According to one of the comments in TFA, https:/// worked fine, so they were only blocking HTTP. This leaves all the other suspects to their devices - the cornucopia of IM clients, VPN traffic, torrent traffic, usenet, diaspora/retroshare, in-game discussion via Steam or Second Life, IRC, etc. Sure, some of those are summarily blocked, but it seems they're doing such a poor job of acting in malice that I'd deem it sufficient to chalk the issue up to incompetence instead.

but should NEVER be part of a logical primary key.

I wouldn't say never. The odd case would be in the table held data by the minute or second or the like.

But, i share your adamant stand against it it nearly all cases.

I had to add the time field in to achieve a unique logical key.

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If one is opposed to confinement in a cage for nonviolent crimes, then why should one go to jail for contempt? That's a non-violent crime too.

If you're talking about Iraq (which I assume you are), then we were already in an approved war - one that started in the 1990's. Very similar to how we are still technically at war with North Korea (since the 1950's) just have a cease-fire in play. Any how...regarding Iraq - all the intelligence suggested there were WMDs from numerous sources and both parties believed it, not just the Republicans. It wasn't helped at all by Sadam's secrecy and lack of letting the UN see what was going on, which only furthered people believing he actually had WMDs and was hiding them. It wasn't until they were actually able to see things that they could tell the intelligence was bad. No falsication happened; just the inability of intelligence to get at the truth due to the circumstances - like things both US and Russia did during the Cold War to throw the other off, only in Sadam's case it probably had to do more with regional politics than anything else.

Hindsight, as they say, is always 20/20. And as I noted, both sides of the aisle agreed on the intelligence and what it meant.

I should also point out that tax revenues per head are only higher in Scotland if oil and gas revenues are included in the calculations. Otherwise, they are broadly similar to UK average.

Even if oil and gas are included, spending per head in Scotland is approximately 1,400 more than UK average, while revenues are about 1,700 more than UK average -- really quite a small difference.

Half of your argument is missing. You need the revenues collected information ("taxes per head"). If you get that and do the math, then you've got something.

Really? That's all you have? Not even a citation to prove a point?

The GGP claimed 2 things (1: more taxes per head, 2: less spending per head). I showed that the second was false. The other claim (greater taxes per head), I left alone. There is no math involved.

Except they have been kind-of caught doing just that; not blatantly. All they have to do is slow down any connection that goes outside of their network - they've already been caught throttling connections.

But on slashdot, perfection is encouraged... and nothing less is tolerated. You have a 6-digit sid.... don't you know that by now?

So in other words it could be 0% accurate...

One can approve of caning as punishment for particular crimes without themselves being guilty of the crime for which they would approve of the caning, nor even particularly "like" caning overall, but believe in the premise that it might stand as one of the most effective means of preventing a repeat offense without simply executing the person. The most effective means of preventing a repeat offense that does not involve execution is when the violator genuinely repents of the crime, but this is something only the person themselves can control... it is not possible to directly induce it or bring it about, although it can sometimes be achieved indirectly by whatever discomfort the criminal might be made to experience from the punishment for their crime, which is probably the single strongest argument that may exist for supporting punishments like caning for particular crimes.

Have you looked at Medicare, Medicaide, Welfare, or ObamaCare? Full of crooks. All programs by the Dems.

US Constitution puts things primarily in local control; State is there to moderate the localities, and Federal is there to moderate the states. But it is first and foremost about the people being able to have control.

That said, there's been a lot of "take" at both the Federal and State levels that leave the localities with little control much of the time. All of that needs to change.

He's not advocating for a free market. A free market would allow municipal broadband.

So I take it that you believe that people who commit tax fraud should not go to jail either?