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Comment Re:lynx ruled! (Score 1) 92

I lived in a house with six pair to every bedroom back in the nineties, and a Linux server in a garage with a 28.8k CSLIP to scruznet. We installed serial terminals in two of the bedrooms to permit housemates without computers to use the network, over three wires, right next to the phone. At 9600 bps, it worked fine. This was before the widespread web, though.

Comment Re:Hope and change (Score 1) 330

Had they presented a down-to-earth, moderate candidate for the election, the Republicans would have won it by a landslide.

And that's why they didn't do that. If they had, they might have won. Instead they did everything they could to throw the election. Gotta follow the script.

Comment Re:Ridiculous stunt (Score 0, Troll) 565

But cable TV stole the free broadcast TV signal I once used.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Not only is it true, but who fucking cares? It costs the cable company nothing for you to get free cable. It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. I wouldn't pay for the wire to come into my house anyway.

Comment Re:No reason to distrust Rijndael (Score 1) 168

I highly doubt that Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen themselves were influenced by the NSA in any way in the design of Rijndael, unless you believe that they influenced all the AES entrants, including Ronald Rivest (RC6) and Bruce Schneier (Twofish). I think the only influence the NSA might have had was in perhaps influencing the NIST selection process that chose Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard.

I doubt it too, but the facts combine to suggest that we should be suspicious anyway. NSA has compromised ciphers. NSA chose this cipher. Therefore, it is best to be suspicious of this cipher.

Comment Re:You know this makes America ... (Score 2) 1532

Before Obamacare was Obamacare it was the republicans' idea. Hilary Clinton promoted a single-payer health care system. Then when it failed they wouldn't let her talk again until she took a bunch of Big Pharma money and got on the bandwagon with all the other assholes. Then we got Obama, the conservative Democrat, to promote the Republicans' health care system. Now they are campaigning against it in order to make it benefit their constituents maximally; not The People, but the corporations which pay for their campaigns, write legislation, etc.

Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 1) 1532

If I was a Republican I'd be embarrassed by the fact that my party was claiming to be the majority when they majority of voters in a democratic country didn't voted for the opposition.

Perhaps you don't remember Bush talking about his clear Mandate (with a 1.2% lead or some such) but that's how the Republican party works. They have no valid arguments and few valid points so they pound on the tables and froth at the mouth. And their few valid points are hypocritical; when they complain about spending, they're only complaining about spending that they aren't profiting from.

Comment Re:Looking in from the outside. (Score 2) 1532

Apparently, because you keep election these fuckers.

Impassioned errors aside (I make those too) this is a load of shit. The People tried very hard to avoid electing many of these fuckers. Obama may actually have been elected (and re-elected) but we never elected Bush. And many others have given citations on the issue of gerrymandering to stuff the house.

Comment Re:The mechanics were (are?) interesting. (Score 1) 1532

Cool story, bro.
Too bad it's total fiction.
E-mail is sufficient. My sister and cousin (both GSA) got their notice shortly after midnight this morning

Cool story, bro.
Too bad it doesn't disprove anything.
The GP's comment was about the last shutdown, and explicitly wondered if things had changed. Which you missed in your rush to be cleverer than someone who is smarter than you.

Comment Re:The Blame Game (Score 1) 1532

Part of the fix, fwiw, is to make gerrymandering illegal, and to force all redistricting processes to be follow specific rules to create completely contiguous districts based on population and taking neighborhood/zipcode boundaries into account.

The boundaries should gake into account population and geographical boundaries, also known as bioregionalism. The environment in which we all live is underrepresented as a result of a lack of this sort of policy.

Comment Re:The Blame Game (Score 1) 1532

The very thought that the Republicans would play chicken at all with an economy that is trying to come back from a collapse is fucking totally ridiculous.

Only if you haven't studied the depression at all. Rich people can benefit during such events. They stockpile enough goodies to ride it out at the beginning, and they use their wealth to buy land that ordinary people are losing due to the financial crash. When the markets recover they come out even further ahead, and We The People even further behind.

They should have voted to raise the debt ceiling for no other reason than that's what they are there for.

No, not it is not. They are there to serve their own interests. The majority of 'em, anyway.

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