Yeah, don't be surprised if you're pepper-sprayed and dumped in a winter storm with no coat, left to fend for yourself because you hurt someone's feelings. You should know better.

If only we had some kind of charge we could bring against someone who resisted arrest... Hmmm...

And being booted from Live doesn't infringe on that right.

We've evolved to do all kinds of things. Fortunately, we don't have to do everything we've evolved to be able to do. The argument that our teeth are evolved to do something, so we're predestined to do that thing is about a half a step away from saying we should eat meat because God wants us to. We weren't 'meant' to do anything.

Well, I know it's a conscious choice because I really miss meat (especially chicken), and don't especially like all that many vegetables. Also, my being a vegetarianism turns every meal into a trial. I have to figure out where I can go that will have anything I can eat. I have to figure out what might have meat hidden in it when it's not immediately apparent. If I'm eating with my wife (who still does eat meat) I have to determine where we can go that will have food we both like and can both eat.

I usually have to pay more. I have to consider whether I'm meeting my nutritional needs. I'll often have to wait longer, since whatever I get will probably be a special order.

I can think of a lot of easier ways to be smug.

Oh, please. I'd guess that you've met three or four times as many vegetarians as you're aware of, just because most of us don't make a big thing out of it. I don't know how many people I've met and known for months without them ever realizing I don't eat meat. Half the time, when they find out, they don't believe me.

Most of us really just do not give a shit what anyone else eats. We just want to eat what we want to eat in peace.

Well, my wife and I have been using the "Just don't have any children" technique, and it's been working pretty well for us.

This idea is far from original. People have been using the comic format to tell stories for years.

If they've been used to play Sony BMG CDs, then they're Sony laptops now.

567-68-0515

Richard Nixon's SSN.

This is close to why my dad, back in South Dakota will never own a hybrid. Not because it takes too much power to run the heater in the winter, but because when it's fourteen below outside, he'd rather find out that his engine isn't going to start while he's still at home, rather than after he's driven ten or twenty miles from home on only battery power.

"Windows 7" is too boring? That's your problem with it? Yeah, it really just doesn't have the zest of something like "OS X."

Or maybe you'd prefer something along the lines of "Windows 7: Alliterative Animal?"

For the record, every LED in the matrix displays at Times Square couldn't easily have anything applied, at least not more than once. I used to work in the factory that made most of those signs. Maybe they could implement something up in electrical assembly that could spray something on once, when the display mods are being produced, but A) there'd be no point, since you couldn't change it or resell that ad space, B) it would reduce the intensity of each LED, and C) it would likely reduce the overall lifespan of each LED. It was common enough to have to rub off potting material from the tips of the LEDs, I don't even want to imagine the hurdles involved in something like that. Besides all of which, the whole idea with the development of those displays is to make each LED smaller, to increase the sign resolution, which is going to make it even more impossible to cram any information in.

except, it appears, in the minds of Democrats.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a Republican, and he's one of the people who lobbied most strenuously to do this. 15 Republicans voted to kill it and 15 Dems voted to keep it alive.

Also, if the F-35 has one third the payload of the F-22, how could it take four F-35s to replace one F-22?

How many soldiers will die if 240 F-22s aren't enough?

How many soldiers will die if 320 F-22's aren't enough?

How many soldiers will die if 1,780 F-22's aren't enough?

My god, numbers just keep going!

Cross-eye and parallel-eye stereoscopic images don't have this problem.

Don't worry, I'll think you're racist for a good deal longer than just a minute.