Your trollfu is weak.

If I had points... +1, Insightful. Thank you for so eloquently making a very good point.

You are correct in that the author was using his post to insert abortion into the conversation in a sneaky way. But, I think you should re-read his post. It seems apparent to me that he is actually a pro-choice supporter.

I also sometimes focus too much on the spelling and grammar of a post. You are correct to point out the spelling error but it does not invalidate the point the author is making. Please Jellomizer, continue.

I was a civil engineer with a background in practical Engineering. In other words, I studied construction principles in unimproved areas and I also learned how to operate heavy equipment.

I lived in Germany for three years from 1985 to 1988. I lived in Honduras for 6 months and on an island off the coast of Sai Pan for 8 months and I lived in two different countries in Africa. I've lived in California, Illinois, Florida, Arizona, Washington, Alaska and Texas. And when I say I lived there, I mean I owned or rented property there, I registered to drive where that was possible. I immersed myself in the economy. I've also spent considerable time in a number of other European, Asian and Middle Eastern locations but only as a short term visitor. And I call bullshit on your claim that the infrastructure here in America is not as good as what you would find in the countryside of Romania. If there are structures here that still have lead water pipes, it is an aberration, not the norm. You sir are full of shit.

We can't convert our enterprise from Windows because we still have some critical in-house and off the shelf apps that are windows only. But in the meantime, we still need to procure or develop new apps and services to meet changing market demands and requirements. But, we are not going to buy or develop those solutions for non-windows platforms because we don't have the backend support systems to service a complex multi-platform environment. So, we have to get windows based solutions for now. In a couple years, those new windows based solutions that started out as stop-gap measures have now become critical and we can't stop using them. Rinse and repeat.

Consumers fleeing the Microsoft boat, sure might happen.
Corporations fleeing the Microsoft boat, not nearly as likely.

Or, The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to appear foolish in retrospect.

Not a gun nut here. In fact, I don't own any guns at all. But it appears that if your contention is that we are struggling with the meaning of "well regulated" you appear to be having some difficulty processing "shall not be infringed".

Oh, snap! I see what you did there. You compared one person wanting to imprison another person with one person murdering 3 people and injuring 170+- more. Clearly your perspective is the proper one.

There are two different types of bankruptcy that most private debtors go through. Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code allows for most debts to be discharged but typically it is more difficult to qualify for that type of proceeding. Chapter 13 allows for restructured debt and in recent years, federal regulations make this the most common form allowed by bankruptcy courts.

Perhaps your friends both qualified for Chapter 7.

I'm one of those folks. Every year when I do my taxes, I take advantage of every loophole afforded me. Do you want me to lose my mortgage interest deduction? Ok, take that away and instead of cutting a check to the Treasury dept for $400, I make it out for $1750. Wow, $1350 is one month's mortgage payment. So yeah, I like my loophole. But hell yeah, when I need to drive my truck to work, I also take advantage of the road that my taxes helped pave. But having said all that, I don't get pissed off at the rich guy that ONLY payed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes last year. You chicken shit assholes that think the rich should have to pay more need to shut your gap. Give me the option of not having to pay for your girlfriends abortion or the sex change for the convicted murderer. Give me the ability to "avoid" paying for research that involves putting shrimp on a treadmill. Give all of us the opportunity to say no to paying for a bunch of silly nonsense and guess what, you won't need as damn much money in the Govt coffers.

And no, before the hyperbole gets rank, I'm not proposing to stop supporting the needy. I give to charity because it affords a tax loophole, but I don't claim all of my charitable giving either. I'm not a monster that wants to see homeless folks dead on the street but I don't like being held responsible because some of you takers can't exercise some self-restraint.

Yep, these super wealthy punks only pay a few hundred thousand a year in taxes. When what they should be paying is a few hundred million. I mean, sheesh, that prick Romney only had to pay 15% on his capital gains and interest income. That only amounted to some bullshit amount of, what, $13million in taxes. One super wealthy dude only had to pay $13 million for the whole year. What kind of BS is that?

NOAA researchers discovered to be former DOJ Prosecutors. Why do we continue to pay for this. Let the sequester happen.

I would ordinarily tend to agree with you but I rather suspect that AI software does already exist. And yes, we humans that game tend to be able to out think the silly AI in our FPS games so it would appear we will maintain an advantage. What tends to be forgotten is the fact that gaming developers tune the AI to be just challenging enough to keep us engaged without it being so overwhelming that we just give up and go play some other game. What if the developers of real-time combat AI do not have that constraint?

At the risk of sounding like Capt Obvious, now would be a good time to change all you account passwords to something much more complex and ensure that none of your accounts share a common password or password theme. Also, if someone is making a run at your online identity, the possibility exists your info has been sold to group/s that will add you to the script for credit and bank attacks. Good to include those accounts (if any) in your password updates. Good luck with this. I recently went through a round or two of something similar and it just plain sucks.