One thing about bigots: they never acknowledge their bigotry. Far from it, they bask in self-perceived righteousness. Best of all is when they can point to someone else and call them a bigot.

Of course not, unless he somehow did it in a way that connected his actions to the business. I mean, what the fuck? Your pointy robe is showing, shithead.

Sure, toss the whole rag in the works and entirely tangle up any possible discussion.

I don't think the Apollo capsule pilot flew that thing 'solo.'

When you have a large 'Mission Control' infrastructure such that there is a guy sitting at a monitor whose entire function is to monitor your oil pressure (the guy at the screen beside him monitoring oil temperature) then your ride to the market will be equivalent.

I reject, fundamentally, the idea that 'The Internet of Things' means that every device in one's home should outwardly face the Internet. There is plenty of opportunity for layering. An IP enabled refrigerator can be connected to the internet through some far more secure routing device.

Security zoning functionality and monitoring technology for security purposes needs to see far, far more development than it does at present. Perhaps there are entities and forces out there that don't want us to have security zones and have devices on our home networks actively sniffing and moderating our internal traffic, but we certainly are entitled to that and should make it happen.

That is what computer science programs should concentrate more on, not securing everything as if every single 'thing' is entitled to, or needs to, face the outside world on the public Internet.

If you mean electrons, they never die. They just do work for us when we get them excited.

McCarthy wasn't the only anti-communist. He wasn't even a very effective anti-communist. Lots of people who at the time were virulently anti-communist wanted him to sit down and shut up.

Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy, for two examples, were people who were virulently anti-communist and acted on it in significant ways.

One the one side, we have people who exercise their right to contribute money toward a political cause.

On the other side, we have people who make concerted efforts to ferret out the names of people who have contributed to said political cause, and wherever possible shame and harass them to the point of driving them out of employment.

It's practically fucking McCarthyism.

Does your username here mean you're role-playing? I can't find any other way to understand all the stuff you've been typing in this thread.

The Personal is Political. Yada yada yada.

Millions of people voted, not just Eich. Don't let your head blow up trying to come up with ways to get back at them.

Also, I would advise you not to try to claim a 'civil right equivalency' in front of a significant-sized group of ordinary* black people. That shit makes them angry, and it's part of why they voted so strongly in favor of Prop. 8.

(*non far-left)

Wrong. The feminist community invented the term 'political correctness' as an internal jibe. It was a term used by more moderate feminists to criticize (in a friendly fashion) the more strident amongst their community. The term was latched onto by the political right and it's meaning changed. If you were around the left in the early 80's you would know this stuff. Apparently you were sleeping through 'the birth of PC.'

It sounds to me like you're quite tolerant of blatant stupidity. You even harbor a certain amount of it yourself.

What does it represent? Various democracies but also a lot of monarchies and even some significant tyrannies.

Not hardly. My favorite peanut butter these days is Smuckers Natural Chunky. It has salt in it, but otherwise just peanuts. And Smuckers is most definitely not an 'indy' peanut butter producer.

Years ago I liked the bulk peanut butter at food co-ops but I no longer live in a city with food co-ops, and there was always the risk with the bulk peanut butter that you'd get there after someone had scooped without stirring enough and you'd get very dry peanut butter minus most of the oil.

The HP35 was HP's very first calculator

Wrong. There were HP calculators before the HP35. HP made desktop calculators that sported a small CRT display. I used to have one. It had core memory in it. It had no ICs at all. Hundreds and hundreds of diodes.