I REALLY REALLY think we need to see a head on the chopping block speaking into a large microphone to a large panel of lawyers and congress critters explaining to the 14million some off people why they were so fucking stupid!

the administration was responsible. The head of the administration should be on the chopping block. In other words, it's an impeachable offense. C'mon, how many times are they going to get away with it? Doesn't wikileaks and Snowden and fast and furious and benghazi and the list goes on give us enough smoke to realize there's a fire out there?

Perhaps the reason Congress does nothing about it is all the info the administration has collected about people like Hastert. If he could payoff cash to avoid exposure why not political favors too? Prime rib for foreign intelligence.

I admit, Im angry because I agreed to get a clearance once and my SF-86 is in the trawler's belly too.

For that matter, in fact, I suspect (closer to home) the reason politics in California is so frustratingly stupid is because a large part of California Pols are in the pockets of various asian governments. It was only a few years ago the entire state employee database was accidentally left out in the open on some webserver for just anyone to download...

Yes, that's not management, that's insane cowardice. It's all the rage around the bay.

yep, thought so, going from version 6 of the flagship product to version 10. What could go wrong? It's just a label, heheh.

Hey, That's a great idea! I'll make leather hide teepees and sell them to well-heeled techies as upscale "natural" outdoors eqt! thx!

You failed your metaphor test yourself. Swartz didn't use anything but bandwidth that would have gone wasted otherwise. There is no real physical metaphor that makes sense. And it was JSTOR that cut off access, not Swartz: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."

JSTOR, not Swartz, cut off access: "MIT was harmed in the process, Grimson said, with 10,000 researchers denied an important resource for several days as JSTOR sought to cut off the mass downloading."

shhh. don't mention this. it's a secret weapon. well, it has limitations, but it's very useful under the covers.

hahahaha! this is a great little flame series! Here's some anecdotal digression:

When I lived in AZ I would ride my bike a great distance (mostly flat in Maricopa County, no car, decades and centuries fairly common). When I went shooting I would just sling my rifle and head out into the desert. After a while I realized there was a great improvement in the quality of the experience when I biked with a rifle. Drivers paid more attention and respected my space. Sheriff's Deputies confronted me a couple of times tho and warned me the BIA Police might try to harass me, and to call them if there was a problem. This was pre-Arpaio, don't know how it is now.

The idea that "The idea that Congress is constitutionally mandated to prepare a budget is one of many tea party memes" is also a strawman. But you Taxers of course always know what is best for us for us to think and do. I leave you with this delightful thought from C.S. Lewis, you little would-be dogooder:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

"what idiot told you that?"

You projecting again, Democrat-Fascist-Party-Cheerleader-Boy? I'm saying that any tyranny or identity theft or any other negative consequence is not intended. In fact, it seems dubious that healthcare reform is anything other than a "voiced" objective. I'm saying the real objective is blowing lots of money, with the expected incidental benefit that some will land in the pockets of the well-connected. The whole thing is articulated to appear as a just and noble endeavor. This helps enlist foolish nanny-state-government-cheerleaders such as yourself to cheer the whole thing on whilst heaping condescending vitriol upon anyone who dares to point out the obvious....

It's Gall's Law in action. All the way down. Forever. Like turtles.

Folks, it's the second decade of the 21st Century. Why is we still let the government spend money on stuff like this? No only can they not get it right, they'll never say it's wrong until we're a few $Billion into it. Face it, universal top-down-imposed-government solutions are only effective at one thing: blowing lots of cash. Everything else it incidental, even accidental. The tyranny, the identity theft, you name it: all unintended consequences. But I'm sure that anyone who said whoa-whoa-whoa let's do X right in the course of the project was told to quit screwing up the gravy train and take a hike.

I also want a few hundred w-88s in reconfigurable carrier modules and a reasonable mix of tactical and strategic delivery systems. I feel based on current events this is the best way of insuring freedom from government interference and maintaining popular sovereignty (HHOS).

Obvious to you, obvious to me - not obvious to the entertainment industry lawyers, congress, and other people with big money at stake.

Let's not forget to sign the petition to Fire U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz

I was dealing with some balky expletive packaging and instructed the datacenter manager to bring in a "5-pound sledge and a short wrecking bar (aka crowbar to some)". He came back with a 2kg sledge. They seem to find use on every trip to the datacenter now.

Also turns out cordless screwdrivers are not up with real screwing around - probably best to maintain a decent drill with a wide assortment of good-quality bits.

At another site the HVAC tech tried to kill me with some threaded rod, so I treat it like a construction site now. hard hats.