I was wondering the same thing. I understand why some services might brand with different regional domains, but some services don't seem to make sense to use anything other than the .com.

I can't speak for the Greens, but do you have any idea how small the Libertarian organizations are? The party in the state I live in has an unpaid executive director and a volunteer state committee. None of us are able to make our living as political wonks. Even the national party has just a handful of paid staff. I think the national budget is something in the ballpark of a million dollars from some number of donors. Putting all that money behind Sarvis in Virginia would barely budge his numbers.

So many people are conditioned to vote R or D because that's what they've always done. Most people only vote for specific parties and rarely research the candidates before heading to the ballot box. As a prime example, Republican primary voters in my state voted a felon as their auditor candidate over the party backed candidate. Twice, an embarrassment was voted the Libertarian gubernatorial nominee over party backed candidates whose only crime were having surnames that didn't sound Murican enough. States should stop funding party primaries and let them either handle it at convention or require them to pay for them.

It's not clear to me since I'm not a doctor, but I recall he speculated on his blog a few months ago that Larry Page had a similar condition that he himself suffered from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Personal_life

Of course, the Flames were from Atlanta before they were from Calgary. Not sure they burn much oil down there.

Maybe they are trying to free you up for a separate project, for instance? At my last job, we had a contractor who did the majority of our programming, as well as some networking/admin. Part of my tasks, as an employee of the company, was to learn some of the networking/admin tasks to free his time up up for additional programming and higher-level network design. It may not hurt to ask the client what their future intentions are, just in case.

I'm not a big Rand fan although I am a Libertarian, but why is it hypocritical for her to use the services her tax dollars paid for?

Most Libertarians I know, and that is quite a few, are just as concerned with state abuses of power (and city, county, etc.) as they are with the federal government's over-reaching.

While cleaning out some old letters from the attic of the family farm, I found a letter from my grandfather to the adjoining natural gas pipeline. Back in the '60s or maybe '70s, something had leaked into the pond near the property line, making some of the cattle sick. Amazingly, the government laws on pollution did not prevent this accident but his hiring of a lawyer with his private money made him whole without having to go to court.

You forget that Libertarians believe your body is your most important property and have inherent rights because of that.

I've attended three Libertarian conventions where the party's platform has been modified and kept myself abreast of the actions of a fourth that I was not able to attend. Do you have any evidence for the claim you made? Post a link, if so.

Where I live, party committees don't pick who is on the ballot unless a candidate withdraws from the race.

Missouri's Republican party had a massive aversion to the first wave of Ron Paul supporters in the 2008 election. Even thought they showed up as you say, and became members of the county committee, and were selected as delegates to district conventions and so on.

In 2012, the RP folks were better organized and educated and swept the county caucus where I live and also placed several people on the county committee. They came within one vote of having their candidate defeat the sitting chairman in the primary elections for committeeman. They have some of the power that you think the position wields, but I'm fairly certain the establishment still looks down at them.

Indeed, it was a good day when Gaston's future was so bright, shades couldn't help him.

As a former Datastorm employee, the takeaway I had from the acquisition by Quarterdeck is to never take payment for your company fully in the acquiring company's stock.

The family farmstead that my brother and I have has a small pump for a pond to provide water for livestock. The pumphouse is essentially a 2' x 2' x 2' "building" of wood, insulated, with a 60W lightbulb to keep the pump from freezing up in cold weather.