Why can't you remember any voting during the primaries?

I never buy meat at Wal-mart. They don't have any local butchers. The story I heard was that one store's meat cutters were attempting to unionize so Wal-mart fired all of it's meat cutters nationwide and consolidated it's meat cutting and now ships cuts of meat to individual stores.

Maybe it's because I live in the Midwest United States but, I like knowing there's a professional handling meat and someone I can speak with if I need a special cut or something that's not available.

It has other uses like verifying file integrity.

IANAL, but I don't think "has other uses" is the legal standard you need to worry about.

Theoretically, sure. Might be an effort persuading a judge of that.

Right. It's almost as if F5 forgot that the infrastructure isn't a means to it's own end for application owners.

"The fake bogeyman lets people avoid talking about the real issues."

Oh good. I'm glad we can avoid addressing who we actually are and can instead continue pretending the world works the way we like. Don't get me wrong. I think the science (there is a hypothesis) is interesting I just think honestly discussing these kind of issues is a much better way of dealing with the real dangers.

Make sure to read up on Robert Anton Wilson, the guy who defined it as such. His books are especially enlightening. Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology are my favorites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

This has been a trend for me. I've even moved away from using AdBlock, but I still use NoScript, and it's still amazing.

It often surprises me how different some websites look on other people's computers. It makes me realize that advertising really does change the user experience, especially when they're the animated flash ads. A nice, relaxing read suddenly becomes flashy, distracting, and obnoxious.

That's gold for someone who wants to develop opt in/non intrusive ads. Thanks Periodic, I felt the same way but building ads that are "desirable" to the user experience is a challenge.

What if higher education were free?

TANSTAAFL, even if the price is opportunity cost.

Practicing yoga is the only requirement to be a yogi. Hacking is much the same way. We all share similar goals but our practices are always intensely personal. If you're practiced enough you know that what you consider important and what you consider progress continuously changes. Thus we don't judge someone else or their practice but appreciate the opportunity to practice with them. Without question both Zed Shaw and _why have hacked. I think it's important to appreciate many qualities of both without needing to apply labels to either.

Namaste

Whoa whoa... The solvency issues of Social Security are primarily due to the Government of my parents "borrowing" money from the system that they paid into it. There are of course the exacerbating burden of of longer life expectancy that they have failed to address as well. I believe it was Al Gore who spoke about the idea of a "lock-box."

All this and generations want to call me entitled? Look you spent the money you were supposed to save. I can appreciate the social programs that result (I'm a bleeding heart) but, don't shit every where and then blame my generation for stepping in it.