Stupid old people advocating policies that not only don't favor them as a class but might even hurt them as a class. Whatever can they be thinking of?

Maybe Stewart, Colbert, and (now with extra class!) Jimmy Fallon can explain it all to us poor senile fools, your grandparents.

Props, you sound like someone worth listening to. What are you doing here?

However, in harness with competition, it beats command and control all to hell, without piling up hundreds of millions of corpses.

On my planet, some dude wrote a book called "The Wealth of Nations" a couple hundred years back, and since then "losing jobs to India" has sounded kind of tardulent. Learn how to compete.

Recently got hired after 6 weeks of unemployment at a 20% raise from my previous gig. I'm 63. I sent out 3 resumes.

Cloud cuckoo land? Precisely right. I read her blog posting and some of the comments. Her cognitive community Believes In Karma. Somewhere amongst the four forces there lurks a cosmic accountant. OK, whatever. In my universe, reality is a bitch. It probably takes her and me to make a society. I think she's an idiot, she thinks I'm a brute. Oh well.

Did Tina Fey tell you that she could see stupid and ignorant from the Tea Party?

Looting has been tried before, Skippy. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money, and then there's hell to pay. There's more to macroeconomics than "you've got it, I want it, hand it over" class warfare. Read some Bastiat.

Heh. I wrote that program sometime in 1976, target was DEC RSTS Basic. It helped me squeeze more function into a rather limited amount of memory.

The science is open source. But the raw data has been "lost"...

Sadly, licensed dietitians aren't particularly interested in devaluing their credential.

I love it when you guys get classy!

Freud was a coke fiend. With his buddy Fleiss, the nose fetishist. Honest, I couldn't make this up.

I happen to be gravitationally challenged, you insensitive clod! Neither "shrink" nor "edge" apply to me. But my very first IT job was running a card sorter....

There's a critical difference.The straw enterprise is C02-neutral on an annualized basis. The carbon in the straw was C02 a year ago. And now it's C02 again, big deal.

There are hazardous substances associated with most every form of energy generation. There's U, Th, K40 and other radionuclides in a coal smokestack. The emissions from a coal plant would get a nuclear plant shut down instantly. There would be mass evacuations if enough radiation leaked from a nuclear plant to be comparable to the everyday background in Denver. And don't even get me started on the DHMO hazards associated with hydroelectric power. That stuff kills thousands in the US every year.

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olderphart
"disjointed ramblings since - Get off my lawn!"

Now all we have to do is grind up all the uranium-contaminated granite rocks (continental masses) and pour crap on them. Then we'll be safe from the nyucaleer boogyman and all live forever. Bah, humbug.
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olderphart