the US tends to spend more on health care than many European nations.

No we don't. We spend more than anybody! Period. In the whole world.

Stupid, aren't we?

I can't agree. I agree that Outlook is the worst mail client I've ever used, but Yahoo webmail sucks worse. I got it over a decade ago to have a stable email address. I read my mail on the phone because Yahoo's interface won't let me read a lot of mail without side scrolling with every line on the computer. FAR worse than anything MS's client does. But I will be glad when I don't have to use Outlook next February when I retire (but more glad I'll be through with Access).

I should just install Thunderbird (but I should install kubuntu on the notebook, too).

How do the LEOs know what someone's intention is?

What does low Earth orbit have to do with it?

The first five words were accurate. I've used a lot of different email clients and we're stuck with Outlook at work now. I fucking hate it. Of all the email clients I've used, IMO Outlook is the worst, PERIOD.

I miss the Novell client.

But it's still better than Yahoo webmail. Any dedicated email client is better than webmail.

Moreover only conservatives worship the Constitution.

Worship? How about simply respecting it? I wish the government would.

You didn't answer the question. Embarrassed by your job? What do you do, janitor? Walmart greeter? Burger flipper? CEO of Sony? Cop? Migrant farm worker?

At least a comic strip artist has to be creative, are you?

A state has a stupid regulation against self-service gas so all regulations are stupid? Logic fail.

The pure libertarian philosophy is simply that citizens should have unlimited autonomy so long as it doesn't infringe upon the autonomy of others

That is true and a philosophy that I subscribe to. However, the libertarians think that somehow paying taxes is against liberty, making regulations against fouling my air and water is against liberty, laws mandating that you don't pay starvation wages are against liberty, that regulations against unsafe workplaces is against liberty. Libertarians want the liberty to fuck me over.

Near slavery via economic means doesn't pass that litmus test

Hyperbole much? The government's not doing that, libertarian business owners are. You think those people working at WalMart should have to have a food drive to be fed? They're walMart's wage slaves. I, personally, will be delivered from slavery next February when I retire.

I hear this from a lot of slashdotters. No one bothers to give examples.

Here's one for you. In 2006 I needed eye surgery, an artificial lens for my left eye. My surgeon suggested a new design that had been out since 2003. Before the new design there were two types: monofocal and multifocal. Multifocal was like having bifocals in your eyeballs, with monofocals you needed reading glasses.

The new design is called an accomodating lens and sits on struts inside the lens capsule, so it will focus using the eye's natural focusing muscles.

It had been out for three years but no mention in wikipedia at all. So I edited (and if I don't write well I'm fooling a lot of people, some who have paid me for my book).

The next day it was gone. I added it back. Gone again. I gave up.

Two years later I mentioned it at slashdot when someone on Wikipedia's staff (not shilling, he was upfront about who he was) said something similar to what you just said so I told him what I just told you.

The next day the article had CrystaLens added.

Go on, try to edit something. It can't be done.

What religions don't let practitioners celebrate Thanksgiving? It isn't a holy day like Hannukah or Easter. What do the JWs have against it?

And I was in Bhuddist Thailand for a year, I saw no indication that they would be against a holiday like Thanksgiving. After all, they have the "water festival" which gets really wild and crazy. It's a spring holiday marking the beginning of the rainy season and consists of throwing water at each other. Sometimes barrels full. Sometimes there are pretty bad injuries (like Thanksgiving, alcohol plays a part in much of the celebration).

The truth of the matter is that evolution is one of the most verified theories we've ever conceived and the only reason it's still disputed to this day is because it contradicts a book of parables written thousands of years ago.

That's the hilarious part, it DOESN'T contradict that book. Even the Pope accepts evolution, why can't the yahoos in Texas and Kansas?

More government = less freedom.

Less freedom to steal, less freedom to pollute, less freedom to screw over your customers and business partners, less freedom to endanger others... you're right, more government = less freedom. That's a GOOD thing.

Government is there to protect me from you. I can affect government; I have a vote and a voice. I have no club whatever to bash over the head of AT&T, the MAFIAA, Monsanto, Wal Mart, Shell, BP, Microsoft, Sony... Except government.

Someone mod him informative, please (and mod me offtopic).

Yeah, you're right. Still cryptic, it looks like market-speak. I can't decipher "pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container" for starters. I know what "run" means, but pack and ship? Bits? I assume "lightweight" means a small footprint (by today's standards) but container? Who is this tool aimed at and what does it do?

Linda died of cancer, the end stage was a two week coma and she'd been on painkillers for months.

Well, they said she was in a coma, but I saw responses to stimuli. I cartainly don't want to go out like that, give me a lethal dose of something. Linda's death was horrible and barbaric.

WTF is "docker"?