You can visit websites in the US that post abortion doctor records. Free speech is free speech.

Having one of the most successful authors of the late 20th, early 21st century as a spouse probably doesn't hurt either. Unless he's really really large, in which case having Neil as a husband could hurt. Wouldn't know really.

Dagnabit, bakin tweneetree wees all wen up tu da moon. By gumbo itas ard werk, fertyet hurs at ah time cuz oxi were so pensi. Bud di we moan an cari abo like fancy dago footballers? Hell na, we tweneetrees donna go in fer yer wumenee hands. We wurk like gooduns, den and na.

Else we're gonna be really really mad, screw up our faces and cry. Then you'll be sorry.

Also, we'll send you to Gitmo.

Amateurs target systems, professionals target people. The weakest part of any IT system is the users. We know all this. For example, Mondays have the most downtime, as they are associated with changes made over the week. A user that installs a gotoassist to 'help' the IT department. Etc etc.

It's one thing to pull yourself up from the bootstraps if you're born uppermiddle class. It's another if you're born lower class. There's a strong argument that it's easier today to move up the social ladder in Europe than the United States. This is appalling.

Yeah. Because you enter life $50000 in debt. You already have a mortgage. You can't walk away from it. It's illegal. No bankruptcy is possible. I mean, what's next, debtors' prisons?

This has effectively destroyed a large population of society that should be buying houses, new cars, and the rest of the crap that a complex economy requires. It's as bad as a plague going through, but worse, because those folks still draw on society, still suck resources, and it's still crowded. All to pay for what should be mostly free.

Even worse - Universal education is the greatest gift of the American republic to world culture. When the English were dying in Manchester smoke, when the French and the Germans were at each other's throats, when the Chinese were involved in the biggest civil war the world has ever seen, when no one cared about Russia except to take some of it's land, the American farmer was getting an education. He is the most productive man in the world, not because of the arable land he lives on, with effort there's good land everywhere, but because he's the best educated class of man in history.

The CowboyNeal options were a part of Slashdot culture. Like the insensitive clod, Portman's hot grits, and the GNAA. I miss those.