JasonFruit

I think you get your opinions of rural Americans from fiction, because I've lived among rural people most of my life and met only one or two people who think that way, about the same frequency as people in cities. Art imitates life when that doesn't get in the way of emotional drama.

It's not whataboutism; it's "With what measure thou metest, it shall be measured unto thee again." It's the Golden Rule, a basic moral tenet.

Any time you blame people for their government, you're implying that you are okay with the same treatment from others. Are you, if you're an American, down with being blamed for the war in Iraq over nonexistent WMDs, or the coups we have instigated around the world? (Substitute your country's wrongdoings as needed.) If so, keep doing what you're doing.

What is the other side? I only see the War Party.

My point in bringing up the general elitism of hiring is this: people judge reliability, capability, and dedication by all sorts of clues, though the specifics differ by culture. I don't really see a problem with handwriting being one. A dedicated, capable, responsible person will, in a culture where good handwriting is considered a sine qua non of employability, develop excellent handwriting, because they want to be successful and are willing to work at it. In Elizabethan England, a young man wasn't fit for society unless he could join in a song and improvise harmony, and you can bet that the most dedicated, ambitious young men made sure they could do so. Neither is more arbitrary than some of the criteria the American hiring process relies on.

Is that any more elitist than judging the resume by grammar or by the prestige of the schools, former employers, and references it lists? Hiring is a situation where you're literally looking for the best: it's by definition elitist.

It should probably be head canon, but bearing the game's name in mind, head cannon might be accurate too.

I just assumed that they set it to such a short timeout by default for a reason, so I never tried it. Huh.

I have the Boox Note Air 2, and it's great. Only complaint: time from picking it up to reading is too long, because it has to boot up and doesn't remember which book you were reading, though it does remember your place. Other than that, I enjoy everything about it. The display is beautiful and the software has been stable for me, despite what I've read in reviews.

I think he appeals to the people who want him as a politician for the same reason Trump appealed to his supporters: they're dissatisfied with politics as usual, they want change at almost any cost, and he's a middle finger at the people they dislike. That's not good justification for a gamble with the whole country, but these people see it as time for a Hail Mary. Sometimes I feel that way too; then I put down my phone and take a walk.

He's a vindictive egomaniac and serial liar with a sense of fun, a good dose of perspective, and a ton of panache. I might not trust him, but he's great entertainment.

An accurate title might be, "A dirty dish by the sink can reveal a big marriage problem". That is, a succeeding marriage includes strategies to deal with such things, and provides compensations for minor issues that can't be resolved, but a marriage that can't resolve them and does not offer sufficient compensating value will fail.

I'm having a hard time figuring out what this does by looking at the main screen. Neither the menu nor the options are very enlightening without context, and I don't see an obvious way to get to any.

My bet — and IANAL — is that a corporate lawyer looks at the idea and sees no benefit, but an unknown, probably small, increase in potential liability. In that case why would they approve it? They're not evil, particularly, but they are analyzing the situation in terms of risk and benefit. Societal benefit doesn't make their list.

I'm excited to see this, since I use Lagrange on desktop and love it. The prerelease version looks good.

Gallows humor like this always has a place.

I don't believe that's true. Several of the smartest people I know are among the most socially-capable and personally engaged. I think a healthy person recognizes value in aspects of a person additional to their intellect.

Apparently my reading needs work.

Have you considered that your system might not be communicative to others?

Apparently it's smart troll day on HN. (Xah is just down the page right now.) It's like a celebration of the kind of person I admired before I realized that other people are real too.

> the founding generation thought

The thoughts of the founding generation do not determine constitutionality, though with regard to the ratifying conventions they can inform our grasp of contemporary understanding of the document's meaning. In fact, the first few presidential administrations illustrate how fraught was their relation to the constitutional structure.

> Federal law enforcement is clearly justified under the necessary and proper clause.

It doesn't have to be justified in that way, because it's provided for in the document. One of the constitutional powers of Congress is "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions." You recommend that I imagine "the Department of Justice having to call upon the state militia to arrest a state's governor"; I have no difficulty doing so. Are there inconveniences attendant on that method of law enforcement? Of course, but my response is twofold: first, it's the "necessary and proper" clause, not the "convenient and desirable" clause. Not everything the federal government might find convenient and desirable lies within their power, because, second, the Constitution was written to make the exercise of federal power inconvenient in cases where it is in conflict with the will of the states.

> There is no sovereignty without the ability to deploy violence to enforce it.

You say this as though sovereignty were a uniquely federal phenomenon. Not only do the states hold a measure of sovereignty, but the ultimate sovereignty in the United States resides in the people, of whose power the state militias were intended to be an instrument. Both these loci of sovereignty are endangered by precisely the distortion of the constitutional order that you approve.

That's an interesting position you ascribe to me on no evidence whatsoever. If you read the Constitution, there's a body in each state which is supposed to "execute the Laws of the Union", and it's not the FBI either.

> IRS-CI agents did shoe-leather detective work, carried guns, and made arrests, just like their FBI and DEA counterparts.

I would love to see someone attempt a Constitutional justification for the IRS's dedicated police force. That I would dearly love to see.

I don't recall. I do remember that the build script included a format conversion.

> quite little drive space

> 625 GB

When did I get so old?

I see what you're asking. Scribus exposes an API (Scripter) that can do, though not everything Scribus' UI provides, a whole lot.

I'm honestly not quite sure what you're asking; there were a few (almost literally) stereotyped page layouts, which I was able to fill from a database, setting typefaces and sizes. That way, I got pages with the layout, tune image, and text, and I only had to adjust hyphenation to my liking and slug the text to fit the columns nicely.

My email is in my profile information, and I'd be glad to give more detail if you write me.

I personally love when people do that. I'm a homeschooling stay at home father, so I don't have a wide or close social circle; I thrive on those casual conversations.

I compiled and typeset a hymnal of over 800 hymns using Lilypond, SQLite and Scribus, and the ability to automate the rough setup with Python scripts and then polish the layout by hand saved me probably a year's work. I would absolutely use Scribus if I ever again launched into such an impossibly huge project. It was a great experience, and the result was all I could have hoped.