So every job this guy has ever had is either government or non-profit foundation. Not the private sector. Got it.

Software is not just code. Software is *labor*. Thousands of man-hours of labor. Labor done by people who at some point need to pay their bills. There has to be money in it somewhere (enough money to pay the bills of the people doing the work or the corporation sponsoring the project), or there is no long term…

I started on BBSes in the 80s, and eventually was using Prodigy as the primary community I interacted with in the late 80s. Used lots of text based internet tools (gopher, etc) to browse information back in the day, and then started using the alpha/beta versions of NCSA Mosaic when that was under development. Mind…

Not a question, just a comment: I've been to all the w00tstocks in San Diego but the first one, and you're awesome on stage. I have such a great time at those.

Not to mention, they picked a 40 year timescale for a very good reason. If you look at the charts another 40 years back (prior to the implementation of the Great Society by LBJ), you'd see that everybody, regardless of income bracket, moved similarly. You only see the divergence of the top end starting with the…

The guy who did Facebook's HQ mural was much smarter about negotiating compensation up front.

"Actually quite terrible"

Otherwise known as "conditions necessary for the whitebark pine to reproduce". They need wildfires. If writers on sites like these weren't environmentalist nut jobs, they'd take five seconds to go find out about what the natural habitat actually is, and find out that human efforts to eliminate…

What the hell do they even teach in school these days?

Could have been worse. Could have been It's A Small World After All...

"looking at you, Sloth"

He's looking right back at you. Or, at least, one of his eyes is...

You've never seen Brainstorm, I take it?

I have an animation cell from the Chuck Jones Gallery (used to be in Old Town San Diego) of Michigan Jake in this pose, which came from the later sequel.

We had to take our masks off and recite our general orders. Probably in the room full of gas for a minute or two before being allowed out. Not pleasant. You'd definitely have trouble trying to fight or shoot straight while gassed. Just the tears filling your eyes are enough to make aiming a serious challenge, let…

In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

The reptilian brain is still there in us. In fact, it's probably the part of brain responsible for people watching this shiat. Your conclusion is backwards. We need people to perhaps start using the non-reptilian parts of their brains.

The "mudslide" exists. Close enough.

If you haven't actually read The Virtue Of Selfishness yourself, you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to objectivist ethics. "Lack of humanity" just shows your ignorance.

But that's not consistent with objectivism, either. Hedonism is just as much against your rational self interest as altruism is.

You may have missed the "atheist" part.

I guess my point was more along the lines of "I can't possibly be the only guy that feels this way, right?" Because looking around at what's in the media, all I see are nut jobs on both extremes, yet I vehemently agree with them on some things and disagree with them on others. My combination of philosophies can't be…