Congratulations on entirely missing the point. Kudos though for being able to talk over that whooshing noise. I'm amazed you can hear anything at all.

My entire point is that "BUT THE OTHER GUY" IS NOT A VALID RESPONSE to criticism of a douche-in-chief--NO MATTER WHICH DOUCHE WE'RE DISCUSSING. It doesn't matter what the last or the next or the second to last or the guy two hundred years ago did--the current guy is still a criminal.

Somehow you managed to take that as me cheering for "my team". Bravo. It takes serious talent to miss the mark that badly. The only team I'm on is the one that's left the country because the country I believed in never existed.

(Yes /., CAPS are like yelling. That's because I am YELLING.)

They didn't can him. He resigned because the people under him weren't willing to work for someone whose judgement they did not respect.

Moreover, saying Prop 8

really depends on how you define "his community." If you define it only as "All people who answered Y/N on the 2008 California Ballot," then yes by a narrow majority that is true. If you define it as "The people who live and work in Mountain View California," then no. His community was against it (see county by county results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., Mountain View is in Santa Clara County). If you further restrict his community to "Employees and Major Stockholders of the Mozilla Corporation" then they were obviously strongly against it.

I think we need an addendum to Godwin's law: Anyone who responds to criticism of a sitting US president by raising the ghost of a prior one automatically loses the argument.

No, it doesn't. It means they do not operate with profit-seeking as a goal and all left over revenue will be employed in providing services at some point. In any given year there will very likely (in fact, MUST) be money left over (cash reserves).

A curious choice of phrase for something that happened nearly 150 years ago. I mean, yeah, this problem didn't exist before that, but it's a silly point of comparison.

No. No it's not. David Bowie won't sing at your birthday party either because, no, not everything is possible.

No matter how good your resolution that's not gonna happen from a vertical angle.

Trollin, trollin, trollin
Keep those doggies trollin
Rawhide!

It doesn't seem to exist. Summary has no link, and the linked articles have no list (including the actual arXiv pre-print).

You know that none of that has anything to do with Mad Cow disease, yes?

Because they're American. They don't pay their cards off. Gotta keep the great wheels of consumerism turning.

I'm pretty sure this article is about American credit card companies who (mostly) only give cards to Americans so ... it's a problem.

Welcome to the world of white collar crime. Yes, that is normal.

I know the Scottish accent might sound foreign, but they are still speaking English there.

You confuse something that benefits with something done FOR your benefit. I know, it's hard when you're AC with barely two neurons to smack together, but there is a big difference.

Those things are ALL done for their benefit. Any benefit to you is incidental.