Yet another "Ready, Fire, Aim" sally from the blind, deaf and dumb contingent. Please DO go on, it's absolutely fascinating. :)

You might start with your definition of a "libshit"; is that a left winger? A libertarian? A librarian? What?

Also, I was dreadfully sorry to learn that your sense of humor was shot off in the war.

My nearly-an-SUV 3/4 ton pickup (Avalanche) neatly converts into nearly a full pickup if I want it to. The back of the passenger compartment comes out, the rear seat area becomes part of the bed, and as a bonus, you can pop out the glass, open all the windows and the moon roof, and you're nearly sorta in a jeep. Kinda. If Jeeps had pickup beds. :)

Reminds me of recent fighter designs. Not really great at any one thing, but pretty good at most. As long as I don't have to take it into a furball, I guess I'm ok.

Primordial subatomic particle soup?

Why, we used to virtually sit by an imaginary pond, hypothesizing that probabilistically speaking, we could, at some point, be observing the potential ducks quarking. Then we just like "flock it", and someone decided to bang (big) and that was the beginning of the end of that. I'd expand upon this, but I'm too hubble to indulge. I red that, it must be so. It's enough to stretch your brane.

Grass? We didn't have any grass. We just cowered in and among the anthills, interminably scratching our ant bites, waiting for the next Monolith to drop from the sky so we might learn how to utilize the bones of our fellows...

The future is now.

Well, if you have a Mac you'll use and like Helvetica.

Or, you'll stick with buggy-ass 10.6/Mountain Lion if your machine is one of those left unsupported by Apple in its most recent "fuck you" to its customers, or, you simply still require that your PPC apps work.

Or, if you can run it, you'll stick with 10.9/Mavericks. And benefit from (finally) a decently stable OS that hasn't yet been hit with the flat stick, uses the nicer fonts, and generally try to hang on for a while until hopefully, Apple gets rid of that blind, tasteless cluetard Ives, followed by a return to design principles that don't make their products look like a generic pack of cigarettes.

I mean seriously -- have you folks yet *looked* at Yosemite? Minimalism taken beyond ugly, well into "what the hell" ("buttons" that are nothing but text... who was the dimwit that thought that was an "advance", I wonder? Browser with no title-bar, information-poor pseudo URLs... it'd be funny if it weren't so sad. These functional downgrades were *not* done with usability in mind. For anyone. This isn't design. This is flailing at random change with no one around who can tell you "dude, that's... stupid" to your face.) I'm half surprised they didn't take the ability to nest folders away. But hey! Maybe next time, eh?

We can unequivocally, repeatedly, and successfully demonstrate evolution in software as well. It's a done deal. Period. No doubt whatsoever that evolution is a real process, and works just as advertised.

Anyone who denies the process works is either mired in denial or ignorance, no exceptions whatsoever.

As for how it applies to reproduction and the changes that occur from generation to generation ("Evolution"), once you actually know how evolution the process works, it is a lot harder to explain why it would not apply to such biological/temporal sequencing, than it is to explain how it does.

Add that to the fact that we have no other competing theory with anywhere near the repeated validation of the process for how things managed to get as they are, and it's clear that it is definitely time to apply a reasonable level of confidence to Evolution, cap E.

The (very) sad thing is how deeply a lack of basic scientific understanding pervades the citizens. Not so they could do science, just so they could learn science is a tool that actually works to directly advance our understanding of the reality around us, unlike superstition and myth, which only serve to obfuscate and delay understanding.

Our K-12 schools are terrible.

No, constructing something impossible, like a perpetual motion machine, is impossible. Science quite often says "definitely" or "definitely not".

Constructing something highly unlikely but not provably impossible, like cold fusion, is highly unlikely, especially if you're doing stuff by accident instead of actually understanding theory, but what science says about cold fusion is "everybody assumed it wasn't possible, but somebody did it, and then we showed that what they did was bogus but interesting, so we're back to assuming it's probably not possible so you'd better do a really good job of explaining what you're doing if you want us to spend our time looking at it again."

I'm not failing to say anything.

First of all, the only reasons an employer healthcare plan gets cancelled WRT anything to do with the ACA, is 1, they don't meet the minimum standards (which means the plan sucked and its former members need to get themselves onto a plan that doesn't) or that 2, your employer decided to cancel it, in which case, your beef is with your employer. There no even moderately adequate plan, anywhere, that the ACA caused to stop working or otherwise interfered with.

Health care does the best for the most when it is available to all people who are sick and/or injured. Not just for people who make money. If you want diseased people walking the streets without treatment, you're clueless. If you think ER treatment is sufficient to deal with that, you're clueless. If you think ER care is cheaper than proper prophylactic care, you're clueless. If you think forcing sick people to come to work is good for the most important things -- the economy, the other workers, the individual -- you're clueless. If you think people suffering in pain and without adequate treatment is ok if they're not working, you're not only clueless, you're an ass. If you think the government making sure that no one (ok, fewer people... but it's a start) goes without health care is a *bad* idea, then you have failed to rub enough brain cells together to create the required spark of intelligence you need to properly evaluate these issues. So you probably want to rethink this, preferably this time with the facts at hand instead of drooling right wing agitprop.

Now, what has your lack of a job got to do with the ACA, other than the fact that you have more options for healthcare, assuming your state isn't one where the right wingers have destroyed the bottom rung of the ACA by rejecting the medicare expansion?

Yes, the tree of liberty has some very severe problems right now, but the ACA isn't one of them.

This was the negotiations that led up to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Santa Ana really didn't want to be stuck with the not-really-conquered tribes if he was going to lose the good land north of them.

Oh, right, I never owned a 90s car :-) My wife's 1985 car lasted until 2001, my 1987 van lasted until 2012 (with one engine replacement), and I never played with the digital busses on either my 2012 car or my wife's 2001 car (which IIRC only had the dumber version of OBD, not the current CAN bus.) I suppose I should try that some time. Both of those cars have the electronic speedometer with analog readout you refer to.