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Comment Re:California (Score 1) 37

Smells like manure.
Try state spending per capita. See, taxes like to be sneaky, while the spending part is much better documented.

Total State Expenditures per Capita

I tried to make this pretty, but the lameness filter said no.

Texas 4462 Montana 9257
Florida 5199 New Jersey 9292
Nevada 5690 Maine 9295
North Carolina 5825 Washington 9303
New Hampshire 5927 Louisiana 9376
Missouri 6149 Minnesota 9410
Idaho 6331 Illinois 9585
Colorado 6415 North Dakota 10443
South Dakota 6643 Wisconsin 10542
Tennessee 6751 California 10556
Georgia 6791 Maryland 10893
Utah 6812 Kentucky 10908
South Carolina 7193 Arkansas 11003
Oklahoma 7207 New York 11170
Indiana 7786 Massachusetts 11463
Ohio 7897 Rhode Island 11578
Alabama 7924 Connecticut 11686
Mississippi 8058 Vermont 12167
Michigan 8086 New Mexico 12433
Kansas 8224 Oregon 12677
Nebraska 8656 West Virginia 13108
Pennsylvania 8728 Hawaii 13342
Wyoming 9149 Arizona 14892
Virginia 9153 Delaware 14923
Iowa 9192 Alaska 21485
                        District of Columbia 27143

Comment Re:The landlords will find a way to block it (Score 1) 37

but say no to any new installations by not allowing to dig/drill to install new cables, under the pretext of needlessly damaging the property.

Close. The landlord will require strict adherence to building codes, permits, inspections, and the use of licensed installers--maximizing the cost of installation.

Comment Re:What's His Angle? (Score 1) 39

Given Wyden's background as a privacy/data security advocate he is probably better educated on the subject than many of his peers but he still doesn't have hands on experience with Cybersec and IT related fields and is just going by what his staff has briefed him on.

And yet, every agency in the US Federal government subscribes to every product currently offered by Microsoft.

Comment Re: Python is scripting, not a programming languag (Score 1) 85

If you rely on python internals (which most folks do) - it's programs. If you shell out for most of your logic, it's scripts.

If you rely on python internals, you get a slow program.
If you shell out for most of your logic, you get a faster program.

Thus python is a "scripting" language because that's the best way to use it.

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