The government shouldn't be practicing race or sex discrimination in awarding contracts. Can the bidder do the job? Do they have the lowest bid? That's what matters, and that's what the taxpayers deserve to get for their money.

-jcr

"The IT industry is hurting for women.

The IT industry is no more "hurting" for women than the coal mining industry or the forestry industry or the alaskan crab fishing industry. There are more men than women in the IT business. There are more women than men other lines of work. So what?

-jcr

they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil

Shows how much you know. Bacon doesn't need oil, it's got its own fat.

-jcr

If you don't boil bacon, how can you make bacon soup?

-jcr

I know you think you'e being clever, but the fact is that NASA worked very hard to prevent any private development of space flight capabilities for several decades.

-jcr

It's my understanding of the system (from dealing with one years ago)... the server can recover the seed used by a hardware token given it's serial number, and two sequential tokens. Perhaps the serial number is the "seed" and it's figuring out the tokens clock. However, it's perfectly clear the server can generate the same numbers as the token. The strength of the system is keyed to protecting that algorithm. Soft-tokens are a bad joke and only slightly better than a password, but are themselves based on a "password".

Perfectly "clean" rainwater should have a pH close to 7.0 -- being pure water. 5.6 is bordering on "acid rain". (I'll check my rainwater sisterns, but they've had a long time to settle.)

Yes, sea water is highly buffered. However, that buffer is not instant. Look at the small scale in my (freshwater) aquariums... they have carbonate buffers in there (a lot of it, in fact -- aragonite and commerical buffers) and the pH can still dip below 6.6. If I draw a sample for testing, sealed in the tube, the pH will slowly recover to 8.4 as the disolved buffer does it's job. A great deal of the buffer capacity of the oceans are the coral in them.

But yes, I agree, CO2 is not what's going to destroy our oceans. We've been doing far, far worse things to them for a long time now.

through a random process

That's the key... Humans. Aren't. Random. Knowing a little about the person can often significantly reduce your search.

Lysander Spooner throughly debunked your position well over a century ago.

-jcr

He's already done a fine job of fighting government waste at the local level. Rand Paul's endorsement is why I looked him up, and I like what I heard. Check him out here.

-jcr