Comments:

1. Spaceman Spiff on April 18th, 2011 at 16:04:

   And WHAT could possibly go wrong with this? :rolleyes: Oh yeah, one-stop-shopping for hackers and ID thieves…

2. Sue W on April 18th, 2011 at 23:10:

   Oh dear, I’m gonna have to trust the government? Perhaps I’ll have to move to the third world.

3. Desiato on April 19th, 2011 at 17:24:

   I’m pondering whether there’s some irony here–on this blog people tend to favor a bit more govt regulation (and, say, gun control) until it comes to something we know more about and have higher stakes in, and then we want the govt to butt out?

4. Roland Hesz on May 1st, 2011 at 21:52:

   @Desiato: People here usually want more government regulation which usually means more restriction on access.
   To information, to guns, to illegal financial activities.
   So, saying that we want to limit access to guns, and want to limit needless access to personal information is not that contradicting, is it?

   Government access to private information and government regulating things are quite different things.

Comments:

1. b on April 18th, 2011 at 12:43:

   Some how I think George C. Marshall would disagree with Trump; so would the Germans, Japanese, Kuwaitts, and the people of Grenada.

2. Rob on April 18th, 2011 at 21:03:

   B,

   The Germans and the Japanese would have kept everything they took had they not been forcibly removed … or did you forget that part?

3. Rob on April 18th, 2011 at 21:03:

   Oh, and Trump is a dweeb.

4. itspast on April 19th, 2011 at 2:25:

   The Trump global casino. Winner takes all. Is that why we waste all that money on the military?

5. b on April 21st, 2011 at 16:45:

   Rob,

   ahhh so then the country that is the “great exception” isn’t and should act like every other country. (why is america more special than any other country again?)

   Also, how would you like to have all those Iraqis voting for the next president. Or would you propose putting them into little camps like was done with the native americans. Or would all Iraqis become third-class citizens. or do we just shoot them all.

6. Rob on April 22nd, 2011 at 12:02:

   B,

   I’m not advocating what Trump says. Just saying the Japanese and Germans might not disagree with him because they actually did try to keep what they took.

   You’ve never seen me or heard me say America is more special than any other country. I think it is because I was born here and I live here so saying so wouldn’t mean that much to a non-American. I comment here now and again just to counter the relentless anti-American sentiment. We’re not as great as we may think we are from time to time but we’re not nearly, not nearly as bad as you guys think we are.

   Trump is a clown. Despite his money, he has no chance if he runs for President.

Comments:

1. Sue W on April 18th, 2011 at 22:58:

   How hard can it be? Every release and sub-release of Flash breaks things (usually through misguided attempts to speed up the horrendous code that results from using their dreadful tools). Their attempts to keep compatibility with code that ran a decade ago has resulted in dragging around a legacy of almost-but-not-quite-unsupportable applications. The worst 3 years of my life were spent on a large serious Flash code base. More gotchas than I had hot dinners during that time.

   Mr. Jobs knows shit when he sees it.

Comments:

1. Steffen on April 18th, 2011 at 10:10:

   And not to forget that Mr. Ratzinger needed a cardiac bypass operation and a pacemaker implanted in 2005.

2. Steffen on April 18th, 2011 at 10:24:

   Erratum: I just saw that not the Pope got cardiac surgery in 2005, but his brother.

   But that doesn’t change anything. The pope visited his brother in hospital. Did he tell there the surgeon who saved his brothers’ life, that he “will pay the price for his pride if he believes technology can give him the powers of god”?

3. Sue W on April 18th, 2011 at 22:45:

   Rat-boy is wrong, again. Technology has given me powers of all kinds and his god has given no-one any powers (except permission to do evil, apparently).

Comments:

1. Turnaround on April 18th, 2011 at 19:40:

   What the author considers to be “the best minds,” I consider to be merely clever but enormously avaricious minds.

Comments:

1. Sue W on April 18th, 2011 at 15:33:

   Perhaps legislative assemblies are too large and too partisan. Not that I know about this case, but a problem with parliamentary democracy and political parties is that most members of legislatures are treated as “lobby fodder” – they have no choice but to vote the party line and are treated like herd animals by professional non-elected management teams.

Comments:

1. Sue W on April 18th, 2011 at 15:17:

   Great links, thanks!