Seems like one would be able to fit more screws into a shipping container from China, than computers.

And Ohio just started taxing my electric car. Let's make sure to keep punishing good behavior and practices. Nothing bad will come of it.

I'm constantly mistaking planets for drones, so this makes sense.

There is a segment of American society that thinks:

1. Illegal aliens should be allowed into the country in spite of there being laws against it.

AND

2. Foreigners shouldn't have free speech in America in spite of there being no laws against it.

Seems to me the Russian goal of divide and conquer is working very well on that segment of society.

I finally realized that no mater how much I cared about the world, no matter how angry I got about politics, no matter how much I raged for the environment, there was absolutely nothing to be gained by being plugged in 16 hours a day. Now I check the news maybe once a day, and live the best life I can, only paying attention to those in my immediate sphere of influence.

Living without the constant anxiety has improved my life immensely, and now I don't add to the stress of those around me by feeding into their own stress cycles.

Yeah but as long as the long dimension of the hunk of plastic and latex is longer than 5'2, that's normal and fine. Anything shorter is just sick and will make people want to diddle kids.

Had my only child, a male child, at the age of 35. He is now 11 and is very much Dad's science geek.

Couldn't be prouder.

How can it simultaneously be non-binding and also the EOTWAWKI?

You need to be careful with this kind of talk.

It almost sounds like you are suggesting that the rich/corporations pay a lot of taxes that keep the costs of living down for the regular people, and that directly contradicts the consensus that the rich/corporations are nothing but leeches on society.

I say if true, convict.

I said the same thing of Hillary.

There, now everyone reading this can't say "Where are those people who said to investigate Hillary now that a Republican is in trouble?" Right here. Now shut up and stop playing sides.

People keep saying, "They really only make a difference up close." What is up close? In my media room the 55" 1080P TV is EXACLTY 8' 6" from my eyeballs when I am in the couch. Would I see a difference upgrading to a 4k, curved TV? Yes, I know I would see the 4k. I am wondering about the curve, at the distance.

I WONDERED how they did that opener for the halftime show. I was wondering if I was seeing on-the-fly computer graphics. Drones makes sense.

I'm sure that some judge, somewhere, will be willing to block the legislation.

"And furthermore, peace, love, grass."

This right here.

Look at my username. LOOK AT IT.

I was a Mac-only guy back in the late 90's. I had a subscription to MacAddict magazine for several years. My first computer was a beige G3/300 running MacOS 8.1. I eventually upgraded that box to 224MB of RAM and added a Voodoo3 3000 card (with the firmware flashed for the Mac).

I hated Windows and everything it stood for. But I started using white-box hardware running Windows when I wanted to make Unreal Tournament maps in 2002.

When I got over that phase (in 2005 or so), I started running Linux. But it was annoying and limiting and didn't play any good games. So I went back to Windows.

Not too long after that, I switched from being a primarily PHP/Java developer to a .Net/C# developer. This was around the 2007 to 2008 time-frame, so a good, solid, paying job was nothing to scoff at just for requiring the use of Microsoft software. As I began to learn more about .Net, I found that it's the "it just works" of software development ecosystems. When Windows 7 came along, I jumped on it. Windows 8.1 was good on a tablet. Windows 10 has been just fine. And through it all, .Net has been great. I've made a comfortable living for most of the last decade doing .Net development.

Sure, I kept buying Macs up until about 2007 or so. I had an iPhone (original model) for a while. But Apple's shit just gets on my nerves. Over and over they promised things that never happened. They produced shiny hardware that never performed. They kept nerfing the software. And when OSX 10.5 came out and replaced the normal IP firewall with an application firewall, I knew it was over. I haven't bothered with a new Mac since. I have actively pushed people away from Apple products. When people ask for help with esoteric Apple issues, I tell them "I don't know anything about Apple products", which, funny enough, is what I used to say about Windows.

So I've been there, and I've done that. Your journey away from Apple is just beginning. Mine has finished, and I have no regrets about it. And Apple should take it to heart if they want to survive.