Part of the problem here is that everyone thinks using HTTPS will make you safe. Sure, it will make your browsing more private, but that's not the same thing.

Let's not forget that whether you're using HTTPS or not, malicious or compromised sites can result in an attack through your browser. One your company safety methods cannot detect.

At least one company just started dealing with this by blocking all secure web traffic. A company whose security division was recently hacked. An organization very few people ever though *could* be hacked, seeing as their name is synonymous with the secure handshake (literally).

'nuff said?

Or perhaps it just means that people are entertained by such silliness.

More likely, it's just the lowest common denominator that are attracted to such things - they're hitting their target market.

Don't they call that "penance?"

I seem to remember from before I escaped religion that they gave you a penance each time, which ultimately amounts to reinforcement of your submission to a belief system without evidence of its validity.

If it was just a straightforward extortion, I'd almost feel better about it all. When it comes down to it, I only ever did the same things every other kid did, and nothing worth the trouble of blackmail. Certainly not worth the threat of Hell.

That will be 10 Hail Marys and 4 LOLs ...

Oh, I agree completely. Like the old saying goes, opinions are like ... - everyone has their very own. With 7 or so billion of them walking around the planet, it's hardly a simple matter to thoroughly explain *anything* about them.

It's in trying to explain those endless finer points that the discussion is always derailed. I found the statement applicable because the person in question had a short little span of attention coupled with a nearly fundamentalist zeal for socialism, and therefore cannot be made to listen to simple logic and engage in real discussion where his beliefs are being questioned.

It may not be all-encompassing, but that statement boils down a great deal of a very important point of view in the matter - that of the individual. In other words, without misrepresenting or overstating anything, it simplifies a very complex view to the point it might be heard by otherwise deaf ears.

Gonna have to remember that. I have a socialist cousin that won't listen to me explain that I think I give quite enough back to a Capitalist society and I'm not interested in reversing the ratio.

Maybe I could get him to listen long enough to grasp a short, simple point like that.

Cheers!

Did he really write that? Did George Bush get a job in journalism now?