He actually just reads the binary data dumped from a modem connected to the serial port on the thing. He wrote a driver for it in basic.

I can tell when a person is baiting me, being facetious, or otherwise playing me more readily when they're in the same room with me.

It helps that a drunk woman will actually talk to you if you try to make conversation, instead of staring at you like you're a moron or a rapist.

Let's not forget aboutthese guys!

Seriously though, every group out there has members that are fascist. For example, the "liberal" folks in the US congress believe that they have the right to force me to donate my money to foreign countries. They enforce that so-called right with the threat of the FBI, police, and military.

Can I get a citation for your assertion that geniuses are unable to work cooperatively with other people? I find that hard to believe.

So what you're saying is that men are brutish, ugly creatures who prefer to punch each other rather than discuss disputes rationally. Well, I guess the majority of scientific consensus reached prior to the sexual revolution in the 60s was pretty bloody what with all the fistfights and gunshot wounds.

Nevermind the fact that both sexes have the tendancy to resolve disputes through violence, let's perpetuate the stereotype of woman as a "meek, caring little creature" and man as a "strong, willful monster."

Don't demean yourself by reaffirming his assertion that we are animals. You can't both be an animal and not be an animal at the same time, and there are clearly traits which seperate us from them.

I like this post because it shows a rational evaluation of Mankind's ability to think, and doesn't just spew the same diatribe that every priest and monk does about how corrupt and evil mankind is.

Well, Coal hasn't yet destroyed a whole city with a single bomb. That, and the public's wild imagination, are largely what causes the fear of nuclear power.

I'd say that the backward attitude and resistance to education exists because people have always seen high school as teaching students academic skills. The reason rote memorization exists in mathematics education is because students need to learn the methods of algebraic manipulation in order to study any science or engineering. Rote memorization is neccessary. What we need to do isn't remove it, but add tasks which include using the rote to make judgements based on quantities.

Actually, Unemployment is a tax on the employee.

Are you implying that the existence of millions of more people on the planet does not also require that some of them be employed keeping themselves fed, clothed, housed, driven, etc?

The trouble with the "creating jobs" idea is that frequently government takes money away from other people who would have paid someone to do something, and distributes it through a long chain of tax collectors and bureaucrats who all get their cut. So essentially by relying on government to "create jobs" for hundreds of thousands, you may be inadvertently denying jobs to millions of people.

Essentially, would you rather take $1000 out of your taxes to spend on repairs to your house or car, or would you rather $250 be spent on $750 of that money going to repair someone else's house or car?

To hell with the electric car, we need an affordable electric truck that can tow a class III trailer, has an 8-foot bed, and a 120-150 mile range.

But if Texas were gone, where would our beef cattle come from?

Is it really neccessary to patronize people with a "google it noob" link in response to a joking question with no link request?