Just wait until Ted Cruz's 'self esteem' issues come to light. As is often true, the noisiest ones in this business are the least secure, and they are trying to cover up.

No. That is not how it works.

Well, it must be, if we are supposed crap like this:

Unfortunately Bernie can't raise enough money to be taken seriously by those who have the power to select a candidate...

It's the voters who select their candidates, or allow them to be selected by someone else. It's all very simple.

And your sloppy JE post is sloppy, barely legible. Your vote is not the only thing that reflects your laziness and apathy. Now, once again, let's hear you blame Slashdot.

If a guy can't raise enough money, you are prohibited from voting for him or taking him seriously? Can you tell me what is the compelling interest that could do that?

Call your bookie.

Turn off the equipment, and take up knitting...

Public relations... What was everybody expecting?

I think the red herring is the 'increased production'. It never happened. Prices are set arbitrarily, just like interest rates. And we all know how well Libor handles that little business. To think that petro/dollar rates are set any different is totally naive. The whole 'supply and demand' thing is a complete fantasy outside the itty-bitty local market.

Looks like you haven't figured out who the politicians serve. Greedy, lying, clever, conniving little rats with illusions of grandeur, absolutely, the only stupid ones are those that lose, or get caught. They don't need to 'know' anything. The lobbyists tell their aides (they all carry their own stories) who tell them who to speak with and how to vote.

If we made it illegal to be stupid, where would we find politicians?

If we made it illegal to be stupid, who would be left to vote for them?

...perhaps restricting such tools will mean that certain critical vulnerabilities may not be discovered in time, or not reported.

Well yes, that is the idea. Reporting these kind of things will become illegal (for an example how it's happening in meatspace)

The US I grew up in during the 1960s/'70s is dead.

Oh, thank god! Who wants to relive Johnson/Nixon? And look what it gave us, the 80s, and he *who shall not be named*!

Once again lawmakers don't understand the issue.

I hate it when you people say that! They have their orders. They understand perfectly well what they are doing. It is the voters that are ignorant and stupid and thus blindly follow them. And in that ignorance it is the voters that give value to the campaign dollar. The politician is not the idiot here.

Ah, but this time it's different!

That was my first thought. *Wow, I've never seen anybody jump that high before!*

If Slashdot closed tomorrow, would Dice notice? It's not incompetence, it's apathy. Slashdot is a hollowed out shell that the spammers moved into, and it's only part of a collection of trinkets sitting on Dice's coffee table. Look at their history, nothing but a very fluid series of mergers and acquisitions. It has to be a tax thing.