The polls showed a dead heat
"The polls"?
Here is the percentage support for Ahmedinajad in a number of polls taken in the runup to the election:
22.5
23
24.61
25.5
29.5
32
33
33
34
34
35
36
36
38
40
42
42
43
44
47.5
53
54
59
61.7
62
62.7
Note that the poll that had him at 23% support was taken at almost the exact same time as the one that had him at 61.7% support.
The pollsters in Iran are politically motivated liars. If you trust their numbers you will come off looking as stupid as you would if you trusted the Iranian government's statements. Do realize, however, that if the Iranian government didn't want a certain person to win the election, they could have just refused to allow that person to run in the election - as they did with several other would-be candidates.
If they didn't want Mousavi to win why didn't they just refuse to let him run, citing "un-Islamic behavior" or some other such nonsense?
This has been studied extensively. Peer review of code is much better at finding bugs than QA testing.
If you release code without QA testing and the process works for you, fine, you can consider releasing code without peer review.
If you wouldn't consider releasing code without testing, but currently release it without peer review, you are batshit insane. Sucks to be you. Sucks even more to be your support department.
I think there are some kids on your lawn that need to be yelled at.
if you would also sign a document stating that we could let you starve in the street (with no complaint from you), should you run out of private funds after your retirement, we'd be OK with that, too.
I wouldn't be OK with that. The issue isn't that someone might complain when they are starving in the street, the issue is that no matter how idiotically someone has conducted themselves, the public as a whole is not going to let them starve in the street, whether they complain or not.
Social Security prevents psychopaths (those who find it acceptable when someone in a wealthy country where people are paid to not grow food starves to death in the street) from being free riders on the backs of those with a conscience.
Funny how people claiming cigarettes will kill me when I've been smoking them for years and it keeps not happening.
"Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant