I just want you to stay beautiful. Is that so wrong?

Gah, extra police slipped in - must have been undercover!

I like it because it's infinitely extensible. Who polices the police police police? Police police police police police police police police police, of course.

Well, if you steadfastly refuse to explain your use of your pet phrase "formal specification language", you'll continue to fail to communicate. Whatever point you're trying to make, no one here outside your head is getting it.

That's pretty much it. I don't have much faith in the future of chemical-battery-powered cars, but regardless it will eventually be something that starts with electricity. Meanwhile, gradually moving off of coal power seems a no-brainer. Rushing to do so would be foolish, causing needless economic disruption, but over decades as existing power stations hit normal replacement cycles? Coal needs to go.

• Hillary Clinton
• Racist
• Benghazi

C'mon smitty, bring it on home. Wrap 'em all together into one nice package and tell us how this is the cherry on top.

Wow, way to go Slashcode! OK, here's the same post hopefully without the mangling:

Not the AC, but here's an argument for you. If you care whether a car is green* in the first place, you're probably a hipster, and thus should die in a fire. Despite sensational news stories, you're probably less likely to die in a fire in a Tesla than a gas powered car. Therefore, the Tesla is not really a green car.

*I miss cars that are the actual color green. It's really hard to find luxury cars these days in anything but neutral colors (when times are tough, people choose attention-diverting instead of attention-getting colors for expensive stuff). That's a shame, I love colorful cars. The Model S has a great red available though - good for Tesla!

You say that as if you could support it, yet so far you have been wholly unable to.

That is a strange way to say "because I believe it to be such".

You pretending that the Tea Party is anything more than an only-slightly-more radical and slightly-less-informed - and somewhat-differently-funded - branch of the GOP is ... amusing.

So if enough people vote against their own interests in the 2014 elections, we can then spend millions (if not billions) of dollars on an impeachment that has no chance of removing the POTUS? That should about do it for a good long time for the conservative movement, right there.

It appears you are trying to make a case that you read some small part of my comment. Would you like a biscuit or a bone in reward?

Not the ACless likely to die in a fire in a Tesla than a gas powered car. Therefore, the Tesla is not really a green car.

*I miss cars that are the actual color green. It's really hard to find luxury cars these days in anything but neutral colors (when times are tough, people choose attention-diverting instead of attention-getting colors for expensive stuff). That's a shame, I love colorful cars. The Model S has a great red available though - good for Tesla!

BMW is only marginally a luxury car. You get less luxury at a given price than most other car companies, as their focus is on performance and that means reducing weight.

If the commodities exchanges aren't "free markets", the term is meaningless. "Free market" does not mean unregulated - never has except in strawmen - it means the government isn't mucking with pricing, nor giving preference to some buyers or sellers.

"Capitalism" only means that you can aquire the means of production by spending money, instead of by political influence, military adventure, or the like.

Needle exchange programs give out clean needles and syringes to IV drug users, who give their used, dirty needles in exchange for safe disposal. In quantity, they cost about 5 cents apiece. I've talked to heroin addicts about them. They're very effective.

They've significantly reduced the spread of AIDS (and hepatitis C, which kills even more people than AIDS, and is more expensive) in programs around the US and the world. The evidence is overwhelming. Public health doctors have done a lot of research and published many medical journal articles about it. It was one of the most effective, and cost-effective, ways to prevent the spread of AIDS.

The federal government had funds allocated for preventing AIDS, but Congress prohibited them from using it for needle exchange programs, supposedly because they encouraged IV drug use. So most of the programs were funded by private organizations or local governments. Finally the evidence became overwhelming, and the federal government allowed funding for needle exchanges again. But just recently, I saw that the Republican congressmen had cut needle exchanges out of the budget again.

The prohibition on needle exchange programs is one of the classic examples of a stupid government policy that goes against overwhelming scientific evidence and medical advice, kills people, encourages the spread of AIDS (especially to newborns), and costs the government a huge amount of money.