Hmmmm...
Now that does spark an interesting idea.
"In other news this evening, internet discussion forum Slashdot.org personality CowboyNeal presented a petition in Washington, D.C. in which 10,000 database professionals demanded polygraph tests for Attorney General John Ashcroft."
One poster did note, however, that polygraph tests for politicians would be redundant.:)
Regulations on explosives are generally good things.
Not at all. Common sense safety is a good thing -- both in terms of rocketry and government. Giving the government more power is most emphatically not a common sense safety precaution.
The fact is, government fails miserably at regulating anything in "the public interest". Government is controlled by politics and things regulated by politics will inevitably be regulated solely to serve political interests.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course. I don't know why I didn't see it before.
Hmmmm... Now that does spark an interesting idea. "In other news this evening, internet discussion forum Slashdot.org personality CowboyNeal presented a petition in Washington, D.C. in which 10,000 database professionals demanded polygraph tests for Attorney General John Ashcroft." One poster did note, however, that polygraph tests for politicians would be redundant. :)
or flat files manipulated by a Perl script. :)
a Beowulf cluster of these! :)
Regulations on explosives are generally good things. Not at all. Common sense safety is a good thing -- both in terms of rocketry and government. Giving the government more power is most emphatically not a common sense safety precaution. The fact is, government fails miserably at regulating anything in "the public interest". Government is controlled by politics and things regulated by politics will inevitably be regulated solely to serve political interests.
Mod parent up!