They probably start with students because in the beginning they aren't testing the subjects, they're testing the test, trying to make sure there are no unanticipated bugs.

Those symbols on restroom doors are a fairly recent phenomena.

In the '50s and '60s they tended to have the actual words "Men" and "Women" on them (except in the Mad Magazine satire of advertising where it was "Mennen" and "Womennen"), at least here in the states (no doubt some places fancier than say, Sears, had them labeled "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" instead).

I assume that abroad they were in the local language as well.

The stick figure itself, I suspect, has been around as long as there have been humans to scratch them in the dirt with a twig or finger.

They were certainly known over a century ago when used as a plot device in one of Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories.

...or you're actually talking about controlling a team of horses, then yeah, it's supposed to be "rein".

But if you're talking about preferring to be Hell's sole and unchallenged ruler rather than serving in Heaven, then it's "reign in".

Consider the high percentage of University/College grads who go on to work for companies.

It doesn't "prove" anything that the emails were destroyed. The legal principle is that it can be assumed that there was incriminating evidence in the emails. One of the questions, though, is whether due dilligence was done to secure the emails in question. It is quite possible that the drives really did all die. Manufacturers have bad batches of drives from time to time. It's possible that a bad batch was purchased by the IRS.

I haven't been following that particular escapade. All I will say is that culpability is suspected at this point -- but not entirely proven.

Suppose that I give a group money to house homeless people so that they don't have to huddle around my air vents in the winter. Does that then make the homeless support group a commercial entity?? Charitable groups OFTEN support purposes beyond their direct purpose. That doesn't make them non-charitable... I mean how much do broadcastes make by broadcasting NCAA games?

You're splitting hairs here -- Most people give donations to charitable orginaizations because it, in some way or form, supports their goals. Rifle manufacturers give to the NRA. Drug manufacturers give to research groups at universities (I think that some of those agreements are VERY directly commercial -- especially when there are limits on how the results of the research can be used/disemminated).,,, etc. etc, etc.

Granted, it was 4 night light bulbs. But that was better than the name brand pack next to it selling for 2/$2.50.

Otherwise I get CFL bulbs for $.99.

Back when I processed computers to go to surplus I would DBAN the hard drives and install FreeDOS so that the guys at Surplus could show the customers that the computers would actually boot.

Reading your kind words is humbling, sir. You honor yourself by being one of the minority who read something like that and try to understand where it is coming from and how it could work, rather than playing the hostile audience and trying your best to tear it down because it opposes a common notion.

Rather than patronizingly talking down to me like this, try to understand where I'm coming from. I'm not talking about crimes that have victims here, like robbery and murder. Preventing those is legitimately within the purpose of having a government and a society. I'm talking about the wrong of trying to dictate lifestyles, of trying to micromanage the way others live based not on crimes but on approval. It's not terribly different from dictating to people what they may read, listen to, watch, and discuss.

American tyranny is what they call a soft tyranny. It's not so much jack-booted thugs waving guns around, demanding compliance. That's hard tyranny. Soft tyranny is when you no longer treat adult people like responsible adults because "you know what's good for them". The only way to have a healthy, long-term viable society is to expect adults to be responsible, to make their own decisions in any instance that does not involve a crime with a victim, and then (importantly) to accept the consequences of those decisions. Any effort to circumvent this will eventually destroy the very society itself.

Later on they spun off a short lived "Hawk" series from "Spenser:For Hire", but my point was he's a good enough actor that you look at Sisko and never see Hawk, and vice-versa.

"Far Beyond The Stars", where's he's 'negro' syfy writer Benny Russell is some fabulous TV.

"... I didn't get a "great actor" feel from anyone on that series."

We shall have to agree to remain in disagreement.

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