You can't buy a chromecast, but you can buy pretty much any other brand or off-brand of competing device. Amazon is targeting Google, and did so first. The first time I remember the targeting is when Amazon refused to allow amazon video on the chromecast (which they still don't without quality-hampering workarounds.)
Google have been playing nice, but Amazon keeps hindering google's customer experience (Amazon video and Chromecast sales). While I don't like it, and it is hurting customers, I can't really blame Google for fighting back.
I Just hope the fight will be over soon.

Amazon has been singling out Google for a while, ever since they stopped selling the Chromecast. I have used a Chromecast and the cost is comparable to the FireTV stick which is why Amazon stopped selling it. Amazon did start the war. They still sell Apple TV, Roku and a bunch of off-brand Chromecast devices. Chromecast may have been the first cheap way to stream to your TV. It's always been ~$35. Google typically plays nice, but I see this as necessary since Google and Amazon may end up being the biggest tech companies on the block and Amazon has been excluding Google for a while.

You're right, number of neurons isn't the perfect measure of intelligence, but it seems it's moving the right direction. I would expect there's a greater correlation with intelligence and neuron count than with intelligence and brain size, although both likely give a good guess. I liked that raccoons have more neurons than a cat, although in the same size brain.

Sales taxes in Texas are higher, but only by a few percentage points (8.5 compared to 6 in WV) but the higher property taxes instead of income taxes seems to favor those less likely to have property, the lower class, and put the burden on the upper middle and upper classes who are more likely to own a home.

It's interesting in a forum where people are so skeptical but put so much faith in smarter people.

In the words of Far Field Productions, What's that mean? Personally, I see him as the lesser evil of two completely flawed candidates, but I have no idea what he's going to do. Either, 1. He is the democrat that he's always been and duped the American public, 2. He's a far right crazy man who wants to ban people from our country based on religion and deport a significant portion of the people in this country 3. He's become conservative and said those things to get media coverage, and will be a sane conservative president Who knows!

There is a presumptive right to life. Police and others must show why it was necessary, or they believed it necessary. Policemen have gone to jail for killing people.

Both sides advocate for the removal of choice, it's just which choices they feel are legitimate.

The left is more likely to remove the choice of gun ownership, the choice of who you can do business with, what size soda you can buy, or what you can say as a religious leader.

The right is more likely to remove the choice of whether you can kill your fetus or baby (depending on your viewpoint)

Whether abortion should be legal really comes down to a belief. When does a person become a person? If you believe a person becomes a person when they exit their mother's womb, then you should have no problem with the term pro-abortion. If that's your belief, then you shouldn't even care if there are fewer abortions. It's just a medical procedure extracting unwanted cells from a woman's body. If, however, you believe a person becomes a person before that, then under no circumstances, other than the certainty of making a choice between the mother's or the baby's life, should someone be allowed to kill the baby at that point.

I've heard people point to many tests to determine person-hood: viability, heartbeat, sensing pain, the ability to survive on it's own (which may not really happen well into childhood). It's really a question of when does a child obtain rights.

Personally, I find it unscientific and arbitrary to say a person becomes a person because they changed location.

It appears to me that the warrant system was to allow a judge to determine specific place and person to be searched or seized.

WooHoo

Thank you for being so anti-hate. It's unfortunate when people are hateful. Again, thanks for the loving sentiment.

Most of my computers are older, but I've had better success with Linux (new versions) over Windows finding drivers. I'm assuming that Windows had dropped the drivers, but I've had hardware (soundcards, NICs, etc.) that just work in Linux but Windows didn't see them.

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As one who knows evolution happens but doesn't believe in evolution as is referenced in this article, I know evolution happens within a kind of animals. In my biology textbook I read of a lizard population in California which split and became two isolated populations which have become separate species. This is specialization and the formation of new species, I do not believe life came about from natural processes, and I do not believe that a lizard population will ever not be a lizard population.

No, he didn't have the gun with him, he left it in Florida.