Yeah, that's it, NSA wanted Cisco to do something so stupid it would take the Chinese 2 minutes to figure out how holey their boxes are.

And in 2012, Scalia argued the opposite with regard to subsidies and Roberts used part of that argument against Scalia in the current case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Yep, the internal inconsistencies in at least Scalia are appalling.

The government got into the act when they defined laws that treat married people differently. I don't recall those laws being in the constitution but there they are. As long as there are civil constructs like that defined by Congress, then the government is into the act with both feet.

For thousands of years and across cultures the sun has been going around the earth. That fact that a minority culture in the world has chosen to call a cat a dog doesn't make it a dog.

I don't think it is the previous colonial powers if by that you mean Turkey. I think it is more the little jerks calling themselves mullahs and imams that are fearful that the West will finally triumph over Islam via the intertubes which brings in all sorts of radical ideas they cannot stomach.

The interpipes reduce friction. It used to be the mullahs and imams could hide behind Islam and control their societies. Now they can no longer do that and they have unleashed the worst of their kind in Daesh. Daesh has been able to combine Islamic hate for everything not Islamic and Sunni with tribal insecurities of losing the tribes' control of their people.

The muscle behind Daesh is the old Saddam Hussein hacks, at least the Daesh fighters who have run away report this. They run the security apparatus behind Daesh. One doesn't just join Daesh, you have to be vetted by these clowns first.

I don't think Daesh's run is going to be that long. They have the ancient idea that if they scare enough people, they'll be able to impose their will. But with the internet, it is too easy for those who have lost a brother, father, etc. to Daesh to communicate and plot revenge. The same tribal sensitivities they think they are taking advantage of will come back to stab them in the back when they least expect it. If it is one thing the fellows in the mid-east know how to do, it is to carry a grudge for a long, long time.

The Republicans will put it back on the table because they believe their echo-chamber IS the American people. It will take a rout to disabuse them of that notion, and still the Conservative wing will claim they haven't had a fair hearing due to the liberal news media, illegal aliens, etc., any excuse will do so they don't have to rethink their views.

"Jiggery-pokery" is is the term Scalia learned from Harry Potter. It is the first new thing he's learned in 20 years, give the guy a break.

That's easy to fix, put the magic chemicals on three popsicle sticks. Test the obvious three orifices. If negative, you are good to go. If not, you can still be friends.

Not only that, Scalia argued the opposite in the previous case on the ACA. In 2012, Scalia argued the opposite with regard to subsidies and Roberts used part of that argument against Scalia in the current case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

The shitstorm is awaiting them in the next election cycle. It will be much more difficult for them to campaign on easing out of the ACA. Their campaign contributors will have kittens...the Kochs' will personally visit abortion clinics to have the kittens removed before they are born, claiming a new sacrament for the religion of Conservatism. The Democrats will beat them mercilessly over those 6 million or so people getting healthcare through the exchanges. Republicans are not getting out of this easily.

And why should they want out? Their sainted private healthcare is still intact, the insurance companies are doing well. The basic problem is that Conservative Republicans think you should work your way into health care and the Liberal Democrats think of it as a basic right. But then the Conservative Republicans think if you are poor, it is your own damn fault, and Liberal Democrats believe if you are poor, the rich made you that way. In my opinion, most Americans are somewhere in the middle, bu they have no strong beliefs to help settle the political issue that results, hence we get the current deadlock in Congress.

The act uses the term "the state", not "a state". The opinion of authors was that if they had a chance to rewrite it, they'd make it clear "the state" referred to the federal government. Scalia himself has reasoned cases on Congressional acts that said the entire act must be looked at to get the meaning of the terms. He cannot very well turn around now and claim the narrow interpretation he wants simply because he doesn't like the act.

Marissa to become another VP in Uncle Larry's Stable of Executives from Other Companies?

Yep, and in Maryland, O'Malley was famed mostly for talking out of his ass and raising taxes...and this after he finished screwing up Baltimore as mayor.

Ah....how come companies world-wide rely on MS Malware? Because it does what they need it to do. Yes, it is inelegant, yes it is buggy, yes it is a pile of insecurity that could knock a dead buzzard off a shitwagon at 20 paces. Until recently, there's never really been an alternative. Much of the military is doing the usual kinds of things it takes to keep a large organization functioning, i.e., payroll, retirement plans, accounting, etc.

Wot? That's not related to national security? Yes, it is. That's what it takes to make a large organization into a functioning large organization. And given the size and scope of the weapons systems they must buy (hint, they stopped making their own stuff years and years ago), you wouldn't want it any other way. They are only now getting to where they can produce an audit of their financials.

Wot? They didn't have auditing until now? Nope, they had the same mentality you do. This is the military, they could just whack together systems right? But now they have a new problem. In the past, they were a big enough market unto themselves they could pretty much define what companies will build for them. No longer. The military is not a large enough market for most companies, if they are going to build something, they need to sell it outside the military as well. So, now take Congressional mandates into the equation where product providers cannot be shown preference. How do you get software for over 1 million people? You cannot farm it out to several companies, the software won't work together. By the time you get the software, install it, train people, and use it, you have a large sunk cost. Redoing that every 5-10 years is beyond expensive.

I have a relative, a nurse no less, who sees nothing wrong with homeopathy. She thinks it is just as valid as regular medicine.

The basic problem here is that the modern world generates simply too much information for some (I would argue, most) people. So rather than disbelieving everything, she appears to find a way to believe everything. It is easier for her, she doesn't have to make any informed decisions. In this way, she's sort of like an Electric Monk from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.