Think of it as decimating the part of the case above the shoulders.

Why shouldn't they? People building that close to disaster are a giant liability payout waiting to happen. This is pretty much a textbook case of "preexisting condition". If someone chooses their home's location so poorly, why should I have to subsidize their stupidity with higher premiums on my non-poorly-located property? If those builders want to take the risk, let them pay for it.

In response to this attack, the team that develops Simurgh has instituted a check that will warn the user if they are running a compromised version of the software

Ummm, and an attacker would be unable to modify the verifyIntegrity() function to return "I'm perfectly OK!"?

That's so sweetly naive and incredibly wrong. My wife and I are married and share a joint checking account. There's no difference between "my money" and "her money" at any important level; even if we kept track of who contributed how much, it still gets stirred into the same pot. It's not like I take her to dinner with "my money" and she buys clothes with "her money", regardless of whether we pretend that's the case.

It's the same with Planned Parenthood. Ultimately, they have a total budget. The government pays for non-abortion services, but the end result is that by financing those services, PP is freed up to spend some of its other-sourced money on abortions.

I'm sure that Planned Parenthood has a spreadsheet that demonstrates that abortion funds and non-abortion funds are separate. That's nice. But realistically, it's all drawn from the same pool.

56 oz? Bah! Driving through NC, I saw a 100 oz refill cup for sale at some gas station. For those of you who prefer metric, that's roughly a 3 liter mug of your preferred caffeinated beverage (coffee or soda).

...drugs, cigarettes, liquor, gambling, lottery tickets, flat screens, cell phones, junk food, etc...

They even have an article on Examples of Bias in Wikipedia to prove it. It's their 9th most viewed page. Because proof for Conservapedia whatever they pull out of their asses.

Their second most viewed page is THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA. See the full list. It's unusual that only one of their top ten is about homosexuality. In the past as many as seven of the top ten most viewed pages have been about it.

I don't see any mention of markets or magic in his post. And the other two parties to the loan and mortgage debacle, private citizens and the government, didn't do much better (what, they didn't know anything?). Given that the government and citizens got raped in the bailout while banks have made huge profits would seem to indicate they did a fantastic job of assessing their risks.

Actually no. I figured out that smart people are harder to treat for emotional disorders long long before I knew anything about AGW. And I had a fear of flying long before 9/11. Anyway, I don't think stupid people like being teabagged by arrogant TSA agents either. A dog knows when it's being treated badly.

Please tell me it's not screenshot compatible, because that's the ugliest freaking mess of a horrid GUI editor that I've encountered. Otherwise, no wonder I've seen so many Windows devs with multiple huge monitors: they'd need them to be able to see a useful amount of code at one time. Seriously, those screenshots dedicate, what, 20% of the window to actual content?