Thought Experiment: The length of time one can succeed hitchhiking or riding a bike along an interstate highway before encountering law enforcement.

Thought Experiment: The government says you have no right so one must pay a corporation (bus driver) for the right of movement. Sounds like a fun country to be in.

I'd rather my restrictions be enumerated than my freedoms. Unfortunately the restriction list seems to be getting longer.

Until one side or the other is engaging in jewish cook-outs, declaring war on the world, full outright theft from the populace, and leading a populace not to a fear of their rights disappearing, but fear for their very own lives (or fingernails), neither can be compared to the horrors the nazi's perpetrated on the world. I find it ridiculous to compare Dems or Reps, Bush or Obama, to nazis.

It doesn't take a comparison to Nazism to declare something is wrong, unsavory, and of an anti-(fill in the blank) creed.

The meaning of terms change. For example, "fast" describing a car in 1910 does not refer to the same speed as "fast" describing a car in 2010.

I post this not as a retort to the parent, but as an observation to the changing meaning of words.

Sounds like someone needs to offer up some policy documents that are signed by management (in this case required password characteristics). Not all solutions are technical and not all technical solutions are legal.

The best revenge is to become successful. I'll never forget the feeling of driving up to a user group meeting, whom an ex-boss was a participant in, with my new BMW.

The financial guys have been making oodles of money creating nothing but chaos, why not let another industry do so too? I mean, it's the American way these days...

Preach it brother! I left programming and have gone into the business side knocking out another degree (the B.B.A.) I only program for friends now too.

If the dude was offering up stock, the purpose should be for division of dividends - not to try and sell it. Got $10,000 lying around that month? Divide it out as dividends among the stock holders. That is how myself and a couple partners worked it out.

The pay was ALWAYS divided by stock ownership that being the most reliable manner of dividing up the money.

And if the amount of stock offered is measly, walk away... no... run away.

Get rid of cash? I can see no faster way to get the populace to return to gold or silver as a means of exchange. The government can propagate an idea, but that doesn't mean the populace is going to accept it. Just like rubles v dollars in the USSR.

The idea of the government or banks sticking their nose into each and every transaction and getting their bit by regulation is unsettling to me also.

If I remember my civics correctly, I don't think the FCC can over-rule Congress.

Sometimes I wonder if this phenomenon on the internet is polarizing people. In the common square, one has no choice but to come into contact with differing perspectives on a subject as well the debate on it. However, being able to drive out other ideas and make the site into an echo chamber of ideas seemingly re-enforced over and over might convince some of the correctness of the only argument/position left.

It is interesting how low the subscriber number is for a lot of posts on this subject. Assuming the lower the number, the older the subscriber - generational topics can be identified.

Just mumbling an observation is all....

Maybe they should write every bill out by hand these days. Might help control the bloat.

Bell Labs is long gone. Lucent bought it a while ago and it's pretty much dismantled for lack of immediate profitability. A problem with a lot of research these days. At least we have open source.