For those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/327/
Also see Sweden [1], previous discussion on HN [2]
[1] http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721494
Drop Table Political Action Committee
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#13I wish it would work. I can't believe just two people are going to drop $900M on a single election through PACs.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least the government contractors did their SQL correctly!
Probably not... knowing how that code gets written, the correct table was probably called "tbl_cmmts"
Meh. Needs more cynicism.
Knowing the government, the data from a web form is faxed to an office where someone retypes it into an IBM AS/400 mainframe green-screen by hand, omitting the ');
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#15Someone should create a alert('PAC')
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#16I wish it would work. I can't believe just two people are going to drop $900M on a single election through PACs.
While I'm sure the Koch brothers will spend a large sum, the $900m isn't going to come from just them, that's the total goal of their political network, to be sourced from hundreds or thousands of donors. Their network spent nearly $400m during the 2012 elections.
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#17MapLight is a pretty cool org. I wonder if this was something they purposefully did or an employee going rogue.
Good question. Mr. Shah did use his maplight email address, but not the maplight street address.