What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly?
There is no mechanism for that in the Constitution.
Sure there is - it's right in the constitution under impeachment. A simple majority of the house and a 2/3 majority of the senate can vote him out of office. If he becomes toxic enough to the incumbents, they'll vote to impeach to keep their own seats in a future election. Nothing personal, just business (or self-interest, which politicians are really good at when it comes to voting on legislation, etc.)
Municipal taxes fund municipal streets, so it's a municipal tax. There may be grants from higher levels of government for main arteries that are in the greater public interest. So it's in the municipality's financial self-interest to have people see homes in the municipality as being desirable, rather than lose ratepayers to other municipalities that are more progressive. Parks and bike paths, schools, libraries, public transit, street maintenance, police and fire services all make their contribution.
The bike path in question was an election issue when I ran for mayor about 35 years ago (when I was younger and more naive). I proposed it, the incumbents opposed it, I lost, and within a year or two they implemented it as "their" idea. I still use it, so I'm happy.
Of course you have... in your dreams. I doubt that's even physically possible, but if it is please spare us the details of your experience in the matter.
I didn't buy them specifically to be untraceable, it just worked out that way. The government certainly knows my phone number - I use it for government forms, health care, voting registration, tax forms, etc. I have no problem not being anonymous. Anyone who thinks that they are anonymous on the net is probably a fool. Some of the bigger ones will do like Alexandre Cazes did - voluntarily elect to collect his Darwin Award rather than face the music.
Glad to be of assistance. The pink page of death is a 3-day ban from accessing the site if enough people down-mod you in a limited time frame. You can have a ton of comments rated at +5, that have been down-modded to zero and back to +5, but all those negative mods just kill you. Kind of funny getting a ban with excellent karma, which is one reason not to take karma seriously (like having a post being rated +4 Troll)..
You don't know what an internet troll is? Or is that a misinterpretation of my phrase "inner troll"?
The "inner troll" is based on the fact that humans are by nature a very aggressive species. We eat our young (yes, it's even an observation of human nature made repeatedly in the bible):
2 Kings 6:26-29
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"
The king replied, "If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?" Then he asked her, "What's the matter?"
She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.' So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
Jeremiah 19:9 (also Ezek 5:10)
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.
Lamentations 4:10
With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
Pretty gruesome, but it follows what other mammals do. In times of stress, the adults eat the young who are not strong enough to survive on their own, so as to ensure that when there are better times, they can produce more young.
We've evolved all sorts of passive-aggressive techniques, rallying cries for making war ("rally around the flag", etc), making killing seem like the right thing to do at the time to large parts of the population.
For internet trolls, just look at the personal attacks I get for changing sex. They eventually realize that I am totally shameless about it and go away to find more fertile grounds, only to be replaced by others trying to get an angry response. But in the meantime some of the sparring can help develop your debating form - to be able to argue with idiots without stooping to their level and having them beat you up with their experience (at being an idiot).
Always be aware that someone might be trolling you. It's the internet, after all. Almost everyone is anonymous - some hide behind nyms (names they post under that are not their real names), others post anonymously. I choose not to be, which is why my nym is my legal name. I believe that with freedom of speech comes the responsibility to stand by what you said - to "own it." It's going to happen anyway (as if it's possible to be truly anonymous on the internet - hah!)
From personal experience. I've worked with a few of these monkeys who were taken on temporarily for "training purposes" to finish their 1-year course. One didn't even know how to use a mouse after 9 months. The only one I'm able to track down still hasn't found work in the field, and he was the best of the bunch. He actually did study on his own - he already knew how to set up a linux vm before he took the class. The rest obviously just sat in class and got passed based on attendance.
A decade before that I had to interview candidates from the predecessor to those courses. Some of them actually had some smarts and had obviously put in effort. Some, not most. The same as all the resumes I've seen since, some actually put in the effort to learn, others just coasted and didn't know sh*t after graduation.
My guess is it's probably the same everywhere - you've got the bench-warmers who just want to coast through with minimal effort who think they're owed brownie points just for showing up, and you've got people who actually have an active interest in what they're doing and are always seeking to expand their knowledge and limits, and you've got those between the two extremes.
It's not the schools that are holding back coding as an engineering task that is difficult, needs talent, needs a real education, and needs to be paid.
This is what happens to any field where the barrier to entry becomes lower thanks to progress. Today anyone can write software, be a journalist, make movies, etc.
The failure of the people coming from these schools isn't going to affect the course of software development, because they won't get hired for anything important. The software that already sucks will continue to suck regardless of whether these people exist or not.
Coders are a commodity that will be replaced within a generation by AI, so it's all going to be irrelevant in the medium term. AI is going to have huge costs for society. It's already removing entry-level jobs in many fields, making it harder to get that crucial "first job", as well as removing fall-back jobs during any industry-wide contraction.
Eventually the only people who will be able to code will be those who are retired or those on benefits. The first will have experience and be scratching their own itch, and the second will have all the time in the world to learn, but again just to scratch their own itch because AI will be focused on extracting value from anything potentially profitable.
Did you even read the Protocol? Obviously not! Child soldiers include ANY child under 18 who takes up arms, even if the person is not fighting as a member of the forces of a state. Read Article 4.1:
Article 4
1. Armed groups that are distinct from the armed forces of a State should not, under any circumstances, recruit or use in hostilities persons under the age of 18 years.
Clearly the protocol includes all children under 18 in it's ban on child soldiers.
The responsibilities of the signatories towards ALL child soldiers, whether they are with the forces of an armed state or otherwise:
Article 7
1. States Parties shall cooperate in the implementation of the present Protocol, including in the prevention of any activity contrary thereto and in the rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons who are victims of acts contrary thereto, including through technical cooperation and financial assistance. Such assistance and cooperation will be undertaken in consultation with the States Parties concerned and the relevant international organizations.
2. States Parties in a position to do so shall provide such assistance through existing multilateral, bilateral or other programmes or, inter alia, through a voluntary fund established in accordance with the rules of the General Assembly.
The US's obligation was to treat Khadr as a child soldier, not a soldier. And to consider him a victim of acts contrary to the protocol, specifically Article 4.1 on the use of anyone under 18 not recruited as the soldier of a nation, and not to use anyone under 18 in combat.
He wasn't a coder. He just used a CMS. This is a guy whose only other "computer knowledge" was re-installing Windows in a village of 2,775 out in the boonies before he hit it big.
If he had been a coder, he probably would have done a few things differently, just from the knowledge you pick up from osmosis on what not to do.
They got the money. And the cars. And the properties. All his financial transactions, accounts, passwords, etc., were in an unencrypted file on his laptop.
All of this enabled the authorities to do a huge sweep of his assets and turn up $5m in Bitcoin, $2m in Ethereum, $770,000 in Zcash and $474,000 in Monero – all now shifted to government accounts.
That was just the cryptocash. Cazes' miserable operations security also led investigators to accounts in his and his wife's (Sunisa Thapsuwan) names at Bangkok Bank, Bank of Ayudhya, Kasikorn Bank, Siam Commercial Bank and several others.
Even more amazingly, the cops didn't even have to ask the banks for accounts under those names: Cazes had listed all of his accounts, his houses and his luxury cars in a spreadsheet on his unlocked, unencrypted laptop.
"The document was modeled after a personal financial statement – listing 'TOTAL NET WORTH' in bold at the top of the document," reveals the filing. "Below the net worth heading, Cazes broke down his 'holdings' into various subcategories such as 'Asset holdings' and 'Cash holdings,' as well as by each distinct cryptocurrency... and method of storage. According to his financial statement, Cazes had a net worth of $23,033,975."
He knew that it was all gone, and that the only thing he had to look forward to was a long prison term. The only question was in which country. He broke the laws while living in Thailand, and Thai prisons are pretty bad. Then there's the US, almost as bad in some prisons. And since he doesn't have any money for fancy lawyers...
1. Downmods are no big deal. It's just karma. I've been mod-bombed to the point I suddenly went from excellent karma to the pink page of death for 3 days. Only took a few days after the "time out" to get it all back with a few funny posts. (yeah yeah, +1 funny mods aren't supposed to increase karma, I know.... whatever). If you take down-mods seriously, you're doing it wrong. Laugh.
2. It's Friday. People are bored.
3. You responded to criticism in a way that pretty much guaranteed that bored people would latch onto it. In other words, everyone on the Internet has an inner troll just waiting to be released, and... well, your responses were like pouring chum on water to attract sharks. Bored sharks.
4. A quick review of your posting history shows that you kind of fail at sarcasm in other discussions as well, and then, like here, have to explain things. Maybe sarcasm just isn't your thing? There are other forms of humour you could try...
5. Sarcasm is a weapon. Like all weapons, its use can be seen as a form of aggression, unlike (some) other forms of humour. Like any weapon, it can harm the user if not used properly.
No doubt some around here will blame the victims - I won't name names - but it's a special kind of meanness to prey on those who are genuinely trying to better themselves.
And yet the victims do have to share in the blame. They didn't do even the most cursory of checks, because they were blinded by the idea of making a living without investing any hard work.
Or just "borrow" a legit email account. It's not that hard. Ask any spammer. And it's not hard to get a burner phone. My current smartphone and my previous phone are both burners.
Or they could have just done this. Given the linkedin profile (which used the same email addy that was sent out with every registration and password reset for his site), you get his business name, and from that a quick search of government records (follow the links) yields his name and other details. Literally 1 minute.
The guy was brought up in the boonies, repairing computers from home was his business. In a town of 2,775 people, with a population density of 8 acres per person (78 per square mile), there's not much except farmlands and forests, so not exactly a goldmine for a computer repair business. It's something that someone who doesn't have a clue what they want to do after high school will drift into. After all, how hard is it to reformat and re-install?
And anything else more complicated - "you need a new computer."
_She_
Don't know if I agree with the idiot thing though.
Thanks, but I'm on/., so I might have to cop to being somewhat of an idiot, at least some of the time:-)
Anyone with the document #, registration #, DoB, full name, and my mother's maiden name can validate my birth certificate with the government online. Anyone who wishes to do so can come here and we'll look it up together. Or you can just look at it. If you can't come here, you can designate someone else to. Far better than posting a scan which people will say was doctored.
Certainly one of the trolls is up to the challenge of locating somebody near me. I've posted my full contact details on/. a few times to show just how stupid it is to fear being doxxed. We used to have this thing called a phone book that had pretty much everyone's name and address in it. The world didn't end.
A search of government records (posted the link elsewhere in the discussion) shows this guy used to run a small-time (very small-time, given the location in the boonies) computer repair business. Doesn't take much smarts to re-format and re-install an OS, or run a virus scanner.
The area is mostly farmlands (plug the address into a map and see just how hicksville the place is). Total population is 2,775, mostly living in little pockets of houses here and there surrounded by large swaths of farm and forest. Total homes is 1,145, + 50 or so other buildings. Population density is 78 per square mile. That's more than 8 acres per person. Obviously it's just not possible to make a living there repairing computers (government filings show this was his business since he became an adult), so that left him with marketable skills and plenty of free time and a need to find something else to do.
Maybe you need to make a tl;dr version, because that was one long rambling... whatever it was. It looked more like an aspie stream-of-consciousness than an attempt at sarcasm. See Poe's Law.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.
The original statement of the adage, by Nathan Poe, was:
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.
Or, for the tl;dr version: "You're doing sarcasm wrong.":-)
People have withdrawn their names after Trump nominated them.
Accepting a Trump position could turn out to be a career-ending move. Rejecting one could be seen as a positive.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly?
There is no mechanism for that in the Constitution.
Sure there is - it's right in the constitution under impeachment. A simple majority of the house and a 2/3 majority of the senate can vote him out of office. If he becomes toxic enough to the incumbents, they'll vote to impeach to keep their own seats in a future election. Nothing personal, just business (or self-interest, which politicians are really good at when it comes to voting on legislation, etc.)
Municipal taxes fund municipal streets, so it's a municipal tax. There may be grants from higher levels of government for main arteries that are in the greater public interest. So it's in the municipality's financial self-interest to have people see homes in the municipality as being desirable, rather than lose ratepayers to other municipalities that are more progressive. Parks and bike paths, schools, libraries, public transit, street maintenance, police and fire services all make their contribution.
The bike path in question was an election issue when I ran for mayor about 35 years ago (when I was younger and more naive). I proposed it, the incumbents opposed it, I lost, and within a year or two they implemented it as "their" idea. I still use it, so I'm happy.
Nope but I've seen you service 8 dicks at once.
Of course you have ... in your dreams. I doubt that's even physically possible, but if it is please spare us the details of your experience in the matter.
I didn't buy them specifically to be untraceable, it just worked out that way. The government certainly knows my phone number - I use it for government forms, health care, voting registration, tax forms, etc. I have no problem not being anonymous. Anyone who thinks that they are anonymous on the net is probably a fool. Some of the bigger ones will do like Alexandre Cazes did - voluntarily elect to collect his Darwin Award rather than face the music.
Glad to be of assistance. The pink page of death is a 3-day ban from accessing the site if enough people down-mod you in a limited time frame. You can have a ton of comments rated at +5, that have been down-modded to zero and back to +5, but all those negative mods just kill you. Kind of funny getting a ban with excellent karma, which is one reason not to take karma seriously (like having a post being rated +4 Troll)..
You don't know what an internet troll is? Or is that a misinterpretation of my phrase "inner troll"?
The "inner troll" is based on the fact that humans are by nature a very aggressive species. We eat our young (yes, it's even an observation of human nature made repeatedly in the bible):
2 Kings 6:26-29
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"
The king replied, "If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?" Then he asked her, "What's the matter?"
She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.' So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
Jeremiah 19:9 (also Ezek 5:10)
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.
Lamentations 4:10
With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
Pretty gruesome, but it follows what other mammals do. In times of stress, the adults eat the young who are not strong enough to survive on their own, so as to ensure that when there are better times, they can produce more young.
We've evolved all sorts of passive-aggressive techniques, rallying cries for making war ("rally around the flag", etc), making killing seem like the right thing to do at the time to large parts of the population.
For internet trolls, just look at the personal attacks I get for changing sex. They eventually realize that I am totally shameless about it and go away to find more fertile grounds, only to be replaced by others trying to get an angry response. But in the meantime some of the sparring can help develop your debating form - to be able to argue with idiots without stooping to their level and having them beat you up with their experience (at being an idiot).
Always be aware that someone might be trolling you. It's the internet, after all. Almost everyone is anonymous - some hide behind nyms (names they post under that are not their real names), others post anonymously. I choose not to be, which is why my nym is my legal name. I believe that with freedom of speech comes the responsibility to stand by what you said - to "own it." It's going to happen anyway (as if it's possible to be truly anonymous on the internet - hah!)
Courage. You'll get the hang of it.
From personal experience. I've worked with a few of these monkeys who were taken on temporarily for "training purposes" to finish their 1-year course. One didn't even know how to use a mouse after 9 months. The only one I'm able to track down still hasn't found work in the field, and he was the best of the bunch. He actually did study on his own - he already knew how to set up a linux vm before he took the class. The rest obviously just sat in class and got passed based on attendance.
A decade before that I had to interview candidates from the predecessor to those courses. Some of them actually had some smarts and had obviously put in effort. Some, not most. The same as all the resumes I've seen since, some actually put in the effort to learn, others just coasted and didn't know sh*t after graduation.
My guess is it's probably the same everywhere - you've got the bench-warmers who just want to coast through with minimal effort who think they're owed brownie points just for showing up, and you've got people who actually have an active interest in what they're doing and are always seeking to expand their knowledge and limits, and you've got those between the two extremes.
It's not the schools that are holding back coding as an engineering task that is difficult, needs talent, needs a real education, and needs to be paid.
This is what happens to any field where the barrier to entry becomes lower thanks to progress. Today anyone can write software, be a journalist, make movies, etc.
The failure of the people coming from these schools isn't going to affect the course of software development, because they won't get hired for anything important. The software that already sucks will continue to suck regardless of whether these people exist or not.
Coders are a commodity that will be replaced within a generation by AI, so it's all going to be irrelevant in the medium term. AI is going to have huge costs for society. It's already removing entry-level jobs in many fields, making it harder to get that crucial "first job", as well as removing fall-back jobs during any industry-wide contraction.
Eventually the only people who will be able to code will be those who are retired or those on benefits. The first will have experience and be scratching their own itch, and the second will have all the time in the world to learn, but again just to scratch their own itch because AI will be focused on extracting value from anything potentially profitable.
Sure you did - just had to use the MyIE (later Maxthon) add-on. Introduced tabs to IE in IE4.
It's a good thing they didn't die!
Learn to read. I wrote "killed almost 15,000, not "almost killed 15,000."
Did you even read the Protocol? Obviously not! Child soldiers include ANY child under 18 who takes up arms, even if the person is not fighting as a member of the forces of a state. Read Article 4.1:
Article 4
1. Armed groups that are distinct from the armed forces of a State should not, under any circumstances, recruit or use in hostilities persons under the age of 18 years.
Clearly the protocol includes all children under 18 in it's ban on child soldiers.
The responsibilities of the signatories towards ALL child soldiers, whether they are with the forces of an armed state or otherwise:
Article 7
1. States Parties shall cooperate in the implementation of the present Protocol, including in the prevention of any activity contrary thereto and in the rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons who are victims of acts contrary thereto, including through technical cooperation and financial assistance. Such assistance and cooperation will be undertaken in consultation with the States Parties concerned and the relevant international organizations.
2. States Parties in a position to do so shall provide such assistance through existing multilateral, bilateral or other programmes or, inter alia, through a voluntary fund established in accordance with the rules of the General Assembly.
The US's obligation was to treat Khadr as a child soldier, not a soldier. And to consider him a victim of acts contrary to the protocol, specifically Article 4.1 on the use of anyone under 18 not recruited as the soldier of a nation, and not to use anyone under 18 in combat.
He wasn't a coder. He just used a CMS. This is a guy whose only other "computer knowledge" was re-installing Windows in a village of 2,775 out in the boonies before he hit it big.
If he had been a coder, he probably would have done a few things differently, just from the knowledge you pick up from osmosis on what not to do.
Well have fun in prison you fucking moron.
He got a "suspended sentence" - he hanged himself.
They got the money. And the cars. And the properties. All his financial transactions, accounts, passwords, etc., were in an unencrypted file on his laptop.
All of this enabled the authorities to do a huge sweep of his assets and turn up $5m in Bitcoin, $2m in Ethereum, $770,000 in Zcash and $474,000 in Monero – all now shifted to government accounts.
That was just the cryptocash. Cazes' miserable operations security also led investigators to accounts in his and his wife's (Sunisa Thapsuwan) names at Bangkok Bank, Bank of Ayudhya, Kasikorn Bank, Siam Commercial Bank and several others.
Even more amazingly, the cops didn't even have to ask the banks for accounts under those names: Cazes had listed all of his accounts, his houses and his luxury cars in a spreadsheet on his unlocked, unencrypted laptop.
"The document was modeled after a personal financial statement – listing 'TOTAL NET WORTH' in bold at the top of the document," reveals the filing. "Below the net worth heading, Cazes broke down his 'holdings' into various subcategories such as 'Asset holdings' and 'Cash holdings,' as well as by each distinct cryptocurrency ... and method of storage. According to his financial statement, Cazes had a net worth of $23,033,975."
He knew that it was all gone, and that the only thing he had to look forward to was a long prison term. The only question was in which country. He broke the laws while living in Thailand, and Thai prisons are pretty bad. Then there's the US, almost as bad in some prisons. And since he doesn't have any money for fancy lawyers ...
Okay, since you asked, here goes.
1. Downmods are no big deal. It's just karma. I've been mod-bombed to the point I suddenly went from excellent karma to the pink page of death for 3 days. Only took a few days after the "time out" to get it all back with a few funny posts. (yeah yeah, +1 funny mods aren't supposed to increase karma, I know .... whatever). If you take down-mods seriously, you're doing it wrong. Laugh.
2. It's Friday. People are bored.
3. You responded to criticism in a way that pretty much guaranteed that bored people would latch onto it. In other words, everyone on the Internet has an inner troll just waiting to be released, and ... well, your responses were like pouring chum on water to attract sharks. Bored sharks.
4. A quick review of your posting history shows that you kind of fail at sarcasm in other discussions as well, and then, like here, have to explain things. Maybe sarcasm just isn't your thing? There are other forms of humour you could try ...
5. Sarcasm is a weapon. Like all weapons, its use can be seen as a form of aggression, unlike (some) other forms of humour. Like any weapon, it can harm the user if not used properly.
HTH
Obviously you never saw this movie.
I have no problem admitting I've done some stupid things. Only an idiot wouldn't admit to it. So I guess I'm not much of an idiot after all :-)
He should have just hijacked an AOL account :-)
No doubt some around here will blame the victims - I won't name names - but it's a special kind of meanness to prey on those who are genuinely trying to better themselves.
And yet the victims do have to share in the blame. They didn't do even the most cursory of checks, because they were blinded by the idea of making a living without investing any hard work.
Or just "borrow" a legit email account. It's not that hard. Ask any spammer. And it's not hard to get a burner phone. My current smartphone and my previous phone are both burners.
Or they could have just done this. Given the linkedin profile (which used the same email addy that was sent out with every registration and password reset for his site), you get his business name, and from that a quick search of government records (follow the links) yields his name and other details. Literally 1 minute.
The guy was brought up in the boonies, repairing computers from home was his business. In a town of 2,775 people, with a population density of 8 acres per person (78 per square mile), there's not much except farmlands and forests, so not exactly a goldmine for a computer repair business. It's something that someone who doesn't have a clue what they want to do after high school will drift into. After all, how hard is it to reformat and re-install?
And anything else more complicated - "you need a new computer."
_She_ Don't know if I agree with the idiot thing though.
Thanks, but I'm on /., so I might have to cop to being somewhat of an idiot, at least some of the time :-)
Anyone with the document #, registration #, DoB, full name, and my mother's maiden name can validate my birth certificate with the government online. Anyone who wishes to do so can come here and we'll look it up together. Or you can just look at it. If you can't come here, you can designate someone else to. Far better than posting a scan which people will say was doctored.
Certainly one of the trolls is up to the challenge of locating somebody near me. I've posted my full contact details on /. a few times to show just how stupid it is to fear being doxxed. We used to have this thing called a phone book that had pretty much everyone's name and address in it. The world didn't end.
A search of government records (posted the link elsewhere in the discussion) shows this guy used to run a small-time (very small-time, given the location in the boonies) computer repair business. Doesn't take much smarts to re-format and re-install an OS, or run a virus scanner.
The area is mostly farmlands (plug the address into a map and see just how hicksville the place is). Total population is 2,775, mostly living in little pockets of houses here and there surrounded by large swaths of farm and forest. Total homes is 1,145, + 50 or so other buildings. Population density is 78 per square mile. That's more than 8 acres per person. Obviously it's just not possible to make a living there repairing computers (government filings show this was his business since he became an adult), so that left him with marketable skills and plenty of free time and a need to find something else to do.
Helps explain the suicide bit.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.
The original statement of the adage, by Nathan Poe, was:
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.
Or, for the tl;dr version: "You're doing sarcasm wrong." :-)
(See the smiley face? That's how it's done)