correction, stupid WORLD.

you think its a US problem that governments have 'agreed' to ban pot? last I checked, almost every single country is onboard this stupid WoD.

*not* just the US. its a false morality problem; but mostly there is MONEY to be made by governments, in various ways, by keeping things illegal.

counter-intuitive but its actually true.

then again, the US has a very high population of religious sheep and those are the perfect 'voters' to keep the status quo going. brainwashed believers are a huge part of the problem; the problem being a regressive anti-progress mindset.

I think darwin would step in and we'd see a huge race of truck squirrels, scurrying around collecting all the trucknuts.

might be interesting, though. and backyard birdfeeders would be totally ruined by the size of trucksquirrels.

Yep. The root servers point the zone to whichever nameservers are authoritative for that ccTLD, and those nameservers are free to serve up whatever they like, including A records for the uz domain itself.

However, since it is generally expected that nobody does this, you can't expect all clients to do what you want them to. For example, when you type "uz" into Safari's address bar, it doesn't recognize this pattern as an FQDN so it tries a couple of other behaviors - first appending your search domain, then if that doesn't resolve, appending the .com TLD and taking you to http://www.uz.com/ which is not the same site at all. You can override this behavior by adding a dot at the end of the FQDN.

I lay my cards out on the table, quite plainly.

whoever is the more religious: I vote the OTHER WAY.

the evil factor of how much damage they can do is mostly about the same, give or take. but are they religious-based and do they believe in sky daddies? do they pander to that base who does? if so, then my vote goes to the other guy.

the republicans have allied themselves with the religion believers and I don't quite understand why, but I do see it as an easy filter mechanism.

sky daddy believers just can't be taken seriously, and they have shown themselves to be bad for the people who are not of their own general belief system. they are strongly anti-progress.

So set their shell to alpine instead of bash. There may be other steps you need to take to lock it down, but just because they can authenticate via SSH doesn't mean you have to give them full control over your server.

tea party is a scam.

seriously? you think that was a real movement?

My next project: A network with the SSID "ThisRouterIsUpsideDown", with some specific settings applied.

We can thank the ATF for sending and losing track of thousands of weapons for that, the School of Americas for training the Zetas gang and the schizoid drug control policies of USA that make the business work. For the gun dealership part, you can buy them in most army's quarters, you don't need to go to Mexico City to buy a gun.

They will have the same legal framework about guns we have in "democratic" Mexico, but with the added benefit that Venezuela doesn't share the border with the USA. Most people here forget that in the underworld guns together with drugs are used as currency. As long gun ownership is made easy enough for law abiding citizens, regardless of their political leaning this law will not be a problem.

> because your $500? ($1500??)+ PC is a simpler more reasonable solution than a $50 bluray player and $5 worth of cables

Not true. A $50 Blu-Ray player won't have an internet connection and so won't be able to update the firmware to play the latest discs with the latest copy protection (updated yearly). It is for this reason that every Blu-Ray player other than the PS3 is basically garbage.

This argument is sort of missing the point that the primary technical problems with DVD and Blu-Ray are:

1) Being forced to watch trailers or menus with no option to skip.

2) You can't (easily) back up them up. Especially Blu-Ray.

3) For security reasons, Blu-Ray executes in a JVM which is slow and buggy. Plus the aforementioned firmware issues.

At least properly mastered Blu-Ray discs (relatively few) have the advantage of being true High Definition (as opposed to fake streaming HD, like Netflix) content. And that's still relatively difficult to pirate being 40 GB and all.