Close, but people who use public infrastructure and paid for it should bethe ones who are allowed to vote. The contractors who built it though - no, that would be a conflict of interest.

We haven't been victims of an unprovoked attack in 200 years. Now that we are being attacked by waves of mestizos the army is not defending us one whit.

Scientists are by and large sucking off the federal tit. They shouldn't even be allowed to vote. It's a conflict of interest.

"Ooooooh, stardust!" - pass that joint please...

I wasn't aware they are trying to silence anyone. (Well maybe Dyson is in calling for the shut down of research into genetic differences between human subgroups.)

His first wife Lynne Margolis was the one with the real brains. I totally concur that "consciousness" is an emergent phenomenon first demonstrated by the simplest organisms that first reacted to light or chemicals in their environment. Self-awareness is a matter of degree and not an either/or proposition.

"I'd rather people listen to Carl Sagan"

Ooh, ooh, we are stardust! No shit. I learned that during the International Geophysical Year when I was 9 years old.

I wasn't aware that they were involved in Cosmological/Religious controversies, just that they are egomaniacal and overly dramatic narrators.

Only because they act as if they do; and no, I am not a creationist like those string theorists who claim that vibrating strings appear spontaneously from the aether of space.

the reason we rebelled and wrote privacy into our constitution.

has never been taken seriously by anyone with half a brain.

The only thing is that good teachers are smart enough to realize it and take what steps they can to help superior students.

No, as in Carl Sagan and Niel deGrasse Tyson doing more harm than good every time they opened their big idiotic traps.

of the US dollar and other currencies is that funding for this nonsense will disappear.

A few rich eccentric megalomaniacs is NOT "Silicon Valley." If you want a clue as to when serious longevity activity is happening then look for an extremely well-funded project from the genomics sphere not a bunch of self-congatulatory crackpots going to feel-good conferences and taking too many vitamins.

Absolutely PostgreSQL has always been a serious RDMS. My SQL was a joke when it came out and is still a joke years later. They have always been years late and several dollars short when it comes to functionality. They only got stored procedures last year! LOL Typical.

Stick completely with stored procs for production database access. You can tune them and it keeps messy queries out of the application code. It also makes the impact analysis of database changes much, much easier to track and deal with.

Do your programming in LISP if you have the nads and smarts (few do.) S-expressions match almost seamlessly with both SQL queries and with HTML/XML.