Well, yes, I couldvote for a third party, but what if, as a result, a repocrat wins?

But the Libertarian party approached that point, and the major news media conspired to silence them. (was it ABC? Or Fox fair'n'balanced that publicly told the party leadership, if your candidate won the presidency we wouldn't report it.?)

The democratic portion of our society is dead. And apparently the NSA shares 'information' with Israel, whose MI is famous for their assassinations.
 

The keys to the definition of kook are held by the government. If you want to know the truth, you have to ignore the label kook.
 

That doesn't mean that all kooks have the truth. It means that the label kook is often a slanderous title used to hide the truth.
 

Look at syzygyjob.com, and see the earthquake prediction by Jack Coles. He's rotting in prison even as he does it, calls in his predictions by collect call. I have no idea what he did or is supposed to have done to warrant prision, but I do know that Jim Berkland has asserted on the www that he was committed to a mental hospital for the offense of saying to the court that his occupation was earthquake forecaster.
 

Now,. I suspect that Coles is misinterpreting his data. I think that he believes that the radio signals he gets are piezoelectrically induced, whereas they may be simply the result of the reflection of broadcasted waves, off microdust in the atmosphere, caused by slow-slip quakes. Big whoopdedoo. He can be wrong; I'm probably wrong; but that doesn't make his statement that he is an earthquake forecaster false. Nor does it require a person to be committed to a mental hospital.

That is the power that our government wields, Are we now in an age, when nonconformance means assignment to a prison, without rights, under the name of "mental health"? So what is the difference between that, and the Nazi government before it destroyed a quarter of the world, ending with Germany and itself?
 

If you want to have a chance at knowing the truth, drop the term kook. Or take it as a badge of nonconformance.

Hmmm... your post ignites a desire in me to ramble. If you're going to bother looking up premillennial dispensationalism, also look up the Great Revolt of Jerusalem.

It seems that favored race or not, God does not look kindly on people trying to force His hand to enthrone them NOW. Therefore, starting a war with one's neighbors, expecting God to uphold one, is a bad idea. He might take a pass.

That said, there's a lot of nationalist, Hitlerian craziness in the region all around Isreal as well, and no, it didn't begin with Israel's behavior, it began with Hitler, and a deep-seated desire to exterminate Jews. Every wonder why that is? Maybe it really is because they are God's chosen people, and that makes them a target of envy. Not too many nations have lasted as long as that one has.

In other words, I do think there is something to all that stuff, but I don't think we have it all quite right.

But the one part that is definitely right is that yes, it *is* all about Jesus.

This. If you can avoid importing pests and diseases, then variants of the French biointensive method are probably best for (1) diet (2) converting CO2 to O2, (3) space constraints. Likewise, very little is as effective at energy-efficiency, as human labor. Again, the human labor provides the astronauts with something to do.

I'd suggest that one should calculate how much plant space you need to support each astronaut's breathing, and then go from there. Use the mechanical scrubbers as an automated emergency backup (with alarms), but other than that, let them remain unused.

Yet it's just been on Slashdot that the NSA has set their own backdoors into the standards, so you also have to roll your own secure encryption... and then, too, there are websites that seize hold of your OS, so you also need to roll your own OS, and then you've got the ISPs, that while they are only dumb pipes, they may be responsible for reporting what goes through with unidentifiable encryption...

At some point, it just isn't worth the time and effort to have real security. My goodness, I just wanted to look up how to care for my lemon tree, and I have to do all this? Maybe I should just go to the (precensored) library.

No, you don't understand what I was saying. You can't blame a chinese citizen for being under the thumb of the internet censorship. There is no uncensored option.

Likewise, you can't blame a US citizen for using Google/NSA, when all communications are under the NSA's illegal surveillance. There is no other option.

My apologies. I saw coherence between your post and the GP to your post, and took you to be one and the same. GP was positing that capitalism was useful because people base deecisions on selfish desires, and capitalism took advantage of our selfish desires and matched them together.

Your post continued that train of thought.

I prefer the terms "Dem' publicans" and "Repo-crats"

If this is what success looks like, I don't want any part of it. As a point of fact, you made so many false assumptions, that it invalidates your entire thesis.

One, for example, is the assumption that humans make choices based on selfieh desires. Yes, monsters do. But most humans do not.They rather make choices based on all kinds of reasons, some of them selfieh, most of them not selfish. How many parents do you know? Aah, but now you will redefine selfish to be self-and-childish. So how many beggars do you see? Would they do that if there was a high failure rate? Whoops, better redefine selfish to be self-and-child-and-social-guiltish.

But reason doesn't work that way, and your logic fails. Your model doesn't duplicate the real world, and thus it becomes a miserable model for most real people.

Well, look at it properly, the bug is about optimization of a query that does not make much sense. Sure, it could be done better, but why would you issue such query at all.

If you look at problems that Oracle/MySQL engineering tackled, they are somewhat different - data compression, online DDL, parallel replication, GTIDs, InnoDB scalability, etc - these were huge efforts and get reasonable focus. Think of all the bugs that were not filed against MariaDB... :)

Count InnoDB engineers working for Oracle and for Maria, unfortunately that will not be balanced. Even Percona's InnoDB expert Yasufumi Kinoshita ended up working for Oracle lately.

Sure, Maria can do all sorts of tricks in SQL-land, but it is not the full picture. Oracle has much more engineering power dedicated to supporting MySQL, and they also have customers who are doing bug escalations as well.

Disclaimer: I used to work at MySQL AB and currently am working on a deployment that builds upon Oracle's MySQL tree, see https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Courts aren't perfect, not being corrupt or ignorant is not enough to make them infallible. (gah... too many negatives, hope that makes sense)

And more importantly, I think, even the best court systems we have do and will convict innocent people. This is unavoidable. We just have to make sure we minimise the innocent conviction rate as much as possible.

GP : On the other hand, if you really are guilty, and you testify that you didn't do it, but evidence comes out that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you did it (caught on high-quality tape, for example), then you should be charged with perjury as well as with the original crime, shouldn't you?

No, no, and all kinds of no. People can be wrong and convinced they are right. There have been numerous rape cases for example, where victims have sworn blind that the accused was the person who raped them. Later DNA evidence cleared the accused, and they convicted someone else. Do you think the rape victim should be charged with perjury?

Criminals often rationalise their actions to such an extent they believe they were the victim, and are often pretty confused, and often have poor legal advice - in none of these cases have they perjured themselves necessarily. Perjury is a pretty well defined crime for a reason.

It's not a case of lazy. But if you're chinese in china, how (aside from being a rich oligarch) are you going to use the internet at all without a firewall?

Same goes for the US. What ISP is immune? Or are you going to buy your own backbone?