Everybody has a price.

Read the book “Minding The Machines” to disabuse yourself of the idea that man is incapable of creating complex systems that they don’t themselves fully understand and which will fail in ways that their human designers did not, and, more importantly, *can not* foresee.

The Rajneeshnees were a national story in the 80s. Bloom County even did a whole series of strips which included Bill The Cat as a Rajneeshee over a period of a few months.

Do cocaine dealers for the rich and famous make so little money that they have to resort to extortion?

““Straw man arguments” are utilized in debates to undermine the opposition.”

Too bad there isn’t a Ford Envelope.

“Needless to say, if you ever see such a spectacle, avoid the temptation to jump in for a ride. You will most assuredly die a quick, miserable death.”

“One of them is competing for their own country”

“serious derelictions by VA personnel.”

For every Twitch “violation”, I can find evidence of that very thing (or worse) being worn in public on peopleofwalmart.com.

The stat I’ve seen is 16-19% of all marriages occur between coworkers. Given that, it would be unrealistic to expect for there to be zero dating in the workplace. It’s going to happen.

“To top it all off, he seems to have wasted about $81,000 ($100,000 AU) on the naming competition in the process.”

The point is that media ingestion was shifting from floppy to CD when the iMac was designed, so Apple ditched the floppy drive and included a built-in CD drive. They were the first to decide to ditch the outgoing media tech and replace it with the incoming one, and there was much teeth gnashing at the time, but Apple…

“Five-year-old behaves immaturely. Film at 11.”

“Yet—imagine that, oy—he was right.”

“If a business has a business need to build a business facility, you do not need to pay the business money to do so.”

The problem isn’t that the Germans lost WWI, it’s that the Treaty of Versailles was so monumentally punitive that it ultimately caused the economic conditions which led directly to WWII.

Blonde hair, red hair, blue eyes, are all mutations. In and of themselves probably survival neutral, although one could make the argument that the reason why those attributes still exist is because there was a social element which made them desirable mutations (or at least neutral) and thus were passed on.

Evolution starts with mutation in an individual. That mutation is either pro-survival and gets passed on, or anti-survival and doesn’t get passed on.

Straw man. I didn’t argue that the previous governments were better. I argued that they were replaced by something just as bad (or even worse).