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Comment Re:Tea (Score 5, Insightful) 815

It's kind of like owning a gun. Anyone who wants to own a gun is the last person who should have one. Anyone who wants political power is the last person who should have it.

horrible analogy. Most people who want to buy a gun, buy one for control over their own lives (self defense). Most people who want political power, want it for control over others.

What we need is campaign finance reform. Strict and absolute limits not only on how much money can be donated to a campaign, but how much money can be SPENT on a campaign. It seems like the best way to keep the people who want political power from getting it, and giving us the best chance of being represented by people we can trust.

how many times has this been said and tried throughout history? No clue, but I'll be willing to be no matter what laws would get passed there will be plenty of loopholes.

Comment Re:so what? (Score 4, Insightful) 745

goldbuggery

Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.

nativism and xenophobia

TY, I learned a new word. He thinks that we have laws for immigration that should be followed and that the current immigration process should be streamlined. I guess that's xenophobia? lol

extreme isolationism

So you walk around neighbourhood with a fully loaded M16, and occasionally march into random people's houses and order them around with a gun to their faces? No? well then you must be an extreme isolationist!

cult-of-personality

Anyone who says that ron paul has a cult of personality is just beyond eliousonal about him. He is uncharismatic, he runs on sentences, he jumps around in his statements. If there's a ron paul cult, it's because he's spent 30 years or so in public office, standing by his principles while everyone mocks him.

Comment Re:Yes, but other than that, how did you like it? (Score 1) 453

2 years ago, i had my account hacked. I think there was/is some sort of hack that apparently was pretty easy to pull off.

My story is that 2.5 years ago some guy i don't even know wanted some plugin to a CS server that I own, and that plugin is private. basically he compromised my hotmail account, and because i stupidely listed my recovery email address on my gmail account, as my hotmail account, he was able to compromise that. And then did password recovery or whatever on the login info for my server provider and changed the rcon (admin) password and downloaded the plugin. Figured out who it was and shit but wtf could i do? anyways, i changed everything, reformatted and only logged into msn and hotmail with a new password. a few days later, he tried to access the cs server rcon and couldn't. so he again compromised my hotmail account. this time since i changed my backup email for gmail to be my work account, he wasn't able to compromise my gmail account. But since i changed my password to something rather obscure and only accessed it from a patched/clean box, i really think there was something else he was doing that didn't involve compromising anythign on my end.

Comment Re:The intended recipient... (Score 1) 333

As a socialist, I want state authority to be a direct expression of popular will. A state authority that is not an expression of popular will is not a state authority I want to "do more".

Which is the same as mob rule. which is exactly the opposite of the ideals that the US was founded upon, that we are all free.

Comment Re:Buffer overflow (Score 1) 611

lol.

You know why computers are useful? cus they do shit for us.

how about developers get their heads out of their butts and learn how to be programmers, instead of whining that real languages don't do everything for them?

Is such a stupid statement. To err is human. You give people the opportunity to make mistakes and they will. Doesn't matter how 'good' they are.

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