the Vulcans. Like the inner eyelid Spock realizes he has in TOS: "Operation -- Annihilate!" Meant to protect us in the days we had 2 suns before one went nova. I made that last part up.

your explanations are compelling, but since 95% of your comments are cut and pasted from your comments posted to TFA , it kinda makes you sound like youre on a PR mission. And that makes my tin foil hat vibrate.

The "Cone of Silence"!

I was going to bemoan my lack of mod points, but then I saw you posted this anonymously...

Slashdot-style moderation (moderation as in "moderated") works well to appeal to reasoned debate. Those saying that Slashdot doesn't have reasoned debate have not been on the interwebs recently......

I can't tell you how many times I've said that exact thing!

difference is the dems said "it ain't so", today all the GOP folks are afraid to say it, 'cuz Rush will beat them up and they're scared of him. Seems to me they all just played into this, and are making true even it if wasnt originally.

no rationalizations or deflections on this one - I disagree with him. But this is one of about, oh, thirteen gazillion things that are 180 degrees better now. No need for rationalizations. I'm no longer embarrassed by my president.

I went through this with my father in law who is amazingly non computer savvy. I just installed LogMeIn on his system (free) and now whenever he has an issue, I can fix it from home. Has kept him up and running for a year now with only the occasional glitch.

Betcha they're mostly in democratic districts.....