I finally googled "comma inside quotes not logical" and wouldn't you know it, there are two standards:

American style is to put commas and periods inside quotes (but not colons, semi-colons, question marks, etc.) and British style, also called interestingly enough "logical" style, is to put the punctuation inside the quotes if it existed in the original, but not to if it did not.

Anyway, this was sort of interesting, at least insofar as I am at work and avoiding seriously boring stuff by reading stuff that could be considered interesting in that context:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

I'm not the above AC but I still don't understand why punctuation that is not a part of the quote, goes inside the quote. I purposely violate this "all punctuation inside the quote marks" rule because it simply makes no logical sense.

Here are three examples:

1. AC said "The comma goes inside the quotes."
2. AC used the word "comma".
3. AC used the word "comma."

The first is true, the second is true, but #3 is false because the AC did not _end_ his/her sentence on the word "comma" and so including the period (EOL marker) inside the quote marks is completely inaccurate because that is _not_ where AC ended the line. There is no reason to let illogical tradition be the rule and in reality, the rules of English follow usage to a large extent. You can fix this over time by using quotes logically.

Yes, but it is so much easier to just collect that info if it is all done on your own server through an interface you have total control over. It becomes possible, probably not easy, to blend in with the noise of the internet in general through a distributed system.

No it is not like craigslist because:

There is no central server system making user tracking trivial and no central entity who might behave not-evil today, but once they sellout, all bets are off on how users get treated and how that collected data gets used.

Buy focusing on the lack of transaction fees for selling stuff, you are looking solely at the surface and totally missing the underlying structure.

This is the reason why we can't have anything nice. Is because their are too many jerks out there who will use a new technology as a way to do illegal activities!

You're talking about the Feds of course, and their massive violation of the highest law of the land (constitution) and by such, a complete subversion of American values. It's as if the greatest threat to everything America stands for, is the US Federal Government. Or are you talking about people harming nobody except *maybe* themselves by using various substances currently described as illegal in a shifting regulatory framework (e.g., alcohol: legal, illegal, legal; pot: legal, illegal, legal some places)?

How odd that today's Democrats (*) are perfectly aligned with Nixon on just about every issue conceivable:

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/2...

Who has actually benefited from ObamaCare? That would be the for-profit private insurance industry to which Obama sold out even while continuing to say he supported the public option.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

(*) not to be confused with people who are liberals.

That's annoying. If we can't prove a piece of software is backdoor free, how can we justify trusting it with important information (medical records, financial records, legal records, secret recipes, etc. etc.)?

TL:DR?

One of the more amusing trolls I've read. There's a lot nice subtle and not-so subtle humor in that thing. Well worth the read.

Don't be an idiot. Food is important, even foods that only 99.999% of the population can eat. Secondly: Lactaid.

How very Kim Jong Un of you. Obviously, the civics classes didn't stick and you have no understanding of American values.

Cry me a fucking river. When the Feds started violating the constitution, they lost all legitimacy and became nothing better than thugs. Mere gangbangers. A fetid swamp of pestilent human garbage.

But of course, as their greatest apologist -- and if you aren't getting paid you're a total retard -- they can do no wrong. If the NSA said they needed to eat baby brains to boost their mental ability to crack codes, you'd be donating your sperm to them on an hourly basis. I'm sure it takes little more than a picture of Clapper committing perjury to get you to jiz in your pants.

I used to think like this but I'm not so sure anymore. If we had planetary rule, it might be all rosy and ponies like the Federation of Planets, but it might also (maybe more probably) be corrupt and abusive. With multiple exclusive jurisdictions, at least there are areas to which one can escape (if escape is possible) when things get too bad because there is a border drawn around the corruption and abuse. It's almost certainly true though, that all governments are just institutionalized repositories for the corruptible and abusive elements of society -- like mafias.

Cold Fjord is a Fed or a shill for the Feds, thus, he doesn't give a rat's ass about the Constitution.

Sorry about that. If I responded in a civil manner to you, it was because I didn't look at who I was responding to.

Asshole.

What makes you think Cold Fjord is for small government? He's the NSA's most prolific /. shill.