Oh, ffs.

Because I think social conservatives are busybody prudes, and I don't believe in supply side economics, so I'd never vote for any republican, because I want to make sure the republican nutcases in the senate and the serious republican nutcases in the house never get close enough to the levers of power to truly fuck anything up.

There, is that enough clarification for you?

Because I think social conservatives are busybody prudes, and I don't believe in supply side economics.

So you'd have no problem if you hired me to remodel your house and I used lead paint and asbestos insulation?

I actually read this as "should developers be allowed to install software "on their own PCs."

Letting them install software for other users is a whole 'nother level of insane.

...and this is how we ended up with all Windows apps requiring local admin rights to run correctly. Because all the developers had local admin rights to install their own software, so all their software worked fine for them when they tested it.

In my experience, developers no very little about the OS, security or any of the technical nuts and bolts of how an OS works, and what bits should not be modified, they know just enough to be dangerous. I've actually had a developer go into security settings and deny access to Everyone at the root of C:, to keep virus scans and software updates off their system. Of course, they didn't realize that "Everyone" means them too, and the system account as well, and are surprised that the machine reacted badly to this. Also, too, they managed to do this on a Friday when they had CRITICAL WORK that MUST GET DONE by MONDAYS DEADLINE!.

Which makes me want to ask SO WHY ARE YOU F#$KING WITH YOUR PC INSTEAD OF WRITING CODE? Lets make a deal, I wont write C++ code and you don't try to administer my boxes. Never mind, I wasn't doing anything this weekend anyway.

F'in A. the last time I felt anythign like American Exceptionalism was between Apollo and the first Space Shuttle launch. Wheres the Manhattan project for alternative energy? Oh, yeah. that would be socialism, taking money out of the mouths of venture capitalists.

not to mention air traffic control or the national weather service. Why I'm sure Fedex would have invented a private alternative to them in order to deliver packages gauranteed overnight.

ding ding! We have a winner.

They know we exist, they just think we're lazy black people on welfare.

What's Glenn Beck doing posting on Slashdot?

as a white person myself, although I don't understand why that makes a difference, I don't, yet. I don't think the black people do either... Although the repubs in my state are trying to change that now, too. You know polling places are neighborhood based, and everybody there pretty much knows everyone else. Pretty sure if I tried to pretend I was my neighbor, someone would notice.

Oh, wait... I said y'all, so you think I'm black. No racism here. Nope, move along, nothing to see here.

I lived in Russia for years, got asked for my papers all the time. It didn't bother me. Just about any other country requires foreigners to carry their papers 100% of the time, regardless of color. If I became a citizen of Russia, I'd still be asked for papers just because I look and sound American. There's no way to get around that and still allow Russia to have orderly immigration.

So we don't want to be socialist like Europe, but its ok to be totalitarian like Russia? Conservative logic never fails to baffle me.

You know, when I was a kid, way back in the 70's before the brown hordes invaded, I used to go out without my license all the time. That's when I had a license, which was suspended more often than not. If a license isn't valid, technically its not legal id. I don't recall being arrested or detained, even when I was pulled over.

This is all xenophobic bullshit, except the part that's about voter suppression, and y'all know it.

It's spelled OS'ed. You insensitive clod.

So you've figured out how to stop Facebook from selling your personal information and demographics to every company with a media budget? Congratulations, you win the internets.