No, history IS chiseled in stone. The STORY of history is not. Revisionism does not change the past, and the flag is one that symbolizes racism and slavery (as good things, no less).

In THIS day and age, there are STILL numerous people in those states who would love to see segregation re-instituted and/or interracial marriage banned again. The flag is a "celebration" of beliefs that never should have been, and (since sadly those beliefs happened) should have died ages ago.

Actually, Lincoln was a massive abolitionist, but knew he could not win the election, nor his moves against slavery by outright stating that. His own writings throughout show that. His ambiguous or contrary statements in the mid to late 1850's were because he was attacked earlier as an abolitionist. He knew what he was doing and saying - just like the deist separationist Jefferson who changed the demanded "endowed by the god of christianity" lines for the Declaration of Independence to the ambiguous "by *their* *creator* with certain unalienable rights".

"Enemy Oppressor" - enemy, heck yes, for fighting a war to not just retain slaves but to expand aspects of slavery back into the north. Oppressor - hell yes, as those who own slaves are definitely oppressors.

Oh, they can still buy it - retailers simply aren't helping them do so. And in "those states", I guarantee you there are TONS of regional retailers that will continue to sell them - probably in massive numbers now.

So, don't worry - such people will have even more such flags that the rest of us can use to identify them.

LOL, you're funny - no, they fought to retain slavery via whatever means necessary, including seceding. While YOU might support racism and slavery, this is not the 1800's, and most of the rest of us aren't such hateful bigots. Too bad. For you. Don't even have the guts to show your racism with your name attached, huh? Loser.

Does that apply to your Ubuntu/Mint/Caldera....(add your fav distro here) as well? How can you be sure that the binaries you are using are compiled from the source they are distributing? Or do you compile your distro youself after reviwing every line of code? useful idiot!

I don't think it survives in the environment, and it doesn't seem to have any animal hosts. There are places in the world where it's endemic and somewhat common, and it can live in the pharynx of vaccinated or asymptomatic humans. So it probably comes into a country from an immigrant or traveler with some frequency, it just doesn't spread because of vaccination.

Then there's this kid.

Have you actually seen the movie? I was thinking, from the trailers, that it would be a dumb movie. But the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes scores are about as high as I've seen for a movie, particularly such a big budget action movie. I'm open the possibility that it's good.

Admission to Harvard isn't a prize or reward for having good test scores and a high GPA.

There's inherent value - both to the institution itself and to the educational community - in an institution of higher education having a student body that is highly diverse in many dimensions. Those dimensions include things like ethnicity, economic background, activism, political beliefs, religion, etc. Harvard has so many incredibly well-qualified applicants that it can afford to curate its student body as it sees fit.

Medical schools are well-known for this. Underrepresented minorities tend to get accepted with significantly lower stats than whites or overrepresented minorities such as east Asians. There are good reasons for this. One, it's rather easy to do since only about 45% of people who apply to medical school get in. The schools are flooded with exceptionally well-qualified students who simply don't get in anywhere. Two, since the population of physicians is so tightly controlled, it takes this kind of coordinated, deliberate action to make sure the national pool of physicians is properly diverse (which it isn't).

Removing race and ethnicity indicators from the applications may help make admissions more race-blind, yes. My point is that isn't necessarily a good thing. Neither Harvard nor our nation are well-served by making the campus more homogeneous.

The rep literally and directly told him that his Netflix video would be improved by going from the 50 to 75 Mbps tier.

There will be a market for vehicles with tunable performance characteristics. It may be a small market but it will exist, even if it's limited to track-only vehicles like Atoms. And, frankly, if you're modding your vehicle for performance to the point where you need to tweak valve timing yourself, you should be using that car on a track anyway.

Came here to say this. This has nothing to do with replacing your spark plugs or ball joints. This is about modding your ECU. That said, I think that if a manufacturer ships an ECU that can be modded to such a degree that it causes the brakes to fail, the manufacturer bears a lot of that fault. However, in general, cars aren't cell phones or PCs. It's no big deal if you load up Cyanogenmod and your phone crashes. It's a pretty big deal if you flash your ECU and you lose traction through a turn thanks to some modified vehicle dynamics and kill someone.

CO2 is the primary driver of respiration. Breathing high levels of CO2 makes you feel like you're asphyxiating, just like when you're holding your breath. It's painful and miserable.