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Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

By increasing the supply of purchased politicians, and limiting governments and markets to no more than 100,000 citizens

Aren't the first and last working in opposite direction?

Obviously not.

US congress includes 535 voting members (senators and representatives total). If you had 535 voting members for every 100,000 people you have basically each person representing on average 186 people.

What's your point? Nothing he said implies that he would have 535 voting members for every 100,000 people. Don't be an idiot.

Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

I would counter that those situations [oil industry, cable TV, health insurance] were created not in response to excess regulation, but rather in response to the general absence of regulation. I see no way that capitalism left to only its own devices would not create more situations like those.

I would counter that you could not possibly even begin to make the case that the situation with health insurance was in response to the general absence of regulation. That's just completely dishonest and stupid. HMOs, employer provision, lack of competition, and almost every other significant feature of health insurance today -- other than the basics: that it exists, that it covers medical expenses -- was directly driven by federal and state regulation, well before ObamaCare came along.

There is simply no doubt whatsoever that if these regulations did not exist, we would have much more competition, much more portability, and therefore, much lower prices for health insurance. No economist would disagree with this.

Comment Re:False Warnings? (Score 2) 135

The alternative I would like to see would be to forbid the company from doing business for a time equivalent of what the prison sentence would be.

Imagine if the US wasn't bought and paid for? If an oil company poisoned the gulf like what happened with the Deepwater Horizon (11 dead and massive damage to the fishing industry and the environment), the US government would simply pull its charter and be done with it: that company would cease to exist.

All the other corporations would thereafter straighten up and fly right, lest the same thing happen to them. (Or they would try to buy the government and defang it like it is now).

Comment Re:Except, of course, they have to prove you can (Score 5, Insightful) 560

He should have remained silent. Being a lawyer he should have known that.

He must be a pretty shite lawyer. (Hopefully he isn't a criminal defense lawyer, because then he really IS a shite lawyer.)

FTFA:

“During his postarrest interview with State police Trooper Patrick M. Johnson, the defendant stated ... ‘[e]verything is encrypted and no one is going to get to it.’ The defendant acknowledged that he was able to perform decryption.”

What a dumb-bumble-fark. He deserves to burn for bragging/taunting the cops.

Rules for Talking to Cops

ONE
Don't talk to cops, except what you are legally required to say (you must ID yourself, to whatever extent your state's laws specify)
TWO
The only thing that should come out of your piehole from the time your are arrested (especialy during any "post-arrest 'let's get the suspect to incriminate himself' interview") are the words: "I wish to remain silent and I want a lawyer."
TREE
STFU until you get a lawyer
FOUR
Remember that Everything you say will be used to burn you. Cops can lie and get away with it, and if you lie to a cop, you're fried. Do not believe anything they say, and don't try to talk your way out of it because you'll lose.
NaN
Getting (and following) legal advice from random people on the internets is about the stupidest thing you could do.

Comment Only on paper (Score 0) 213

JS is NOT a big contender for PHP, because it isn't the functional equivalent of the double-clawed hammer.

The unwashed masses gravitate to PHP because it is very easy to get something running and imposes almost no restrictions on the developer. Thus, we get nightmares like phpBB and vBulletin.

Comment Good luck (Score 1) 329

Already taken by...Pork Industries

Domain Name:SHORTBUS.ORG
Creation Date: 2004-10-16T18:53:36Z
Updated Date: 2012-11-12T00:24:03Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2014-10-16T18:53:36Z
Sponsoring Registrar:101domain, Inc. (R1736-LROR)
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1011
Registrant Name:Peter Woodman
Registrant Organization:pork industries, llc.
Registrant Street: 1736 Belmont Ave #608
Registrant City:Seattle
Registrant State/Province:WA
Registrant Postal Code:98122
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2063518223
Registrant Email:peter@shortbus.org

Comment Re:They surely are shuffling things around (Score 1) 293

I've seen disorganized large systems like this before - In the one case I'm thinking of, the root cause was that upper level management had no concerns about consistency or a unified architecture, and let each app team deliver what the team wanted without much in the way of group collaboration. This smells like a similar scenario.

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