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Political quagmires like this only get untangled by terrifying psychos, unfortunately. People only shut their mouths when they get threatened into a fearful silence, and/or sometim…

Yeah, in a way, this sort of thing is indicative of a turing tarpit. It's not obvious which, among all the moving parts, is responsible for any of the outcomes, just by looking at …

Because many developers don't honestly believe that SQL represents a code execution boundary. Much of the time, the tendency is to think of SQL as simple I/O with a disk. And one r…

Well, the idea of global doomsday for all, beyond mere tactical retaliation, is probably drawn from the media, with movies like Dr. Stangelove playing the part of the primary narra…

Since when is Social Media participation a compulsory activity?

Old people aren't quite as tuned-in to the technical realities of the internet and its in-groups and out-groups. The premise that "there is no anonymous" escapes 4 out of 5 people …

Be nice and play ball, or you'll be subjected to a set-top-box appliance again. (it puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.)

Consider the possibility that lead poisoning inflicts just the type of mental disabilities that would lead a person to vote in such a fashion to begin with. With that in mind, is t…

They are supposed to be captured from a twitter feed.

Because it kind of smells like bullshit seizing moral high ground, and not actually changing anything. Religion promises everything and delivers nothing. My arguments are not irrel…

Pledges don't require signatures. I've taken the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America... Specifically, though I was pointing out flaws with respect to the part abou…

- Taking the hippocratic oath - Passing the bar - Obtaining a pilot's license - Completing series 7,(63,66) exams Yes, these are things people do. But these things are each differe…

Isn't the petition itself a kind of database, naming and identifying specific individuals? What if the petition itself is abused as a source of information?

Wouldn't that require the building of a database that is used to discriminate against individuals listed therein?

VGER.

If it helps, there are probably wi-fi, mobile broadband, and cellular telephone providers that probably won't ask for your name or address, although you'll probably get gouged for …

It doesn't matter what I think, because the inexorable tide has washed over this question long ago. Anybody willing to outspend their rivals with enough money to bury the world in …

I definitely get the sense that this was a situation where a guy made too much money way too fast. Like almost overnight. Reading between the lines, it sounds like he had been pent…

So, magnetic fields can be used to confine fusion plasma with "five nines" reliability?

Reddit is 4chan for pussies.

Jesus, that really does sound soul-crushingly abominable. I remember working night jobs surrounded by that sort of crowd. Everywhere you look it feels like you're witnessing the di…