Vim's available for Windows, it looks a lot like Gvim.

We'll /all/ be paying for it, which internalizes the costs and incentivizes cleaner alternatives. Our grandchildren shouldn't have to suffer extreme climate change because people like you are selfish.

Never mind that the electricity might be made with coal, which itself results in millions of tons of mine tailings, contaminated rivers, et al, to say nothing of the pollution and radioactivity caused by burning it.

That's... wow. To have the money to throw away on a partially-completed factory like that.

Leia is a Disney princess now.

Tech Report generally has good recommendations: http://techreport.com/review/2...

I don't build computers at work - we buy preassembled Dells or Apples - and my last de-novo build at home was in April 2011 not long after Sandy Bridge was released. My i5-2500K chip is fast enough (OC'd to 4.3 GHz on air) that I don't think I'll want an upgrade for a long while yet, and the only minor upgrade that system's received is a newer video card. At some point, budget permitting, I'll switch in an SSD for the boot volume.

I'm fairly sure we have secret laws to do with National Security; those are a post-WTC innovation, so it's entirely possible that there is in fact a law requiring same that Obama can't do much about.

Mind you, I don't think he cares much about civil liberties either.

I can hear old Turtle-face McConnell now saying this is an election-year stunt by the Democrats to get votes. It's the same excuse he's used for filibustering other worthwhile Senate bills; never mind that it's a good idea and would be good for the country, it would make the Democrats look good and that'd cost Republicans elections, so they'll stop it from even coming to a vote.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's adorable, yet so lacking in self-awareness.

I suspect grandparent has ideological reasons for wanting to give money to a private contractor rather than a government agency. 80% of NASA's yearly budget will barely slow the deficit's rise, and it's a suspiciously /round/ number.

The Whigs and Federalists disappeared because their parties collapsed. It's going to take some doing to get one of the big two to collapse these days.

"States Rights" is almost always shorthand for "the state should be free to oppress you, but the feds had better not try to oppress you or put a stop to the state oppressing you". There's a reason why the Southern racists kept talking about states rights.

You'll have to change the system before third parties become viable in this country. First Past the Post has to go, as does letting politicians draw their own goddamn district boundaries.