Unfortunately, the ACLU takes the incomprehensible position that somehow the Bill of Rights has an amendment to protect the government's right to keep and bear arms while ALL the rest are for individuals. Bizarre.

I've traveled to Europe and Asia and never told my bank anything and the cards worked fine. I live in MN and have done a ton of business with Home Depot near the Canadian border. One day I got a call from fraud alert the moment my card was being used at a Home Depot in Canada. I know, different country and all, but still, I'm in awe at the fraud detection algorithms.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the time I had to work in a field office to repair files that were constantly being corrupted. No one could figure out the problem until we looked on the other side of the office wall. Right behind the sheetrock wall sub-station sized transformers were being tested. The guys in the shop would run these babies up to leak voltage and then shut them off. We put a recorder on the outlet the computer used and would record huge drops when they powered up the transformer and then 5000v+ surges when they cut it off. Save your work frequently was the name of the game.

Many years ago, another programmer and I were put on a super priority project. The company didn't have any office space so we were put into an empty warehouse nearby that had some tables moved in. We didn't have a phone, but the company gave us a CB walkie talkie. The CEO's secretary had the other one in case we needed anything. When we needed a break, we'd race RC cars around the place.

The purpose of modern government is to protect us from liberty.

Thank goodness Cisco has a champion of truth to appeal to.

He'll, you know, speak truth to power! He'll battle the NSA on our behalf!

He'll, he'll uh... Oh, never mind.

Sure, if you have access to unlimited funds you can use valves. I have to make do with Mercury filled pipes!

And MS has a very good charitable pricing structure. I worked for a non-profit for 10 years and SQL Server, et al, was super cheap to license. Just a thought.

That is actually the end game though. Sure you can have a gun, but the government can shut it off, you know, for the children.

Don't equate fat with carb junk food. Fats, except for hydrogenated franken-fats, are really good-for-you food. We really don't need a lot of protein, but we need a lot of fat. Fat without sugar.

The fact is that you burn what you east. Want to burn fat? Eat fat. Want to burn sugar (and store fat)? Eat sugar.

A healthy diet really ain't all that complicated.

1. What did you make?

2. Send it in.

Have you actually read an Economist? I've had a subscription for years.

>>They don't support a reasonable basic income

WTF does that mean?!? You think the magic sky fairy should provide an income to everyone? Really? Earth to AC. If you took ALL the theoretical wealth from the evil 1% or whoever you hate, it wouldn't make up a single years budget deficit in the US. Then all that's gone. Then what?

The best would be for everyone to have to write a check to Uncle Sam monthly, determined from their W-2, and settle up at the end of the year.

There would be a revolution in about 3 or 4 months if the "bill" was accurately detailed with the whole SS amount, not just the employee contribution, etc.

I agree completely. if we, meaning a large enough group, held the bastards truly accountable they'd make this a free country again. They'd hate to lose the degree of control they have, but to stay in power they'd do it.

However, "we" aren't some monolithic group. We will disagree on many things. That's why it takes a lot of work from the "people" to get a government that more or less works as the "people" want.

Outside. At night. Awake.