Yes, but that was *during* prohibition and the only slip of bad luck Al had. Was he the only one making tons of money from illegal alcohol sales and distribution? Did the rest of the alcohol lords and ladies get busted by the IRS or even an Untouchable who was truly untouchable that could get a conviction, or did they simply lose their huge profit margins and power once prohibition was lifted?

Are you saying that a truly free market can only exists when it is an unregulated market?

Ah, that's right. I had him confused with being impeached by the court of public opinion over that Lewinski thing.... Totally different than being responsible for the economy tanking.

Clinton was president in mid-2000?

My father-in-law is a retired Air Force Major, who now is a private contractor for the Air Force. Even tho he's civilian, in essence and in fact, he still uses two computers (tho they're both on the same machine). Everything is fine unless he forgets to switch to his "dot com" email before sending something to me or Mom. Once got an email where I found the DoD certificate his "dot mil" email uses, tho I doubt I could hack into the DoD merely because he forgot to switch or uses one machine to run two partitioned systems.

Maybe. I could test it, but I'm not that type. Really.

Ancient Greece had some incidents where dolphins and whales were found stranded on the shore. Ancient Greece did not have sonar. Therefore, sonar today does not strand dolphins and whales on todays shore, it's something else.

Is that what you're claiming is a logical conclusion?

When I was in college I broke my collar bone and wound up destitute living in a place where I wouldn't get kicked out right away for not paying the rent; consequently, with no money I also couldn't buy food. There was a peach tree down the street, and I had forged my last check to buy a big bag of popcorn kernels and a big box of Lipton tea bags.

Sufficed to say, after three weeks of that steady diet, my perceptions of the world and my sleep habits changed dramatically - in retrospect; at the time it was kinda cool to wander the streets at 4 am where everything looked like I was in a fishbowl.

Something about the way caffeine in tea versus coffee is metabolized.... Dunno. I didn't have severe withdrawals nor am I now over-sensitive to or over-consume caffeine in any form. But it was quite a ride!

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

Silly Americans, naming their toilet after one of Jupiter's moons.

Squid? Seriously? I got a completely different take on my read of the original graphic novel, in all ways; such as the "short" sex scene was really drawn out (no pun intended) when taken *in context* - not merely in how quickly I read thru it and looked at the pictures.

I mean, the rape scene in Deliverance was *purposely* made to last longer than was comfortable for viewers. I'm hoping that the directors decisions have a similar effect in the Watchmen, regardless of whether it's about sex or violence

Hmmm... I live in the "Bay Area" and we have lots of hunters and NRA types living here and we're all quite agreeable to both the "hippie" and the "gun-nut" types here. Downright friendly, in fact.

Not as friendly as "Central Valley" or "Sierra Mountain" people if they don't live in Sacramento, but certainly much friendlier than "Inland Empire" or "LA" people who can't tell the difference between a "surfer" hunting seals and "ganstahs" pretending to be Elmer Fudd.

I'm not saying that this part of the Bay Area is more or less enlightened than other parts. I'm saying that this Republic is very tall and very wide. Please don't stereotype such a large demographic.