...but what if he was bi, you insensitive clod!

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

~CmdrTaco on Gla^H^H^H the iPod

I'm using the slas^H^H^H^H a website's beta and its designers have the same issue.

Near as I can tell, they don't plan on listening....

Unfortunately, the government authorized by the Constitution doesn't seem to agree with anything the aforementioned document says, so neither Snowden, nor the traitors, nor any of the rest of us will be getting what he/they/we deserve.

If we choose to not participate, we'll get exactly what we deserve. The status quo.

Name a single major reform in the past 200 years without organized support.

...it can't hurt to actually ask all the students what they are interested in.

We want pr0n! Lots of pr0n!

If you want to decrease gas use, just raise the gas tax. It's simple, fair (everyone pays, cheating is hard, and people with more efficient cars pay less), and already there.

No need to re-invent the wheel.

c=a + b ...behold the infinite loop is born!

So here's my equation for the leading cause gun deaths.
Gang membership (* some_rate) * gun ownship (* some_rate)

Gun deaths are mainly in cities with access to guns. DC had a measure of success in controlling hand-gun access (a hand-gun's only purpose is to harm another human being -- it has no moral concepts of "protection" nor "aggression"). Similarly, without high rates of gang membership, it's possible to have relatively few gun deaths with a high ownership rate. You can't restrict gang membership on freedom of assembly grounds (though the word "peaceably" might be a good legal loophole -- I've yet to meet a peaceful gang).

This is not very different from security at an airport.
Terror group membership (* some_rate) * weapon possesion (* some_rate)

Since we can't know the intentions of everyone on the flight, but we search everyone on the flight (while trying to minimize the first item as well).

Also, suicide is a funny thing. As it turns out, means is important. When England switched from gas stoves, suicide by gas went down while virtually all other methods of suicide remained constant. We could expect that fewer people having guns would prevent suicide -- common sense in this case is damned by empirical evidence.

Actually the so-called "wild west" was not open carry.

Upon entering town, you surrendered your weapons to the sherriff who would hold the weapon until you left town. If you didn't surrender your weapon, the sherriff would -- and did -- take it from your cold dead hands. The most famous incident was the Shootout at the OK Corral.

Back then, it was considered "common sense" to not carry a gun around in civilization.

I don't know if you've been to Mountainview lately, but prices are just as high as in SF itself when I was looking for a place in the bay area a month ago.

With rents upwards of $2K a month minimum for a modest 2 bedroom, there's ample reason for developers to build more housing...so long as the process isn't a PITA.

I've played a bit of both, so here's the differences.
* There's no real way to respond on another player's turn, which lessens the strategy, but also means you're not waiting on your effects to resolve forever. Games generally take much less time (~15 minutes at most)
* Not quite as chancy. You just can't win on turn 3. The infinite and quasi-infinite combos of MTG are, as of yet, nonexistant. And there are some *good* combos, but you can't base your deck on channel/fireball as you could during MTG alphas;)
* Harder to keep permanents. All permanents are characters or attached to characters which can be damaged directly via attacking them with your creatures. As a result, utility creatures are much harder to keep alive.

Blizzard's done a great job of making a CCG that actually plays well online by designing it to be that way from the ground up. Unless MTG does a redesign, or at least designs cards specifically to be played online, it will always be a cludgy using a Windows Tablet circa 1999 (or a Windows 8 machine circa now).

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ paraphrased from the great Edsger W. Dijkstra

Nokia has been assimilated by Microsoft. ...why did /. change its icon for MS again? The old one is so appropriate! Who wants to photoshop Elop into it?

http://kaioa.com/b/1102/svgjng/images/microsoft_64.png

Clearly, the current 3-year cycle makes no sense.

At the same time, people LIKE tournaments. If you want to be the true world champion, why not have regionals, as the author suggests -- but limit them to residents and let them be "open" (single elimination in round 1). We have brackets in other sports. This would allow people to compete regardless of wealth.

Each "continental champion" (think "North American Champion" or even "East Asian Champion") could face off in a tournament with the other regionals. This would let each population cheer for its hometown star from New York to New Dehli. Sure, maybe the two "best" don't face off in the "World Championship" but it also allows underdogs to win more easily and makes it more competitive.

Or we could just crown Deep Blue every year.

Flying into Reno just doesn't seem like an option since I can't bring the 3 5-gallon containers I feel I need for the duration of the event

Gerlach may be dead, but Reno has plenty of stores. There's an unwritten rules that if you're flying in, your group stops at the grocery store -- which is filled with other awesome Burners. They're generally pretty easy to identify, but not as easy to identify as the playa-dust encrusted passengers on the flight back. As far as other supplies, many Burners pool their resources and rent a shipping container, at least in NYC and ATX.

Driving is a waste, unless you live close, as some of us have jobs and would rather spend Monday and Tuesday on the playa rather than commuting. YMMV.

And happy burn!;)