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Hmm, maybe so. I'm at home now and my eFidgeting is quite responsive. Thank goodness...

Well that's weird, I'm using IE 7.0, here at work, but I just had to click that link:

Your User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; ATT; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; MS-RTC LM 8; ATT; ATT)

Mozilla?

Anyway, it's not a terrible issue or anything. Just something I've noticed that I just thought was odd. I figured if I'm scrolling, clicking inactive areas and highlighting text - or as I like to call it, eFidgeting - then there would be no back and forth messaging going on in order to experience a delay or whatever. I guess there's more to it than that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SFN runs on the principle of rule by a minority.

Oddly enough, my libertarian sensibilities are not at all offended by this minority ruling class of SFN. Probably because that same minority seems to be doing all the heavy lifting around here. Thanks for the hard work, Cap'n and company.

I would like to mention something weird I've noticed though. When I'm browsing, reading posts and such, if I highlight some text the page becomes unresponsive for several seconds, and any scrolling happens like a delayed effect. In general it does have this weird delayed feeling using the site.

I will say though, I didn't vote for that SFN logo - but it looks damn good. It's grown on me already.

Perhaps partisanship isn't just for politicians...

I now find myself as somewhere between liberal and conservative. I would like to see change in many areas, but that shouldn't be knee-jerk 'lets have a group hug' change. It should be well thought out, reasoned and motivated change, with honest tests and safety measures put in place to ensure the change is an improvement and a facility for changing it back if it is not.

This seems quite reasonable to me. This was more or less my initial impression of conservatism. Probably is more likely to be considered moderate, or middle of the road - which is just a way of each ideology saving face. I've always thought liberalism came across far more whimsical.

But then again, that's why I like a libertarian federal landscape. Liberalism can afford to be more whimsical and progressive when effecting one state, while the rest of us observe and adopt what works and stay conservative with what doesn't.

Actually, my point is not that science was unfairly admonished, my point is that scientists are often, very often, accused of having some sort of motivation, and that "argument" is used to undermine science. Of course, while all the attention is on the scientists themselves, nobody cares about facts. It's very trendy.

So, would you listen to the science being presented by global warming skeptics rather than dismiss them because they work for "big oil"? I've seen that particular trend right here on SFN.