If you learned to spell you might be able to get a job. Aloud means audible, allowed is what you are permitted.

We know better than to try to argument with you. You hold a position in which you are emotionally invested. All we have is a bunch of statistics showing how welfare helps out the entire population, examples of people who really needed the welfare and who are now back on their feet and have become productive members of society and historical accounts of the fortunes of welfare states against non-welfare states. We know that these facts are no match for your completely made up stats and feelings of loss toward the people who are abusing the system.

It's not about punishing people. These are people who hold absolutely no value to society, and allowing them to keep living is just a waste of perfectly good oxygen.

Also, in the rest of Texas there's the joke that Austin isn't really part of Texas, it's a colony from California.

I understood the question as "Which one of these random acronyms do you think rolls of the tongue the nicest?"

That leads to the good/bad pattern. 95 was bad, then 98 was a refinement which was good. ME was bad then XP was the refinement that was good. Vista was bad, then 7 was the refinement that was good. 8 is bad so maybe soon we'll get a refinement that is good.

I've thought sometimes about starting a business venture: all the technology in the 250GTO is old enough now that I could easily build one identical to the originals. Any patents have long expired, and as long as I don't put a "Ferrari" badge on it I should be able to skirt any trademark issues. I'm sure there are enough people willing to buy something like that to make it worthwhile.

Exactly what I came here to say. Government regulates a lot of things and does most of them quite well.

I'm not so sure about that... my kid is constantly surprising me when she brings up something that happened months ago. I thought nothing of it at the time, but she's obviously been thinking about it and finally decided to ask about it.

Well it was a bit circular in development. We have hands, so wee develop tools we can use with our hands, then practice using these tools makes us better at it...

I think his point was more that our hand /are/ adaptable, breaking your fingers often increases their strength and makes them less likely to break in future, where playing the piano causes them to develop fine control muscles which makes you a better pianist.

They're probably looking for videos talking about how good Islam is and getting the blasphemous videos instead. I know the reverse often happens to me.

Lego don't even need to short the classic sets. If people are willing to pay these extreme prices for the sets it means that they are in demand. It makes sense for a company to produce and sell products which are in demand.

+1 whoosh?

He didn't add "you dead" to the statement, he only added "dead".

If Google have so offended you by putting them a manuscript on the internet, you should email them. I'm sure they will be happy to refund you the money you spent on it and reimburse you for the time you spent helping them do it. As lucm mentioned: what have you done to bring the Da Vinci manuscripts to the world?

Whether you believe in the sky-wizard or not, lots of people do and understanding exactly what they believe and why they believe it is the first step toward helping them.