Actually - I like olive oil quite well. But, it seems to me that olive oil has it's uses, and animal fats have their uses. Those uses overlap a lot, but for something like my fried potatoes, I much prefer the lard or bacon fat. Olive oil is most better tasting and better for you than common "vegetable oils" found on the grocer's shelves.

I could give up my toast, but then what would I slather my butter onto? I gotta have my fix of lightly salted butter! I prefer it on what they call "whole wheat" toast, but any kind of bread will work for me. How 'bout sourdough? Bagels? I'm not real picky, help me out a little.

Oh, FFS. Who died and left you God? Or, are you planning on taking all that "saved" money with you when you die?

I'm a minor fan of lard, myself. I always feel guilty about using lard, because we've been so thoroughly brainwashed against it. But, lard makes things TASTE GOOD!

Everyone should perform an easy experiment. One morning, fry up some nice shoestring potatoes, or homefries using some bland vegetable oil. The next morning, cook several slices of bacon, and fry those taters in the bacon fat. Lord, there's no comparison - I'll take the taters floating in bacon fat every time!

Now, rendered lard doesn't have the rich flavor of that bacon fat, but still - it makes for a better tasting product than some chemically extraced, tasteless vegetable oil.

Well - maybe he irks some of us, because he's not aggressive enough? There should be a little drama in a charismatic leader's life, shouldn't there? How 'bout an article about Linus kicking some sorry assed developer down three flights of stairs, and out the door? That would be cool. Then we could create a video game, titled "Kick the lame developer's ass". Or something like that.

Or, I could just be experimenting with my new sarcasm font . . . .

Don't drop the soap?

"It's not like he has to produce a new build or approve a new patch every 47 seconds to keep the world from exploding."

BLASPHEMY!!! You can expect the inquisitors to arrive shortly.

There are six basic styles of leadership. As you point out, coerciveness can be effective, for some people. Personally - I'd rather lose my job than to work for a coercive person. A Steve Jobs could offer me more money in a year than I've made in my entire life, and I'd turn his ass down because I can't work like that.

Torvalds doesn't strike me as a coercive leader. He seems more like an authoritarian. His authoritarianism is mixed in with a little pacesetting, but he's basically authoritarian.

People commonly dislike both authoritarians and coercive leaders, so they confuse the two. After a course in leadership, you understand that the two types of assholes are very distinct from each other.

And, yeah, I'm an asshole too. I'm an authoritarian, tempered with a coaching approach.

Gun control is gun control. Some of what you state is true, while some of it is just so much spin.

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

"In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group."

So, yes, the Weimar Republic did indeed pass the laws which made it possible for criminals to threaten and intimidate law abiding citizens.

"In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. "

Hitler's party took full advantage of not only a generally disarmed citizenry, but he also took full advantage of the database to identify his potential opponents.

The Republic committed the initial evil, and Hitler simply built upon that evil. The end result being, gun control is demonstrably WRONG!

Actually - yes I am. I watch people avoiding the police. I watch people saying "Yes sir" and "No sir" to the police. I watch people groveling in front of the police.

I address police in one way, and one way only. I address them as equals. I am a free man. Cop says "Stop!" I say, "What for?"

Delusional, you say? The numbers support my view. The cops don't come out into the rural parts of the country, and throw concussion grenades into cribs, killing little babies. They only do that in the cities, where hoplophobes have passed laws prohibiting peole from having weapons of their own. Tamir Rice wasn't executed in rural Kentucky, or Arkansas, or Texas. He was executed in a liberal stronghold, Cleveland, Ohio.

Delusional. Liberal gun control policies are most definitely a failure in the United States of America. Do a Google search for US cities with the highest crime and highest murder rates. All of them have very strict gun control laws.

Russia had gun control when Stalin was busy killing off - what? 20 million people?

China had gun control while it experienced it's revolution, also while it suffered the Japanese occupation, and during the time the Communists were killing off yet more millions.

Hitler enjoyed the benefit of gun control laws.

Pol Pot didn't have to worry about an armed citizenry.

I think the numbers support the necessity of gun rights. The difference between a free man and a slave is the right to bear arms.

That seems to be changing. Have you watched 'India's Daughter' yet? No, I'm not from India, so I can't verify anything, but I do read the news.

I think this is the full movie - I have it on hard drive, but I routinely delete history, and can't remember where I downloaded it from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, the point is, you have no point. Let us consider women. There are some women - we might even say many women - who feel like their gender holds them back. At the same time, there are many women who don't see things that way. And, there are millions of women who don't WANT to work in the work force, at all. These are mainly "home makers". Obama made a mindless speech not many months ago, in which he told those home makers that he doesn't WANT them to be homemakers! These women are being pressured to enter the workforce, so that their labors can be monetized and taxed.

Gubbermint looks a community, sees that there are approximately half the population is female, and in all it's glorious presumptive arrogance, ASSumes that half the workforce should be female? WTF? And, we have large corporations buying into that thinking? YOU are buying into that thinking? Really, I have to demand, WTF?

Other segments of the population are more difficult to understand. Blacks, Latinos, rural people of any race or culture - many of them simply don't WANT to be part of a Google world, or an Apple world. You can't force them into that world at gunpoint.

People are DIFFERENT. People are INDIVIDUALS. They don't have to conform to corporate expectations, or government expectations.

It is enough that the government and corporations remove any roadblocks that might prevent a woman, or a Black, or a Latino from choosing to follow a path that ends up at Apple, Google, or a government job. You can't FORCE THEM to follow that path. Leave 'em the hell alone.

You may argue and I may argue round and round - but let me ask you. How often does an entire neighborhood in some city just depopulate, overnight? Some suspect comes to the police' attention, and everyone who has had any contact with him just disappears. Today, the FEMA camps still stand empty. We are dangerously close to becoming a full fledged police state, but if you think we are there already, then you lack understanding and imagination.

Mmmm - yeah. But then, not all nations spend a fraction of their GDP on spying. And, you know, that whole Five Eyes thing basically pits "us" against the world. You may be right - but I see the whole damned thing as immoral and unethical, not to mention that it's a violation of all sorts of treaties, understandings, and agreements.