Are you saying that Mr. Montgomery has a new, money grabbing, successor ?

if we want to stay ahead, it's time to build something revolutionary, not just something that's 10% faster than whatever someone else has.

I can't help but think that any lame duck president should be burning approval karma in favor of doing "the right thing". I'm not saying that Obama is, but if he were sitting on a huge approval rating I would consider him to be ducking unpopular, but vital, decisions.

On a visit to France my toddler son dislocated his elbow. After some broken french and comical miming on my part to describe what happened, the french doctor popped his elbow back in and then apologetically presented me with a bill for about $8. The doctor did not appear to be starving.

Over the years I have, at times, found the software industry to be downright hostile, especially when I was at university, where the CS guys seemed extremely unwilling to suffer fools like me (I was an EE major - and I was a pretty good student, but any mistake was derided in a way that an issue about, say, physics was not). There was the attitude barrier to cross, the CS crowd there seemed to think that one should be born knowing this stuff.

At least I looked as pasty as most of the other CS undergraduates, if my appearance or gender had been another consideration I'm not sure that I would have persisted in the field, it could easily have been the "last straw" that dissuaded me.

I wish Scooby Doo had stuck with the old formula. Maybe there would be some hope for critical thinking among the young then.

more openly, I could see that.
More often I would have thought comes down to economics rather than legality. If it gets a lot cheaper though, how will the "one dispensary per 13000 people" business model work in my town. I can't see there being enough "connoisseur" demand to keep the dispensaries open once every mini-mart starts selling it.

No, the parties will shift as and when the electorate shifts.

I'm not sure geography is the best way to do it either, everyone deserves representation, why not just allow each elector to cast a single ballot for any candidate and send the top-n vote-getters to congress where n is the number of districts in the state. I'm sure most will choose someone local to them, but some may choose to support a candidate that represents their constituency in some other way.

There's something fishy About it.

...our funeral director; Diana Gotoheaven.

Call me a dope but yes...

When they are asked to stay at home they should be provided with their salary and an allowance for home delivery of provisions.

Being logical is foundational to religion. Axiomatically, logic governs our existence, if the same logic did not also govern the existence of any fantastic god-like being then there would be no basis for that being to relate to us. For example, if there were separate god logic and human logic and god says "I promise you XXX" then the promise means nothing if there is some hidden mechanism by which a promise might not be binding on god.

I was challenged to read the bible and as I had kind of wanted to do it for a while and had never got around to it I did. The challenger had, it turned out, only intended that I read the new testament, but to be honest I found the old testament to be a much better read. For a start, how often does one read a book from an iron age perspective - it was fun just to see things through their eyes, see what mattered to them. It was also interesting to see how the religion grew and solidified the Israeli power base. I also enjoyed seeing bits of 17th century english (I read the KJ version) that had survived to present day in different forms that I have used without thinking about the meaning too much

My reading only solidified my opinion that it was all made up to secure political advantage and power, as a piece of manipulative politics it was pretty well constructed, YMMV

I have started reading the Koran, but I did not get very far - I should find a better translation, the one I have is hard to follow and there don't seem to be as many internet resources to help understand what's being said as there were for the bible (at least, not as good as biblehub.com which I found really helpful), but my initial impression is that it's very similar to the old testament

I also started to read the book of mormon, but it was so obviously artless crap that I gave up