hello....

There are thundering herds of libertarians, capitalists, and even a
few full-fledged anarchists here. Gets annoying at times. A few
liberals too. They'd be just as annoying, I'm sure, if there were as
many of them.

Exactly what is a "vampyre?" Somebody who wants to suck money out of
everything? "The empirialist blood-suckers who sit on the backs of
the workers?"

I will be re-reading the technical stuff in more detail later; it
looks interesting from what I have read so far.

In the rather llllooooonnnngggg flamewar from luf that you posted, I
kind of lost track of exactly who was what and when and why.

I can say that I don't mind being around people who think that they
are smarter than I am, as long as they really are, and as long as they
don't insist in rubbing my nose in it. When some guy starts saying "I
have an IQ of..." I tend to feel the same way as I would if he had
said "My dick is this big!" and held his hands out. That is, whether
it's that big or not, I really don't care, and I don't want to sit
around and talk about his big dick or high IQ. I also tend to assume
(and you know what they say happens when you assume) that people who
are really smart can find better things to talk about than how smart
they are.

Loved the list of fallacies. I've read most of these before, and see
them used on the political talk shows and such, but to have such a
comprehensive list is cool.

Anyway, welcome aboard. The more the merrier, as they say. Whoever
"they" are.