Sure, but is your solution, if you could, to repeal the ACA in its entirety? I don't think your opinion of the website is worth anything if you are just dead-set against any kind of law that doesn't please the for-profit health insurance lobby.

Well, if you pile enough VMs on top of each other, eventually you could have some confidence you won't get rooted too many levels deep when downloading off the internets.

Are they waiting to release that source code for some reason? Too soon? Even GS/OS for the ][gs was last updated in 1993.

The funny thing is you just complimented the FDA, because the only reason that trans fats have dropped by 73% in the last 9 years is because of the FDA's action in the first place!

If you really still want trans fat, you can order it from Aldrich Chemical and fry your twinkies in it at home, while draping yourself in Old Glory.

Problem solved.

... they didn't also require that all experiments take into account Earth being only 5000 years old!

Looks like 2x 480X for $600 is the way to go.

Your comment reminds me of a previous coworker a few rungs lower down on the ladder from me. I was always rather incredulous that he would text and play games on his phone, even during important meetings in front of the CEO, CSO or the President, even leaving once in a while to actually take a non-emergency personal phone call. He frequently complained that he was unfairly passed over for promotion and didn't understand why. I would say that qualifies at the very least as living in oblivion.

I don't see how autonomous cars will ever be able to do things that require taking the initiative and forcing your way in, like when you have a stop sign and the perpendicular traffic does not, and because of some obstruction you can't see what's coming, so you essentially just have to stick your nose out and edge into traffic until you can crane your neck forward trying to get a glimpse or just go, hoping for the best, which frequently requires gunning it. I see autonomous cars being much like the Griswolds from European Vacation, trying to merge into the outer circle of that roundabout for hours, to no avail, while appreciating Big Ben every time they go round. Picture yourself merging onto a very crowded fast-moving highway, having to make your own space by wedging yourself in, how can an autonomous car do that, simply because if it goes wrong, it's your liability. "My car did that dangerous move, not me, ticket and sue the engineers" sounds like a future common refrain. Obviously the engineers aren't going to make the car aggressive enough like that, so I forsee a possibly worse problem of these cars coming to a halt when merging, which is even more dangerous, makes traffic worse, and draws the ire of drivers all around you.

Of course the solution is to make all cars autonomous and aware of each other, but can anyone imagine that happening in our car culture?

I agree, laundering money for terrorist organizations like the case you cite should land all knowingly involved in a deeper jail than even a true believer, simply because you are doing it for purely selfish reasons to make money, and are indifferent to the very real deadly consequences of your actions. But I think it's naive to think that in such a huge case that there wasn't something else going on, that many of the right people knew about it for a long time and then used it for good purpose. Why scare away the moths if they're all burning themselves to death on your flame?

Yes, you have my complete internet posting history, understand some of my distant past rhetorical techniques and are repeating them back to me, and you know who I am but I don't know who you are. That's the power of the internet, and I accept it, and do not live in paranoia of it. Rather, I am glad there are different people/groups/entities who make it their business, for whatever reason, to do such things. It's a form of checks and balances. The key though is to understand that it's a two-way street. You may know who I am, but others know who you are, and (so far) sanction your actions. We're all a lot more connected and vulnerable than we allow ourselves to accept.

For what it's worth, I hope you have a good day, and if you want to contact me I'd be up for it, if that was on your mind. But, if you want to "stay hidden," from me, at least, then, well, okay, I guess. Take it easy. Aren't you lonely though? This hiding behind anonymity thing while demonstrating knowledge of another, with with you, I sense, is just another form of "getting over" which is really about exerting a sense of control over others, and enjoying making other people suffer, which is ultimately unfulfilling and isolating, and is a kind of addiction. I don't engage in this though, so I might be the kind of person you'd want to know. At any rate, it'd be interesting. Hope to hear from you.

So close, but yet so far away. It's cruel for those like us.

This guy knew straight-up he was funding terrorist activities, and is trying to use a technicality to get out of it. This is an abuse of our legal system, but, that just goes to show what a good legal system we have. As insulting as it is that we have to entertain this "appeal", we are entertaining it, entirely seriously, which goes to show who we are as a nation and our commitment to the rule of law and justice.

Read up on the case, it's enlightening: http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2013/san-diego-jury-convicts-four-somali-immigrants-of-providing-support-to-foreign-terrorists

... to use frequencies over a few hundred kilohertz, to spare the bats, bugs, and dogs. Couldn't find that in the article.

Crackers, not hackers.

That's quite a blatant yet sneaky way to get these blokes' addresses and credit card infos -- tshirt+shipping is likely over $12.50. Know thine whitehat.