cldr

I'm not saying anything about the ruling, just the general properties of arguments. An argument such as "The moon is made of cheddar cheese, and cheddar cheese is yellow, therefore the moon is yellow" is perfectly sound, invalid though it may be.

You had mentioned "If one is in favor of government power over the Constitutional rights of individual citizens, then I guess it makes some kind of sense". That has to do with whether the argument is valid, not whether it is sound. That was the object of my comment.

> That's a matter of opinion

Well, whether or not an argument is sound (is never|shouldn't be) a matter of opinion. Soundness has nothing to do with whether the premises are true or not, it just means that if the premises are true, the conclusions necessarily follow. Whether the argument is _valid_ or not is a different matter.

I'm not commenting on the article or anything, I just thought I'd point that out.

I coded up a quick implementation of this in python, but in testing I found that after the algorithm was done I actually wanted a shuffled list.

W.r.t idea 15, I don't see how numbering things suggests continuity. The one on the left looks just as false-bottomy as the righthand one to me. Unless you have something sticking halfway on the page, or an arrow that points down or something, numbering doesn't solve this.

Don't all programs you use over SSH take advantage of the fact that you can pretend that STDIN is a file even when it's a socket?