...that electric cars require less maintenance.

I know everybody here wants to get on with the business of rehashing the same old boring arguments about guns, but please notice this is about which IDEAS are illegal to possess. A drawing or blueprint is an idea and a piece of communication. It is not a firearm. In America this would be a 1st Amendment issue (not the 2nd).

Look at people acting as if social media is All Important and Significant and Stuff. So cute.

In my opinion this one principle illustrates the fundamental narcissistic egotism of the human race, most of whom somehow manage to come to the conclusion that the world was some kind of disaster before they happened to get born into it, but now finally they've arrived to fix everything. Thank goodness!

The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating story about ISIS efforts to get their hands on a mysterious and powerful superweapon called [Allah]. The problem is that by consensus among scientific authorities, [Allah] doesn't exist. And yet that hasn't stopped the legend of [Allah], touted by sources from Nazi conspiracy theorists to former Manhattan Project scientists, as having magical properties. Middle East weapons traders have even spun elaborate stories for its properties (ranging from thermonuclear explosive properties to sexual enhancement) and origins and sources (from Soviet weapons labs to Roman graveyards). What can account for the enduring myth of [Allah] — is it rampant scientific illiteracy, the power of urban legend and shared myth, or something else?

Electrolytes!

I literally WOULD vote for that. I'd tolerate losing the rap music and skateboards if it meant getting my Matrix-enjacked friends back.

I don't think that will work, since the exact things ISIS does -- and uses for recruiting purposes -- already show fully that they hate Allah and Mohammed.

Black Friday falls under the general subject heading of "Bullshit." Now of course there are 10,000 Americans born every day who have to separately get bored with or otherwise reject Bullshit, and I'm sure that fact alone is what keeps some people in business, but it is Bullshit nonetheless. There are tons of us who have recognized it as such. If you're exposed to a lot of advertising, and your friends are typical consumers, you might be surprised to learn just how few people give a shit about Black Friday and how many people are doing just what you suggest. In other words, the input you're receiving might be a wee bit biased, because none of us run ads. What would that even sound like? "IT'S A NORMALCY BLOWOUT EVENT!!!! Come on down to the typical day when we don't really do anything particularly differently! SANITY! DIGNITY! It's a Friday REGULAR-TACULAR!!"

"...citing a 50% shortfall between demand and capacity over the next five years..."

Assuming that even happens, that will more properly be known as an "unexploited opportunity," which in capitalism is like a vacuum, which is that thing nature abhors. And considering the fact that the costs of running a network of a given size, don't increase at all during demand peaks, I think someone who knows how to get the job done for a reasonable fixed price will step in and get it done. Might even snatch the market out from under any old congestion-pricing moo-cows who mistakenly think they're indispensable.

Until recently I would've said Portland OR, but it appears it has been "discovered" and there's no such thing as reasonable rent anymore.

Yeah but a war on staircases? How am I supposed to make money off that?

...they'll just laugh at you.
For now.

Just to be clear, there's nothing specifically anti-French about an AK-47. It is the rifle of under-funded underdog armies and guerrilla bands the world over, because it's cheap, durable, reliable, and easy to get parts. Rich armies like the US Army use other weapons.

...Nelson "Bighead" "Baghead" Bighetti