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People act as if the pursuit of happiness specifically excludes intoxication, yet there is ample evidence many of the Founders were not strangers to a good buzz, admittedly via wine and booze, but still...

Something that was part of the ambient culture would have been more powerful in its own way than a political group, though this power would be impossible to quantify, as it had permeated virtually everything.

Point of order, NTFS is a distinctly different file system from FAT32, they have little in common. NTFS descends from IBM's OS/2 HPFS file system, while FAT32 descends from Microsoft's original 1977 8-bit FAT. Most USB sticks come formatted in FAT16 or FAT32 for compatibility, this is the expected f...

May I ask a silly question? Why isn't the Ghanan seizure of another sovereign nation's naval vessel considered an act of aggression, even of war?

Next we'll be hearing how Mr. P admits 10% of his party is racist, no doubt...

Just wondering, is there a mechanism by which political parties can forbid a citizen membership based on their beliefs alone?

Again, what point would you like to debate, exactly? You just don't think that the Republican party has any problem with racism, despite examples to the contrary, and you refuse to even discuss it. Engaging in poor form by putting words into my mouth is in itself ample reason why I wish not to disc...

I've repudiated racism before on other forums, yet won't get on board here with any supposed "anti-racist" crowd, because intentions matter, and it mainly appears that those here who pretend to attack racism actually seize upon such as a weapon against groups of people, most of them comple...

I should not be difficult to identify much of the Dioscuri's stylings as a goad to provoke a certain reaction.

I'd be interested to read how they (the Dioscuri) propose to fashion an answer comprehensible to such limited minds.

If anyone here deserves to employ the majestic plural, it may as well be you. A very interesting post, thanks.

I assume you've tried different machines already. If you can't get the drive to mount on any machine, it is probably dead. Professional data recovery from flash drives can be very expensive and involves disassembling the drive and placing the flash memory chips onto a reference board. If the drive h...

An approach which allows for the existence of a multiverse renders this question moot, for Jones only mowed his lawn in one or some of the universes, and not others. So he both did, and did not, and God remains more inscrutable than ever. That would probably be a good reason not to interject specul...

Wow, why do you persist in posting here, when you so clearly find this forum so contemptible? If this was a bar, any bouncer would have had you out on your ass, by now.

Sad that abortion can never discussed rationally. That's what this rape business is really all about. There exist sound, secular arguments that can be made about government's role in limiting abortions to which stuttering, elected buffoons ought adhere, if they weren't so busy pandering their perce...

An approach which allows for the existence of a multiverse renders this question moot, for Jones only mowed his lawn in one or some of the universes, and not others. So he both did, and did not, and God remains more inscrutable than ever.

Sad that abortion can never discussed rationally. That's what this rape business is really all about. There exist sound, secular arguments that can be made about government's role in limiting abortions to which stuttering, elected buffoons ought adhere, if they weren't so busy pandering their perce...

Sad that abortion can never discussed rationally. That's what this rape business is really all about. There exist sound, secular arguments that can be made about government's role in limiting abortions to which stuttering, elected buffoons ought adhere, if they weren't so busy pandering their percei...

Marcus and SkinJob, thanks for your input and suggestions. There is also some history here regarding deleting posts. Back on the original forum which many of the posters here once frequented, a major complaint of posters was the deletion of posts without a trace. The solution here is the Hell secti...

I'm a mod on a technical forum, and we are instructed to quickly and without comment delete posts which contain offensive material or personal attacks. It's understood and accepted there, because of the focused nature of the subject matter. On a wide ranging forum like this, the mods jobs are an ord...

That's a joke, right? There's this thing called the secret ballot.

Of course, if you like to run your mouth at work in an at-will state, you probably get what you deserve. Just like people with sense don't insult someone in their own house, or bash the admin of a forum.

Such a broad brush! Look at these outliers, then condemn an entire state with all its people. Hey, this is just meant to be a parallel thread to the 'Democrat states' thread, in which your absence has been duly noted. Red sympathizers. What are you gonna do? Oh, I see. A contest to see who can be t...

Nonetheless, from a constitutional perspective, since there is no mandate to obtain an ID, it would be illegal to ask for one in order to be allowed to exercise the constitutional right to vote. Not exactly. The US Constitution explicitly leaves suffrage to be determined by individual states, with ...

Such a broad brush! Look at these outliers, then condemn an entire state with all its people. The same kind of logic has led to US drone policy: Some bad people live there, therefore they are all guilty by association and can be killed without remorse. Zack, why not bring drones to the red states? J...

Nonetheless, from a constitutional perspective, since there is no mandate to obtain an ID, it would be illegal to ask for one in order to be allowed to exercise the constitutional right to vote. Not exactly. The US Constitution explicitly leaves suffrage to be determined by individual states, with ...

There's a significant chance of a tie, 269-269. That would be fun, with the likely outcome being a Romney-Biden Presidency. Why is that? Is it like a championship fight, and the champ retains on a draw? Or is it like baseball and a tie goes to the runner? House determines President Senate determine...