ryanaghdam

I bet the biggest issues you lowly Windows folk have are with others being smug.

Agreed -- economic and social freedom should go hand-in-hand.

Jeffrey Tucker's "It's a Jetson's World" < http://mises.org/document/6528/Its-a-Jetsons-World-Private-M...; has a few chapters that discuss how technology in current times are in some ways much better than imagined in a futuristic fantasy world.

The book is available there for free -- there are some articles that some many not agree with politically, so pick the chapters you want to read first :)

I'm shocked that Two and a Half Men is that popular! $252,500 for a 30 second commercial!

> Github also appears to share infrastructure between public and private repositories, making their paid clients as susceptible to downtime as their free users. This means Github is essentially charging companies and developers for not publishing their private code to the rest of the world, but not offering any kind of SLA for uptime.

This might depend on the level of service you pay for, or perhaps what actually goes down. I've had access to GitHub enterprise while github.com was down.

Does Vundle <https://github.com/gmarik/vundle>; count as something fancy?

Apparently iRacing <http://www.iracing.com/testimonials/>; has some value in helping drivers train for different tracks.

"Premature optimization is the source of all evil" -Donald Knuth

This one reminds me of The Story of Mel <http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html>;

"What's being debated is who should be recognized as married for official purposes"

It shouldn't make a difference whether or not someone is married... you know, equal protection under the law. The solution to things like survivor benefits and the others you mentioned (and you're right, Amash doesn't mention this solution) is to simply have private contracts that people decide upon themselves.

"If he opposed DOMA, and instead introduced legislation to abolish all government recognition of marriage, I'd give him kudos for that!"

Agreed.

I think it split into two parts when some intelligent people were talking about the dangers of Keynesianism and some idiots thought they were talking about Kenyans.

Neither does collectivism.

Why don't you read more than just his Wikipedia page?

Do you really like actual libertarianism? You know, judging people in categorized groups instead of as individuals isn't very libertarian of you.

This was previously on amashforcongress.com; I found it searching for his views on this issue.

"I believe in the sanctity of traditional marriage, and I oppose government efforts to redefine this private, religious institution."

This seems like a safe way of him saying that the government should not have any say in what constitutes a marriage, but that he is personally against it. There's nothing wrong with disliking something, but not wanting to force your will onto others.

What isn't "redeeming" about not wanting the government to bother people?

This isn't a valid argument for anyone using a proper text editor -- vi has auto indent, and emacs can autoindent using the tab key.

yes :)