Primaries aren't as honest as you think. Games can (and are) played to help sway votes in a certain way.

Closed primaries disallow the general public from choosing a candidate, and only registered party members are permitted to vote. If the party wants a certain candidate to gain ground, but feel the general public will not vote in their favor, they have a closed primary vote.

The flip side of this is poisoning the well. The opposition party votes in an open primary to attempt manipulating a candidate's popularity. They attempt to create false competition, or get a less-than-favorable candidate elected. This trick can also be used by the party itself if an unpopular party choice is winning.

Then there's the actual candidates themselves. Any real choice of candidates has been far removed for a while. The only candidates who end up in a national primary are ones who've already committed to the party's views and demonstrated their willingness to "play the game." Anyone with a real chance of winning with moderate party views or won't cooperate with lobbyists were pruned out of the process on the local/state level. Candidates like Paul or Huntsman aren't seriously considered contenders (reflected by both the parties and the media).

So no, those primaries are not the bastions of democracy you think they are. I would say, in my region, the highest level of government I see is probably sparsely at the County-level election, but mostly the town/city level. Admittedly, I'm from a fairly skewed state for this (Illinois), so I'm probably a bit more pessimistic than most. It's possible other regions might get more honest elections up to the state level.

If you ever want a real sobering realization on the subject, befriend someone in your state's official party committees. They can tell you, to a much more detailed extent, the games that are played with elections to ensure certain candidates never get anywhere, while others get groomed for higher offices.

It sure is. You must leave the copyright notices and acknowledgement intact. In the event only a binary form is distributed, it must be present somewhere in the application/documentation (usually you find it buried in help documentation somewhere). Also, depending on the BSD license version, you also can't use the author/organization for marketing/endorsing/promotion without their permission.

Basically, the BSD licenses isn't so much dictating what can be done with the code, but to require giving credit to the programmer(s) who wrote the code. Well, besides the boilerplate "as-is" liability waiver in every license.

Since I'm lazy enough not to walk across the street, I usually just make one up or use an old number (such as a place I lived 10 years ago). Similarly, if I need to use "my" address for something, such as checking ISP availability, I'll use my neighbor's address. They're close enough to find out if I can get service or not while shopping around.

You're not the first comment to suggest legal action, but here's my thought: Perhaps there is something going on that legitimately got them on the list.

The summary states they're an ISP, so I don't think it's out of the question that a few customers picked up some malware. The malware might be sending out the spam that gets them blacklisted. The might use non-static addresses, which could've led to the whole block getting flagged. If you take them to court, this fact will not only ensure you lose, but might even get you counter-sued.

I only mention this because this exact thing happened at a previous job (the malware part, not the legal part). The summary doesn't state if they've been monitoring all traffic to ensure it's spam free.

I disagree. It's way too easy for me to injure or break my hand by simply throwing a punch. Not to mention injuring my wrist. And afterward, the full use of my hand might not be the same (you even mentioned the loss of dexterity as a result of your boxing).

These lead me to believe that hands weren't intended for punching stuff. There's way too much technique required so I don't hurt myself (and even technique isn't enough, which is where the taping comes in).

Skype video calls from the couch.

Remember, this is how Blizzard perceives difficulty. It'll be like playing unpatched Inferno all over again!

I have never seen this happen. If people are passing data around, I typically receive Excel files, not tables within HTML.

This should most definitely be done in the recipient's client, not in the message's composition. Not to mention other accessibility problems in which the HTML content isn't even used - their accessibility software uses the plain text version of the message.

When it endangers the lives of my customers. Look, I'm all for stories about heroic efforts of uptime, but this company had no disaster plan. They're lucky they're not in the middle of a lawsuit for injury, or worse, wrongful death right now

Actually, the majority of hits to the head in hockey are illegal hits, and usually end with a player getting suspended. The NHL started taking a harder stance against hits to the head and concussions a few years back.

As well they should be. Moon landing deniers are a fun debate about government conspiracies. However, at the end of the day, nobody's affected by their belief that we never made it to the moon. Antivaxers, on the other hand, can kill other, non-antivax people with their misguided beliefs. The second you're delusion starts harming people, there's a huge problem.

If you want to go that route, every program written in C can be condensed down to 1 line. Or any language where whitespace isn't significant.

Big business. IBM got out of the retail computer industry when they sold off that part of the business to Lenovo.

Their recent redesigns of the consoles don't have the overheating issues of the release designs. Even before the case redesign, the internal changes had fixed the heat issues. The only real issue was the noise (for the record, the fat PS3s were louder if you were lucky and got on of the "Chinese fan" batch like me). The noise problem was mitigated by letting users do disc installs onto the HDD since the loudest part of the Xbox is the jet-engine based DVD-ROM drive.

We also say giant, giraffe, and Geoff, not "guy-ant," "ger-aff," and "Go-eff"