Then why are all the big fiscal liberty families so small? In fact, it's almost a cliche- the richer you are in America, the fewer heirs you have.

Then the whole CO2/global warming issue should be solved.

And it just occurred to me that I have a blind spot due to my Catholicism. It isn't the sexual libertine side. It's the *sensual* libertine side, which includes abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.

There is no profit in mercantilism for reduction of population. It is in fact very bad business to reduce either your labor or consumer supply. Only the fiscal libertine side can be described by this, not the sexual libertine side, so you just revealed yourself to be rather partisan.

Yes, a reasonable habit from the days when I used a mechanical typewriter (and still good for monospaced code comments), but occasionally in

Fixed that for ya. (140 characters).

Or, as GK Chesterton put it in _All Things Considered_:
 
 

When I was a very young journalist I used to be irritated at a peculiar habit of printers, a habit which most persons of a tendency similar to mine have probably noticed also. It goes along with the fixed belief of printers that to be a Rationalist is the same thing as to be a Nationalist. I mean the printer's tendency to turn the word "cosmic" into the word "comic." It annoyed me at the time. But since then I have come to the conclusion that the printers were right. The democracy is always right. Whatever is cosmic is comic.

Neither Google nor Facebook have the ability to confiscate everything I own and throw me in jail, possibly using lethal force if I resist.

The government does.

There is no difference between the authority of the libertines and the authority of the government. The government is made up of libertines.

Correct- they're libertines. Sexual side, or fiscal side, take your pick, they've made liberty their new Goddess.

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I'm in Seattle. Within the city limits. And the best I can get without spending gobs of cash, for a small-business line, is 1.5mbps. I keep hearing from my telco that we'll have 10mbps Real Soon Now (TM), and I keep hearing rumors of other telcos lighting up the fiber that's already been run throughout my part of town (but inexplicably kept dark). FWIW, I don't think I've ever seen download speeds in excess of around 170kb/sec. Netflix often stalls out buffering, with grotty picture quality; never mind getting HD. All for the "low" *cough* price of around $110 / month.

When I moved to Japan in 2002, the cheapest plan I could get in my neighborhood was $30 / month for 12mbps. Upgraded, at no cost to me, to 18mbps, and then to 24mbps by the time I left in 2005.

So where are these lying shitheads pulling these numbers from? And have they been properly disinfected^Wsanitized?

Judging from the smell, I think not.

If he wanted us to write our names in the snow with our appendage, then why didn't women get a similar "snow writing" appendage?

Ha! If he wanted us to use chisels, then why did he invent sharpened sticks and clay tablets?

Hmm. They sound suspiciously like my neighbor's children.

If he wanted us to use pencils why did he invent quill pens?