I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here: what's wrong with the "The Chicago Way" style of corruption?

No, seriously. Hear me out.

There are two ways to do a project: follow a proper process to determine who should do a project (advertising the project, getting tenders, proposal analysis), or corruptly award the project to a campaign contributor. Let us make one assumption: end result is of the same or similar cost, quality and delivery date between the two companies. I consider that to be a fair statement, as most "process" chosen candidates simply game the process until they win, and then inflate costs and delivery dates after the fact. If cost( proper_process ) + cost( properly_chosen_company ) > cost( corruptly_chosen_company ) + cost( corruption_incidentals ), why not go with corruption?

After living in Chicagoland for half a decade, I have to admit that Shit Got Done in Chicago. It may have been morally bankrupt, but it worked.

You, sir, are one awesome, glorious, bastard.

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Have you done any configuring of Wine to make Starcraft run better? I don't know and can't find the settings to make it smoother, and I find that playing it with Wine feels lagged or delayed.

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I am currently running LAMP on Vectorlinux Light (6.0) on a K7 600MHz box with 768MB of RAM I originally bought in 1999. It still works, but I imagine it will die within a year or two.

I have four big problems with using Hotmail on Thunderbird:

1) is that it doesn't support Hotmail folders
2) it doesn't download all my e-mail, and craps with hundreds of messages left on the server
3) it generates 100s of MB of error messages after a couple weeks of usage that I have to route out and delete
4) it won't delete files on the server when I delete them in Thunderbird

So, to me, I can't just as easily use Thunderbird as Outlook Express / Windows Live Mail on Linux.

I'm not even an American (though I did live there for almost 6 years) and I got 27 out of 33 correct, which is 81.23%!

Here is what I missed:
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person