"it's a recipe for gridlock"

depending on what gets gridlocked, it might be a good idea.

as i understand network technology, i believe it is possible to set up networks of the peer to peer variety which have no need of the currently conventional internet connections. my computer talks to yrs which talks to another guy's, etc. data wd be spread out on the network the way it is in a torrent network. i'd very much like some feedback on this.

Paypal seems to have given the money back, restored the acct, AND given MP $1k!!! see:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back?c=activity

i find this bizarre in the extreme. i wd like to believe that it means that paypal and amazon are thinking about joining the human race, but ...

there is no way to affirm or refute the assertion, by definition. So we're supposed to believe a statement which can't be proved or disproved and which is made by known liars. duh?

aren't these the same people who claimed they were firing 90% of their sysadmins?

bluff, bluff, bluff.

you've got no clothes on, fellas, and people are talking about you.

sleep with dogs, get fleas.

sounds like they don't want to keep their word on the bounty. FB smells of suits, increasingly and at an accelerating rate.

these people are gobbledygook merchants. the article is the most mindless thing i've ever read.

sed non oscula puerorum?

it's bluster. the suits out front make enormous amounts of noise based on what is 99% chaotic fantasy about their goals and resources, so in 99% of cases, they end up in the same place: junk. for example, one of my littile hobbies is to check every few years on the IRS efforts at building a system. the IRS has worked for THIRTY years to get a system that fits what they imagine to be their needs, and what they have is still junk. Another example. I worked two years for the feds doing software at a scientific station run by the forest service. after i had been there a couple of months while my department "checked me out" having me do silly work, they got to trust me and confessed that for all five years of the project's existence, the ninnies had never been able to get the time stamps in their data files right and asked me to fix the problem. after looking at some of their code for about ten minutes, i found that the ninnies were using Perl and were coding time handlers from the little bit of Perl which they more or less understood. they had no idea that time functions were built into the language. and absolutely no idea that CPAN existed for what you can't do with the language builtins. the reason for this incompetence is lack of courage. people are so afraid of doing the wrong thing and having, i guess, the boogeyman come and eat them, that they can't focus on their work. cowardice and then bluster to cover up the cowardice. increasingly, these are the kind of technicians that the fed is stuck with. it's true folks: the emperor does not have stitch one on his butt.

Who wants to work for sociopaths? we shd do what the Jewish artisans did when the left the persecutions under the French kings and went to Holland. With their help, Holland soon became the dominant power in europe, tho' Hollands position lasted for only a half century. reason for the decline was they got into bed with the British uglies. At any rate, this latest antic at NSA points up what will emerge as the empire's biggest problem, i.e., more and more people working with its dp systems are waking up to what they are aiding and abetting and fewer and fewer are willing to continue doing it, so the empire's systems are continuing to decline in effectiveness, at an accelerating rate. Technical competence with large and complex systems requires intellectual courage, which is impossible without spiritual integrity .

the word economy has also been tanking during the period of the "study." but the advantage of these kinds of "studies" is that they distract people from the real problem, i.e., the sociopaths who pay for such "studies."

tom arnall

problem is not the technology but an economic system run by sociopaths. nuclear is a safer tech' than the real-world options. i doubt if many of the eco extremists know anything about developments in the technology over the last five years. their ancestors were against fire, gossiping about mine as they sat around in the dark chewing raw meat. tom arnall

the statement is prima facie a lie. apple implies in it that their charger is safe, but, if this is the truth, they wd have had the charger tested by a third party and published the results with the rest of the statement. come to think of it, maybe they did have it tested ;o)

'Mad' as in 'crazy.' The U.S. "government" just doesn't get it. It now has at best a second-rate military since getting rid of its citizens' army and trashing its economy, and the rest of the world is waking up to the fact. I wonder what the dinosaurs think they're going to do when Russia ignores their blustering.

anyone who's used ANY kind of email system knows that they are lying. or rather, saying to the American people, "F*CK YOU, you pathetic wimps."