In my experience the /. editors do edit.

Maybe I should have put "edit" in "funny quotes".

It's OK. I'll just put an end to the discussion now. There is no such thing as an ephemeral Internet. It is a myth. All your naughty words, deeds and pics are archived by a number of different services including The Internet Archive. Such a thing is not possible: the Internet is actually designed to prevent it. Various means of showing your naughty bits over the Internet to one person only for only a brief time have a number of design flaws including "THE ANALOG HOLE".

The same forces that are moving the sun through space are also acting on the earth itself. So, no.

I remember seeing a video where they did the math and for a 3 month stay on the ground and round trip from here to there you'd have needed a ship bigger than the empire state building

Your "math" is incredibly bad. Read any book on Mars from Zubrin and become educated.

What you are overlooking is that one human in one day could day about 100x the total research done so far by all of the rovers combined. What doesn't make sense is to continue to send very expensive robots to learn less and less... we've reached the point where we simply need to send humans to really study the place.

Uh... no. STTNG was definitely *NOT* before the Internet.

It was, however, before Eternal September.

Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another.

Guns aren't for killing one another.

They are either for sport, or for keeping people from killing/harming you.

Guns have historically protected groups that might otherwise just have been removed altogether. Travel back in time, ask Martin Luther King and his followers how "bad" guns are.

It's nice that 3D printers can make our lives better in other ways too, but we should not exclude one of them through irrational fear.

But wouldn't people who can afford luxury cars also be less likely to be concerned about the price of the gasoline in the first place?

I realize this is going to be far from universally true, but one of the major reasons to go with an electric car is because it's cheaper to run than a gas-powered vehicle. That advantage sort of shoots itself in the foot when the vehicle itself costs a significant premium above what a person who is likely to be concerned about fuel economy is able or willing to pay.

no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!

During video playback, you should try to reduce the number of Eliza windows to less than five, and also refrain from running more than two other operating systems using the elisp engine as a VM.

Also it's well known that any system installations of VI or VIM will spike the processor during emacs use out of jealously; I suggest you delete them.

First all, reprap doesn't print a printer. It prints a kit which you can assemble into a printer. Sure a kit can be useful, but it's not the same thing as printing an actual usable printer.

Secondly, reprap prints only the plastic parts of the printer,but misses out on the electronics and few metal components which are actually required to make a complete functional device, and which must be purchased separately.

Indeed... and it wasn't until the price actually *DID* come down that people really started buying them in any quantity.

.... until their prices become comparable in purchase price to an otherwise equivalent gas-powered car, instead of paying a premium for them that makes them more of a status symbol of luxury than a practical automobile.

Possibly.

You're aware that Vitamin C occurs entirely naturally though, right?

Something developing a resistance to a vitamin is not as serious in terms of health as it would be if it developed resistance to a man-made treatment.

How do you quash a publicly known vitamin?

In the end, you are attacking a company that makes more effort to pay taxes it owes than most other companies. It's farcical to complain about Apple doing this when you do not complain about any other company with far more egregious and shady tax deals going on.

Even the most basic issues in government need good data to work with. Whether you're speaking of the Environment, Economy or Health Care, you have to know where the people are, what their needs are, and what the trends are if you want any hope of doing a good job.

A one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work here. Manitoba is not BC, and BC isn't Quebec. Trying to do anything governance-wise without data is folly. Like it or not, the government DOES spend money on programs and it DOES handle a lot of problems. The Canadian government is responsible for providing health care money (though the provinces are responsible for actually delivering care) and First Nations, etc., etc. Complain if you want about how the Federal government should do less, but in the meantime, the government should be using its power to spend the money it has WELL.

Their census fits nothing. It does nothing. They have no data, so they can only guess at what the priorities should be. Even the most minimalist government should want accurate and detailed census data so they know how to confine their spending to only the things that need immediate attention. It's just a blinders-heavy view of the world to ignore the facts.

But that's this government. It ignores the overwhelming facts in the hopes that they'll go away. The Tar Sands, the F-35 boondoggle. Corruption in its own ranks, the Lakes project and the Census. For them, the less people know, the better they can plow through and waste our money. They're objectively one of the least transparent governments in the last 50 years. Despite their claims of being open and honest and transparent, access to information has languished under this administration.

A government doesn't need to manage all problems. But it needs to show that it's working on the priorities of the populace that elected it. The only way to do that is to provide data before and after, and let democracy decide. Surely you can agree with that. Otherwise, don't go around slinging around the 'ideology' argument so freely.