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I think that he meant to say “more Botox in her pinky than...”

The thing to do is to highlight the differences between that frame and one near it without the X.

That would explain all the problems I haven't had to worry about while using Linux, as opposed to the Windows users I know, for whom dealing with spyware, viruses, and trojans is a way of life.

Don't give up your day job to try comedy, or for that matter any job requiring intellectual integrity.

I agree with you, and disagree with those who think that the "general welfare" clause empowers the government to take anything and do anything it wants. Federalist Paper #41 argues that proximity to the listing of the powers of the federal government would preclude outrageous misinterpretations of what counts as "promoting the general welfare."

Conveniently not mentioned in your post is the date on those exploits. They appear to be between six and eight years old, and apply to versions of programs considerably earlier than the ones on the system I'm typing this on in the cases I've checked out.

Firefox/Mozilla aren't gratitously intermingled with the Windows kernel as IE is. I don't think the scum that write viruses/worms/trojans will have as easy of a time.

You might want to read Federalist Paper #41 about just what the "general welfare" clause was thought to mean by the Founding Fathers--there was dispute from those who claimed that over time it would be taken to mean anything the government darned well pleased, and I fear that they were right.

Ah...so theft is OK, as long as you just steal a little?

I don't think so... care to point out where it does?

Leo Rosten, alevasholem, in his The Joys of Yiddish, included the following story, as best I can remember:

A group of Russian soldiers was seeking out people to "volunteer" into the Russian army, and they came across an amazing thing: a barn that was obviously used for target practice...and every shot was a bullseye! They rushed to the nearest town, a shtetl, and asked about the barn and where they might find the amazing marksman.

"Nu, that's Shepsl's barn," Menachem the tailor told them, "but you have to understand that Shepsl's a bit meshuggeh..."

"I don't care!" the soldier in charge said, "We must have such a marksman in the army!"

"Let me explain," the tailor said. "Most people doing target practice draw the targets first, and then shoot. Shepsl, on the other hand..."

Shepsl would definitely go for the Anthropic Principle, or agree with the guy that Voltaire said argued that clearly noses came into being so that they could support spectacles. They all have it backwards. Life as we know it is as we know it because the universe is the way it is; if the universe were different, life would be different, and whatever sufficiently intelligent life forms existed would be making the same bogus arguments from design, preening over how the universe was specially made so that they could exist, and formulating the Blarghazqweric Principle.

That is a falsehood. I know many scientists that would disagree with you. So, you cannot say "unanimously."

Nobel laureate Brian Josephson believes in spoon benders. Nobel laureate Linus Pauling spent the last part of his life claiming that megadoses of vitamin C cures just about everything. William Crookes spent the last part of his life pushing spiritualist claptrap. Despite that, I have to say that there's no evidence that the spoon benders are anything but frauds, that vitamin C doesn't do all that Pauling claimed, and that spiritualism is pure Barbra Streisand.

If one does not want to call ID a "scientific" theory then they should at least have the sense to realize it is an alternative explanation.

Agreed...but ID has no predictive utility, hence it's not science. ID consists of looking at something, saying "I can't think of any way this could have happened," and inferring that it's the result of Go^H^Han intelligent designer. The creation myth at the beginning of Watership Down is an "alternative explanation," but that doesn't mean it should be taught in science class.

Indeed, but it was an Irish mathematician (Hamilton; had to go look to confirm) who came up with quaternions; he carved the multiplication rules in a rock where he came up with the idea that to make quaternions work, multiplication on them couldn't, in general, be commutative.

How does one augment evidence? Is that a fancy way of saying "make something up"?

Any mathematician knows who Euler is, but OTOH, maybe I don't, since I only knew of him as a mathematician. Time for me to go learn some more. Thanks!

Actually, it's not even correct Swahili. The Swahili word from which the name is taken is "kwanza." There were seven children who each wanted to be a letter from the name of the holiday, and "kwanza" is only six letters long...so the guy who invented the holiday added another "a." Even the name is phony.

I would love to hear what people actually from Africa think about "Kwanzaa."

No need. The buyblue.org people are doing the work already. Nothing says you have to use the site the way they intend.

I'd say separation from reality. They think that any who disagree with them are either stupid or evil, and hence if the election didn't come out as they wished, obviously it is due to fraud. I just hope that the DUnderheads persist in their delusion, and that 2004 is the last desperate gasp of the Democratic Party.

They will if some maker of elbow or toe-related products sponsors it... I presume you noticed the Crest blurb that appeared with the ballot for "best smile," the Pantene or whatever it was for "best hair," etc.

They might as well go whole hog... Maybe in 2008 we'll see ads that say "Republicans doubleplusungood!"

I don't believe there was a "black history month" in the 70s yet I learned about Carver and still think of him as one of Americas brilliant minds.

Same here. Didn't stop me from learning about Benjamin Banneker in US History class, either.