You could always brush up on your Yiddish. There are 5 ways to spell bupkis and that's not one of them.

In the USA, at least, everyone should list The Bible, even if they've never read it or don't believe a word of it. After all, it's largely because of The Bible that...

1. Gay people can't marry.
2. Women are second-class citizens who can't be trusted or expected to manage their own lives.
3. Gays, non-whites, and non-Christians are second-class citizens and are treated with mistrust or contempt, sometimes to the point of assault or murder, and do not deserve to have their views reflected in government or society.
4. Slavery was all good and well into the 1860's and race discrimination was still going strong 100 years later.
5. Infant boys have parts of their genitals cut off.
6. We are in perpetual war with much of the Middle East (the Qur'an shares much of the blame here).

Whether you believe The Bible or not, whether you've read The Bible or not, whether you even care about The Bible or not, it has restricted your liberty if you live amongst those who live by it.

Probably not, but in the last election lots of people picked the president by the VP the other guy chose. "I was leaning toward this guy but his health is questionable and he picked a crazy hick to be his VP."

To some degree a known reference would not be necessary. The camera knows how far away the object is by way of autofocus. If the object is far enough away that the focus goes to infinity, then you're SOL.

That's 54 miles per imperial gallon, presumably, which comes to 45 miles per US gallon.

Don't get me wrong, that's still impressive, just... apples to apples and all that.

Nostalgia translates from Greek as "painful homecoming". This is no place for happy memories. While I would probably find older versions of Windows painful to use now, I do not remember them that way.

Some of the contenders for me are Corel Wordperfect Suite 8-9, Quickbooks, Mac OS X, DOS Shell, Ins-Pro, RightNow...

Those last two probably take it. They're both so bad I'd have a hard time choosing.

because http://youtu.be/danYFxGnFxQ

Yes, you're clearly very detail-oriented. ;)

Oligopoly

...as of a few months ago. Someone posted one of those virus hoaxes that's been floating around via email for 12+ years and I informed them that it was such and linked to the related Snopes article. The comment was rejected because the linked url was "spammy".

Your terminology is off as well.

A theist believes in a god. A religious person need not (see Buddhism).
An atheist is one who is not a theist. They may not believe in god or they may believe there is no god.
An agnostic believes that the truth about the existence of god(s) is unknowable.

You can be agnostic in addition to theist or atheist. I don't believe in gods but I also don't think we can be certain about their existence. I'm an agnostic atheist.

Appeal to nature. Appeal to tradition. Look 'em up.

As a 25+ year sufferer, I agree with you somewhat; it's best to put the puzzle piece where it fits rather than take scissors to it. The problem is that sometimes that environment is society itself and it's just not very realistic to remove oneself from society aside from death, which also doesn't technically solve anything.

I often feel like I need to move off the grid somewhere and live a simpler, "natural" life without all the schedules, pressures and expectations of a normal life. Long term survival in the wild would probably stress most people out, but to me it's every day pressures and decisions that are complicated and confusing.

I moved from the woods of upstate NY to St Louis in 2010. It was exciting for a few months but the buzz of the city, even a small city like STL, slowly burned me out. I moved back this past fall.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some highly dysfunctional hermit: I function rather well in modern society, there's just no contentment in it. Only hiking brings me any significant peace.

Weathermen are meteorologists, not climatologists. There's some relation but it's a significant difference.

In the 70s a small number of climatologists predicted a cooling period was underway and, even though they were refuted by the vast majority, the news papers and magazines ran with the story as an imminent ice age because that sounds scarier.

You don't have to believe their predictions; you can look at the recent records and see that it's hotter now than it's been since the "Medieval Warm Period" which we shot past 5 or so years ago.

You are both wrong because rights are not given or granted; they are taken from those who would deny them.

Want free speech? Speak freely and with no regard for those who would silence you.

Rights are a matter of opinion. The ones the majority agrees upon are the ones that are recognized. There are people who believe they have the right to kill and there are people who believe we don't have the right to say things that offend them. The only thing that makes both of them wrong is that they do not have the numbers to force the issue.

If you believe you have a right that is not recognized then find ways to convince others that you are correct. Racial equality and women's rights both got where they are because people protested, made noise, made arguments and gradually convinced the majority that they were right. Gay rights isn't there yet but is following the same model.