The Off Topic Topic

[Caliga]

YOU'RE RIPPED FROM A BOOK.

Settle down, Beavis.

[Duque de Bragança]

The ESA is based in Darmstadt which I like a lot. I hope their lift music is Stockhausen

Darm is German for intestine.

It's the intestine of Frankfurt (am Main) I guess since it's to the south of Frankfurt, about 40 km away.

[Caliga]

I think my parents are going to buy me lederhosen tomorrow.  Caloo callay!

[Admiral Yi]

I think my parents are going to buy me lederhosen tomorrow.  Caloo callay!

What did you do to piss them off?

I start earning overtime tomorrow morning. 

[Tamas]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

People doing largely what they want with their properties as long as its not an extreme case? TEH SCANDAL!

[Syt]

[Ideologue]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

People doing largely what they want with their properties as long as its not an extreme case? TEH SCANDAL!

Zoning = commie shit.

[Sheilbh]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

People doing largely what they want with their properties as long as its not an extreme case? TEH SCANDAL!

Yeah. It affects the properties of other people so it's entirely appropriate for the government to provide a means of balancing those competing interests.

[Tamas]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

People doing largely what they want with their properties as long as its not an extreme case? TEH SCANDAL!

Yeah. It affects the properties of other people so it's entirely appropriate for the government to provide a means of balancing those competing interests.

Within reasonable limits.

[Ideologue]

Reasonable limits: it might not be okay if you decide to buy a lot in a residential neighborhood, turn it into a tire landfill, and start a fire that will last for twenty years (but this is, of course, context dependent).

[Ideologue]

(FWIW, I don't like affirmative duties imposed on property owners, but that's mainly a function of the "voluntary" tyranny of housing associations here.)

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

The long-term prospects for American corporatism is excellent.  American society has become used to it, and has bought into it. 

When you've convinced the majority of the electorate to support an economic model that is fundamentally against their own interests and that of the nation's, you've already won.   Cha. Ching.

That doesn't make sense.  Such a system cannot sustain itself.

[Syt]

[Brazen]

Are comets black and white or are the photos from Philae just that way because science? Would it be dumb to Tweet that question to ESA?

[Admiral Yi]

A question too stupid for Twitter?  The mind boggles.