Actually, Kryten, all of the smilies work, but the parser that detects them has a peculiarity that requires a CR/LF rather than just a space when you go from one that doesn’t use a colon to one that does. as you can see, it displays without the line feed, but you need it for the parser to work as expected.

There are people who actually think computers are intelligence. Programmers have a great con going.

Given how many people there are who run around believing in “Personhood”, I guess it is really not all that amazing.

This really isn’t about blastocysts. All these stupid buggers are concerned with is that people are enjoying having sex and women “don’t know their place”. They are really not at all different that the Salafi whackos like bin Laden and the Taliban. The fact that their supporters keep getting caught in “cemeteries with Viagra, sex toys and 18-year-old strippers” doesn’t seem to intrude on their world view.

Jams, that would assume that they have a connection to reality, which is, as they say around the courtroom “a fact not in evidence”.