Don't assume that everyones taste in porn is the same as yours.

Wow are you confused. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The Taliban in Afghanistan admitted to hosting and supporting Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

I know we're living in a post factual world where empirical truth doesn't exist. But the fact is that the U.S. led a coaliton of forces against the Taliban in Afghanistan beginning on October 7, 2001. Less than one month after the September 11 attacks.

If I believe that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, and bigoted, it's likely because of the things he has said and done.

Um, and these would be? I'm a non-developer MS sysadmin who works with Windows all day, but uses Linux on all my home computers. I can't think of any... other than to use for managing users who are stuck in a Microsoft ecosystem. Once Powershell for linux gets a working method for creating a remote shell (specifically, to Office365), there won't even be that left.

I've been driving for over 30 years, and I've never used GPS. A quick look over a map beforehand and a sense of direction is really enough. I can recall maybe two or three times when a GPS would have even been at all useful. That includes driving in a foreign country.

If Trump had done nothing other than invest his initial "small loan" in index funds, reinvesting the dividends, he would be worth 12 billion dollars today. Even if he is worth the 4 billion he claims he is worth, he is still something of a failure as a businessman.

Define "worked". I don't remember a US victory in Vietnam.

Pearl River Community college is the first thing google comes up with. I'm not convinced that the NSA has any business intruding their network.

Wouldn't the statistical number of people who were shot which selected from among only those who were shot be 100%?

A statistical measure of the percentage of people who were shot who own guns isn't necessarily flawed on it's face. I'll grant that taken on it's own, it's not very meaningful. However, if the percentage of gun ownership among shooting victims is higher than the percentage of gun ownership in the general population, you just might have a correlation.

What did it tell you? That they didn't disagree with the rest of it?

True story: I once had to use ToString() to convert a variable. GetType() indicated the original variable was already a string, but the function it was being passed to would not accept it until the string was converted to a string.

If a thief has your email, then most likely they can use that to reset your bank account password.

Trump's comments (heck, Trump himself) is a good example of why a government that "serves the interests of a small coterie of oligarchs" is a bad thing. Why nobody notices that he himself is the bad thing that he is pointing out is a marvelous mystery.

Replacing a secret oligarch with an overt one, whose interests clearly and directly align with foreign countries which are not US allies. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

The opinion of law enforcement is one I'm actually interested in. Their input into how difficult something is to police is certainly useful in finding the best working solutions. (It's also possible that their input on a given matter is useless, but the only way to know is to listen to it.)

It's the lobbying bit that's the problem. Instead of gathering input from various groups and crafting the best workable solution, you often get the solution that best appeases the highest bidders.

It's probably a good idea for anyone with the responsibility of voting to look beyond the end of their nose once in awhile.