They are at their furthest apart still symptoms of the same lifestyle problems.

No, Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, not a symptom of a lifestyle problem. It's not caused by lifestyle either.

Regardless, I think we need to start making the internet a cleaner place for everybody.

That's just censorship by whoever gets to define "clean".

People need to act civilized online the same way they do at school or work.

No, because "online" isn't necessarily school or work, so there's no bureaucracy or autocracy to define "civilized" conduct.

If I'm your co-worker and I say I'll kill you and you know I'm truly mad at you, would you still feel like the matter doesn't require action?

Let's consider a possible example: "Goddamnit, I'm going to kill that son of a bitch; he broke the build 3 times this week". Nope, no action required.

This will reduce chances of action and will act as a deterrent to those wanting to make a dumb joke.

That last part is the problem. A law which has as an intended effect to deter those making dumb jokes (protected expression) is unconstitutional. A law which has an intended effect of something else but an unintended effect of deterring dumb jokes may be unconstitutional; to pass, the government would have to show that there was a compelling state interest in the "something else", and that the effect on protected speech was unavoidable and minimized as much as possible.

F'n princess movies, like that damn Star Wars flick.

PRINCESS Leia, PRINCESS Amidala...

When you step out of line and vote for the wrong person or support the wrong cause, they'll dredge them back up, and blackmail you on the basis that you were sitting together in the same bar as a known bad guy one day while you were both in college.

"Oh, yeah, that's me and Hitler. He was one angry MF, believe me, but it was kinda fun to listen to him rant, at least until he tried to take over Munich. Got any old photos? How about that one of me and Marlene Dietrich? Whaddya mean that never happened?"

Keep in mind that to many artists the place you see an object is a big part of the work. Simply by converting the photos from an electronic format on Instagram into large canvas prints in a gallery he transformed the works. There are actually entire schools of art devoted to taking random shit, placing them in galleries, so everyone can stand around speculating about what you meant when you decided to display your bed*.

Yeah, I saw one "artist" who took a radio, as is, and called it art. Well, it might be art, but it wasn't her art. It belonged to the uncredited industrial designers who made the thing. She also blew up some images of the literature accompanying the radio and called that her art too.

I hope one of the Instagram photographers does sue him. $90,000 ought to be worth it.

there are people of great social skill and malicious intent, and people of great social skill and good intent. you confuse intent and ability. if you can't tell the difference you're only announcing your own lack of social skills

Someone with better social skills would have tried poisoning the well more subtly than that. Anyway, great social skill and malicious intent typically go hand-in-hand; psychopaths are known for their social skill. This is because things like having a conscience get in the way of treating people like tools to be manipulated.

"Social intelligence" is just a classic weak point for those who are intelligent in the usual 'g' way. Therefore, those who want to keep the smart people down latch on to that as "the most important thing" -- "your ability to solve hard problems means nothing next to my ability to schmooze with others".

People with high social intelligence include politicians, pointy-haired bosses, "bros", Kardashians, and salespeople.

You typically do not get two of three hot phases. You get one phase, center tapped with the center tied to ground; the two hots are 180 degrees out of phase with respect to each other. You get two phases in some commercial circuits -- e.g. a lighting circuit might be two phases of a 3-phase wye with 208V between phases (120V between phase and center).

Yes, the whole premise is idiotic. Losses due to resistance would dwarf conversion losses; AC to DC conversion and DC to DC conversion are actually very efficient nowadays (if you care to spend the money; it's still cheaper to do it inefficiently)

If this had been the law of the land in the 80's and 90's, Linux and FOSS would never have gotten off the ground.

If this had been the law of the land in the 90's, the BSD case would have gone very differently. So no Linux and no BSD.

No, addicts can survive for many years. Until you figure out some way of separating those who want lasting help and can be helped from those who just want their next fix, you'll never do much about the former problem; the latter will end up eating all your resources.

Do you really think that not teaching a subject to kids will get more of them to learn it?

Given the ability of schools to turn what should be joy into drudgery... it's not out of the question that teaching it is worse than not teaching it. Nothing can get a kid out of the habit of reading like a high school literature curriculum, for instance.

My babbysitter just went to college to study 'Women's Studies', if I have more kids in 4 years time, she will be well qualified as babbysitter, and have a load of debt which will insure she has to work lots of hours, a lower rate. You can't help some people, they just have experience it.

If she completes her Women's Studies degree, then under no circumstances let her anywhere near your kids.

You didn't read 50-1403.1(c) (concerning non-residents), obviously.

There are plenty of addicts who want to get clean, but they can't do it on their own. There are plenty of alcoholics who want to get sober, but they too can't do it on their own. There are plenty of ex-cons who want to go straight, but they can't do it on their own when they're back in the 'hood and can't get a job because of their past (we just covered this a few days ago here).

There are plenty of addicts who just want to get their next fix. There are plenty of alcoholics who just want their next drink. There are plenty of ex-cons who would just as soon commit crimes rather than go straight. These people -- regardless of the existence of the people you mention -- constitute a bottomless pit of "need", and thus a limitless call on the resources of the more able.