"Almost everyone advances; the gap grows ever larger. It has always been this way; likely it will always be so."
Until the gap becomes very wide, then the poor kill all the rich, loot their estates and the cycle repeats.

Give it another 10 years and the gap will be getting near the,"let's form an angry mob and kill the rich guy, we can feed the whole city off of what is in his house."

Others have pointed out that you are wrong concerning whether the violence is 'unprovoked'. I submit that you are also wrong in saying that the GP is trying to justify this behavior. He is not. He's predicting it. And explaining the genesis of it.

You sound like you've spent a lot of time thinking about this.

I looked around a bit and saw a few citations that back your assertion that "Parents of children born in the U.S. are not allowed to stay here just because their kid is a citizen" Do you know of any firm numbers? Say the number of births in the US with non-citizen parents? Of perhaps more interest to me would be the numbers of deportations of these parents. And are the children returning to the home country of the parent(s) or are they staying in the US and entering various foster care situations?

I submit your 'wide variety' is far less diverse than you imagine. Get out of your suburb.

You should be more circumspect about people who not only view Ayn Rand as a brilliant thinker, but a sex object as well.

If I had my way, I'd have all of them shot.

--Pink (or is that Alan Greenspan?)

Many who oppose homosexual behavior also oppose some of the items on your list, especially vasectomies and tubal ligation. Does the gender reassignment surgery really even need to be addressed in regards to this?

In fact, the only one of interest that you mentioned was intercourse with post-menopausal with. IIRC, this is usually explained as being more or less a gift to the couple for being in a union. There's a bit more to it, but you have to accept the postulation that marriage is a joining of man and woman under God.

When drawing blood and getting covered in fecal matter is involved, I think it's not to be thought of as just "an alternative".

But that's me.

Calling anonymous cowards names doesn't help, sadly. They're already willing to put their words under the name "coward", since they already know what they are. You think that you can hurt them more than knowing they constantly live in fear?

That is, in fact, a lie. Granted, it's at the low end of the resolution of gaming mice, but since you can move the ball more than a mouse ball without having to move your hand, you actually end up getting more precision. The sample rate and the DPI are both fine for gaming.

Do you know how not to be a condescending dickass? Wait, no. You don't. I must be new here. Cowards like you never know that.

If you're not moving your arm, then you're moving your wrist. If you are moving your arm, you're moving your arm and your wrist. I don't have to move my wrist to use my trackball. If you don't know you're moving your wrist when you're moving your mouse, then you're not at all in touch with your body. It's the smallest repeated movements that do the most damage. Kind of like when you masturbate.

The "computer graphics" from the original HHGTTG TV series were hand animated cells. It was the only way for them to animate the guide within budget at the time. From memory they used a blue screen to project the animations onto the guide's screen in post production.

Remembering back 25 years or so when I worked as an architectural draftsman, the yellow paper printed to a purple-blue-ish line on white paper - it was quite pale. There were also gloss versions that left a black line but I can't remember if they were also 'yellow' before being exposed. We also used a stock that came out sepia brown.

Generally a print was made from a 'positive' drawing on tracing paper, the image would appear where ink obstructed the UV light from reaching the transfer sheet/copy. Anywhere with no light got exposed and would come out white-ish. Prints would fade with exposure to daylight.

The paper would be stored in black plastic sleeves in light-fast draws before use to ensure it didn't go bad. We used to go through a ton of the stuff. In the practice where I worked, we usually had one person running the print machine full time. The yellow paper version exposed to UV light was way better than the older ammonia machines, which used to leave me feeling light-headed after about 20 minutes of use.

CAD wasn't really common at that point, so we hand drafted everything, if you had to make a significant change to the drawing, it often meant starting again, minor changes were made be scratching the ink off the sheet with a razor blade and making your amendments to the 'original' sheet.

How many MP3 files were you trying to decode at once? Decoding music is one thing, and even a Nintendo DS can do that. Decoding 50 layers of environmental noises and sound effects is something else entirely.

What percent of one of the cores of your quad core does the DSP take?

Unless you're Intel. Its GMA integrated graphics processors (nicknamed "Graphics My Ass") offloaded vertex transformation to the CPU. Only during the Bridge era did Intel graphics catch up with the PS3.