Unfortunately, this goes against the Constitution. One of your rights is to not have to testify against yourself. One of the many very valid reasons for this is that it introduces an incentive for the authorities to pressure you to testify in a specific manner. How far is 'brainwave monitor' removed from 'torture machine'? How far removed will it be tomorrow? In ten years?
And if e-voting companies switch to Linux of FreeBSD or Windows CE (or any OS with available source code) he'll then ask for the BIOS, and the CPU firmware, and so on, until they give up.
As well he should, as any of those components can completely invalidate any security measures placed on top of it. Furthermore, anything beyond the CPU firmware is pointless and unnecessary. This is a dedicated machine, meant to perform one small, well-defined function. Your car's ECU doesn't run one Windows. Your handheld GPS doesn't need FreeBSD. Why would you want Windows CE on a MP3 player? A BIOS and an OS are nothing more that added complexity that cannot enhance a well designed voting machine.
Portions of the airplane that store cargo are unsuitable for passengers. They're unpressurized crush zones. In the event of a crash, the soft cushy people are up top, well protected as the bottom half of the airplane gets scraped away.
Tricresyl Phosphate (TCP) works, but a word of caution. You should be aware that the substance is noxious and is transdermal with serious complications for your innards. This means that you don't want to get it on your skin, eyes, etc., at any cost. Fumes are a serious health risk also. Not to mention that the stuff has the potential to be extremely explosive under certain conditions. Sooooo, what worries me is carrying it in an airplane. In fact, if you read the label Alcor warns against carrying it aboard the airplane. Actually, that recommendation came about due to a can exploding inside a C-172 with two fatalities. Using it in your hangar, with latex gloves, maybe a respirator, and good ventilation, it works as advertised, but the potential hazards must not be ignored.
Those 'putt-putt trainers' you speak of just happen to be the largest component of the GA fleet, and the fears of a little ethanol in the fuel are so overblown, they've become ridiculous. Putting ethanol in the fuel is counterproductive for several reasons, but the unwarranted fear-mongering of the opponents is ridiculous. But that is beside the point. The original claim was that mogas in airplanes was a joke, or something to that effect. The orginal claim itself is a laughable offense of cluelessness.
Except that theres always the question of reliability. Magnetos work without external power, and then an aircraft will even have two of them with completely seperate ignition systems.
Magnetos just have a generator built into them. Kettering figured this out in the early 1900's, split the power generation from the spark generation, and dropped the price of electric ignition to levels that normal people could afford. The magneto is a heavy Rube Goldberg device that tries to pack to much into to small a space. The only thing that has kept it in airplanes is a lack of vision and burdensome regulation.
Luckily, there is a solution...experimental aviation. My rotary installation will have two Ford EDIS ignition systems that will be powered by a permanent magnet generator (the same thing powering those magnetos). Loss of the engine controller will put the EDIS in it's natural state, which is to run 10 degrees of advance.
Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later. Finally, an electronic ignition system is no help for detonation of other fuels at altitude and in high performance engines. Spark is spark, and magnetos are already timed for best, safest power.
You have just proven beyond a doubt that you know absolutely nothing about how an ICE operates, beyond maybe what you heard from some old fart hanging out in front of an airport. Try going down to a local race track (where real men coax the absolute maximum power out of an engine) and try to tell them that "spark is spark". You'll have to just tell them, 'cause they won't talk to you. They'll laugh at you. But not try to engage you in a conversation. If you actually owned an airplane engine, you'd know that lead clogs the valves and can cause misfires in the plugs. Many, MANY engines will run much better if mogas is mixed in to reduce the amount of lead. The EAA sales a $50 STC that allows a wide range of aircraft types to run on mogas, and it is the most popular STC for a GA craft to have.
Lie, some countries have kept records of climate ever since the invention of the meteorological instruments in the 17th century, today we have over 7000 stations that measure land temperatures,
No amount of flight scheduling will fix this problem, because flight scheduling isn't the root cause. In fact, flight scheduling is a valiant attempt to fix the root cause.
The root cause is that everyone wants to arrive at LAX at 8am and depart at 6pm. Just enough time to get from the airport to the client site, spend a day in meetings, and then get to the airport and back home. Try taking a trip occasionally to a smaller airport with an arrival time around 11am, 3pm or 10pm. I flew to GSO about a month ago, arriving at about 7:30pm. I was vectored to the approach end of the runway from 10NM out, and given landing clearance at 5NM out. Basically, ATC (air traffic control) said, "You've got the airport to yourself." They can't actually say that, but it amounted to the same thing.
Recently, the general aviation community has been in an uproar because the big airlines want to rearrange how aviation is taxed to pay for the ATC infrastructure. Historically, it has been fuel taxes, just like how we pay for highways. Those who use the resource the most pay the most taxes. It's a low overhead collection infrastructure, and almost self enforcing (a small plane owner can cart in his own gas in 5gal containers, but what a friggin' hassle that is. Just buy it from the airport and pay the tax.) The airline want to change things so that a fee is charged every time an ATC service is used. This system has decimated general aviation in most European countries, is a tax collector's nightmare, and won't collect any more money than is collected now. But that is not GA's argument to Congress. Our argument is that ATC is designed to handle the irrational scheduling of the airlines. Spread all of those arrivals and departures out and you can drastically reduce the control staff on the ground.
I'm way off in the weeds chasing rabbits, but the direct answer to your question is that a better scheduling algorithm will not get to many planes into to small of an area in to short of a time. This is one of those problems that computers will never be able to solve.
I'm behind in my/. reading, but this is an interesting question...so I'll bite.
It depends on the material, but even a marble shaft will compress (ever so slightly) when you push it. This is how sound waves move through solid rock. To determine the quickest reaction that the other end will see your push, all you have to do is look up the mach speed for the material in question.
The question you pose is actually a very important one when engineering very large structures. If you have two forces working on the opposite ends of a long beam, how will they interact through the beam? Can't answer the question until you know how quickly the beam will transmit the force.
Build your electric car, and make your biodiesel. We don't care. But when you start driving it on the public roads, it is expected that you pay your share of the expense to keep those roads from disintegrating. That has traditionally been done by taxing the fuel. The more you used the road, the more fuel you use...a very simple, low-overhead way to insure that the people using the roads the most pay the most for their upkeep.
The system will have to change as new technologies make it obsolete, but the roads will still need to be maintained if we expect to keep using them.
Also, things other then cars run on fuel. These people are also paying for the roads. Gas powered lawn mowers burn on the same fuel. I don't think there are many mowers that are running down streets, especially if they are the walk-behind kind. Generators can run on fuel. These also do not move down the road, so why are they taxed to pay for roads in the same way as fuel used to power a vehicle?
I'll be running auto gas in my airplane. It's a simple form you fill out to get a reimbursement for the taxes you paid on the auto gas.
So, they take RandomDeveloper in for a few years, due to his excellent work on FooProject, and pay him lots of money. A few years later, he gets tired of riding on his laurels and bails from the company. He's richer. Someone else has taken his place has taken his place as Head of Foo, or the project has branched off into FooBar. The source is still there, having been improved upon in the interim. He might have improved his skills and actually have more to offer, and he can either restart work on FooProject, retire to the Caman Islands, or join FooBar Project. Regardless, M$ can't buy up all the open source developers, any more that US troops can kill all the terrorist, and for pretty much the same reason. Taking out one provides an impetus for another to rise up.
I say, "Yoohoo! Open-source developer is about to get PAID!!"
So you vote for John Kerry or George Bush because you truly believe what they say. What if you knew their true motivations? Is it a bad thing when politicians are caught off-guard saying what they really think?
Your girlfriend ask if she's getting big, and you say, "Of course, not", while secretly thinking how your fixing to dump her fat ass. Wouldn't it be much better if she knew you were dissatisfied? And you knew that she thought you should get your lazy ass off the couch, also?
I just think a large part of the lies we tell each other is just culturally sanitized bullshit that we use to avoid having to actually understand another's viewpoint (because that is actually hard and time consuming). Usually the most 'sociable' people are those most successful at hiding what they really think, i.e. the lying scum of the earth. Then we wonder why our leaders tend to be disengenuous. I don't see a problem with being able to know what people really think.
Ok. I agree with you, once you add the "year or two" conditional.
M$ has learned several time that the computer industry is a constantly changing landscape. Delaying tactics can make today's lawsuits and market conditions irrelevant. Keep 'em busy with patent scares until we can get the DRM measures in place.
I think they're getting desperate, though. The fact that they had to pay $40M for the deal seems to be cutting at the core of their credibility. PHBs may not understand software or software patents, but they sure as hell know a payoff when they see one. More to the point, they have an innate awareness of how and why such tactics are used.
Incidently there is a business principle so basic I dont think it is even mentioned in self help management books:- "Dont sue your customers" you may win the law suit but you will have an ex customer for sure. So the chances of a real cutomer being sued by MS are practicaly 0.
Unless you have monopoly power, in which case you may pretty much act as you please. Please reference "BSA" for more information.
I'm soft of totally confused looking for any relevance to anything here. Microsoft gave Novell $40M, and agreed not to sue Novell's customers, unless Novell's customers were using Novell's product (the wording of the exceptions seem to exclude anything that could possibly be in a distribution).
My question is, "What difference does the agreement make?"
M$ could possibly sue Novel, et.al., before the agreement was signed. Now, M$ is out $40M, and still could possibly sue Novel, et. al. The possibility of M$ winning such a lawsuit remains as remote as it was before. It appears that the $40M was simply the cost of a publicity stunt. Wouldn't another fake grassroots campaign have been more effective?
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How about pop and junk food? One Twinkie for me -- one for my horse...er my Honda.
That should be "Whisky for my men. Beer for my horses."
It's not the CRT you're hearing. It's the flyback transformer. Somewhat arbitrary distinction, since all CRT require the transformer, but a significant one, nonetheless. When the CRT starts wearing out, the transformer will start getting loose, and then everyone will be able to hear the whine. If you can't afford a new TV, you will hear it for a long time. (yes, I had a less than affluent childhood 8*)
You not crazy or deformed. Just a little more sensitive to the high end of the spectrum. You're not hearing the full frequency, as it is out of hearing range, but one of the lower resonant components instead. Still irritating.
Why would anyone rip a board using a crosscut blade?
Why would anyone use a right handed jigsaw when they're left handed?
Why would anyone try to weld thinwall tube with HarborFreight regulators?
Why would anyone try to do anything with the $5 toolkits that WalMart sells?
Either, because the purveyors of real tools don't have the resources to force enough education for those who don't really give a damn so that they will give a damn. Once Dell starts selling Linux pre-installed, and people realize that Microsoft's lack of robust engineering is the reason that they aren't able to do anything with their computers, they will care enough to educate themselves.
Did you have the same font sets stored on both computers, and did you use only the consistent font set?
People like to blame formatting on changing word processors, but one of the consistencies Microsoft enjoys is their default font set distributed everywhere. Try this. Carefully format a document, close it, delete the font you used, and open the document back up. Your layout will be trashed.
You can't make banana pudding from apples, but that is what you're possibly doing unless the font is embedded in the document.
I agree. That's what happened to the X-Files. The movie was supposed to clean up all the plot twists and answer all the questions that had been raised by the series. It did neither, and instead opened some new twists and new questions. I never watched another episode.
Think of it this way. When you read a novel, do you expect it to go on forever. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Leave off the end, and you just have rambling.
That was a neat plot prop, but would a seriously intelligent race go around picking up strange objects floating in space without any thought given to a quarantine. There is a reason that all the space movies where the aliens show up on Earth begin with guys in white hazmat suits showing up to erect a tent. I suspect any species that has made it to the point of space travel will be paranoid enough not to take ridiculous chances like taking the strange artifact directly to their leader.
Maybe if the Democratic party can implement this technology, they will be able to front a candidate that would be more acceptable to the American people than the current President; otherwise, judging by past performance, I expect the status quo will continue unabated.
We don't by insurance. We get a job that buys insurance for us.
Anytime you separate the purchaser and the consumer, whackiness will ensue. Our system will not recover until the individual health care consumer is charged with managing the cost. Some insurance companies try to do this with co-pays, but that is a half-measure that only meets with half-success.
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Unfortunately, this goes against the Constitution. One of your rights is to not have to testify against yourself. One of the many very valid reasons for this is that it introduces an incentive for the authorities to pressure you to testify in a specific manner. How far is 'brainwave monitor' removed from 'torture machine'? How far removed will it be tomorrow? In ten years?
And if e-voting companies switch to Linux of FreeBSD or Windows CE (or any OS with available source code) he'll then ask for the BIOS, and the CPU firmware, and so on, until they give up.
As well he should, as any of those components can completely invalidate any security measures placed on top of it. Furthermore, anything beyond the CPU firmware is pointless and unnecessary. This is a dedicated machine, meant to perform one small, well-defined function. Your car's ECU doesn't run one Windows. Your handheld GPS doesn't need FreeBSD. Why would you want Windows CE on a MP3 player? A BIOS and an OS are nothing more that added complexity that cannot enhance a well designed voting machine.
Portions of the airplane that store cargo are unsuitable for passengers. They're unpressurized crush zones. In the event of a crash, the soft cushy people are up top, well protected as the bottom half of the airplane gets scraped away.
Something from a random web page:
Tricresyl Phosphate (TCP) works, but a word of caution. You should be aware that the substance is noxious and is transdermal with serious complications for your innards. This means that you don't want to get it on your skin, eyes, etc., at any cost. Fumes are a serious health risk also. Not to mention that the stuff has the potential to be extremely explosive under certain conditions. Sooooo, what worries me is carrying it in an airplane. In fact, if you read the label Alcor warns against carrying it aboard the airplane. Actually, that recommendation came about due to a can exploding inside a C-172 with two fatalities. Using it in your hangar, with latex gloves, maybe a respirator, and good ventilation, it works as advertised, but the potential hazards must not be ignored.
Those 'putt-putt trainers' you speak of just happen to be the largest component of the GA fleet, and the fears of a little ethanol in the fuel are so overblown, they've become ridiculous. Putting ethanol in the fuel is counterproductive for several reasons, but the unwarranted fear-mongering of the opponents is ridiculous. But that is beside the point. The original claim was that mogas in airplanes was a joke, or something to that effect. The orginal claim itself is a laughable offense of cluelessness.
Since the summary says that it only run on Windows, I'm sure the virus writers are at your door to fulfill your request.
Except that theres always the question of reliability. Magnetos work without external power, and then an aircraft will even have two of them with completely seperate ignition systems.
Magnetos just have a generator built into them. Kettering figured this out in the early 1900's, split the power generation from the spark generation, and dropped the price of electric ignition to levels that normal people could afford. The magneto is a heavy Rube Goldberg device that tries to pack to much into to small a space. The only thing that has kept it in airplanes is a lack of vision and burdensome regulation.
Luckily, there is a solution...experimental aviation. My rotary installation will have two Ford EDIS ignition systems that will be powered by a permanent magnet generator (the same thing powering those magnetos). Loss of the engine controller will put the EDIS in it's natural state, which is to run 10 degrees of advance.
Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later. Finally, an electronic ignition system is no help for detonation of other fuels at altitude and in high performance engines. Spark is spark, and magnetos are already timed for best, safest power.
You have just proven beyond a doubt that you know absolutely nothing about how an ICE operates, beyond maybe what you heard from some old fart hanging out in front of an airport. Try going down to a local race track (where real men coax the absolute maximum power out of an engine) and try to tell them that "spark is spark". You'll have to just tell them, 'cause they won't talk to you. They'll laugh at you. But not try to engage you in a conversation. If you actually owned an airplane engine, you'd know that lead clogs the valves and can cause misfires in the plugs. Many, MANY engines will run much better if mogas is mixed in to reduce the amount of lead. The EAA sales a $50 STC that allows a wide range of aircraft types to run on mogas, and it is the most popular STC for a GA craft to have.
In short, you haven't a clue.
Lie, some countries have kept records of climate ever since the invention of the meteorological instruments in the 17th century, today we have over 7000 stations that measure land temperatures,
/ ?
You mean stations like these http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/weather_stations
No amount of flight scheduling will fix this problem, because flight scheduling isn't the root cause. In fact, flight scheduling is a valiant attempt to fix the root cause.
The root cause is that everyone wants to arrive at LAX at 8am and depart at 6pm. Just enough time to get from the airport to the client site, spend a day in meetings, and then get to the airport and back home. Try taking a trip occasionally to a smaller airport with an arrival time around 11am, 3pm or 10pm. I flew to GSO about a month ago, arriving at about 7:30pm. I was vectored to the approach end of the runway from 10NM out, and given landing clearance at 5NM out. Basically, ATC (air traffic control) said, "You've got the airport to yourself." They can't actually say that, but it amounted to the same thing.
Recently, the general aviation community has been in an uproar because the big airlines want to rearrange how aviation is taxed to pay for the ATC infrastructure. Historically, it has been fuel taxes, just like how we pay for highways. Those who use the resource the most pay the most taxes. It's a low overhead collection infrastructure, and almost self enforcing (a small plane owner can cart in his own gas in 5gal containers, but what a friggin' hassle that is. Just buy it from the airport and pay the tax.) The airline want to change things so that a fee is charged every time an ATC service is used. This system has decimated general aviation in most European countries, is a tax collector's nightmare, and won't collect any more money than is collected now. But that is not GA's argument to Congress. Our argument is that ATC is designed to handle the irrational scheduling of the airlines. Spread all of those arrivals and departures out and you can drastically reduce the control staff on the ground.
I'm way off in the weeds chasing rabbits, but the direct answer to your question is that a better scheduling algorithm will not get to many planes into to small of an area in to short of a time. This is one of those problems that computers will never be able to solve.
I'm behind in my /. reading, but this is an interesting question...so I'll bite.
It depends on the material, but even a marble shaft will compress (ever so slightly) when you push it. This is how sound waves move through solid rock. To determine the quickest reaction that the other end will see your push, all you have to do is look up the mach speed for the material in question.
The question you pose is actually a very important one when engineering very large structures. If you have two forces working on the opposite ends of a long beam, how will they interact through the beam? Can't answer the question until you know how quickly the beam will transmit the force.
Build your electric car, and make your biodiesel. We don't care. But when you start driving it on the public roads, it is expected that you pay your share of the expense to keep those roads from disintegrating. That has traditionally been done by taxing the fuel. The more you used the road, the more fuel you use...a very simple, low-overhead way to insure that the people using the roads the most pay the most for their upkeep.
The system will have to change as new technologies make it obsolete, but the roads will still need to be maintained if we expect to keep using them.
Also, things other then cars run on fuel. These people are also paying for the roads. Gas powered lawn mowers burn on the same fuel. I don't think there are many mowers that are running down streets, especially if they are the walk-behind kind. Generators can run on fuel. These also do not move down the road, so why are they taxed to pay for roads in the same way as fuel used to power a vehicle?
I'll be running auto gas in my airplane. It's a simple form you fill out to get a reimbursement for the taxes you paid on the auto gas.
Funny thing is, "It doesn't matter!!"
So, they take RandomDeveloper in for a few years, due to his excellent work on FooProject, and pay him lots of money. A few years later, he gets tired of riding on his laurels and bails from the company. He's richer. Someone else has taken his place has taken his place as Head of Foo, or the project has branched off into FooBar. The source is still there, having been improved upon in the interim. He might have improved his skills and actually have more to offer, and he can either restart work on FooProject, retire to the Caman Islands, or join FooBar Project. Regardless, M$ can't buy up all the open source developers, any more that US troops can kill all the terrorist, and for pretty much the same reason. Taking out one provides an impetus for another to rise up.
I say, "Yoohoo! Open-source developer is about to get PAID!!"
So you vote for John Kerry or George Bush because you truly believe what they say. What if you knew their true motivations? Is it a bad thing when politicians are caught off-guard saying what they really think?
Your girlfriend ask if she's getting big, and you say, "Of course, not", while secretly thinking how your fixing to dump her fat ass. Wouldn't it be much better if she knew you were dissatisfied? And you knew that she thought you should get your lazy ass off the couch, also?
I just think a large part of the lies we tell each other is just culturally sanitized bullshit that we use to avoid having to actually understand another's viewpoint (because that is actually hard and time consuming). Usually the most 'sociable' people are those most successful at hiding what they really think, i.e. the lying scum of the earth. Then we wonder why our leaders tend to be disengenuous. I don't see a problem with being able to know what people really think.
Ok. I agree with you, once you add the "year or two" conditional.
M$ has learned several time that the computer industry is a constantly changing landscape. Delaying tactics can make today's lawsuits and market conditions irrelevant. Keep 'em busy with patent scares until we can get the DRM measures in place.
I think they're getting desperate, though. The fact that they had to pay $40M for the deal seems to be cutting at the core of their credibility. PHBs may not understand software or software patents, but they sure as hell know a payoff when they see one. More to the point, they have an innate awareness of how and why such tactics are used.
Incidently there is a business principle so basic I dont think it is even mentioned in self help management books :- "Dont sue your customers" you may win the law suit but you will have an ex customer for sure. So the chances of a real cutomer being sued by MS are practicaly 0.
Unless you have monopoly power, in which case you may pretty much act as you please. Please reference "BSA" for more information.
I'm soft of totally confused looking for any relevance to anything here. Microsoft gave Novell $40M, and agreed not to sue Novell's customers, unless Novell's customers were using Novell's product (the wording of the exceptions seem to exclude anything that could possibly be in a distribution).
My question is, "What difference does the agreement make?"
M$ could possibly sue Novel, et.al., before the agreement was signed. Now, M$ is out $40M, and still could possibly sue Novel, et. al. The possibility of M$ winning such a lawsuit remains as remote as it was before. It appears that the $40M was simply the cost of a publicity stunt. Wouldn't another fake grassroots campaign have been more effective?
How about pop and junk food? One Twinkie for me -- one for my horse...er my Honda.
That should be "Whisky for my men. Beer for my horses."
It's not the CRT you're hearing. It's the flyback transformer. Somewhat arbitrary distinction, since all CRT require the transformer, but a significant one, nonetheless. When the CRT starts wearing out, the transformer will start getting loose, and then everyone will be able to hear the whine. If you can't afford a new TV, you will hear it for a long time. (yes, I had a less than affluent childhood 8*)
You not crazy or deformed. Just a little more sensitive to the high end of the spectrum. You're not hearing the full frequency, as it is out of hearing range, but one of the lower resonant components instead. Still irritating.
Why would anyone rip a board using a crosscut blade?
Why would anyone use a right handed jigsaw when they're left handed?
Why would anyone try to weld thinwall tube with HarborFreight regulators?
Why would anyone try to do anything with the $5 toolkits that WalMart sells?
Either, because the purveyors of real tools don't have the resources to force enough education for those who don't really give a damn so that they will give a damn. Once Dell starts selling Linux pre-installed, and people realize that Microsoft's lack of robust engineering is the reason that they aren't able to do anything with their computers, they will care enough to educate themselves.
Did you have the same font sets stored on both computers, and did you use only the consistent font set?
People like to blame formatting on changing word processors, but one of the consistencies Microsoft enjoys is their default font set distributed everywhere. Try this. Carefully format a document, close it, delete the font you used, and open the document back up. Your layout will be trashed.
You can't make banana pudding from apples, but that is what you're possibly doing unless the font is embedded in the document.
I agree. That's what happened to the X-Files. The movie was supposed to clean up all the plot twists and answer all the questions that had been raised by the series. It did neither, and instead opened some new twists and new questions. I never watched another episode.
Think of it this way. When you read a novel, do you expect it to go on forever. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Leave off the end, and you just have rambling.
That was a neat plot prop, but would a seriously intelligent race go around picking up strange objects floating in space without any thought given to a quarantine. There is a reason that all the space movies where the aliens show up on Earth begin with guys in white hazmat suits showing up to erect a tent. I suspect any species that has made it to the point of space travel will be paranoid enough not to take ridiculous chances like taking the strange artifact directly to their leader.
Maybe if the Democratic party can implement this technology, they will be able to front a candidate that would be more acceptable to the American people than the current President; otherwise, judging by past performance, I expect the status quo will continue unabated.
We don't buy health care, we buy insurance.
We don't by insurance. We get a job that buys insurance for us.
Anytime you separate the purchaser and the consumer, whackiness will ensue. Our system will not recover until the individual health care consumer is charged with managing the cost. Some insurance companies try to do this with co-pays, but that is a half-measure that only meets with half-success.
Why is this modded Interesting instead of Funny?
large numbers of poor illiterates, sick and dying.
What the fuck are you talking about?