I hope that there is a large overlap with the 31% that believe in astrology - keep them all in one bucket...

Empirical evidence, however, sadly, shows that wrong-thinking folks are spread all over the place!

You see how powerful a GUI is! Good thing your typing is perfect, I am sure the command line never gives you syntax errors.

Truth be told, the "middle of the road" party would win by a landslide in the US... if it were running (and could do anything if it "won"). However, we don't have that choice, the way things have evolved - we have a two-party system, since the two parties have made the rules (primaries, congressional committee assignments, etc.)

So, we flip-flop back and forth in an "us or them" proposition for each election.

Unfortunately the flip flopping is more like "ratcheting" - the "left" keeps telling you what you have to do, and the "right" keeps telling you want you can't do. Lose-lose with each flip-flop. Odd how the "in power" party doesn't undo anything... they just pile-on their agenda...

I didn't/wouldn't notice.

So, you want to take the first shot that could start an interstellar war? On the other hand, it could be like sending them chocolates, maybe they will like it!

This set of charts explains why DST is a good idea if you are not on the equator...

"Apparently you can't teach and old god new tricks."

LOL'd at that one.

Here is the actual Tea Party platform

Feel free to argue any of those points, but don't just make up stuff. Far too often (if not "always") there is no debate on the issues... just "but what about the children/unborn". Whatever.

You spelled "know" incorrectly. Besides, it is the opposite political philosophy from the Tea Party crowd that have "magical thinking" about how things work. Mostly they just want centralized government to do less.

You like your computer networks decentralized, why not your government? Local is better.

To be fair, it is "Offtopic" [sic], however, it IS the 2nd post, and I knew it would be, so why would I have "guessed" first post?

I am also the same guy who won a bet that I could link to my own post in my sig... but I didn't collect because I wouldn't give my PayPal info to some random Slashdot user.

I can tell Slashdot is using Linux because I've got post number 2.

Maybe the therapists ARE abiding by the agreement, but SOMEBODY else is illegally breaching that confidentiality? Toss some lawyers at the problem, they always sort it out. Heh, I can see it now - a massive hack to purge HIPAA sensitive data, while keeping all the other stuff.

Next up, if only nutcases have privacy, then terrorists will all become nutcases... oh, wait.

No Flash; Didn't Watch

What? Does this table have no cell or networking capability?

No problem... coinage was on my mind since one of my last trips to Europe. I had a pocketful of change, which added up to over $20USD, which would NEVER happen in the US - those UK pound coins are small, but oddly satisfying, and I have no explanation why I came home with a 5 (swiss) franc coin (about $5).., but I guess I'll just have to plan another trip across the pound to spend my spare change :-)

Coins for $1 and $2 would be fine -- but you do need the $2 also, or else you would end up with "too many" $1 coins on occasion.