enough to see so that I can get out a single message.
If you are in America, write your state Senators and protest this bill with an intellegent argument from the tech community.
We must remember the most important and base principles of a Senator 1. They often vote on bills they have not read or barely understand. 2. They have to listen to people in their state because if they don't they loose the next election. 3. They don't come close to understanding technology like a technician, engineer, programmer, or any of the vast army of geeks out there. 4. Knowledge is power and big words (technical terms) impress the hell out of someone in a political office, because they can take your letter and read it on the Senate floor to sound like they are informed.
If we all write in, we will start a debate. If we start a debate, we will win.
Perhaps I hang around here a bit too much, but that doesn't change the point I was trying to make.
Someone can be an expert on a deisel submarine and know everything there is to know about its operation and security. This person still can't take that submarine through mine infested waters because that is a weakness of the craft. He is skilled, but the craft has its limitations.
I used IE as an example because it has been a part of Microsoft's product line for a number of years, and it is a good example of how a limited number of programmers make mistakes that will not be found until they cause major problems. Following in this train of thought we begin to understand why MS software has a long record of being exploited by our less moral computer bretheren. Furthermore, I would wager that this event will be the 'mine field' of the network security year.
The simple point I am trying to make here is that no matter how well a technician knows the system, it is the system in the end that is responsible for security. And remember, you are defending a company who's founder has stated, "Code is not the most important thing in security."
I also don't appreciate the not so thinly veiled insults as they are founded in ignorance.
"But Garcia insisted the Democrats have the computer security situation well in hand, with the help of security specialists from Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp."
We all know how competent those Microsoft security experts are. So, how many unpatched holes are still in IE?
I think any time you have a chance to get a look at the other side it is well worth your time. Of course, I also have tried at least 8 different Linux distributions in the last two years and still run Slackware on my network server.
The most important thing in this particular conversation is to remember that there are limitless ways to edit a video and each piece of editing software will reveal its strengths and weaknesses as you use it. I personally think Avid is the best and encourage you to try the free version available at
http://www.avid.com/freedv/welcome.asp
Remember, however, that this free version has only a fraction of the options available in Xpress DV or Xpress Pro.
I agree with Rob on camera choice, and I think you should get the XL1-S. I tend to disagree on software though. Vegas is a good Sony product but it lacks some of the power you will probably want if you are taking work in film seriously. I would recommend Avid Xpress Pro as my editing suite of choice. I am the Director of media services at a Community College, and we have found that while the learning curve on Avid is a little bit steeper than Final Cut Pro or Vegas, the flexability of the program is unmatched.
"Given the nationwide, on-going dispute in this area, it is reasonable to ask whether a state may ever impose a ban on the disseminations of video games to children under 18. The answer is "probably yes" if the games contain sexually explicit images, and "maybe" if the games contain violent images, such as torture or bondages, that appeal to the prurient interest to minors."
I think the worst thing about this statement is that torture and bondage get a "maybe" while any sexual image gets "probably yes".
Are breasts really more destructive to society than graphic images of torture? If so... am I a danger to society because of my inate desire to stare at/play with breasts?
Combine this with the Patriot Act and that nice new anti-terrorism computer with a terabyte of ram and it would be quite possible to assemble every picture of any individual in a file. I personally don't want the government having access to a few pictures from... we'll call them "college social events".
With this system, however, we might get to see pictures of Bush doing a beer bong and that might just be worth it...
Whatch ya'll mean ya can't understand that there southern grammar? I was always learned that we was right and the rest of the world was the one with tha problem.
I must stop now because even though I've lived in Tennessee for years just typing two sentences of that drivel makes my head hurt. Tell your buddy that as a southern citizen I am profoundly sorry. As a matter of fact I'll even grant you amnesty on the whole Celine Dion thing because of his struggles. Do, however, tell him to have a little sympathy for those of us that have to put up with such speech on a daily basis
I worked in a laboratory in a water bottling facility for a year, and I can tell you that after working there I will gladly pay the $1 or $2 for bottled water when I am away from my home filtration system. The reason I will do this is because I have run the tests myself and know that tap water has about 7 times the mineral content of spring water and about 10 times the content of drinking water. So while you are getting ripped off paying $1 for a bottle of water that the company paid about $.07 to make (including price of the platic bottle), I would say you will pay the greater long term price in the amount of sheer chlorine you consume from our trustworthy (note the sarcasm) public water sources.
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Electoral votes are weighted by population. California and New York do have a much larger say in the electoral process. All the electoral college does in the modern world is assure that the majority of a given state will drown out the minority voice. I live in the south, and I am truly annoyed by the fact that Kerry will win 35-45% of my state's popular vote while he wins none of our electoral votes.
If and when states re-write their laws to mirror Maine and allow electoral votes to be divided by percentage within the state will the system be valid.
Current shareholders are responsible for their actions with their own investments. This policy, however, would hold every shareholder and his/her life, home, family, ect. responsible for the actions of the corporate leaders. In Badnarik's conceptual world, a $15 investment in a single share of a start-up company could cost the holder of the stock thousands if not millions in the long term based on the behavior of the company's Board of Directors.
I also think you missed one of his main points. Although the upper class accounts for more stock ownership per capita, the middle class and the small investor fill out the market and provide needed capital for many companies. Without limited liability, there would be no small investor. This would allow only those who already have power and money the opportunity to make gains in the stock market.
"I have to say that in this case, I agree that the big corporation is probably in the right."
Can we really call MST3K the big corporation?
I remember watching a behind the scenes special on the Sci-Fi Channel during the last season of MST3K. On this special the viewer was given a backstage tour of the set, and they proudly displayed the new equipment that Sci-Fi had bought them. This earth-shattering new device was.... A Light!
I think the real issue here is that it is a blatant rip-off of format with content that doesn't meet the approval of Best Brains. As an avid MSTie I believe that if Mr. Sinus would either change their name or clean up their content they would avoid this lawsuit.
Sorry my sig didn't stand up to yours, but there are just so many dumb and frightening W quotes that I don't have time to sort through all of them. I do think its funny though that on dubyaspeak.com the "15 most recent dumb quotes" you never see one older than two weeks or so. Oh wait, there are exceptions when he goes on vacation for weeks at a time. After all, even with the War on Terror, the War in Iraq, and a dismal economy, Bush has taken more vacation time than any other president in history.
Not to sure Kerry would be any better on the vacation time front though.
Try reading the book of platform ideas Kerry had published. Then remember that Bush's highest level technology advisor has a B.S. in Biology and zero days in a tech sector job. Try reading the facts and figures from the Union of Concerned Scientists. This non-partisan group, whose report has been signed by 48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences, has determined that the Bush administration has made more decisions in opposition to good scientific data than any other administration in history.
When looking for facts and figures to back up your argument, I suggest you go to a source that is controlled by neither party.
"And unlike Kerry, Bush mentions specific areas: space exploration, nanotechnology, hydrogen power, fusion, etc."
With no shuttles launching, how is he putting money into space exploration? With our access to new oil reserves in Iraq, it has been at least a year and a half since Bush has even mentioned hydrogen power (although he did once proclaim that his administration would focus on hydrogen to make us energy independant). All Slashdot readers should know that recently the U.S. fusion program was cancelled. Besides, when you deny the No Child Left Behind Act nearly 40% of the funding you promised, how can you expect there to be future scientists to work on these breakthroughs?
Read the Kerry/Edwards platform book. There are some very interesting ideas on how to find funding for the important scientific and environmental projects that this administration has routinely ignored.
Or just go to http://www.ucsusa.org/ and look for the report on the Bush administration published in Febuary of this year and updated to include more troubling facts recently.
I am the lead singer for one of those bands you mention. In the band's press packet I'm quoted as saying, "If you have the money, buy our CD. If you don't have the money, download the CD. The music and its message are more important than the money."
Don't be fooled by the RIAA. The average yearly take home pay of a band that makes a gold album (sells 100,000 copies) is around $200,000. Divided down that means that in a 4 person band everyone makes about $50,000 a year. What happens to the other $1,600,000 - $1,800,000 that their album makes? Part of it is spent on publicity and distribution, but way to much is spent on corporate fat cats.
A little over a hundred years ago there was no such thing as a musician whose songs made him/her rich. Back in those days, it was the music and the message that mattered. Please, support your local musicians, but also do everything in your power to help bring down this organization who enslaves and manipulates our music industry and destroys promising musicians who won't 'play ball'.
Always remember that you will put more money in the musician's pocket by attending a concert than you will buying their albums.
And he'll only be there in the hopes that Tara Reid will take off her shirt.
Bonus, I think those soldier guys we see in the trailer are wearing left over stuff from Starship Troopers 2.
Makes me wonder if and when a B-movie drops to a C, D, or F-Movie.
Wouldn't it also be alot more likely that a patch would make it through the testing phase without crashing anything important if the patch maker had access to the source code of the OS?
So...add another argument!
I say Open Source for our health.
I just want one judge to understand that most of these cases are the equivalent of one musician suing another over using the word 'love' in a song. I think the world would be a better place if software patents focused on the overall purpose and function that the code adds up to, as opposed to certain individual lines of code that add up to basic functions like a double click.
This is all in addition to the point that the good
Dr. made before me that any lawyer is going to have a fun time trying to prove that Linus didn't write it first.
The patent office will one day be a forgotten entity, just like the Bee-Gees.
While I agree that Kerry is not Washington, I wanted to direct you to a figure that isn't based on a news orginization but rather the IRS.
c om e/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/news/economy/in
I know that news orginizations like to focus on specific data to back whichever candidate they favor, but I also have read alot of economic data over the last year. I have found so much information on bad government policy under Bush that I wouldn't let the man balance my check book. Do keep in mind that this is one oppinion in a sea of many, but the many usually don't study as much about the candidates as I have.
Freedom and laws are always opposed to one another. The challenge lies in creating just enough laws and taking away just enough freedom to keep citizens from encroaching on the freedoms of other citizens. With that in mind, consider how many of The United States of America's current laws encroach on personal choices.
Stem cell research bans, drug criminalization laws, censorship and banning of media(books, movies, TV, ect.), and countless other laws restrict choices that the government's jurisdiction should not cover. Also consider the new concept of "Civil Unions" for homosexual couples and remember a policy we once had on another issue where "Seperate but Equal" was our motto.
Sadly, certain people just can't let others have the freedom to make their own choices, but we should look to the wisdom of those that have tried with all their being to fight for the ideas of true liberty.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." - Abraham Lincoln
"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten." -Seneca
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there." - Claire Booth Luce
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." - Claude Adrien Helvetius
I agree with alot of what you said, but mostly with the part about Bush Jr. scaring the hell out of us.
/. vote and really the entire tech sector. Dubya, as I have began calling him, has a great tendancy to put friends and campaign contributors into high ranking political positions ignoring their level of qualification. The appointment that should concern everyone here concerns his highest level technology advisor. This man, advising the most powerful person in the free world, has only a B.S. in Biology and ZERO years experience in tech related fields.
I personally think that based on one single appointment he has made that Bush should lose the
To give this some perspective, I want to point out that my father has his Master's Degree in Biology. I know for a fact that my father also knows alot less than I about what new sciences lie on the horizon. For that matter, I had to help him install a PCI sound card.
The point I'm trying to make is that Bush just isn't capable of doing his job correctly, and he insults all of the true professionals out there by doing favors for his underqualified friends.
Always remember that Bush has an MBA and yet has lost a net 1.5 million jobs and trillions of dollars for our country.
I hope that MS does make office for Linux.
It would be a big waste of their money and we could start a movement to make sure that instead of buying it everyone who feels they have to run Office could just WINE the Windows version.
Do you think if we try really hard we could get MS to bankrupt themselves writing code for Linux? I just want it to happen for the irony factor.
I am a resident of TN and after reading an earlier /. article and following up with a little research on this piece of legislation I took the time to write both of my state Senators. I am putting this post here and hope it gets modded just high enough to see so that I can get out a single message.
If you are in America, write your state Senators and protest this bill with an intellegent argument from the tech community.
We must remember the most important and base principles of a Senator
1. They often vote on bills they have not read or barely understand.
2. They have to listen to people in their state because if they don't they loose the next election.
3. They don't come close to understanding technology like a technician, engineer, programmer, or any of the vast army of geeks out there.
4. Knowledge is power and big words (technical terms) impress the hell out of someone in a political office, because they can take your letter and read it on the Senate floor to sound like they are informed.
If we all write in, we will start a debate. If we start a debate, we will win.
Perhaps I hang around here a bit too much, but that doesn't change the point I was trying to make.
Someone can be an expert on a deisel submarine and know everything there is to know about its operation and security. This person still can't take that submarine through mine infested waters because that is a weakness of the craft. He is skilled, but the craft has its limitations.
I used IE as an example because it has been a part of Microsoft's product line for a number of years, and it is a good example of how a limited number of programmers make mistakes that will not be found until they cause major problems. Following in this train of thought we begin to understand why MS software has a long record of being exploited by our less moral computer bretheren. Furthermore, I would wager that this event will be the 'mine field' of the network security year.
The simple point I am trying to make here is that no matter how well a technician knows the system, it is the system in the end that is responsible for security. And remember, you are defending a company who's founder has stated, "Code is not the most important thing in security."
I also don't appreciate the not so thinly veiled insults as they are founded in ignorance.
"But Garcia insisted the Democrats have the computer security situation well in hand, with the help of security specialists from Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp."
We all know how competent those Microsoft security experts are. So, how many unpatched holes are still in IE?
License for 1 processor server Linux from SCO:$699
License for desktop Linux from SCO: $199
License for embedded Linux from SCO: $35
Judgement that will make this ridiculous house of cards begin imploding: Priceless
There are some things that money can't buy.
Even Microsoft's money.
I think any time you have a chance to get a look at the other side it is well worth your time. Of course, I also have tried at least 8 different Linux distributions in the last two years and still run Slackware on my network server.
The most important thing in this particular conversation is to remember that there are limitless ways to edit a video and each piece of editing software will reveal its strengths and weaknesses as you use it. I personally think Avid is the best and encourage you to try the free version available at
http://www.avid.com/freedv/welcome.asp
Remember, however, that this free version has only a fraction of the options available in Xpress DV or Xpress Pro.
I agree with Rob on camera choice, and I think you should get the XL1-S. I tend to disagree on software though. Vegas is a good Sony product but it lacks some of the power you will probably want if you are taking work in film seriously. I would recommend Avid Xpress Pro as my editing suite of choice. I am the Director of media services at a Community College, and we have found that while the learning curve on Avid is a little bit steeper than Final Cut Pro or Vegas, the flexability of the program is unmatched.
Whatever your choice best of luck and have fun.
"Given the nationwide, on-going dispute in this area, it is reasonable to ask whether a state may ever impose a ban on the disseminations of video games to children under 18. The answer is "probably yes" if the games contain sexually explicit images, and "maybe" if the games contain violent images, such as torture or bondages, that appeal to the prurient interest to minors."
I think the worst thing about this statement is that torture and bondage get a "maybe" while any sexual image gets "probably yes".
Are breasts really more destructive to society than graphic images of torture? If so... am I a danger to society because of my inate desire to stare at/play with breasts?
What about the German guards in Medal of Honor...
aren't they technically enforcing laws?
What kind of world are we living in where we can't pretend to shoot Nazis anymore?!
Combine this with the Patriot Act and that nice new anti-terrorism computer with a terabyte of ram and it would be quite possible to assemble every picture of any individual in a file. I personally don't want the government having access to a few pictures from... we'll call them "college social events".
With this system, however, we might get to see pictures of Bush doing a beer bong and that might just be worth it...
Whatch ya'll mean ya can't understand that there southern grammar? I was always learned that we was right and the rest of the world was the one with tha problem.
I must stop now because even though I've lived in Tennessee for years just typing two sentences of that drivel makes my head hurt. Tell your buddy that as a southern citizen I am profoundly sorry. As a matter of fact I'll even grant you amnesty on the whole Celine Dion thing because of his struggles. Do, however, tell him to have a little sympathy for those of us that have to put up with such speech on a daily basis
I worked in a laboratory in a water bottling facility for a year, and I can tell you that after working there I will gladly pay the $1 or $2 for bottled water when I am away from my home filtration system. The reason I will do this is because I have run the tests myself and know that tap water has about 7 times the mineral content of spring water and about 10 times the content of drinking water. So while you are getting ripped off paying $1 for a bottle of water that the company paid about $.07 to make (including price of the platic bottle), I would say you will pay the greater long term price in the amount of sheer chlorine you consume from our trustworthy (note the sarcasm) public water sources.
While we're at it can someone come up with a way to shrink the Mozilla mascot. I just marvel at the possibilities.
My Shrink: "Delusional."
Me: "I swear, its a 5 inch tall dinosaur living in my glovebox!"
My Shrink: "Sure, Nurse please get this man a tranqil... um.... mint from the special jar."