By cherry picking two sentences out of my previous reply, you managed to miss the entire point of the reply in its entirety. You've also handily proven that point.

But begging the question is still better than begging for food.

Cheers,
Dave

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."

Supposedly said by Everett Dirksen when he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. There seems to be some question as to whether he actually said it but there are lots of sources that attribute it to him. Unfortunately, the archives for the Tonight Show don't go back far enough to include his appearance.

Cheers,
Dave

I'm waiting for the GP to respond with something along the lines of "blah blah you wasted your vote blah blah you acted as a spoiler" ... and when millions of people think that way, there's no chance of any third party candidate gaining any traction. The real problem here are apathy, excuses, and herd mentality. People don't vote on issues, hell they hardly understand what issues are at stake with any particular candidate. On the whole, people tend to vote for the political equivalent of their favorite sports team. So we get what we get, which is a horrible mess.

I have no idea how to to fix this, aside from watching things get so bad that people are rioting in the streets in every major city in the nation, and subsequently saying something like "well now, now that you all seem to care about what's happening since you can no longer ignore its direct effect on a massive number of peoples' lives, your own included, how about we figure this out."

What you're describing would truly be boring. I guess you need AjaxTerm; knock yourself out.

I'll freely admit to the possibility that my dominant visual processing scheme includes automation rejection of unsuitable posteriors :)

orthogonal - 1. of or involving right angles; at right angles. 2. (of variates) statistically independent.

There aren't many right angles in the posteriors I admire, and their size and roundness are anything but independent.

Where are you getting all this nonsense? There are plenty of women walking around with generous posteriors that are also quite round, and a good cross section of those ladies are also pretty toned. Where are you getting the idea that such women can't be independently minded professionals who look damn good in a business suit? Man, you guys really do need to get out more. Maybe you're only looking at college girls or something.

I happen to like the combination of both, which I assure you exists. Maybe you don't get out often enough.

If all he'd released was the evidence you've cited, I'd have virtually no issue with Manning. Unfortunately, he released a shitload more than that. Try again.

Worse, he was a USMC Lieutenant Colonel.

I will note for the record that I draw a heavy line between Manning and Snowden. The former I would like to see executed, the latter I'd like to have a beer with. Anyone interested in the civil liberties of US citizens would understand the fundamental distinction between the two named persons.

As a very happily married man with a wife whose posterior is quite round, I'm continually confused by the prevalence of jokes about big butts which assign a negative value to that trait. Apparently, many women think most men want to date twigs.

Or, gee, I dunno, encrypt the email itself (along with its attachments) with PGP/GPG. I only have eight accounts with keys assigned to them.

Hi, former Navy guy here. Unfortunately, the US military hasn't executed anyone since 1961, although plenty of service members have committed capital offenses since then. I say this as someone who is a staunch opponent of capital punishment in the civilian sector, but has no patience or forgiveness for those convicted of espionage or treason while wearing a uniform.

You're completely out of your depth here, as you apparently aren't aware of the numerous and nasty cases of service members walking around with TS clearances who got into financial trouble and decided it was somehow a good idea to attempt to sell classified materials to foreign powers to make up for their losses.

I'm speaking as someone who served, and someone who was in service when a particular submariner was caught doing exactly what I just described. He's far from alone in his transgressions, and such offenses have occurred on both the enlisted and commissioned sides.

Stop talking about things you have no experience with.