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I think the person you replied to started working on their reply in the time I added everything after the first line.

Solving the problem "low turnout" requires getting people to vote. When people who don't vote are turned out, they tend to vote D. Strengthening the democratic process and increasi…

It does if they enforce their non-discrimination policies. The oppressed need jobs too. Also, news media's love of simplification has really twisted people's view of states other t…

>> "For those unfamiliar, Long Island City is across the East River directly east of Upper East Side in Manhattan." This doesn't really help if you're not familiar with NYC geograp…

This is what happened with Android. Google bought it, released it, and made a big deal out of how it was open. Then they slowly moved functionality over to their proprietary system…

What lawsuit happened in the '90s? All I see on the Wikipedia page started in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes#Tim... Are you sure it was a lawsuit an…

Who is supposed to issue this apology? The person writing the press release for such an apology didn't do anything, so there's nothing for them to apologize for. The people respons…

I think this is why they had to bring in an enemy from across the galaxy for DS9. All the other militaristic Alpha Quadrant civilizations had seen humans in war and did not want to…

I think it's more common in creative fields. Companies even solicit free design work (for example) under the guise of contests.

Sometimes I find interesting things in it. For example, you can open a terminal set to the current directory by putting cmd in the path bar. This also works with other commands and…

Sites with articles are the worst here. A lot of them break reading view/save for later tools. I end up with the next article instead of the one I'm on.

I got the same list from Wolfram Alpha. I wonder why so many people get different results.

She also got millions more votes. That election turned on a few tens of thousands of votes in a couple of states due to the way the electoral college works. Money paid for the targ…

One of the local coffee shops solves this problem by also being a music school: http://hometownrhythms.com/ They also have regular musical acts. The Athens/metro Atlanta area has a…

I still see people call policing maps "crime maps" as though you could map out all the crime like in SimCity.

mIRC is still under active development.

I call those people annoying. I was born and raised and have lived my entire life in the US. I'm quiet, still, and prefer the same in the people around me. You can't assess over 30…

Gopher and HTTP had a similar situation. Gopher had a lot going for it, but the future licensing situation was unclear. HTTP was free, clear, and widespread by the time Gopher beca…

I (and probably the person you replied to) take all these words for granted. It didn't occur to me someone hadn't heard of them. Check out the thesaurus entry for cantankerous for …

Conceits creep in if you only read one perspective. Think about all the people who think Western culture is the source of all civilization because they only read things that affirm…