How do you know? It may have worked perfectly. The nice thing about monitoring all the Internet traffic in the country, is one has access to all the Internet traffic in the country.

Maybe some clandestine government operating budget needed a little walking around money. See Swordfish.

The only reason Russians are anti-gay is because they planned the promotion of homosexuality against the west during the Cold War.

The Naked Communist

The fact that effort has been so effective that it is now influencing their own country goes to show that propaganda over time can be as dangerous as nuclear fallout in that it didn't stay limited to the target. Obviously, homosexuality has a history much older than 1917, but that probably doesn't make the former KGB over there any more inclined to take their "gay-tolerance medicine".

Paul Ryan the savior of the Socialist State of Wisconsin is too "right-wing"?

You Saul Alinskites don't even know good when you get it.

I kind of wondered about this when the d.root-server moved to the University of Maryland.

http://blog.icann.org/2012/12/d-root/

Maybe it's not a big deal, but somehow "University of Maryland" seems like just another way of saying "NSA annex B"

Maybe for services, but it still baffles me how even with the latest OS/2 release the mouse still didn't track smoothly and the GUI was easily process locked. You couldn't work in that environment without pulling your hair out trying to get anything done.

Compared to NT, for user experience, OS/2 never had a chance.

I wouldn't mind taking this one on. Sure it's already been done, but I'm sure they'd pay to have it done again.

My only stipulation is that I'd want to do it all myself with just one business analyst and one quality control tester.

I think I could manage it in 3 years at 3 million dollars. However I'd probably cause the loss of 10,000 jobs so its probably not going to happen :)

The arms race faces the fact that evil exists in the world and requires force to dissuade or repel.

The disarmament race assumes everyone, even one's worst enemy will constantly cooperate with one's value-system: idealism bordering on the delusional.

Compared with a modern military "citizens with guns" are really nothing more than rock-throwers. (And you're right, this can be effective: Afghanistan is a great example of organized rock-throwers prevailing in the long-run)

It seems to me, the idea of the United States ensuring its citizens retained weapons was to achieve what you're describing: equality, and equality between the people and the people chosen to govern; not allowing the appointed governors' access to fire-power make them superior to the people. This arrangement is a last resort of sorts to ensure the governors were acting with mutual interest in the nation, instead of launching out to oppress individuals because of the power of their position

I disagree that attempting unilateral disarmament is going to help. Enforcing an artificial constraint on what constitutes appropriate arms is asking people to lie to themselves: for example that a literal rock with enough people is effective in keeping the governors with BlackHawks and cruise missiles from making oppressive choices.

We are barely adequate to this end. If anything we need more power equity, not less.

Stupid in so far as it is short-sighted: these people limiting people's freedom are ultimately limiting their own. They are reducing their own choices once they return to civilian life.

Though maybe by the time they retire they'll be in assisted living and won't have any real choices anyway...so maybe just selfish

No, I am clarifying that the point is wrong.

It's government deciding that a company should be bailed out, not the private company.

And you might notice these institutions the government bails out are government enterprises (Fannie and Freddie), insurers of government enterprises (AIG), or directly dependent on government monetary policy to exist (banks).