I hope i am not making judgement calls in the JE. I just wanted to convey my state of mind.

I would have expected a high correlation between the the Conservative Dress bucket and Non-Believers bucket. Though, i guess that is more likely due to my own background.

I also wonder about that cursing thing. She was scared of me thinking i might curse her. Where did that even come from?

I live in a Detroit suburb.

I was dressed for the Sabbath already, in my suit, tie, and hat. That's was probably enough already.

In this case, it is not so much that it is of interest to the reader, but that is lends support to the argument. Or, better put, it doesn't disagree with the argument and has a peculiar form that would make sense according to the argument.

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On a completely unrelated side note, out of the multitudinous typos in the earlier drafts of this reply, i typed "ithe" in place of "with the". When i replaced the missing "w" and had "withe", i thought that was a pretty cool contraction.

Which part made you ask that? :)

So, be aware of your audience?

So, you ready to start a fork? :)

Your dismissal of my evidence is itself an example of cherry-picking. Here's another typical example of business stifling speech: http://www.whas11.com/home/12-...

"According to a 2009 study by Internet security firm Proofpoint, 8 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees have fired someone for social media actions -- a figure that is double what was reported in 2008."

Business is built upon the idea that hoarding is good. Non-disclosure agreements, trade secrets, copyrights all serve to censor the free and open transmission of knowledge. Maybe biz will finally get it, that open exchange is better for progress. But how much will I suffer meanwhile?

Capitalism and slavery are intimately connected. I wrote an essay on this subject, for the History of Capitalism MOOC: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/...

Why do wars accelerate technological innovation? Because govt funds research. Why not invest in disruptive innovation all the time? The market is too short-sighted: see http://depts.washington.edu/uw...

"Itâ(TM)s common for business people to point to the 1990sâ"specifically, to the 1995 Netscape IPOâ"as the âoebeginning of the Internet.â This claim is unsupported by fact. The Internet was âoebornâ in 1968, more than 25 years earlier. Internet pioneers, such as Bob Taylor, in interviews express frustration at how slowly business came to realize the importance of a collection of technologies that we now consider extremely valuable. Internet pioneers worked hard to prove the value of the new technologies, but business took a very long time to âoeget it.â"

Govt's greatest potential is in creating money to free individuals from having to do what "little Napoleon" bosses tell them to do. So get rid of government bureaucracies, leave the private sector alone (to fail), but provide an opt-in robust unconditional safety net. Stimulate innovation with challenges.

I'm not a people person. People make me depressed. I prefer to go out in nature and communicate with animals. I try to limit human contact to the internet.

Why should I suffer a lifestyle below the poverty line, because I don't sell? I produce things that no one wants to buy (and I just give away anyway because I hate selling), but someone who produces the same thing gets rich and rewarded, because he knows how to communicate non-verbally. That's the fickleness of the market.