I found out where the IT window lickers hang out. Here.

Hollywood has to die for movies to become good again. As in entertainment, national pastime. This is not the way it was seen to happen, but whatever path it takes, it will happen. Really, they don't need strikes or AI to continue the suicide, but whatever helps things also, oh well.

Ah, yes. Let's ban, ban, ban on our way to obscurity.

Thanks. Maybe I'll take an interest in the topics around here again as I descend into old age and infirmity.

Of course I jumped in to the top story, without regard for anything else.

I have not been here for 3 years. I left because it sucked really bad, and was thick with fools and kiddies and libs. Is it better?? Will check back tomorrow, thnx.

That worked out real well in Mumbai, did it not?

The word imperial was not coined to describe the US. We have a large footprint, we look after our interests, we elect foolish and self-interested politicians. we have incompetent and self-interested diplomats and generals, but overall, the US is a force for good in the world. My fault is to find fault with the world in total, and your's is to ascribe bad motives to the US to the exclusion of everything else.

After fighting and defeating the Axis in the 20th century, and helping to put things back together, and not completely taking away the sovereignty of the vanquished should tell anyone that the US wants a dominant position, but not an empire. Extreme example, but not that long ago.

Wow. Can you say narcissism? Every gay boy must believe as you do regarding the US and its positions and actions in the world?

You have so invalidated your position by implying that you know all that's right and wrong, not just because you do, but because of who you are.

Can't buy M16's or other full auto/select fire weapons off the shelf in the US.

No, but the conversion is so easy that the illiterate and stoned gangsters are buying retail black rifles from the US, and doing the auto conversion in their garages. Not.

"... but opponents fear that the system's long-term effects are not fully known..."

unlike the long term effects of lead with a copper sheath travelling at hypersonic speeds.

The words "net neutrality" sound good. The reality behind the political movement attached to them is anything but good. Wake up, quickly.

It must be a burden to be part of a formerly great civilization whose language and alphabet cannot be expressed on the internet.

Then again, maybe not.

There is a spectrum from super-taster (a sommelier) to a non-taster (someone who likes, not just tolerates, McDs).

I don't know where I lie in the spectrum, except it's more taster than non. And I have never had anything better than about $100 retail.

A good wine must be matched to the food, and I don't begrudge someone with the money and desire to enjoy the expensive stuff, but I think I'm happy sticking well under $100, even though I would drop $50 at the store per week if my conscience would allow.

All of this assumes a fair market in wine, and the sellers are not taking advantage of and mocking the poseurs.