Holy mixed metaphors! "Executing the first stage triggers a domino chain...." Does it trigger a domino chain which cascades along the peaks of the shield holding the noses of the elephants in the room?

I trust it was nice to think of your uncle. It's nuts, but that's okay.

I'm a gold-plated pedant and even I think this is going too far. This ain't my PhD thesis!

Can I come work for you, sabri?

Socialism, by definition, is where the government owns the means of production. This isn't even partially the case almost anywhere any more, unless you really stretch the meaning of ownership. I may be exaggerating somewhat; there may still be state-owned companies here and there. But, really, socialism barely exists today.

You do realize there's almost no socialism anywhere in the world at this point, right? Even China has given it up.

I've talked shit like I'm some kind of tough guy? Really? I'm posting under my real name. Because I'm not afraid. And I don't talk shit.

I hope you're modded down below -1 into some minus infinity where we can never see your typing again. I've been to Newark, Philadelphia, Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and similar places many, many times. I am a white man who grew up in New York City and went to high school in Alphabet City. I've seen more of what passes for bad neighborhoods in America than you've had hot dinners, asshole. And I have never once been threatened, let alone menaced, attacked, mugged, beaten, shot, stabbed, or anything. The people of Ferguson are not animals. They're human. They're people. They deserve more respect than you do, Anonymous Coward, with your ridiculous racist views.

Congratulations on being the first commenter to spell his darn name right.

If I had mod points I'd upmod the original comment for being hilarious.

You're right. One example of police state thuggery from the most recent election hardly counts.

Except when a third party, say the Green Party, does put forth a candidate, say Jill Stein, who qualifies to be in the Presidential debates, *she is actually detained by the police and held for eight hours*. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

If /. were still true to itself there'd be an argument between vi zealots, emacs fanatics, and ed enthusiasts, with one lone guy crying out about EDT.

That guy who is trying to convince you that banks really help people? To heck with him. I worked for a major bank for about a year in IT. You know what I did? Built mini-websites to facilitate wealthy people's getting free stuff. Seriously. In order to keep these multi-million-dollar clients, the bank would have to give them freebies -- tickets to sporting events and such -- the new stadiums for the Giants, the Yankees, and the Mets were all built, not because the old facilities were too small or worn out or anything, but simply because the team owners wanted more luxury boxes and suites they could sell tickets for -- and my entire job consisted of supporting the reps and their distribution of the goodies. Looking back, that may have been the most blatant of my worthless IT jobs, but most of them have been pretty much like that. (And don't even get me started on the couple of months I worked for a guy who turned out to be a spammer. Obviously I quit as soon as I figured it out.) So I'm thrilled to hear that someone out there in IT is doing something worthwhile. Huzzah!