I'm afraid I can not respect anyone who respects him as an entertainer. We can have diametrically opposed views on politics, thats all cool. But, appreciating talent-less hacks, is not something I can support in good conscious.

I don't know. I definitly respect Franken's views and politics since he became a senator, but oh my god is he a terrible entertainer. Can not stand his comedy.

The government didn't outlaw them based on their tolerance to power, they outlawed lower effieciency bulbs. Governing is often dealing with conflicting interests. LIfe is complicated. Stop pretending it isn't.

Also, LED bulbs are more tolerant. Use those if you have a terrible power supply.

No, just trying to make sense of your experneice versus our experience. I replaced all of the incadecents with the cheapest CFL's back in 2006. All still work. Just moved and did the same. None have ever gone out on me, in this country. When I was living in a third world country, yeah, the power sucked and it blew cfls all the time.

Its a reasonable inference, rather than blaming a vast conspiritoral scam.

Wait... are you saying I misunderstand Esperanto?

Point proven.

Well, that's a high complement a misunderstood langauge. That seems like a perfect language to teach people, the one that most professionals misunderstand. Its like how all of our schools now teach exclusively in Esperanto.

Some people choose to become artists, musicians and even game developers because they like art, music, and games. Unfortunately, a sizeable number of them in all categories lack the talent to succeed. That part is really sad to watch. I understand the idea of a dream isn't supposed to be realistic, and trying to be successful for very talented people is like trying to winthe lottery. but for these people iwith abitions that don't match their talent : its like they don't even have money to buy a lottery ticket.

Yeah, no kidding. I couldn't get At&t to provide me with online access to my at&t dsl account yesterday without an activation code that could only be spoken over the specific landline attached to the account or physically mailed to the billing address. A reminent of their ameritech takeover, those dsl accounts aren't actually in their system, but an older one that they can't make many changes to.

Do not expect companies to support older systems, especially when they've stated that they will not support them.

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No, not at all. My statement was only related to who subsidizes who's car insurance. Anything more was in your mind.

I welecome the change. Bitcoin makes othewise smart people stupid. The arguements with uber are a thousand times more palatible.

For young and invincible drivers, its usually the older more mature drivers without that attitude that end up subsidizing them.

Yes it is. Becuase it was.

Its like trying to tell me how Target's POS systems were not necissarily insecure prior to the breach.

No, in this case it really *did* try changes that they thought might upset customers. Show more negative stuff and see if the users post more negative stuff. That was the whole freaking goal of the experiment.

It might work against hyper inflation. But other than, that its kind of worthless. And when you have hyper inflation, governments usually crack down on any kind of currency movement out of the weak currency to try and prop up the local currency.

So this is great, if you think that your currency is going hyper inflationary in a short period of time. I don't think there are many cases in which that would be useful.

Otherwise, if Bitcoin can be called a currency, then its also suceptible to variance in value as we've seen over its lifetime. Teh Mahts don't protect against it losing value.