I was just thinking "Why the hell are these people using a computer when all they're doing is email? Why not just send letters to friends and family?" when I read that, drink out the nose. Thanks a lot.

If that's true, then your only problem is that they're answering emails to nigerian princes. During your next visit, just tell them in great detail that those types of emails are never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to be real. Maybe check into their email interface and see if there's a way to filter keywords related to those types of emails so that they're never tempted.

It is at my house, like 3 or 4 years ago. Has been ever since. I'm happy to have windows at all the local businesses, because I do freelance IT work, and that's how the bills are paid. If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works (and doesn't work), and I'd be out a big fat sum of money.

But who the hell is using flash and/or silverlight at a bank? Of course this is why I don't do work for banks/doctors/lawyers, other than they're the ones that are hard to collect $ from.

Ok, sorry for the confusion, we may be talking about two different things. Maybe you can post some articles supporting your theory of why low dosage antibiotics increase growth rates in farm animals. I'm only pointing out that there is research-a-plenty that supports what I'm talking about - those three (although I provided 6 links total) are there because I'm lazy and didn't want to spend more time gathering others. Like you pointed out, there is a very limited number of antibiotics that are given to animals (I don't know that it's only 3, but I may be getting confused with de-wormers), but in humans there are many types. From personal experience, they can affect your gut bacteria to the extend that all sorts of things can occur, things that are hard to trace back to the antibiotics.

"a chrome book, is all they need"

Which Chromebook has a dialup modem port?

Is the robot creepy or cute? yes. Does Matt start every sentence with "So..."? Yes. Drives me nuts? yes.

Ah, that's just because today's ultra-high-density platters require high-coercivity materials in order to adequately maintain the magnetization patterns that store the data. Low coercivity magnetic media just don't work at those densities.

Last I heard, the catastrophe FUD from the AGW ecomarxists was that mostly everyone's going to die from it anyway.

So really, most of them won't.

You link one paper from Harvard on "why terrorism doesn't work".
I'll refute that by pointing to:
1) 8 guys sneaking onto planes with boxcutters and crashing them into buildings is terrorism
2) 15000 psychos taking over chunks of country with astonishing brutality is not terrorism (as referenced in that paper), and 'thousands of psychos taking crap over' HAS worked* repeatedly through human history; from the "Barbarian invasions" of Roman times, to the Huns, the Mongols)

*maybe not in the longest scales, but certainly enough to enmiserate a generation or three.

FTFA:

It's good to see that word in a context that we can all agree on.

"There's no way you could be as stupid as Metal guys were portrayed in those movies, and put on a live show."

It worked for metallica.

On the other hand, any of us that have worked in science or tech has known someone that is like sheldon..... EXACTLY like sheldon....
But then I have also worked with a Moss clone from the IT crowd...

You have obviously never done any research in this area. Start here. Then go here. Also I put a good bit of information (complete with some more links of Ted.com talks) in this post

If you're still not convinced, go get you a good couple of doses of a strong series of antibiotics, see if you have any experience that resembles mine. After that you're on your own.

And to any medical doctors out there, you should inform your patients when you give them strong antibiotics about the concerns of stomach flora. Let them know that eating raw fruit, yogurt (kefir is better) and taking probiotics after completing their antibiotics is a wonderful idea.

"if we won't do something about these ISIS people, they will not stop until they reach the borders of the western world, and by then it will be too late. "

Only if dipshits vote for and pass laws disarming the american citizens.

You want to know why Japan never tried an attack on the US mainland? They knew the citizens outgunned their army 40 to 1.

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." - Soroku Yamamoto.

Actually technically he is right if we kill them all very fast.

nuke 80% of the middle east, full on carpet bomb every square mile with overlapping bursts and you will not have 2 more spring up. you will actually wipe them all out for good and not have any problems with middle eastern terrorisim.

The problem is surviving the 60 year nuclear winter afterwards.