As an American, let me say this about that: you got that right. Freakin' winner in the "Most Hypocritical Country In The History Of The World" contest, more Victorian than Queen Victoria (who was known to run around the Palace in the altogether).

                  mark

some people are simply too dangerous to others to leave to their own

Even assuming that's the case, a state that is allowed to execute its citizens is even more dangerous.

why is it our responsibility to support them for the remainder of their natural lives?

Executing a person is more than simply deciding not to support them. It's genuinely disturbing that you seem to think that a person's execution is a decision about whether to support them or not.

Death penalty is not a secret, people know if you do this, chances are you are going to die for it.

No, in many cases they don't. Such as the getaway driver for a robbery where something goes wrong and the other person kills somebody. Or the mentally retarded. Or the clinically insane. Or minors. All of these kinds of people have been executed by the USA and a lot of them can genuinely claim to have not understood the ramifications of what they were doing.

I'll have a necromantic ritual, bring up the shade of my late ex, and let her go kill them messily wherever they're hiding.

And if you think that's extreme, go find a fire ant nest and investigate it, preferably with bare feet.

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I've heard some horror stories from people who've had their Google accounts auto-banned due to overzealous spam filters for the Play Store, Adwords and things like that, and been unable to get to speak to a human at Google about it. What happens if you protect your phone so that you need to sign into your Google account, then you lose your Google account?

Just from what's in the another post I read, I'd say that they were not "merely" racist, but threatening. I mean, that is the South, home to the KKK that murdered a hell of a lot for the "crime" of being black. That makes them dangerous.

And, of course, it's the kind of crap I'd expect from the majority of Greeks - classiism, racism, you-have-to-be-worth-money-to-get-in.... They've never had much of a rep beyond party, drinking, etc, and this goes back to my first time in college, long before most of you were born.

I see no reason to make Greeks part of the official college landscape. Most of 'em have nothing to do with actual learning... which is, allegedly, what you're paying that money for.

                      mark

Also, bzr evolved IIRC from the whole GNU Arch / tla, which is much older again.

I think it's fair to say that git is the current winner in the DVCS race because it has the best network effects from mass adoption. I live in hope Mercurial will see a resurgence at some point!

Upstart, although sticking to it may now resemble NIH, does also predate SystemD and was used by other distros (Fedora adopted it before moving to SystemD when that became available).

Mir is the one I still find a bit mystifying. I'm sure it's nice technology, developed by smart people, I'm just surprised Canonical started on it so enthusiastically and so early.

It's not computer-related, but this book reminds me of the Phantom Tollbooth.

For all of you 20-yr-olds...

Bush & co did it first.

                  mark

Letting Krebs know is a good idea... but email support at the bank, or even send the bank snail mail, with the info. Send it with delivery confirmation. And, at the bottom, add
cc: SEC
so they know you're serious. And really and truly, contact the SEC, which regulates banks, and esp. with all the bank problems lately, I'll wager they're really, really interested in this.

Oh, call them back, and ask for "their legal service address". That will get someone attention, for real.

Last option: get a lawyer to write a lawyer letter to the bank. This will also get their attention.

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Congress cutting funding for non-military basic science.

ObDisclosure: I work for a federal contractor, civilian sector, doing that, and we keep seeing budget cuts. So do other folks I know who work in the civilian sector, so I have direct evidence of my suggestion. I can also email friends who have friends who work there.

                      mark "but the Free Market really, really wants F-35's, they're *so* much more important than space, or
                                                    biomedical research, or basic physics...."

Let's see, it *is* a crime to lie under oath, esp. to Congress.

Next, it's a "witch hunt" or McCarthyism, when it's discovered that someone testified under oath to Congress and didn't tell them that his "deliverables" were funded by the climate-change deniers whose wealth - oil, coal - needs it denied.

So the anti-global warming crowd here is defending biased results based on income... oh, that's right, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (tm) will show that global warming's not happening, and so it's hunky-dory to build new oil and coal-fired power plants, and prevent solar, wind etc technologies from helping change the field... and take money away from the companies. Presumably, they're investors in those companies, too.

Too bad the Real World doesn't see that Invisible Hand. And how many of them live right next to coal-fired power plants?

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St. Vidicon of Cathode (go look it up, kiddies).

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Here I was afraid they were analyzing the webserver logs. This makes it look like my habit of *NEVER* even temporarily allowing google analytics in noscript is a good one.

                mark

Let's start out by saying I have grown children. 15 or so years ago, you could meet people. Now.... not so much.

Half a dozen years or so ago, I went on several sites, including craiglist and match. I said that I was looking for someone *over* 40.

And I got... a bunch of responses, claiming to be from women who were allegedly between 21 and 26. And claiming they'd read my profile.

Right. I think I found *one* woman who actually existed, and went on a date or two. The rest... as I said, in annoyance, to several, "no, you're not; you're a fat 47 yr old guy claiming to be a hot woman, the kind you'd like to date, but who will never give you a first glance, and you're trying to make money out of this. Unfuck off.

                    mark "and added them to my killfile"

The Castle that's in the logo of every Disney picture. And then the Fortress of Solitude, and....

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