In what way is insuring a fair and free market collectivism?

they have no prophet, only loss.

(its all there on the P&L statements....)

Species that are unable to adapt have been going extinct without mankind's help for 9/10ths of the planet's history. For the remaining 1/10th, we've been a major motivator of evolution, that's true- Dodos and wooly mammoths and the like. But we are also to the point with GMO research that we can be a major cause of increased adaptation- we can speed up evolution, and likely will, because beef is tasty (among many other species that are directly useful to us, such as bees). Speaking of that last, just saw a report on OPB about a pair of beekeepers with a unique solution to colony collapse disorder- they're breeding stronger queen bees that can live through Oregon winters.

If mankind wants to survive, food needs to be our top priority. Luckily, as I mentioned someplace above I think, food production is also an answer to excess atmospheric carbon. Especially if we keep locking our own carbon up in airtight containers buried in concrete when we die.

you guys know its a several hundred year old typo, right?

the corrected script actually says "72 YEAR OLD virgin". and you get one of them, just one.

now, if that's worth killing yourself over, hey, its your [after]life, not mine!

I can see self-driving technology, but all-electric powertrains? Other than aircraft, long-haul trucks seem to me to be the hardest things to run off batteries. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that even the future of "green" trucking is standard Diesel engines running on biodiesel or synthetic diesel, not electricity.

A microwave users much less power than a conventional oven, that's part of the point. A 1kW (electrical power) microwave should be fine for most households and you only use it for a few minutes at a time.

Wait, are you suggesting to replace an oven with a microwave? You do realize that an oven can do things microwaves can't, right?

But the political ends *is* the installment of fairnesses. (There's no morally higher pursuit.) And we're gonna hafta disagree on being able to equalize everything in life as sounding plausible.

You really can't see any difference? Then you are just being obtuse. Yes if you tried to trespass in a religious building and be offensive, there'd be a response. In particular, they'd tell you to leave and call the police. However this was not in a Mosque, no Muslims were forced to attend. This was something people were doing on their own. However the crazies felt the need to respond.

I've heard about precisely zero cases of Jews going after pig BBQs in the US. Seems they are not very concerned about what you are doing on your own. If you don't respect their religion, oh well, so it goes.

Stephen Fry put it very well:

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

You might recall that during the whole "draw Mohammad" controversy South Park took it on. While the were not allowed to show Mohammad at all, they did show people literally shitting on Jesus, the American flag, and so on. They received zero threats in relation to that, there was no action taken against them.

It's not like Christians didn't know either, it is a major syndicated TV show that is produced in the US.

No. Of course not. Religious madness will not stop as long as religion exists.

The fortunate part of suicide missions is that there is a very small percentage of repeat offenders.

Well, when all you have to convince people that they should work for you is promises of eternal bliss after death without any kind of proof, you can't really expect nobel prize material to flock to you...

I'm afraid your "history" is too recent. You seem to be referring to the feature filled but UI altering rewrites over the last 5 years. I was referring to the even older history, where Microsoft _lost_ various lawsuits about their abuse of their monopoly to enforce the use of Internet Explorer in the USA, back in 2001.

If you'd please stop cursing, you can look at the court history and the hands-on memory of admins, including me. The fraud by Microsoft about inability to remove IE was a problem. The punitive licensing for OEM's that dared to include Netscape on their systems were profound, non-technological abuses by Microsoft against Netscape. The requirement of IE to access Microsoft updates was a third.factor, partly technological, but primarily a policy decision. Netscape market share grew in spite of these illegally monopolistic practices, so they clearly used to have serious advantages, and your claims that older versions of IE were ever "not nearly as buggy" are not based on any reviews or experience I can find. It worked well with Microsoft's own web server, but both the web server and web client violated published standards at every opportunity.

The "works best in IE" coding practice is documented in software I continue to work with, 20 years after it was written, and was in place when it was first released. It was a problem for web authors who actually followed the RFC's and various coding practices.

You seem to remember the Netscape vs. IE vs. Opera wars rather differently than I do. I admit that Netscape was quite buggy until it went open source with Netscape 4, when it improved and stabilized rapidly.

I won't be getting this Tesla battery, for a number of reasons, but I'd like a home battery system. I live in a condo and I haven't have a backup generator. Nowhere I'd be allowed to put it. A battery system though, that I could have.

If I had my choice, I'd get a Generac whole house system but there are tradeoffs that you have to make when you want to live certain places.