I have to agree that the genius was never in. Evaluating Out's SIG reveals a tragically flawed syllogism.

The opposite of "ignorance" is "knowledge" (or its equivalent). After all, a genius can be ignorant of many things and still be counted a genius in his or her fields of expertise. Similarly, "madness" and "bliss" are much closer to synonyms than antonyms.

Liddy was less a patriot than he was a macho cowboy spook. In fact CREEP pretty well describes who he was (and remains), as well as who Nixon and his inner circle were. Creeps.

You mean 'rogue' don't you? I think red cars are no more evil than black ones.

Actually, I've been depositing checks this way to my bank, USAA, for years.

Though I'm not sure other institutions have been following what used to be the PRIMARY rule in banking: "Know Your Customer," USAA requires an existing trust relationship with the customer. Otherwise, the potential for fraud becomes too great to support the method.

Actually, x, you're the dumb ass. Yes, the Republican party of the mid-1800s worked to end slavery. But the political philosophy espoused by those enlightened souls morphed into the Democratic party of TODAY. If you want proof, consider that Strom Thurmond, Jessi Helms and the other 'Dixiecrats' switched parties in their fight against integration in the 1960s and 70s. Their bigotry still informs the Repugs. Dumb ass.

I think you'll find most people are using DVRs to keep from being tethered to the TV, watching whatever is on at any given time. It doesn't mean that there is something especially 'important' about TV. But interesting? Perhaps. (Since it's so easy to do, I'll record it and find out.) So your humble opinion notwithstanding, there is nothing 'flimsy' about the TiVo premise.

Sports and other live events, feature films, certain series programming -- all fit nicely into my HD-DVR (free from DirecTV) -- allowing me to view what interests me, on a schedule that suits me. It's not exactly a time machine, but it allows me to control my TV, instead of the other way around. A very robust use for recording technology, in my opinion.

Thank you, sir! Avatar has been taking a lot of heat, much of it undeserved. However, as cogent as your analysis is, it probably won't sway the thinking of the person who wrote the parent to this thread. He/she actually thought Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick deserved plaudits as scientifically accurate, socially aware SciFi. Woof.

People are afraid of YOUR GOD! More specifically, the tendency of religious fanatics to declare their god "One and True," and defame all the others.

By your proposal, schools would have to give all competing theories equal weight, no matter how foolish or unsubstantiated they might be. Problem is, for hundreds of years, evolution (the theory itself, as well as the slow advance of human thought) has been slowly beating back the darkness of faith-based ignorance. What person in their right mind would want to relinquish our small, but hard-won, progress?

Say what you will about Mac v. Windows, but I have seen the evidence for myself.

I often had occasion to visit the Redmond campus when I was doing interface designs for CitibankOnline, and we were co-branding a Bill Payment service with MS. PCs of all brands were everywhere in abundance -- except for one location -- the Design Graphics Lab (or whatever it was called). Twenty seats for the "creative types" and thirty or more workstations, all but two were Macs. One of the two PCs blue-screened while I was there. Chuckling a bit, the lab director admitted, "now you know why we use Apple."

Your comment makes little or no sense. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but once it has been built, a house may, over its entire lifetime, benefit only one, single family. More if it is sold, rented, etc. Books, music and other artworks are designed to benefit a much larger population. That not only creates, but demands, the built-in social inequality you are complaining about.

Sorry, Wonko, a President is constrained by the laws of the land. He absolutely needs cooperation, from many individuals and organizations, to arrest, charge and incarcerate anyone. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantee it. Despite what Bush/Cheney may have thought, the POTUS is not a fucking KING!

I do agree that some fault does lie with the Democrats for not driving their agenda more forcefully. But I still think you're talking out your ass about the rest of it. Sorry, it's my opinion. Nice talking with you though.

If you're going to measure Obama's performance by adherence to campaign speeches, of course you're going to be disappointed. Sad as I am to say so, I, too, am disappointed in Obama (healthcare, Gitmo, Don't Ask/Don't Tell, etc.).

But the real problem is expecting him to change things by himself. Speeches are given to rally the electorate. Governing requires honest cooperation of BOTH parties. And, to date, I think you'd have to agree that the GOP has only been obstructionist. They are seeing to it that nothing gets done. That way, they can say the Dems did nothing.

A useful idiot is better than a useless one.

So, I guess you haven't noticed the OTHER THINGS that are going on? Oh, I don't know . . . maybe the ECONOMY, for one: While we were being robbed by Wall Street, et al, the robbery was actually deliberately ignored (or even deliberately abetted) by Bush/Cheney and their cronies. They knew they were bankrupting us, and they kept at it, because they knew they would profit from the chaos they caused . . . and that the Dems wouldn't be able to do anything progressive, because they would be busy trying to fix the Bush/Cheney mess.

Of course, what's saddest of all, some -- the useless idiots -- will swallow the 2012 GOP campaign slogan: "Four years is enough."

Great idea. We could phrase it along the lines of "formulating the Grafenburg Uncertainty Principle."

Breeding microbes to solve this problem only gives rise to others. For example, it's likely that the effort to breed them in a sufficiently controlled manner would require in vitro cultivation. Unfortunately, our symbiotic bacteria are almost certain to develop quite differently when raised outside of their accustomed environment. (After all, they're symbionts.) Thus, to breed them successfully, one would be forced to do it in vivo -- likely by using humans as microbe farms. Now, I don't know about you, but I see potential ethical problems in that strategy.