That lines up pretty well with my experience that most Xtians are a duplicitous lot, picking and choosing freely with parts of their chosen edition of "...the complete, true and unerring word of god" are to be observed (and cited incessantly) and which to disregard as "nonsense".

But perhaps President Bartlet illustrates it best...

Not that Xtians are often prone to letting reason get in their way, but that theory kinda puts the lie to the whole "free will" argument does it not? If one is hoodwinked by supernatural powers, there can be no free will.

Jeezus, dude. Bigot much?

If you are referring to every religion that ever existed, then I'd the most I could accuse you of is being a bit insensitive. If you're singling out Wicca, then you are applying a blatant double standard and I would call that "absolutely fucking stupid". So, tell me. Are you religious at all?

Not sufficient. The widely employed standard period for the detention of the acutely mentally ill is there for a reason. Wild swings in behavior, mood, mentation are common in these people. Leave it to Texas to get the priorities for helping the mentally ill ass-backwards, yet again.

If you are talking about perl, you are not in the "skilled craftsmen" group. For certain jobs, it is unparalleled. Now pick up your hammer and start whacking those nails.

One of the defining traits of a skilled craftsman is her ability to choose the right tool for the job. In other words, not everything is a nail, rookie.

For those of us whose time is more valuable than most, it's not "too expensive", not even close. And noisy? From inside, I'm sure it's quite nice. Who gives a shit about people on the ground?

Regards,

The Chosen 1%

Given that end-users are now the most frequently exploited point in most networks, the first real question asked by idiots is "Why block at all?" Given a network that services anything at all sensitive, the default state for outbound connections to the Internet should "blocked".

No one. The existence of a master key for any given system renders everything in that system less safe. Period. I am far more afraid of a compromised master key for something that I am forced to use, than I am afraid of "teh terrorists". Are you listening, Congressman? Do not fuck with my privacy. The smart people are trying to tell you something. You don't understand the technology and the implications of what well-meaning law-enforcement types are asking for.

This latest episode was announced as if it had serious and broad impact. It did not, but that didn't help those of us who, on less than two days notice, moved things around to prepare for another round of mitigation of a "severe" security issue. Yes, we're all glad it's not as bad as it might have been, but the point is that somebody was aware of that when the announcements went out. They should have been more forthcoming.

...to the Shark Tank, rook'.

No. What we be great, really great, would be if advertising and marketing shitheads would stop insisting on using broken technology to animate their ads. For every Flash ad out there there is at least one engineer who has said, or tried to say, something like "We should build this on something proper..."

Riiight. OK, then. Off the meds again, are we?

We're losing the space race to the Russians.