Everything but private businesses, right?



Well, officers of public companies are (or should be) held to account by their board, their shareholders, and the market. Those are the people with interests at stake. The reason why public spending is held to such standards is because every taxpayer (and citizen) has interests at stake.

Conversely, there is not much good reason to hold a private business accountable for spending. If you have a lemonade stand and you want to spend all your profits on candy, then that's really up to you. If you're mad that your boss spends all the company money on candy (or lets the secretary do so), work somewhere else.

To be clear, I don't like how the US handled the bailouts of private enterprises because it blurs these lines. But that's a generally separate issue.

Film not required. They do the same thing with the naked eye.


Only if you're under electric lighting (which is effectively a fast strobe). Without the strobe, you'd just get a blur.

I hate Santorum, but I think he's in the right here. As a politician, he should probably be able to brush this stuff off better - but that kind of stupid question would frustrate me as well.

The media should be embarrassed by how they've covered this campaign.

That said, Santorum (and the rest of the GOP field) have encouraged this mindset, and have been all-too-happy to jump on speaking mistakes (or tidbits that sound bad out of context) themselves rather than focus on any kind of substantive policy differences.

And that's why Aleksander looks so calm before a fight. In turn, guys like Aleksander explain why these guys wear body armor and work in large groups.

I don't agree with Kirk, but I thought he was pretty reasonable here (the bar has been set pretty low - I mean, watch Bachmann get interviewed). He dissembled a bit - but he didn't just flat out refuse to present his position (or complain that the question was unfair) as many have done recently.

Piers really wanted to stick this question, but he didn't do so effectively. I think he had a chance to tease out a better answer, and didn't take it.

Maybe something like "OK, so if you had this heart-to-heart, and your kid is still gay.. what do you do? Would you be comfortable having his partner over for family dinner? If they were together for a long time, could you support some kind of civil union between them?"

In the end, he got the worst of both worlds - he interjected and seemed combative, while still letting him off easy.

Lol - France doesn't understand why its divorce rate is so high (2.09/1000 people).

The US crude divorce rate is 3.4 (8th highest on the Wikipedia list). If this is important, maybe we should try communism (China is down at 1.28) or Islam (Qatar is 1.04).

This wasn't like super laugh-out-loud time - but super pleasant. I would totally watch a cooking show with Reg. I think he'd make anything good.

Except that I followed that strategy. Now I'm rotting in grad school while the cheaters are spending my parents' pension funds on their private cayman islands.


Ah - see that's what happens when you get caught trying this method.

English is a language that is abused and changes over time that's why it has stayed around and why it will keep changing I don't see why people get so offended.


I wasn't offended, I was making a little joke (only partly at your expense). In the future, I think it'd probably be safe for you to assume that people responding to your posts are probably making fun of you.

Anyways, I accept that "literally" is sometimes used as a generic intensifier (usually by idiots) and certainly I understand what you were trying to say, but it's still funny to imagine a brain literally full of shit.

then you will litraly fill your brain with shit and evan worse not know the shit from the non shit


Yeah, I don't think I'd grade those problems the same way. If your brain is "litraly" filled with shit, that is almost certainly going to be your #1 problem.

Oooh, smart move by Tennis Australia in getting this taken down. Now I'll go buy the video off their website. Or, actually, maybe I'll go back to not thinking tennis at all.

Obviously, watching a little video isn't going to turn a bunch of people into tennis fans... but it couldn't hurt. I don't see how it helps them to take this down.

Lol. She says this stuff like she's found some hidden truth. The Republican base, for the most part, doesn't care much about helping poor people. This isn't a dark secret or a time when he misspoke or something, this is their platform. Who knows what Romney actually thinks, but of course he's not going to talk about helping poor people (beyond the very minimum he has to say to not come across as a puppy eater). He wants to win the nomination.

Calling him out on it is like calling Lenin out for being a Communist. You can say "Communism is wrong so don't vote for Lenin", but it's ridiculous to "catch Lenin saying Communist things" or something.

This is peep show, not mitchell and webb. Unless they wrote a bit for a mitchell and webb episode. But they don't write peep show iirc.


I was curious about this, as I'd always assumed Peep Show was written by Mitchell (it just smelled like his writing I guess). Wikipedia says:

The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others

There's a Turkish oil wrestler in the new Street Fighter game.

His super moves are awesome

@mxxcon is right in that there's no absolute reason this isn't possible. There's lots of exploits that start with malicious data, and exploit overflows or error conditions to trick the computer into executing data. This is obviously easier if you start with a digital file, but it wouldn't be impossible to create an analog object that when measured would create that equivalent file.

I mean obviously it would take a chain of crazy that's very, very long (and has nothing to do with fractals), but it's not absolutely impossible.

The target could perhaps be a set of values that are automatically calculated and that wouldn't be affected by things outside of the bad guy's control (random things like the orientation of bones for scanning). Perhaps (and bear with me on the crazy) there would be a set of measurements that are stored as a string, and the artifact could be crafted to have much larger values for those measurements (or more of that feature) than the buffer was prepared to receive. That's a very normal start for an exploit.

Having the surrounding data correspond to a valid popped address, and in turn having that point to runnable code would require either a lot of data, with very predictable quantization, stored consistently and together, or (more simply) omniscience.

Theoretical discussion aside, it was a vaguely clever idea very poorly executed. This is really, really bad for a police procedural. Honestly, though, it's still much better than what you get in sci-fi (eg. Warp 10 made us slugs, transporter fixed it, we're fine now so let's forget about Warp 10).