Every cultural group has criminals. Italians, Irish, Jews, Blacks, all famous for their gangsters. (My dad used to complain that gangster movies never showed Jewish gangsters, a slight upon our proud Jewish heritage.) The Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts include pedophiles. I dunno what affiliations you have, but I'll bet I could guilt you by association if I wanted to.
I'm an atheist. If I were a bigoted atheist, I could dismiss all religions as cults. But I'm not a bigot. You certainly are.
I'm not talking about "I deposited my paycheck and it's not on my statement". I'm talking about big complicated online transactions for billions of dollars.
Actually, Obama is the Nigger in the White House. And that's a good thing. Having a black POTUS has caused all the racist scum to crawl out from under their rocks and remind us that our inner Nazi is alive and well. We were getting too smug about having defeated racism.
Right, so you don't care about health care reform or not fighting pointless wars, as long as you can leave your shoes on at the airport and Mickey Mouse is allowed to enter the public domain. Typical geek priorities!
I seem to recall that Bush Sr. had a chance to overthrow Saddam and passed on it, because he was afraid of falling into a quagmire. Fortunately, Bush Jr. came along and showed us all that a quagmire is a good thing!
Yep, LBJ really blew it with Vietnam. And it's a damn good thing he beat Goldwater, who would have blown it even worse. War with China, anyone?
But you know, I still meet people who think the Vietnam War could have been won. Which just goes to show that you don't need to ignore history in order to repeat it.
No. But he would have taken the blame for 9/11 (it would have been "obvious" that electing a wimpy liberal had "caused" the attack) and the Let's Invade Everybody crowd would have still come to power in 2005.
Still, you have a point. People who talk about there not being any difference between parties are just not paying attention. Too busy obsessing about Libertarianism or Black Helicopters or some other fantasy.
Oh please. I have no use for Romney, but I'm sick of all the anti-Mormon bigotry. Most people have rituals that sound silly to some other people. Don't make ignorant fun of theirs and they won't make fun of yours.
I consider a good thing, for purely selfish reasons. Right now I can't buy insurance. I can get a catastrophe-only policy from the state high-risk pool for more than I can afford. I can't buy a policy for day-to-day care at any price — I have pre-existing conditions. Nothing that has ever cost a lot of money to treat, but the standard insurance company business model is to only sell insurance to people who don't need it.
In a little over a year, the Obamacare health exchanges start up. In my state, I can have coverage for $250/month with a maximum out of pocket cost of $2K a year. Works for me.
On the election coverage tonight, I heard several people calling Obama a "communist", mainly because of this reform, which mostly keeps health care in the private sector. Idiots.
I totally agree -- however, computers by their very nature are difficult to keep open and audited, because you can't see what's really going on inside a microchip.
And yet our entire financial system is based on records that exist only in those microchips.
Whichever technology you use, the key is keeping the process open and properly audited. Just as technology is never a silver bullet, neither is anti-technology.
Brands are often used misleadingly but that's not true for "velcro". As far as I can tell Velcro the company doesn't sell any product that don't utilize Velcro the stuff. The only difference I see between the the the first link and yours is (a) you have to cut it yourself and (b) it's green.
Lots of good suggestions, though Displayport is not an option for many of us. I'd add the idea of having just one computer and running any extra boxes in a VM.
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For us non-BSD muggles, please explain why.
Making fun of ritual clothing isn't ignorant?
Every cultural group has criminals. Italians, Irish, Jews, Blacks, all famous for their gangsters. (My dad used to complain that gangster movies never showed Jewish gangsters, a slight upon our proud Jewish heritage.) The Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts include pedophiles. I dunno what affiliations you have, but I'll bet I could guilt you by association if I wanted to.
I'm an atheist. If I were a bigoted atheist, I could dismiss all religions as cults. But I'm not a bigot. You certainly are.
Even fucked countries need to hold elections.
Of course not, because that would spoil a perfectly good joke.
you can go complain/sue the bank
I'm not talking about "I deposited my paycheck and it's not on my statement". I'm talking about big complicated online transactions for billions of dollars.
So, don't allow voting machines that are black boxes.
What's the magical feature of paper ballots that makes them resistant to tampering?
Only those who don't care about their own privacy.
Actually, Obama is the Nigger in the White House. And that's a good thing. Having a black POTUS has caused all the racist scum to crawl out from under their rocks and remind us that our inner Nazi is alive and well. We were getting too smug about having defeated racism.
Right, so you don't care about health care reform or not fighting pointless wars, as long as you can leave your shoes on at the airport and Mickey Mouse is allowed to enter the public domain. Typical geek priorities!
I seem to recall that Bush Sr. had a chance to overthrow Saddam and passed on it, because he was afraid of falling into a quagmire. Fortunately, Bush Jr. came along and showed us all that a quagmire is a good thing!
Yep, LBJ really blew it with Vietnam. And it's a damn good thing he beat Goldwater, who would have blown it even worse. War with China, anyone?
But you know, I still meet people who think the Vietnam War could have been won. Which just goes to show that you don't need to ignore history in order to repeat it.
No. But he would have taken the blame for 9/11 (it would have been "obvious" that electing a wimpy liberal had "caused" the attack) and the Let's Invade Everybody crowd would have still come to power in 2005.
Still, you have a point. People who talk about there not being any difference between parties are just not paying attention. Too busy obsessing about Libertarianism or Black Helicopters or some other fantasy.
Yeah, but they maintained their purity of essence.
Oh please. I have no use for Romney, but I'm sick of all the anti-Mormon bigotry. Most people have rituals that sound silly to some other people. Don't make ignorant fun of theirs and they won't make fun of yours.
Well, basically because it's over.
Shut up, Carl.
I consider a good thing, for purely selfish reasons. Right now I can't buy insurance. I can get a catastrophe-only policy from the state high-risk pool for more than I can afford. I can't buy a policy for day-to-day care at any price — I have pre-existing conditions. Nothing that has ever cost a lot of money to treat, but the standard insurance company business model is to only sell insurance to people who don't need it.
In a little over a year, the Obamacare health exchanges start up. In my state, I can have coverage for $250/month with a maximum out of pocket cost of $2K a year. Works for me.
On the election coverage tonight, I heard several people calling Obama a "communist", mainly because of this reform, which mostly keeps health care in the private sector. Idiots.
I totally agree -- however, computers by their very nature are difficult to keep open and audited, because you can't see what's really going on inside a microchip.
And yet our entire financial system is based on records that exist only in those microchips.
How old are you? Does your mother know you're up this late?
As I write this, Romney is about to concede. Not that close.
Even so, you're right. The problem is that a constitutional fix requires a much bigger consensus than Americans are capable of right now.
Your boss collects your mail for you? Weird.
Sigh. I'm not going to keep arguing with ways that machines can be subverted. Paper ballots can be subverted too.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Ballotstuffing.jpg
Whichever technology you use, the key is keeping the process open and properly audited. Just as technology is never a silver bullet, neither is anti-technology.
Brands are often used misleadingly but that's not true for "velcro". As far as I can tell Velcro the company doesn't sell any product that don't utilize Velcro the stuff. The only difference I see between the the the first link and yours is (a) you have to cut it yourself and (b) it's green.
Lots of good suggestions, though Displayport is not an option for many of us. I'd add the idea of having just one computer and running any extra boxes in a VM.
Exactly how does labelling a cable prevent if from getting tangled?