Jon McAlister

That's hard for answers.com. I never used it though... - ※Fu※

hmm... one tiny thing that made it better. Time to greasemonkey it - Dave Dash

thats a pity :-( it was a nice little bit of functionality - immaterial

Do not like. Seriously, why remove it? - AJ Kohn

That sucks. I loved that feature! - Gabe

Yeah, I used it all the time. in fact, I use it so much that I had a funny feeling something was missing today, now I know what. On the plus side, wikipeadia is usually the first hit for many of the things I am trying to figure out what they are. - Clare Dibble

Bring it back! - Chris Lamprecht

Liking this because I actually dislike it. - Jon McAlister

It's ironic, because "being Christian" to the average Republican clearly doesn't mean following Christ. Unless by "love thy neighbor", Jesus really meant "kill them". - Gabe

The author of this article has pulled his punches. When you put horns on somebody and call them the Antichrist, that's not "otherizing" them, that's *demonizing* them. When you imply someone is in league with the forces of Evil, this is *not* "sublimating" concerns about them being "insufficiently Christian." - Karim

The irony being that McCain dropped napalm on non-combatants in Vietnam; McCain said he'll hate "hate the gooks" for as long as he lives; McCain came home and dumped his wife (who had been in a car accident) for a younger, prettier, and richer one; McCain was one of the Keating Five -- and yet McCain is supposed to be some paragon of Christian virtue compared to Obama? - Karim

I've never seen any evidence that McCain actually dropped napalm. Is there any proof that he really did that? - Gabe

Proof, as in "here's a link to the YouTube video, with interviews of his dead victims?" No. :-) But he did say this to the New York Times after the Forrestal accident: "Now that I've seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I'm not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam." - Karim

When he was shot down, his target was a power plant in (to quote John McCain's words) "a heavily populated part of Hanoi." So perhaps on that run he was carrying 500- or 1,000-pound bombs and not napalm. EDIT: see http://www.thenation.com/blogs... - Karim

Yeah, Karim, that NYT article is the only connection between McCain and napalm I've seen also. It's my understanding that napalm was used mostly to clear jungle, while McCain was mostly bombing Hanoi. I don't think he was out napalming villages. - Gabe

his statement about not wanting to drop "any more of that stuff" is ambiguous... "that stuff" makes sense if he's referring to "bombs and napalm," whereas if he was only referring to bombs, it seems like he would have said "those things." - Karim

I use a manual transmission, but a decade ago, I was arguing with a guy who was saying, that's dumb, what are you some kind of wannabe race car driver, the ideal car would just have a "drive to point X" button and then it would do all the work. I was all, pshaw, I have better gas mileage and more control and more fun, and I trotted out some sort of dumb arguments about driving in snow and being able to push start a dead battery. But maybe he was right. Um, point is, this is the future, shouldn't we have magic depilatory cream or genetically modified superskin or something and not have to mess with mowing our little hair-sprouts every day? Singularity, schmingularity, in 50 years we'll still be talking about what kind of knife blade is best for hacking at our faces with. - ⓞnor

@nor: hehe, when we get the magical depilatory, i'm all-in. until then, me likey the sharp. - MikeAmundsen

@ⓞnor: My BF's father laser-treated his facial hair off. I doubt that most men want to permanently get rid of facial hair. Something about feeling manly. Also, something about women liking men who are "manly" enough to have stubble. - Melinda Owens

Yeah, I'm having trouble feeling comfortable with the idea of that laser treatment. Did it hurt? How is the result? I'll have to sneak some peeks whenever I meet him again. - ⓞnor

He's pretty clean-shaven, although he had to get electrolysis done for his white hairs- lasers only work on dark hairs. I'm getting lasered on other areas, and while it really hurts for a moment, overall it's not too bad. If you're a sissy, they give you numbing cream. - Melinda Owens

So, if you're gonna do it, do it before you get old and grey? Hmm. Reading the wikipedia article, it sounds like you have to go back many times. If shaving takes 5 minutes a day (which it doesn't, not for guys, but anyway), and each appointment would take 3 hours (including travel and waiting and planning), and you need 6 appointments ... that still pays off within a year. - ⓞnor

@ⓞnor: """in 50 years we'll still be talking about what kind of knife blade is best for hacking at our faces with""". Genius :-P - Jon McAlister

My appointments themselves take under 1/2 hr, and I'm lasering a larger area than the face. These cosmetic dermatology places have efficient, responsive, customer service, where making appointments takes very little time and there's little waiting, so the total time for each appointment is far under 3 hours. - Melinda Owens

Do not like. - Chris White

I do not want one cent of my tax dollars going to a bail out. I'm creating a line-item deduction on my taxes if they do. - AJ Kohn

Let us know how that works out. - ⓞnor

From wikipedia: """The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) of the United States.""". The use of 'seizes' here is a bit sensationalist. - Jon McAlister

It's not the seizing that's the problem, it's the bailout. Too bad. The dollar was on an upward trend. - Chris White

Does this mean I don't have to pay back my student loans? - Soup

@amy that would be sallie mae ... much transition for student loans so respectfully keep paying attention - Scott Moskowitz

Amy, I don't think you can put your education into foreclosure. :) Real estate has a funny loophole that allows borrowers to walk away from their debt without declaring bankruptcy. - Chris White

@Paul - <shudder> - mattpovey

I recommend inbreeding. - Gabe

Paradoxes are what happen when your intuition is in contradiction with reality. Intuition would say that a mixed strategy should perform about as well as the average of the pure strategies it's a mixture of, but in this case the mixed strategy outperforms both of them, so that's the paradox. This is not exactly the most baffling or confounding paradox out there, but I don't think the word is misused. - ⓞnor

I'm with Jon (and http://www.google.com/search?q... ) To me a paradox is a actual contradiction. Obviously, people use the term all the time to mean a mistakenly-perceived contradiction, so it means that too, but the usage smacks of credulity. Ick. - j1m

Many famous named paradoxes, like Zeno's Paradox, are not direct self-contradictions, but just examples that set intuition against reality. I think this one is similar, only less striking or interesting. I believe Wikipedia's definition supports my point of view (for what that's worth). - ⓞnor