That's likely. But I think it fits in more with the serial killer MO to actually have a message encoded, just one that other people are "too stupid" to read. A form of power over others, as SKs are apt to be like, that wouldn't be gained by gibberish.

Plus the alignment is too methodical for a somewhat sloppy SK like zodiac.

The elusive Zodiac Killer's 360 character cipher was never cracked, either, and it's been decades since he mailed it to newspapers. That cipher also seems a bit grid-like, with spacing made deliberately in rows. I wonder if this method would help, at least in part, in cracking it?

If anything, would be nice to see something come up to ascertain his identity, and if alive, put him behind bars.

#2: As a culture, we prize freedom the way Israel prizes "Islam" or Iran prizes "never again"

Fixed for you, after I considered the 2008 presidential debates.

Because it's just so logical to keep defending yourself from government until you're all out of bubblegum...

As someone who is kind of militantly for less government and taxation (libertarian???), I agree with your post. I think a lot of these people just think the US is worse than it is just because they haven't been elsewhere.

#2 is right... but in a bad way. Both parties are no different in the scheme of things and continue to run their scams alongside of their owners/lobbyists.

I will add two more points:

#6: The US is huge and has a lot of fertile, sparsely populated land. If worse comes to worse, if you can't find freedom from government, you could theoretically get freedom away from it. Theoretically, though.

#7: Chicks love guys with accents, and that's no secret. You can be the mysterious British gent and you can take any girl you want home who will think you're James Bond.

Never take the advice of someone telling you to live somewhere else when they haven't even been there themselves.

I just did. Now what?

I agree it's mostly pop psychology, thus why I think this article's finding is suspect.

While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the corpus callosum allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?

Wait, wait, nonono.I meant the corpus callosum. Not cerebral cortex. Argh, no edit feature for slashdot!

While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the cerebral cortex allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?

PC: Hello, I'm a PC.

Apple: Hi, I'm a Mac.

PC: Hey, Mac, that's a very professional looking suit you have on there. Quite a change: is it an Armani, by any chance?

Apple: Oh, no. I'm just here to deliver you these papers. See you in court.

*Commercial ends with "Think Different (R)" on the screen.

I don't think he's a nerd, since he never worked for the Willy Wonka Candy Company, and isn't covered in sugar.

But then you wouldn't be an independent filmmaker, and nobody on youtube takes you seriously these days unless you have a crappy camera/webcam/cell phone.

Only poorly-run state prisons have that, um, "feature," I believe. And Mac OS X shops.