For that, we'd need a fan...

Here in Texas that would count double, given the death penalty and all. I wonder if they made a "strong adjustment for psychological remediation" or even "capital punishment prevention", seems like they missed a few confounders in there.

No one is saying don't drink alcohol. They're saying don't drink alcohol to improve your health. Drink it in spite of what it may be doing to your health ;)

The audience sniffed.

luser$ grep -i "evolution" bible.txt
luser$

Told ya Jethro, ain't no such thing, cyphrin machine done proved it.

If they obey those commands, let's hold them accountable for the actions they themselves took, as with anyone who does awful things for any reason at all.

I've got no issues with this either, but two wrongs doesn't make a right. Faux News does not have the monopoly on news reporting (yet), others can provide the balance. We should all be well acquainted with the costs of victory. I definitely agree, it's underplayed. The number of purple heart license plates and the number of people I see on a regular basis missing limbs has increased dramatically in the past 10 years, but listening to the news you'd think violence over there were isolated events.

I hope that we learn from this that there are extremists everywhere, from lunatic "barbaric Muslims", to "[bloodthirsty] evangelical Christians". I also hope we look around and notice a large number of muslims and evangelical christians who are not crazy or extreme and simply want to live their lives like everyone else. Even down here in crazy right wing Texas, right on my street there are Hindu's, Muslims, Christians of all flavors, athiests, blacks, whites, and even a gay couple. We aren't killing each other, our kids aren't warring down at the elementary school.

Clearly then, what it takes to put a man in a cage, set him on fire, and burn him to death is not a property of his religion. That man is out of his mind.

I disagree, our news outlets, no matter how dubiously "newsy" they are, should not censor content for any reason. Fair warnings, room clearing statements are good taste, but this is the reality. Watching this video is as close as first hand information most of us will ever get, it's not a frame job or some conspiracy. They're not exaggerating anything, this is real life.

Perhaps Fox News intended to whip us all into a frenzy of "Obama is a weakling, he should nuke the middle east", but I doubt any such thing will happen. If anything we're going to get numb to all of this and relatively apathetic to anything that occurs over there, as long as it's harsh. That can only harm the ISIS cause, and enable our leadership to find the best solution, not necessarily the most spectacular one.

I'd like to change the argument to "Why throw down such a specious but otherwise ridiculous gauntlet OTHER than to cause flame wars". Nothing is to be gained here, no value is added.

I wouldn't get too excited. He's basically doing something that is going to involve years of fighting, during which nothing is going to happen. Politically it looks better for Obama, economically the telecoms don't want to upgrade or change things anyway, and maybe in a few years we forget that we want faster broadband (right).

Good news! He's probably available for hire now, if you have an opening!

Right, but if you are the top 10% performance rating and you see layoffs, you start looking. Regardless of how much profit they are making, you see that they are going to grow their profit by downsizing and that says a lot right there to someone with a long career ahead of them: 1) it may one day be you, 2) They're probably going to "core competancy" themselves into stagnation, your skills will degrade and you will get bored, 3) If you were upwardly mobile, your chances of promotion are going to shrink, 4) New projects, new development, etc. are all going to be shelved in place of band-aids for what exists, not good for you personally, 5) They'll use this as an excuse to reduce bonuses and give fewer RSUs/stock options, you probably can get a better deal elsewhere.

In a nutshell there's never a good reason to stay around a company that is laying off like this. The only reason is comfort.

Cynicism and cutthroat business practices are frequently synonyms.

I'm not sure that we wouldn't be better off without the internet content that is ad supported, particularly the ads I want blocked which play sound without my permission, use javascript for anything at all, pop over content or are otherwise intrusive and annoying.

The internet used to be both functional and informational before ads, and legitimate businesses will still be able to peddle their wares.