You mean the Europe dominated by socialist states? I seriously doubt I'll find my people there.

I can't be called a social liberal, because I'm completely against the welfare state mentality. And I was redundant on the free market comment because I'm fairly certain that there are still a whole lot of people who don't know what laissez-faire means...

Except I don't line up with libertarianism in a few respects, either. TBH, the only thing I've ever read which I've totally agreed with is The Virtue of Selfishness, so I guess I'm an objectivist. Contrary to what the media tends to portray, Ayn Rand was actually in strong disagreement with the libertarians on several…

Really? Show me the pro-choice atheists at Fox News...

The Seafort Saga by David Feintuch (7 books).

Is it too much to ask for a fiscal conservative, rational, atheist, pro-choice, Constitutional (including the 2nd Amendment), laissez-faire capitalist, pro-free market, limited government set of web sites? Why are my only choices either hard core left or right, both of which contain philosophical elements which I view…

"via Fabian

It didn't "learn" the best solution. It only "learned" the best solution out of the 13,000 gaits that it knew about to try. There could easily be other possible solutions which give a better result, but it would never "learn" those, because they weren't included in the set of 13,000 that it can try. I don't know that…

I'll be seeing Adam tonight at w00tstock.

The Boy Scouts of America (actually, all of the international male Scouting organizations with the exception of about 5 countries who got grandfathered in) require a belief in a god (or gods, since they include Hinduism). Don't believe in god(s)? Can't be a scout. You must profess a belief in god(s) when taking the…

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

I'm guessing it still gets warm enough in the summer to be a problem. Water temps in the big Swiss lakes can top out in the mid-20s C, but:

"The ameba can be found in lake or river sediment at temperatures well below where one would find the amoeba in the water."

That's the issue: stirring up the sediment at the bottom…

"Biofiltered" includes protection against Naegleria fowleri?

Booyah!

This result actually surprised me, as at age 45 I sort of expected that my color acuity would have had some degradation consistent with several other areas of my body...

Comcast's response is utter crap. Do they think the call center guy just did this of his own volition? Of course not. He was specifically trained and incentivized to act this way, because it makes the company (and him) more money.

"The bible guy's an idiot. This is how you start a conspiracy theory. First you wait until Buzz and the other Apollo astronauts are dead for at least thirty years - two generations gone - and THEN you start with the "we never really went to the Moon" bullshit."

This is how you start a religion. First you wait until…

"It's also that you can turn on and start using the thing about 1 minute after you initially power it on."

Someday you may end up realizing that it would have been better for you (and the consumer) if you'd had the honor and self respect to quit this job and do something else (up to and including living on the street), but I doubt it.

You've also just locked yourself into doing this kind of work for the rest of your life,…

The Seafort Saga (seven books) by David Feintuch.

I spent 15 years traveling internationally 25-30% of the time for work. Frankly, it's less about the sleep you get on the plane and more about the sleep you get the first two nights at your international destination. Save the ambien for your first two nights in the hotel.