It's short for "This is what I wanted to say"

Because then you look like a weirdo in your office. Geeks a lot of times have issues feeling awkward. This won't help.

I'm an Aikido guy (2nd Degree Black belt). It's fairly useful in a fight (depending on your teacher, I guess). Mostly for teaching you how to get around one, or making it look like all self defense. My Dad (4th Degree, owns his own club) has taught SWAT teams and Police forces, because it's pretty good for subduing attackers without a lot of blood.

Why would anyone take a petition seriously when it wants to completely dismantle a government agency?

Seriously, guys. Everyone knows the old "First they arrested..." adage. It's saying that freedoms erode slowly and you have to be careful not to let them. But for some reason, everyone forgets that the opposite is also true. If you want your freedoms back, you have to take small steps to erode corruption. Make a petition to allow drinks past the security checkpoint. That might get a decent answer.

But...yes you do benefit from those things. You get "not having poor people all over your streets begging you for money or robbing you blind". You get the added benefit of being able to take more risk in a small business, because you know you won't go hungry and cold if you lose everything.

And they are all completely useless, except for as transfer credits to a 4 year university.

Go to a local bar, you'll see. It's the day where everyone that left town after high school is back in town, but has nothing to do until later the next day.

You're talking about Computer Engineering, which is a different field than either of these.

In Melbourne, FL (small city). Was in and out in 45 minutes, and everyone was friendly. Had a bunch of City Councilmen to vote on that I hadn't read into (and some I had). No other issues, really. I'm hoping I didn't misunderstand some of the statutes I had to vote on, but read into them twice over last night and this morning.

Get this thing for a thermostat. It's kinda awesome.

iPhone is the most popular smartphone. However, iOS only runs on that phone, and Android runs on everything else.

I'm pretty sure there's new versions of it out, and it's a good start to what engineering (in pretty much any sense) is all about.

I'd like to think that most of those people have no idea who or what they're voting for. They just think either "My daddy always voted republican cuz he was a real 'merican", or "My church told me that guy is a secret muslim", or some other such nonsense. Then they just repeat whatever Limbaugh says.

I'm not saying there aren't Dem's that aren't the same way, but my experience lately has been mostly ridiculous misinformation on the republican side.

Why not use copyright a different way to achieve a goal of openness, and still bring in some cash? Have all the articles free to read. Charge money to cite the articles in other academic papers. You'd have to invest in lawyers to go after people that try to screw you (plagiarizing without citation), but everyone gets to read and learn, it creates a barrier to entry for crap papers that mean nothing, and you can keep it cheap enough to not have it be a huge burden on actual researchers.I'm not a copyright lawyer...I don't know that this would work, but it's a decent idea, I think.