I'll give them credit for patching this quickly. This could have been Yet Another Windows Worm (TM) that brings all legitimate network traffic to a halt. And us Slashdotters have been after them for years for taking too long to patch things, so it would be completely hypocritical to get pissed at them for doing what we'd want them to do.
I'll hate them for having the exploit possible in the first place, I'll hate them for requiring reboots, I'll hate them for forcing crappy software down our throats, but every once in a while they do something right.
Might I point out here that Africa already has religion (and probably has since prehistory)?
Specifically, Islam is the dominant faith north of the Sahara. Christianity in various forms dominates most of central and southern Africa. Judaism has adherents, particularly in Ethiopia. And of course there is also considerable influence of African traditional religion that predates the various European invaders.
Any idea that Africans are ignorant of Western faith is simply ignorant. Also, the majority of governments in Africa are at least nominally democracies.
I mean, what better incentive not to steal from people than believing that you're going to be spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool?
I have no idea, but it's clear that spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool isn't much deterrent either: people who definitely believed in the existence of Hell (e.g. many popes during the Renaissance) continued to lie, cheat, and steal.
Once again, you missed it. Let me try to spell it out for you more explicitly: 1. US attorneys have been pressured to bring politically motivated investigations and cases against Democratic officeholders, officials and candidates. 2. The offices in question, in particular the AG, were headed up by Democrats. 3. Politically compromised US attorneys would be likely to investigate and/or indict department heads whether or not they had actually done anything wrong, and would do their best to find it illegal.
And the other part of my comment was that if Republican-held offices were caught doing the same thing, I doubt US attorneys would be as keen on prosecuting or even investigating, for precisely the same reason.
So no, it's not the Democrats that I'm aiming at, it's a politically controlled US Department of "Justice".
You missed my point entirely: if the person deciding whether an action is legal or not is a member of a political party, then they are more likely to find actions of their own party legal and actions of an opposition party illegal. Of course, this could never happen in the United States, say at the level of US Attorney.
1. Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks. 2. This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. 3. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
The point of "starving the beast" isn't simply to make Democrats unpopular. The real purpose of it (as explicitly put forward by Grover Norquist, who invented it) is to make it politically possible to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social welfare programs in the name of balancing the budget.
You forgot another piece of this saga (which is absolutely on the money):
In 2001 or so, George W Bush pushes replacing Social Security with private retirement accounts, claiming (more or less) that the federal government's general budget can never meet its debt obligations to Social Security, and thus we shouldn't try to make it do so. In other words, he wanted to make sure that the FICA surplus that was pushed through in the early 1990's specifically to pay Social Security to baby boomers should not be used to pay Social Security to baby boomers. So in effect, what he was proposing was replacing progressive income tax income with the regressive FICA tax.
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I'll give them credit for patching this quickly. This could have been Yet Another Windows Worm (TM) that brings all legitimate network traffic to a halt. And us Slashdotters have been after them for years for taking too long to patch things, so it would be completely hypocritical to get pissed at them for doing what we'd want them to do.
I'll hate them for having the exploit possible in the first place, I'll hate them for requiring reboots, I'll hate them for forcing crappy software down our throats, but every once in a while they do something right.
Might I point out here that Africa already has religion (and probably has since prehistory)?
Specifically, Islam is the dominant faith north of the Sahara. Christianity in various forms dominates most of central and southern Africa. Judaism has adherents, particularly in Ethiopia. And of course there is also considerable influence of African traditional religion that predates the various European invaders.
Any idea that Africans are ignorant of Western faith is simply ignorant. Also, the majority of governments in Africa are at least nominally democracies.
I mean, what better incentive not to steal from people than believing that you're going to be spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool?
I have no idea, but it's clear that spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool isn't much deterrent either: people who definitely believed in the existence of Hell (e.g. many popes during the Renaissance) continued to lie, cheat, and steal.
How dare you speak of the FSM in all his Noodly Splendor that way!
Once again, you missed it. Let me try to spell it out for you more explicitly:
1. US attorneys have been pressured to bring politically motivated investigations and cases against Democratic officeholders, officials and candidates.
2. The offices in question, in particular the AG, were headed up by Democrats.
3. Politically compromised US attorneys would be likely to investigate and/or indict department heads whether or not they had actually done anything wrong, and would do their best to find it illegal.
And the other part of my comment was that if Republican-held offices were caught doing the same thing, I doubt US attorneys would be as keen on prosecuting or even investigating, for precisely the same reason.
So no, it's not the Democrats that I'm aiming at, it's a politically controlled US Department of "Justice".
You missed my point entirely: if the person deciding whether an action is legal or not is a member of a political party, then they are more likely to find actions of their own party legal and actions of an opposition party illegal. Of course, this could never happen in the United States, say at the level of US Attorney.
In the case of roads, there's a federal gas tax that is used specifically to pay for highway construction (including bridges to nowhere).
No, this time it is illegal: Both the Ohio AG and all of the Cuyahoga County offices are run by Democrats.
Didn't Sony try that not too far back? And look at how well that worked out for them.
The only way to make DRM truly invisible is to effectively pwn the users' box.
... and then claim patent or copyright infringement.
1. Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
2. This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls.
3. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Last I checked, Jerusalem (specifically the Dome of the Rock) was number 3 on the holy sites of Islam, after Mecca and Medina.
After all, we don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to.
- Col Lionel Mandrake
The question is, is it more "oxy" or "moron"?
The truly funny part was user 804576 telling user 76198 to get off his lawn.
At they very least they should have a preset kill limit, so if you send wave after wave of your own men at them they will eventually reach that limit.
Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beirhund das Oder die Flipperwald gersput.
Morales isn't Mexican, he's Bolivian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales
And I don't think he wants to work for the UK.
I would think CleverNickName would be the best person to answer that one.
This has nothing to do with expecting to win, and everything to do with attempting to run up the defendant's legal bills.
A successful motion response to a similarly silly motion (at least in the State of New Hampshire), was the following letter:
Honorable Justice ____:
Plaintiff has got to be kidding.
Respectfully submitted,
________ ________, Esq
You left out the part about being a POW in Vietnam.
The point of "starving the beast" isn't simply to make Democrats unpopular. The real purpose of it (as explicitly put forward by Grover Norquist, who invented it) is to make it politically possible to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social welfare programs in the name of balancing the budget.
Well, the team was able to make some massive improvements over the beta Mitt Romney unit.
But news at 11 is 1 louder than news at 10.
Wo-kay!
You forgot another piece of this saga (which is absolutely on the money):
In 2001 or so, George W Bush pushes replacing Social Security with private retirement accounts, claiming (more or less) that the federal government's general budget can never meet its debt obligations to Social Security, and thus we shouldn't try to make it do so. In other words, he wanted to make sure that the FICA surplus that was pushed through in the early 1990's specifically to pay Social Security to baby boomers should not be used to pay Social Security to baby boomers. So in effect, what he was proposing was replacing progressive income tax income with the regressive FICA tax.