One function of special vocabulary is for specialists to easily communicate. But another, important, social function is as a badge of in-group membership. If you use the words correctly (from the point of view of the group) you show that you belong, and that you probably know and understand all the other explicit and implicit rules of the group. If the word use spreads too far it loses this function and the group needs to find new words and expressions instead.

You dislike "gelling". You dislike "paradigm shifts". It would probably be a fairly risk-free bet on what you think of expressions like "optics" (as in "the optics of this decision is good") and the like. You dislike these words and refuse to use them. Which signals to management people that you are not management and should not be treated as part of their in-group. "gelling" works exactly as intended, in other words.

Asking for words to not be used like this is futile. It would be like asking people to no longer care about fashion (another in-group signal) or to not form groups of like-minded people at all.

Fair enough. I was talking about European law because TFA was about the English Premier League.

Oh noes

SuperValu are the the only ones. Targe, WallMar and Whole Food were also hacked.

They can't even spell their own name.

You are continuing to conflate Medicaid with the ACA. Is your problem with Medicaid or the ACA?

> just look at the VA and the recent news stories concerning it.

Unlike you, I've recently had cause to spend a lot of time at a VA hospital. Unlike other hospitals, it doesn't fund itself by employing people to spend all day on the phone with insurance companies. The issues you pretend to understand around Medicaid do not have any relevance to how the VA hospitals are run. Trying to suggest that the VA hospitals are a model for how the ACA will work suggests you are not honest.

What makes you think that they aren't?

If the state can forge certs, the state can redirect your traffic to their youtube proxy and insert the malware just behind the fake thing you authenticated with. Your own private keys will not protect you.

This is one of the many reasons why the public PKI is broken.

#1 Delete something that's all over the internet? That'll work.
#2 is wrong. Football matches are not copyright works in Europe. The courts have already determined that.

I may also be a little unhappy that her score on American Idiot is higher than mine right now.

Top tip if you have a rental car in Israel. You can pick up a hitch hiking soldier and get your personal armed escort, who in addition to having a mean looking gun, knows the way and can give directions.

My kid is playing Rocksmith an hour a night, and using *my* guitar to do it.

I'm going to threaten to take her to a rock concert. That'll teach her the difference between playing the guitar and people playing a guitar on stage.

That's why it's better to be 45 with steam on a gaming machine with a video card that takes 3 pre-tsumani Fukishimas to power it.

I think SCO taught us all that copyrights don't magically transfer because some bit of paper said it should. There has to be an actual transfer of copyright and the back of a ticket ain't that.

Same response as above. That agreement would enable them to kick someone out of the venue. It wouldn't cause a transfer of copyright.