Well said. RE corporations: the standard Republican (conservative?) rejoinder is that unions could always contribute money, but I'm in favor of denying them all. Screw them. All only individual contributions up to $45, adjusted for inflation going forward. Make a law that prohibits politicians and staffers from joining lobbying outfits after their term is up to eliminate the opportunity for deferred under the table contributions. Then we'll finally have a government that responds to the true will of the people.

Yeah, but those companies have more speech, so they should be allowed to use more speech. And those companies are people. And the speech is money. And the legislation that eliminates one potential competitor actually doesn't eliminate any competition.

Is there ANY way this isn't backwards? Wow.

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        public ecstatic ambitious main(String[] compliments :-) {
                weee (int i =) 0 ; i 10; i++ :-) {
                        Compy.outAndProud.prettyplease.print("Hello, World!!!!" :-);
                }
        }
}

Sublime has a pretty extensive plugin set for JavaScript, CSS and HTML, which includes support for various projects in those languages (e.g. angular, node, LESS, emmet, etc.). The multi-cursor stuff is a nice gimmick.

It might be as simple as comparing plugins/scripts. Sublime Text seems to be the new hotness for web development, with lots of JavaScript, HTML and CSS project plugins (e.g. angular, node, emmet). VIM probably has more plugins for projects that use C++.

And here we have the real misunderstanding. Does anyone know if there is some right-wing organization out there that is trumpeting this idea? I have only seen it from Republicans ("conservatives"). I don't see it often, so it strikes me as a strawman that a few Dunning-Kruger head-cases are manufacturing on their own, but it would be nice to know if it has a source.

I was productive right out of school, and while I could have worked just ~45 hrs/wk, I worked over 80 hrs/wk to train myself up for more advanced work.

While I don't regret the 80 hrs/wk, at this point in my life, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

One of the fundamentally dishonest things that conservatives do when this topics comes up is mention George Soros. But nothing compares to the Koch brothers, and conservative money in general:
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/...

It's not 2 sides of the same coin when you compare the amount of money, although neither side is likely to offer reform on this matter.

Is this getting modded up because it's so stupid? I'm missing my mod points for today or I'd vote it down.

I don't remember reading anything like that.

Yeah, does this mean when I passed out drunk it actually WAS better than cramming all night?

I'm going to take this as proof that my 18 and 19 y/o self had it all figured out.

But 12 hours of sleep over the last 3 nights isn't going to help.

Are you astroturfing here, or just trolling? I've never heard this story.

But uhh, if you're asturfing, I'll be happy to spread this if I can get a cut. I mean, provided Apple doesn't replace my messages with ads for that hot new sexy language they got, called Swift. So dreamy. #Jobs

There's a good reason not even Net Neutrality, the one piece of cable company fuckery we staved off, didn't last very long after Citizens United.

It's because it "takes a lot of money" to win elections, and government representatives know where their bread is buttered in that regard. If you don't play ball, the money will go to your opponent.

Then when you do get elected, partisan bickery is so bad that both parties (and especially Republicans http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...) demand full loyalty to the party, which consolidates votes around the money winners even more.

Then when you are done as an elected official, you are free to get an even higher paying job as a lobbyist, and you know who they like? That's right, the ones who play ball.

This sounds like a mad conspiracy, but it happens over, and over, and over again.

So no, there will be no voting in representatives who oppose this until we reign in campaign finance and the opportunity to get double your pay later as a lobbyist.

It is? You don't say!