Groen Links (Green Left) was decimated in Holland when it became clear the party had lost all touch with reality in supporting several right wing measures, forgettin they were supposed to be a LEFT wing party.

Not according to German Green Party founder Petra Kelly, who famously said "Not Left or Right, but straight ahead!" ("Nicht links oder recht, aber gerade aus!")

The Christians lost the Crusades. Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.

A declaration of war is an acceleration.

But you are right. 'Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy,' said Poe. Someone needs to tell this twit to STFU. We don't care to stumble into yet another war started by a Texan Republican with a big mouth.

Aargh. I just pointed out above that it is actually 1/e. Well, we are both on the same page.

No, it isn't. It is 1/e. The inverse power function runs through everything.

Asimov’s laws effectively treat robots like slaves. Perhaps that is acceptable for now, but it could become morally questionable (and more difficult to enforce) as machines become smarter and possibly more self-aware.

I will start worrying about the slavery problem when my machines start complaining about it.

via redditor Sheepwn:

The goal is to put off internet regulation for 2 years because that'd be 2015 after elections. Democrats won the election and the party the won usually loses favor during the mid term election. Basically they're stalling until they get a Republican Senate to do the legislation instead of the split Senate/House (which I would prefer over all Democrat or Republican)

Has anyone done a study on how much time/dollars are spent in dealing with such?

All of them.

just like Apple's OS X...move to an OS X-like system....just like OS X

...neither first to market *nor* "first to profit". But certainly "last to cool".

Back in the 1980's, the [so-called] Moral Majority spent a lot of time stealthily taking over local school boards. By stealthily, I mean they concealed their true colors, while running, then used their winning of elections to argue that they had a mandate to undermine the teaching of science and critical thinking in public schools. The fact that people can be elected to Congress and make such fatuous statements with a straight face makes me think that they -- in a certain sense -- did "win": these Congresspeople are the children of that age. It's sad, of course, that people think that "winning" means one has the right to determine the conceptual course of the nation's children -- regardless of actual facts.

"...and hello Democratic Presidents for the next twenty years!"

My only guess was that he feared the far right might get too disgusted with the election to vote if he came off as moderate.

Which appears to be exactly what happened.

....Puerto Rico, and Democratic Presidents as far as the eye can see. We won't even have to change the flag.

...to hunger. Therefore, the old saw "fat, dumb and happy" should probably be: "happy, fat -- and dumb".