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Mystery Company Recruiting Talent With a Puzzle
An anonymous reader writes "Google has previously used coding competitions to locate top talent. In a new twist on the idea, an anonymous tech company is posting a help-wanted ad that challenges developers to find out who the company is. A little digging and text mashing reveals a website containing a Web 2.0 puzzle that makes notpron look like child's play. So, fellow developers, who is this company, and, well, what is the significance of the date '01-18-08?'" Update: 12/12 20:20 GMT by KD : Replaced link to a removed Craigslist ad with a mirror.
In case I forgot to mention also... JJ Abrams.
Mostly, I'd recommend read through the 350 comments already there.
There is a lot of good stuff on Paul's strengths and weaknesses.
One of the most telling points for me is that both liberal and conservative corporate owned media has been savaging him.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Voting against using the federal government for some activity does not mean you are opposed to the activity.
In many cases this is actually not true. There are things that the federal government (remember, that's us. we hire our bitches to go to Washington and do what we want) is in the position to do and if we don't use the government to do those things they don't get done. It is irrelevant if he personally "opposes" the activity since he clearly opposes actually doing it there is no practical difference.
Ron Paul is against the *FEDERAL* government doing just about anything. Unlike all the other candidates he consistently states his principles and votes them.
And for these ideas, which are either insane or profoundly stupid, no one should be supporting this guy. He's an anarchist and would destroy America beyond anything we can imagine, and after 7 years of bush we can all certainly imagine a lot.
Ron Paul is for *your* right to spend *your* money to support any activity you want.
Yes, because he's an anarchist and would destroy our society.
Ron Paul is *against* taking *your* money and spending it on things you do not support.
Again, because he's a fucking anarchist. As a society there are things that we need and sometimes that means you can't do everything you want and sometimes you have to go along with stuff that you don't like so much. That's the price of being a member of society. If you don't want to be part of it you'd better get on a boat and hope you can find an island where no one will ever find you. Because I guarantee that if the world went to the Mad Max anarchy that Ron Paul would love that he, and all the other anarchist morons, would soon learn the depths of their mistake because I'd be coming for them.
I believe in the right to abortion- Paul is opposed to it personally but also philosophically is opposed to the federal government getting involved with the issue at all. That and MANY other issues are state and local issues.
Ron Paul is for your freedom to live your own life, take your own risks, and support your own causes. He's against making the federal government a powerful tool to use against you.
It's funny that you talk about freedom and then don't believe in the institutions that give you freedom. Destroying the federal government as Ron Paul is proposing would drastically take away your freedoms. I know you think that things are so bad because the big bad federal government is running wild and spying and torturing and destroying everything, but you're wrong. The current federal government is so horrible because the people running it don't believe in government. Electing another idiot who doesn't believe in government is certainly not the answer.
And I have to assume that Ron Paul is a complete and total idiot, because if he isn't and has even remotely thought through his positions, and still thinks they are a good idea then he is a gravely evil man. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's just a moron and I'll be doing the same for you.
The Farewell Tour II
"Ron Paul believes in basically no government because he is an insane anarchist."
That's a blatant lie. It's pretty evident that he believes in the form of government that was outlined in the Constitution of the United States of America as it was some two-hundred years ago. Which is to say, he believes in a strong local government, not the 50 federal well-fare cases we have today.
Money is the root of all evil?