If you want see what kind of effects that can have on attracting and keeping new businesses to your country, try here [wordpress.com]. Corporate taxes were lowered. Businesses flocked to it. Tax reveneues increased because of a larger tax base despite a lower marginal rate.
The example of Ireland doesn't really have a parallel in the US. Corporations already want to be here because of our unique base of skilled, technical labor. They want to be here because of easy access to consumers with lots of money to spend. Ireland didn't have either of those things going for it, so they had to come up with a hook to draw business in: become a tax haven. If the US just slashed corporate taxes across the board, sure, we'd attract a lot of companies here, that were already here. They would just be paying lower taxes.
Sorry, you gotta pay to play. You want access to the best workforce, consumer base, facilities, roads, utilities, public water you can drink safely, etc, you come to America, despite the higher tax rate. After all, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. You want the cheapest possible tax rate, you look somewhere else, knowing that you'll probably have to import labor at a huge cost and will have language and cultural barriers which will also increase costs. As in most things, you usually get what you pay for.
Which political party you vote for is perhaps the purest fashion choice you can make. With cars, shoes, clothes, music, etc. one can debate merit, but with politics it's just fashion.
This is a nice, apathetic argument to make, and in some ways it is true, but political parties are NOT both the same. If Gore were elected in 2000 instead of Bush, I think everyone agrees that the country would not be as messed up right now as it is. Or do you seriously think Gore would have started an unnecessary war, messed up Katrina relief efforts, and pushed the country into an economic tailspin?
I know that no one likes MS and thinks they are evil, but I've been VERY happy using AD. We have two Win2k3 machines that serves ActiveDirectory, basically a primary and backup domain controller in the old MS NTDOMAIN language. Works awesome. If you throw in the MS certificate server on your AD server, then you also have a nice way to make internal SSL certificates with full revokation support and all that neat stuff so you can make internal certs all day long and the since your Windows machines are part of the ActiveDirectory, it pushes its root cert to all your windows boxes meaning you don't have to do crap to make them fully authenticated certs for your windows machines.
I totally agree that this is the best solution out there. MS AD, Certificate server pushing root CA out to the Windows clients, using IE and getting a trusted root from your certificate server. But it strikes me as another sysadmin reading through your post, how completely Microsoft has locked down all the key infrastructure:
1. Directory Services - Check, AD is the best product on the market and the only one that integrates well with Windows clients out of the box. 2. Authentication - Check, AD is the only one that can provide seamless authentication to Windows clients, Kerberos to *nix, and LDAP to web apps. 3. Certificate Authority - Check, MS Cert server is the only one capable of pushing trusted root certs out to Windows client browsers through group policies.
While this is by far, the best all in one solution out there, it pains me to think that after all the evil business practices and anti competitive tactics Microsoft has used over the years, they have been able to completely lock down the enterprise in such a huge way. Nothing, literally no network service, even if it's a login to a *nix database server or a CRM application on the web, can function without them. Please excuse me while I go cry a little...
So you have the GPS tracking you wanted, plus your child has a cellphone so you can reach them if they're indoors and GPS isn't working so hot, AND you have the added feature you didn't even know you wanted: a text message the instant your child leaves a designated area.
But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are.
Speak for yourself. I'm 35 years old, engaged to be married, exercise 3-4 times a week, have a full time job, and play WoW about 2-3 nights a week for a few hours. Most of the people in my guild are also professionals in their 30s with wives, kids, and real lives outside the game.
The stereotype of a teenager or 30-something playing in their mom's basement is just a stereotype. Sure there are a few of those because games like WoW appeal to someone with an infinite amount of free time, but the vast majority of the 11+ million subscribers probably only log on a couple times a week.
If I'm addicted to a bought-outright game, it's because it's a good game.
I remember reading an interview with some of the developers behind Diablo and Diablo 2, which are some of the most addictive games ever made. They said they specifically designed the loot mechanic to be like a slot machine. Slot machine creators have scientifically determined the exact intervals of time between rewards (payout). They have analyzed human behavior to the point where they know that after a certain number of minutes you will get bored, so just before that time, all of a sudden you'll see a green drop, or some other epic loot. This reward mechanism is so addictive that it can keep you playing for hours. Just look at any casino and all of the old ladies pumping quarters into slot machines for hours on end and you can see how addictive the timed reward mechanics are.
Successful video games like Diablo and WoW have used these same type of reward mechanics to create millions of highly addicted gamers. See giving up addiction to Diablo 2 for a personal experience.
I've had to walk in behind something like that several times and reset the passwords or load the password hashes into some cracker in order to find the passwords. A lot of times, you can pull them from workstations the old admins used and they are easier to crack then the newer MS servers. The funniest thing is that the CTO usually wants me to stay on full time and gives me a dirty look when I won't do it because he made life so miserable that two other people walk off the job under his supervision.
Trust me, if both previous admins quit because the CTO pissed them off so bad, you probably don't want to work there in the first place, and are better off leaving with them. Or don't, and I'm sure you'll find out in a few days why the CTO pissed them off so bad. It will probably be something like hardware failures left and right but the CTO refuses to pay for any support contracts or routine maintenance so you end up responding to pages all night and weekend because he's too cheap to pay a few thousand dollars on preventative maintenance.
Try spraying the envelope with refrigerant. The paper becomes translucent when wetted and you can sometimes read what's inside, and then it dries without a trace (unlike wetting it with water, which swells up the paper fibers leaving the telltale signs of tampering.)
Or you could, you know, just use a 10 cent "security" envelope that has patterned ink printed all over the inside of it to prevent holding it up to a strong light and other similar "hacks".
The amount that people drink in this study is just astounding. And really, how much common sense do these people have?
The first, a 21 year-old woman, was consuming up to three litres of cola a day and complained of fatigue, appetite loss and persistent vomiting. An electrocardiagram also revealed she had a heart blockage, while blood tests showed she had low potassium levels.
I'll give you hint sweetie. If you have persistent vomiting and you're drinking 3 liters a day of anything, stop drinking it and I bet your vomiting will go away!
He also relates a puzzling case he saw in his own clinical practice, which was solved when the patient turned up at his office with a two-litre bottle of cola in the basket of his electric scooter. It turned out he routinely drank up to four litres a day. He refused to stop drinking cola, but halved his consumption and the muscle weakness he had been complaining of improved.
Gee, you dumbshit. You're so fat you have to drive an electric scooter around with a basket to carry your 2 liter flagon of high fructose corn syrup, and you wonder why you have health problems?
Man, I knew people were stupid, but not this stupid...
As such, you could be fighting NOTHING but AVs, but if you're levelling "too fast" you're abusing the game.
This happened to me when I was playing Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. This game was rushed to market too early, and consequently was a buggy mess upon release. The developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided in order to keep players from getting to maximum level 40 they would introduce an extremely steep leveling curve. This was intended because at the time of release and for a few months afterward, there was no end-game. Well, there was a small end-game, but it was filled with buggy, untested encounters. MMORPG game developers now plan on only releasing the lower levels of content, and then filling in the higher-level content at a later date, after the subscription revenue has funded it.
In any case, our group, now leveling in the mid 30s, reached a particular grinding area where the mobs spawned extremely fast. We found that with the right group of players, we could use AoE (area of effect) damage to kill mobs extremely fast, gaining xp at a truly spectacular rate. It took a coordinated group, with 2 healers and the rest sorcs who had a specialized their characters in AoE damage, but we could get a level about once every couple hours, thus drastically reducing the amount of grinding involved in attaining maximum level.
Some other players saw us doing this rather unconventional behavior and reported us in game as "gold farmers." I got a 3 day suspension for "exploiting game mechanics." Apparently the developers didn't intend for the mobs to spawn that fast, but instead of fixing the bug causing mobs to spawn too fast, they decided to ban players that found out about it and used it to level.
I quit the game right then and never renewed my subscription. I will not participate in a game that has arbitrary rules, puts an artificial cap on leveling speed, and bans players that "level too fast."
Here is where things get a bit tricky for the family man with the fake uniform. In a reasonable business environment, you wouldn't be opening micro-vaults in quasi-public spaces in full view of the general public, which as everyone knows who has ever worked with the general public, is 10% batshit.
Family man with a fake uniform is free to find another job, or if the pay isn't adequate for the risk, quit his job or demand higher pay. Family man with a fake uniform is probably just an under-educated dipshit who couldn't find a better job and has ego issues he decided to take out on the random public.
You know, if I were faced (literally) with the prospect of being seriously injured with a jagged piece of wood, in an atmosphere where I could indeed be overpowered (and had just been), I don't think it's unreasonable to be fearful. "Are they joking or are they psychotic?" would be my thought process, and in a situation like that, I think it's prudent not to call their bluff.
In a situation like that, the legally prudent thing to do is agree and sign their contract. Afterwards, take pictures of the chairs, witness accounts, contact the police, everything you need to do. The fact is that legally, a contract signed under physical threat of violence is not valid. You can't legally consent to something when your life is being threatened. Otherwise common muggers could hold a gun to you, ask you to sign over a living will, and drain your entire life savings. Don't you think our society has progressed a little beyond that point?
Also, those are some serious charges and if he did call the police, with the number of witnesses in the room, I suspect those executives would be behind bars for a long, long time.
I know if this happened to me, the first call I would make after I got out of that meeting would be to 911. This story doesn't really add up. Business executives usually have too much to lose to make physical assaults and threats like that. It would be far better to try and put pressure on him financially by just threatening his job if he doesn't fall in line.
Perhaps there's something to being in a calm town, regardless whether its water causing it or just people who want to be calm and happy instead of anxious and speedy.
Oh yes, since you don't like "speedy" people, why don't we just drug everyone to keep them calm 24 hours a day? Having the general population's mood altered to fit your idea of a perfect society is great. After all, we can't have a few people more alert and awake than others.
Caffeine is proven to increase mental alertness and reaction time. Coffee is a known anti-oxidant, which has health benefits. As with most things, moderation is key. The fact that you get bothered when someone talks too much doesn't give you the right to control their moods by drugging them.
Personally, I accomplish more at work by drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day. It might not work for you, but what right do you have to control what I do with my body?
I've always bought last-years' high flyer for 60-80 dollars and I've never hurt for lack of fun games to play at resolutions that I've ever noticed as a problem.
Last years high flyer that sold for $600 is most likely $200-300 this year, not 60-80. And last year's top CPU that cost $900? Probably at least $300 this year.
You live in a fantasy world. Sure hardware drops fast, but not that fast. $60-80 buys you the $200 budget card from last year.
Actually, the iPhone has all of those except tactile keyboard, copy/paste, tethering, MMS, and Ogg support. If you count the upcoming release of the iPhone OS, you'll only be missing a tactile keyboard and Ogg support.
Seriously, why do people get so hung up on Ogg support? Less than 1/10th of 1 percent of digital music listeners even know what it is or care to use it, so why should Apple support it? DRM free AAC is good enough quality and unencumbered enough to use (unencumbered as in Apple pays for the license so wtf do I care?).
They appreciate craftsmanship and will respond to goo quality in gameplay.
Goo quality in gameplay? Is that a new interactive porn game? In all seriousness, great comment. The very first thing I do when I load a title is go into the options menu, mainly because I want to get my graphics settings perfect and max them out, as well as setup my controller just the way I like it. I never really noticed this, but of course, casuals probably just want to have fun and couldn't care less if detailed shadows are enabled or not.
When Oracle embraced linux and created their linux distro, they called it "unbreakable linux", because they made enhancements to linux to make it more stable. Implying that it was breakable before.
The "unbreakable" term is really just marketing. All that Oracle does with OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) is include kernel tuning parameters recommended for Oracle so that sysadmins don't have to edit sysctl.conf, and include some RPMs and libraries that Oracle requires for installation.
OEL is an answer to the difficulty that some sysadmins have in configuring a Linux box to run Oracle. It required a lot of manually installing RPMs and editing config files. Oracle wanted to make it easier.
Unbreakable is just a marketing term, and should be ignored by anyone seriously considering which OS to use.
I expected the spending, but, this part of taking over banks and businesses and now something as far away from the economic problems as venture capitalists is really surprising me.
Actually, the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration before them, is not doing their duty as required by law. When banks are insolvent, as they are today, the FDIC is legally obligated to take the bank into "receivership." When this happens, the government takes complete control of the banks and is in charge of removing the bad assets from their balance sheet, chopping them up, and selling them back to the private market. This is critical because in order for the banks to become solvent again, they need to have the bad assets and debts removed from their balance sheets.
What is going on right now is that the banks have bribed so many politicians on both sides of the aisle that the government is not doing their job. Instead, they are letting zombie banks with $billions in bad mortgage assets stay in business, and they are even funneling money to them to keep them afloat. This is not what they are required by law to do. The banks should be taken over by the government and put into receivership immediately. It's a shame that you've bought the Faux News line that this is socialism. This isn't socialism. This is how you're supposed to regulate your banking industry.
Banks are like evolutionary organisms. If one makes bad bets and over leverages themselves, they need to die or be removed from the food chain. Keeping zombie banks alive with cash infusions from the treasury is not the way to go. That is the way you get the "lost decade" that Japan had in the 90s.
On Strict, it does not, as some parents wouldn't want their kids using Google that WILL RETURN DONKEY PORN VIDEOS because there is no way to intelligently filter the Google results.
Then why doesn't it also block Microsoft Live search? Simply typing "hot babes" into a Microsoft Live search returns hardcore porn as the very first link.
Why isn't Beaumont the internet's net neutrality battleground instead of these other cities?
Because, and no offense intended, Beaumont is a hillbilly backwater town in the west Texas that nobody cares about. Seriously, that's probably why they are trialing oppressive bandwidth caps there.
For what it's worth, I actually spent 2 weeks in Beaumont in the late 90s installing a POP for a dial-up ISP. I'll never forget the large billboard that read "You can get away with murder in Texas." As I recall, local legend said a rich man's daughter got raped and murdered, and the criminal got off on a technicality, so he decided to buy a billboard telling people about it. It was definitely a scary place to be, billboard aside.
I love it how you try to spin it so they're worthless Democrats. Can't you just acknowledge that they did a good thing for their constituents, regardless of party affiliation?
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The example of Ireland doesn't really have a parallel in the US. Corporations already want to be here because of our unique base of skilled, technical labor. They want to be here because of easy access to consumers with lots of money to spend. Ireland didn't have either of those things going for it, so they had to come up with a hook to draw business in: become a tax haven. If the US just slashed corporate taxes across the board, sure, we'd attract a lot of companies here, that were already here. They would just be paying lower taxes.
Sorry, you gotta pay to play. You want access to the best workforce, consumer base, facilities, roads, utilities, public water you can drink safely, etc, you come to America, despite the higher tax rate. After all, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. You want the cheapest possible tax rate, you look somewhere else, knowing that you'll probably have to import labor at a huge cost and will have language and cultural barriers which will also increase costs. As in most things, you usually get what you pay for.
This is a nice, apathetic argument to make, and in some ways it is true, but political parties are NOT both the same. If Gore were elected in 2000 instead of Bush, I think everyone agrees that the country would not be as messed up right now as it is. Or do you seriously think Gore would have started an unnecessary war, messed up Katrina relief efforts, and pushed the country into an economic tailspin?
I totally agree that this is the best solution out there. MS AD, Certificate server pushing root CA out to the Windows clients, using IE and getting a trusted root from your certificate server. But it strikes me as another sysadmin reading through your post, how completely Microsoft has locked down all the key infrastructure:
1. Directory Services - Check, AD is the best product on the market and the only one that integrates well with Windows clients out of the box.
2. Authentication - Check, AD is the only one that can provide seamless authentication to Windows clients, Kerberos to *nix, and LDAP to web apps.
3. Certificate Authority - Check, MS Cert server is the only one capable of pushing trusted root certs out to Windows client browsers through group policies.
While this is by far, the best all in one solution out there, it pains me to think that after all the evil business practices and anti competitive tactics Microsoft has used over the years, they have been able to completely lock down the enterprise in such a huge way. Nothing, literally no network service, even if it's a login to a *nix database server or a CRM application on the web, can function without them. Please excuse me while I go cry a little...
How about bunghole?
Yeah, but... does it run Linux?
Speak for yourself. I'm 35 years old, engaged to be married, exercise 3-4 times a week, have a full time job, and play WoW about 2-3 nights a week for a few hours. Most of the people in my guild are also professionals in their 30s with wives, kids, and real lives outside the game.
The stereotype of a teenager or 30-something playing in their mom's basement is just a stereotype. Sure there are a few of those because games like WoW appeal to someone with an infinite amount of free time, but the vast majority of the 11+ million subscribers probably only log on a couple times a week.
I remember reading an interview with some of the developers behind Diablo and Diablo 2, which are some of the most addictive games ever made. They said they specifically designed the loot mechanic to be like a slot machine. Slot machine creators have scientifically determined the exact intervals of time between rewards (payout). They have analyzed human behavior to the point where they know that after a certain number of minutes you will get bored, so just before that time, all of a sudden you'll see a green drop, or some other epic loot. This reward mechanism is so addictive that it can keep you playing for hours. Just look at any casino and all of the old ladies pumping quarters into slot machines for hours on end and you can see how addictive the timed reward mechanics are.
Successful video games like Diablo and WoW have used these same type of reward mechanics to create millions of highly addicted gamers. See giving up addiction to Diablo 2 for a personal experience.
Trust me, if both previous admins quit because the CTO pissed them off so bad, you probably don't want to work there in the first place, and are better off leaving with them. Or don't, and I'm sure you'll find out in a few days why the CTO pissed them off so bad. It will probably be something like hardware failures left and right but the CTO refuses to pay for any support contracts or routine maintenance so you end up responding to pages all night and weekend because he's too cheap to pay a few thousand dollars on preventative maintenance.
Or you could, you know, just use a 10 cent "security" envelope that has patterned ink printed all over the inside of it to prevent holding it up to a strong light and other similar "hacks".
The amount that people drink in this study is just astounding. And really, how much common sense do these people have?
I'll give you hint sweetie. If you have persistent vomiting and you're drinking 3 liters a day of anything, stop drinking it and I bet your vomiting will go away!
Gee, you dumbshit. You're so fat you have to drive an electric scooter around with a basket to carry your 2 liter flagon of high fructose corn syrup, and you wonder why you have health problems?
Man, I knew people were stupid, but not this stupid...
This happened to me when I was playing Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. This game was rushed to market too early, and consequently was a buggy mess upon release. The developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided in order to keep players from getting to maximum level 40 they would introduce an extremely steep leveling curve. This was intended because at the time of release and for a few months afterward, there was no end-game. Well, there was a small end-game, but it was filled with buggy, untested encounters. MMORPG game developers now plan on only releasing the lower levels of content, and then filling in the higher-level content at a later date, after the subscription revenue has funded it.
In any case, our group, now leveling in the mid 30s, reached a particular grinding area where the mobs spawned extremely fast. We found that with the right group of players, we could use AoE (area of effect) damage to kill mobs extremely fast, gaining xp at a truly spectacular rate. It took a coordinated group, with 2 healers and the rest sorcs who had a specialized their characters in AoE damage, but we could get a level about once every couple hours, thus drastically reducing the amount of grinding involved in attaining maximum level.
Some other players saw us doing this rather unconventional behavior and reported us in game as "gold farmers." I got a 3 day suspension for "exploiting game mechanics." Apparently the developers didn't intend for the mobs to spawn that fast, but instead of fixing the bug causing mobs to spawn too fast, they decided to ban players that found out about it and used it to level.
I quit the game right then and never renewed my subscription. I will not participate in a game that has arbitrary rules, puts an artificial cap on leveling speed, and bans players that "level too fast."
Family man with a fake uniform is free to find another job, or if the pay isn't adequate for the risk, quit his job or demand higher pay. Family man with a fake uniform is probably just an under-educated dipshit who couldn't find a better job and has ego issues he decided to take out on the random public.
In a situation like that, the legally prudent thing to do is agree and sign their contract. Afterwards, take pictures of the chairs, witness accounts, contact the police, everything you need to do. The fact is that legally, a contract signed under physical threat of violence is not valid. You can't legally consent to something when your life is being threatened. Otherwise common muggers could hold a gun to you, ask you to sign over a living will, and drain your entire life savings. Don't you think our society has progressed a little beyond that point?
Also, those are some serious charges and if he did call the police, with the number of witnesses in the room, I suspect those executives would be behind bars for a long, long time.
I know if this happened to me, the first call I would make after I got out of that meeting would be to 911. This story doesn't really add up. Business executives usually have too much to lose to make physical assaults and threats like that. It would be far better to try and put pressure on him financially by just threatening his job if he doesn't fall in line.
And what would that make you? Pedantic, perhaps? Of course now I must ask myself what that makes me as well? Meta-pedantic?
Oh yes, since you don't like "speedy" people, why don't we just drug everyone to keep them calm 24 hours a day? Having the general population's mood altered to fit your idea of a perfect society is great. After all, we can't have a few people more alert and awake than others.
Caffeine is proven to increase mental alertness and reaction time. Coffee is a known anti-oxidant, which has health benefits. As with most things, moderation is key. The fact that you get bothered when someone talks too much doesn't give you the right to control their moods by drugging them.
Personally, I accomplish more at work by drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day. It might not work for you, but what right do you have to control what I do with my body?
Last years high flyer that sold for $600 is most likely $200-300 this year, not 60-80. And last year's top CPU that cost $900? Probably at least $300 this year.
You live in a fantasy world. Sure hardware drops fast, but not that fast. $60-80 buys you the $200 budget card from last year.
Actually, the iPhone has all of those except tactile keyboard, copy/paste, tethering, MMS, and Ogg support. If you count the upcoming release of the iPhone OS, you'll only be missing a tactile keyboard and Ogg support.
Seriously, why do people get so hung up on Ogg support? Less than 1/10th of 1 percent of digital music listeners even know what it is or care to use it, so why should Apple support it? DRM free AAC is good enough quality and unencumbered enough to use (unencumbered as in Apple pays for the license so wtf do I care?).
You should be aware that the iPhone can do those things with a 3rd party app.
Goo quality in gameplay? Is that a new interactive porn game? In all seriousness, great comment. The very first thing I do when I load a title is go into the options menu, mainly because I want to get my graphics settings perfect and max them out, as well as setup my controller just the way I like it. I never really noticed this, but of course, casuals probably just want to have fun and couldn't care less if detailed shadows are enabled or not.
The "unbreakable" term is really just marketing. All that Oracle does with OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) is include kernel tuning parameters recommended for Oracle so that sysadmins don't have to edit sysctl.conf, and include some RPMs and libraries that Oracle requires for installation.
OEL is an answer to the difficulty that some sysadmins have in configuring a Linux box to run Oracle. It required a lot of manually installing RPMs and editing config files. Oracle wanted to make it easier.
Unbreakable is just a marketing term, and should be ignored by anyone seriously considering which OS to use.
Actually, the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration before them, is not doing their duty as required by law. When banks are insolvent, as they are today, the FDIC is legally obligated to take the bank into "receivership." When this happens, the government takes complete control of the banks and is in charge of removing the bad assets from their balance sheet, chopping them up, and selling them back to the private market. This is critical because in order for the banks to become solvent again, they need to have the bad assets and debts removed from their balance sheets.
What is going on right now is that the banks have bribed so many politicians on both sides of the aisle that the government is not doing their job. Instead, they are letting zombie banks with $billions in bad mortgage assets stay in business, and they are even funneling money to them to keep them afloat. This is not what they are required by law to do. The banks should be taken over by the government and put into receivership immediately. It's a shame that you've bought the Faux News line that this is socialism. This isn't socialism. This is how you're supposed to regulate your banking industry.
Banks are like evolutionary organisms. If one makes bad bets and over leverages themselves, they need to die or be removed from the food chain. Keeping zombie banks alive with cash infusions from the treasury is not the way to go. That is the way you get the "lost decade" that Japan had in the 90s.
Then why doesn't it also block Microsoft Live search? Simply typing "hot babes" into a Microsoft Live search returns hardcore porn as the very first link.
This smells of antitrust to me.
Because, and no offense intended, Beaumont is a hillbilly backwater town in the west Texas that nobody cares about. Seriously, that's probably why they are trialing oppressive bandwidth caps there.
For what it's worth, I actually spent 2 weeks in Beaumont in the late 90s installing a POP for a dial-up ISP. I'll never forget the large billboard that read "You can get away with murder in Texas." As I recall, local legend said a rich man's daughter got raped and murdered, and the criminal got off on a technicality, so he decided to buy a billboard telling people about it. It was definitely a scary place to be, billboard aside.
I love it how you try to spin it so they're worthless Democrats. Can't you just acknowledge that they did a good thing for their constituents, regardless of party affiliation?
Did you just say nude incentive? Is this some new perk they have going now at the Googleplex? Sign me up...