The question is not, who did the electoral college vote for.

The question is, who did the states send to the electoral college.

I thought the FCC *did* file a suit against Cardholder Services for that junk. What happened?

The entire RTS section of the gaming world is missing.

May I suggest Warcraft 1, or the predecessor Dune 2, or even the grandaddy of them all, Populous?

Populous was actually real time _strategy_. The rest were real time _tactics_ and micromanagement.

EVE Online.

Because you use "a ginormous amount of mods".

Any one of which could be programmed poorly.

The base game can run in less than 1 GB -- no joke, 1 GB is huge for vanilla.

What happened to the dinosaurs? Some of them grew wings, developed feathers, and are still around. Just ask the chicken what it's ancestor was like.

Oh, I love it!

The only way to stop a run-away disaster?

Not "Make sure passing it is an even bigger disaster".

But "Make passing it impossible unless you vote for an enemy ad campaign that gets you removed from office".

Quick summary if you did not read that link: The bill passed by the senate includes an anti-human-trafficking provision. And it would prohibit one of the TPP partners -- basically, the senate only approves TPP if this anti-trafficking goes into effect as well.

So, to pass in the house? You have to either pass "as-is", which breaks the international agreement, or you have to remove the anti-human trafficking amendment -- "Representative so-and-so voted in favor of human trafficking".

I love it. "We won't take decisive action, but we'll make it politically impossible for the second house to approve it".

We are now correcting the errors of the past.

Make way for "FOURTRAN".
Now with proper spelling.

After all, we know minecraft is smoother than a bowling ball at the scale of the earth. If you expand minecraft out to the scale of the universe, which is flatter?

I have been dethroned as head nerd. I never figured out sendmail.

(I installed a different mail processor just to get decipherable config files)

Because an ordinary person cannot be elected without some sort of backing.
And, because those that can back a person don't want to back someone that will vote intelligently.

The cost to back someone to be in politics is basically an investment, made by those with business connections, for the purpose of those business investments.

No facts or studies to back this up; this is just observations over decades.

There are smart people that want the job.
Smart does not equal rich, or connected.

Invisible people live in the Swiss Alps, wear heavy jackets to cover up when out in public, and trade stocks and commodities for a living.

There was a movie documentary about that a few years ago, what was it called again?

So far, HTML5 playback only gives me 360p quality, with no DASH support.

Flash playback gives me 480p, DASH support (so I stop using the network if I hit pause, and don't bloat my browser memory usage on long videos).

HTML playback does give me speed control.
But I can already download a 360p and watch in mplayer/vlc for better speed control if I wanted that.

Lucas was very good with Pacing. He knew timing. Not scripts/dialog.

How many people walked away from seeing the first star wars moving, overjoyed that the rebels had won? Probably lots. How long did it take before you realized that all they had "won" was a very temporary respite -- their location known to a large enemy fleet that had lost one superweapon, but still had lots of ships for bombardment?

Was the story of the prequels that great? Maybe, maybe not.
What was the pacing of the first 2 like? Pretty darn good.

(The story of 3 was so bad I could not finish watching it, pacing or not.)

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If you want an old-school comparison, look at Walt Disney. He knew timing. He would alter the timings of the drawings made by his animators. But he knew better than to try to be the one doing the drawings.

That the Hebrews/Jews are still around despite everyone's attempt to eliminate them is proof of God's existence.

The real question: What is God's goal? What is God's purpose?

Most religions want to assume "God is good". The real truth is, we don't know, and cannot know.

What is God's ability? What can / cannot God do?

Most religions want to assume "Anything". The real truth is, we don't know, and cannot know.

The real truth is that all knowing, all powerful, and all good, are as mutually conflicting as "Laws of physics are constant", "The speed of light is constant", and "Speed is additive / Time is linear".

We've seen how "Relativity" has changed our view of physics.
What happens when "Supernatural Relativity" changes our view of the meta-physics?

(Now, ask yourself what M-theory, multiple branes in the bulk, and the very concept of some intelligent being that lives in the bulk would imply ... "God", and "Meta-physics", will be "physical reality" studies at some point in the distant future).