Imagine how NPR would cover the ongoing (Executive branch) changes to the ACA if Bush were President.

Hmm, very similar to JD Salinger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger)

For all of you arguing that college requirements for non-technical courses are BS, this is a great counter-example. If you have no idea of what _Catcher in the Rye_ is, nor who Salinger is, then you are at a disadvantage vs. the Harvard (etc) graduates.

I will take this seriously when they cease watering golf courses. Until then, it is just theater.

"...each course each day in Palm Springs consumes as much water as an American family of four uses in four years. "
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

I play Nethack, FreeCiv and Morrowind (and very rarely, Oblivion). I rotate them out as I get bored with each game. For the Oblivion series, the player add-ons are what kept me hooked - there are some truly awesome player expansions out there, where the player is able to make a contribution in the first place.

See http://it.slashdot.org/story/9...

I browsed at 4+ comments, and didn't see any responses like this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Seems pretty simple?

I wonder when General Alexander will be facing charges?

I searched on 4+ comments, and didn't see anything, so here is Google's study> (they go through a lot of drives)

From the FA: "Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to be free, says Freitas. The use of ad blocking software breaks that implicit contract."

I love this argument. I recall a high-profile libertarian making the same argument (after which I stopped going to his site). Contract? Tell you what - put your site behind a password-protected page and I'd agree about the contract. But if your site is publicly accessible there is no contract and you know it.

I posted this the last time this topic arose. Whereas Warg has not yet faced trial (thus guilt in doubt), convicted war criminal Albert Speer had access to books (and was allowed to write) after being convicted. Fascinating difference in treatment.

" Everyone expected even greater things from my generation. We totally let them down...."
Yes, you did. The baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation in American history. You have left the country in worse shape than you found it.

The most recent two presidents are from your generation, and they are arguably the worst in American history.

But we see no apologies. Instead, we finally see attempt at marijuana legalization, to lessen the pain as you head to your graves.

Fun to compare someone who hasn't been found guilty of a crime to War Criminal Albert Speer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer

Speer served 20 years and was given more freedom in his confinement then Gottfrid, who has not been found guilty by Sweden.

From wiki: "With the draft memoir complete and clandestinely transmitted, Speer sought a new project. He found one while taking his daily exercise, walking in circles around the prison yard. Measuring the path's distance carefully, Speer set out to walk the distance from Berlin to Heidelberg. He then expanded his idea into a worldwide journey, visualizing the places he was "traveling" through while walking the path around the prison yard. Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.[117] Meticulously calculating every meter traveled, and mapping distances to the real-world geography, he began in northern Germany, passed through Asia by a southern route before entering Siberia, then crossed the Bering Strait and continued southwards, finally ending his sentence 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Guadalajara, Mexico."

Hmm, following up to my own post. Running as admin under XP, I now get the message "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices."

Guess it is back to FreeCiv...

OK, I'm a little disappointed. I'm running XP, and run by default in non-admin mode. The install MSI package required admin rights to install, and now, after waiting about 2 hours for the 4 gig download, it appears the game by default also requires admin access?????

Come on, in the 21st century games running on Microsoft operating systems should *not* require admin privileges. Please fix.

Given the recent revelations including NIST weaknesses, does OpenBSD withstand the likely attacks?

The Forbes article states "Under current regulations, electricity generated by renewable energy resources are given priority access to the grid. As a result, electricity generated by coal and gas-fired plants is only used “to make up for any shortfalls,” according to the AFP."

Does this mean that the nuclear stations have to divert their power when the wind picks up or the sun comes out? I'm certainly no expert, but I thought in the US it is the opposite, so that the wind stations have to go on bypass and the dams/nuclear stations have priority. Or is the Forbes article simply incorrect?