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Hate isn't the problem. Irrational hate is the problem. I hate what Hitler did to the Jews. Is that irrational? OK, I'm judging myself here but I think it is a rational hate and therefore not a problem. I hate lemon in certain pastries. Lemon cookies and cakes do not align with my...

Countries that allow extremist religious sects to stay there without cracking down on them in some way to curtail their activities if not their physical freedom. I expressly DO include Christian extremists as a threat. This threat is based in the ultimate paradox of freedom: The only...

Just so that we are clear, I'm not participating in this thread because my wife says I have the visual design capabilities rivaled only by three-year-old kids with open jars of finger paint.

There are either NO gods or ONE god or MANY gods. A thing if it exists at all, is either unique or not unique. (Thus saith that sage philosopher and author Isaac Asimov, in his story The Gods Themselves.)

I noted with some interest that the EU's privacy policy is being revised to put some SERIOUS teeth into the law in a way that will force some of the big tech companies to take notice. I doubt it would ever happen in the USA, but some sharp teeth in OUR privacy laws would be welcome. I think...

Statistically, for the USA's biggest lotteries (Mega Millions and Power Ball), it is possible to have a lottery drawing for which there is not one single winner, even of the consolation prizes. The odds on THAT happening are also quite small - but it is theoretically possible. Given the luck...

I'm not that interested because I can see family resemblances in the mirror. Therefore, my Ancestry.COM findings would probably be borne out. I would be some percentages of: British (Essex) - Dad's patrilineal branch Alsace-Lorraine region - Dad's mother's branch Scottish/Irish - Mom's...

Actually, I suspect that it wasn't "political correctness" that got involved. The puritanical Christian fundamentalists don't like the word "sex" because as they keep telling us, sex is dirty. But they rarely like it when I respond with "It is dirty only if done right."

I'm going to go "authoritative" for just a couple of seconds. < authoritative > "Sex" is the checkbox that has an M or an F next to it on every government form I've ever seen. NONE of them ask for your gender. All of them ask about your sex. If the USA government calls that "sex" then...

Point for Bee!

Some years ago, I got caught doing a foolish thing - I locked my keys in my car and had to call a mobile service that did that kind of services. (Local chain was "Sir Pop-a-Lock".) After that, I remembered that it cost me money so I never again locked a car by pushing down the button and...

Had to throw in #5, didn't you, Jon...

There is indeed no proof that a person posting online has even a grain of truth in what they say (unless they have a reasonable web site hyperlink to public court records or something like that). The only solution to this problem, and it has always been there for people if they wanted to...

I know HW was arrested and charged with specific crimes of a sexual nature. Like you, I believe in "innocent until proven guilty." I am somewhat ambiguous about the #MeToo movement. On the one hand, where there is that much smoke, at least a small fire has to be present. And to continue the...

When I was having gall bladder and liver issues a few years ago, I wasn't fasting, but my food didn't stay with me long enough to provide a lot of nutritive value. The explosive diarrhea, when it happened, was both physically and literally a draining experience. I lost weight in the worst way...

For us on Mardi Gras, there are always a few casualties for idiots who want to climb the supports for the balconies, only to find that for the Saturday before Mardi Gras, all the shop owners have greased the poles. So they try to climb up and end up falling flat on their downward-trending anatomy.

In no particular order: Yahoo news, Access World Forums, Ancestry.COM, YouTube, and Steam (because of my grandson's games). Plus a couple of banking and credit-card management sites. Plus an implied bellsouth.net as my mail site, which I list as "implied" because I use Outlook and POP3/SMTP...

I see a lot of costuming in the pictures, seemingly historical styles that include monastic robes, pirates, 16th or 17th century costumes resembling what the USA would call "pilgrim" outfits, and historical soldier uniforms. Mardi Gras in New Orleans gets that way, though the costuming only...

Back to the subject of movies... It wasn't recent at all, but my favorite movie of all time is Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen in a dramatic role - where he gets the girl! It was also the movie that introduced Robbie the Robot. The crew members of the...

Been there, done that. Early in my career, the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) had not yet been bought out. They had a users group called DECUS (DEC Users Society). At different times I stood up before a group of - as you say - hardcore nerds, making presentations on the topic of DEC...