I thought I knew the difference between a bakery and a church. Except maybe when the church does a bake sale...

So, the pastor can abstain from doing business with a paying customer due to his religion, but the baker cannot abstain from the same due to his religion. Seems like an arbitrary distinction to me.

Here's a real question:

What if your mosque was selling pencils?

"shoot outs on planes over control is more secure than screening people"

He never said that. You really are a politician.

So the pastor gets an out, but the baker doesn't?

What's your logic there?

"She would be making a lot better living if she did."

Perhaps in the short term. It could be that she is smart and thinking of the long term.

Surrounded by employees that enjoy coming to work, and customers that feel like they are getting a good deal, is a good and secure place to be in business.

"... a lot of money in the market looking for homes"

Yeah. That's what happens when interest rates are zero.

Analyst/consultant type smells money...

Okay, but at some point Uber has to make money, and at that point, it is then a net loss for the driver and his co-conspirator.

If that's not the case, then that is what is wrong with Uber's business model, and a problem that is easily fixed.

"As long as cryptography is only used for authentication and integrity purposes"

Which means you can't encrypt the content of a message.

Yes, somewhat like that.

Live free or die.

Yes. While he's in Russia, the CIA is most vested in keeping him safe.

I can't think of a safer place for him on the whole planet.

Hm. Predict again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

"...hurricane-force winds and rough seas in London"

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-297...

"The woman died in central London..."

A lib's answer to every issue. A tax.

"They could require ... all sorts of things to force the change"

You've put your finger on the main difference between the US and Europe. Europe seems to have no problem with top down forced changes, while the US is fairly resistant to that.

Yes, I remember.

They did change soda pop bottles. Well, the big ones.

I wouldn't worry about AI, at least for a very long time. We are not going to see it in an electronic digital computer.

Oh, you'll be able to fool me; you could probably do that now. But real free will in a machine, that is simply a complex array of electric switches? Don't get your hopes up.

Or fear, actually, instead of hope...

"I think that they'd actually be worse than the retreads, for the most part."

Why would you think that? Based on what the establishment has told you about them? By the time we are even aware of them, the narrative seems to be already set.

And yes, I knew you meant Bernie. Speaking of him specifically, as a conservative, I'd vote for him over any current Dem and most of the current Republicans. Those people are exactly the same; a vote for them is saying you love things just the way they are.

What we need is a really good politician. Bill Clinton was a decent politician, and Reagan was pretty good.

Those are about the only two I can think of in my lifetime that were good at the job of being a politician.