This is only true if the majority of practitioners in your field of speech are also known. Any field where the total publicly known practitioners are fewer than constitutes a majority of all practitioners requires more complex analysis.

I wonder, though, how you feel about total delegation positions? There are difficulties in accountability when the speaker and the doer are always two different parties, even when both parties are known. Isn't this institutionalized freedom from consequence provided the speaking party makes every appearance of legality, thought the acting party will commit a crime? The speaking party is protected so long as the acting party can be safely sacrificed, right?

Wouldn't perfect anonymity provide a similar mechanism for the individual? The speech won't burn you, but any actions may result in penalty.

Anyhow, I like being able to talk with the assumption that only site administration and people guilty of what I consider to be a crime have access to my specifics. It's even better when someone you have conversed with over time brings up something you posted AC while replying to your non-ac post elsewhere.

I have to disagree here. Conservative is related directly to the conservation of sound methodology within the social body... Hence the usual focus on tradition. The idea is that you can prevent the erosion of the social condition by focusing on the values that allowed us to persevere thus far.

If the government is experiencing difficulty today, but contented you yesterday then the answer is to reform the government to the traditional ideals. This means a pretty much perpetual belief that the government is many times larger than necessary or many times more depraved than before.

Liberal is related to governance through the exercise of liberties to incrementally improve the condition of the social body. This is often confused with application of creativity to the process, but is not limited to this, and usually falls well short of real creative thinking.

Both stances are subjective, such that anyone with a balanced opinion is usually between these two definitions.

Conservatism is formism such that supplicants typically speak in terms of correct/incorrect. By conserving the correct aspects of social governance, communal values, and beneficial traditions we are fulfilling the conservative vision.

Liberalism is Null-A in that the equivalent is correct as defined by benefit/harm (many-logics, many-truths). Literally - doesn't matter what values are involved if any aspect of the social body is suffering due to insufficiently advanced governance.

These two things are not mutually exclusive, but only descriptions of the basic impulses encountered in the wild. When everything goes to hell do you wish everything was the way it was in the good old days or the way it could be if only you were allowed to try great idea X.

Strategically speaking this interpretation has not lead me wrong. Given that I only sip mass media in small doses I don't know how far the reps have drifted, but on the street this def should allow you to divide accurately.

I wonder how many delusional ACs are furiously grinding their HDDs into dust as we speak. Well done martin-boundary. You have most likely just destroyed the /. conspiracy theory community.

Aha, thanks. I understand.

There have been some really disturbing incidents that suggest the FBI has moved themselves much further up the food chain in trying to find radicalized individuals. I would be most interested in a comparison of the experiences of people that were involved with FBI informants before 2003 vs the experiences we are hearing more about post 2003. I suspect we will find increasing difficulty in separating the Bureau from the process of radicalization. Get too close and we can't tell you apart.

For those that aren't going to go inserting themselves into other people's business, look up the case coming out of Irvine, CA regarding the mosque infiltration. When taken in context with the preliminary data from the other two recent domestic bombing attempts it may be a warning sign that we are setting the enforcement *personnel* up for a slaughter in the courts. Making martyrs out of people that believe they are patriots like the feebees hopefully believe is not a good tactic. Letting the personnel get burned when they were following orders is bad.

If there is an institutionalized problem then we need to begin preparing to support the prosecution of the institution over the persecution of the institutionalized practitioners. Put another way - who wants the g-ride when you can get the machine that is making them?

Written from FF because I'm tired of coding my own apps in machine language to avoid compromised compilers ;)

Wikileaks is exercising restraint. If this thing had gone full disclosure we would be neck deep i shit as opposed to simply covered in it. Maybe you were posting to point out their restraint.

Anyway, voted down for the comment about right wingers. The concept that the government is horrifically ineffective/immoral and over budget is exactly the platform that real conservatives respond to in each election. Seeing a successful prosecution of Assange would weaken the platform ahead of the next election.

Including commentary like that is both counter productive and inaccurate.

If you have wood floors it is possible to train with thumps. Have to use clicks if not. My little one not only comes and goes when asked, but also follows hand directions and tattles on her sister when she gets in trouble (ie: eating a stash of rubber-bands).

When people see here come to get me for the first time they start making jokes about Ruby coming to tell me that Timmy is stuck in the well like Lassie (animal t.v. star). Then they start to realize that she really is talking to me and wanting me to follow her to see something and everyone gets kinda quiet and unsure of what to say.

Another take.

Though the Lapp figure is clearly identified as a Tolkienesque Wose, the melding of pagan mythology with Christianity over the years is fascinating.

Even more interesting is the range of names attributed to this one figure. A small selection:
Chläus - Pretty standard
Kinderfresser - Child Eater
Old Scratch - Used for Satan directly in early America

And before there were elves there were the dark helpers with names like:
Black Peter
Claws
The Dark One
The Dark Helper

Anyhow - agreed that this thing go much further back than any add campaign. At least far enough back for the symbols to infiltrate and merge with ancient pagan teachings all over the world.

I was mainly expressing solidarity through humor that someone who has gone through the labeling process might find funny. The fact that many self-diagnosed individuals like to brag about autism spectrum disorders does bother me, though.

It is pretty silly the way behaviorism is leading to subjective conditions. That doesn't mean there aren't millions of people that might be helped by a little more research into human behavior.

Way OT now, though. Anyhow, keep on rockin' ;)

The branding is lame, but the intention might have some wiggle room before being condemned to death. I have tried several times to find open source sites that were trying to bridge the knowledge gap with new Linux users. It is tough. If the subject is tackled with the same underlying educational bent as the old pub then maybe it will prove useful.

The biggest WIN would be if they could stake out the meeting ground between the uneducated user and the over-matched admin. I don't think anyone is doing this particularly well right now.

Focusing on threes would be good. A fluffy Esther Schindler type buzz-fest for the C level, an insightful feature/spec commentary for the implementors, and a consumer empowerment style review of associated devices/products for the honey-bees. Then you tie it together with well staffed forums.

That would be refreshing, right? If anything, a quick swim through the more technical parts of the forums could put some pie-in-the-sky C* types into their places ;) It can be healthy to clack decision makers in the balls on occasion.