KaskadskyjKozak

A friend of mine from Ukraine (from my church actually) left Virginia Mason a few years ago to take a professorship in biochemistry down in Alabama a few years ago. He had severe culture shock, but is still there. He said he thought he was conservative when he lived in Seattle, but decided he was actually liberal after moving to Alabama.

more arrogance

we are so inward-focused: constant attention on various "isms" of our culture, which pale in comparison to what goes on outside our borders. but of course, our culture is no better than any other - just "different".

When in Uzbekistan (bordering Kazakhstan on the SW), a native Uzbek told me he was brought-up to believe Jews were sub-human and hatched from eggs. He said it is very common that when parents want to scare their children, they tell them, if they are bad, they will be eaten by Jews. He said there is a common cultural folk song telling of a hideous Jew monster that stalks children to eat them. BTW, did you try and Kumys while you where there?

When in Uzbekistan (bordering Kazakhstan on the SW), a native Uzbek told me he was brought-up to believe Jews were sub-human and hatched from eggs. He said it is very common that when parents want to scare their children, they tell them, if they are bad, they will be eaten by Jews. He said there is a common cultural folk song telling of a hideous Jew monster that stalks children to eat them. I think the film would have been better served by using a fictional *-istan country rather than a real one. I had intended to go see this movie, but after reading that review, I think I'll pass. Although, I do find a lot of the self-righteous talk in there a little annoying. It seems a bit knee-jerk especially concerning anything that touches on Jews and antisemitism. The point of showing that in the film is certainly NOT to make people laugh at Jews and get and idea that they should be persecuted, but rather to laugh AT antisemites, and show how ridiculous their hatred is.

There are plenty of ways to corrupt the data. And with something as important and high-profile as the elections in the US, the "best minds" would be on the job looking for ways to do just that. As I said above, I would most fear ways to insert manufactured votes that look legit.

It makes me nervous.

Pombo? Moderate? Delay's district? Moderate? Santorum - Moderate? Allen - Moderate? The moderate's that lost, lost because they were in more moderate areas of the country. There were voting shifts even in conservative areas. Overall, yes. And the democrats who won are not hard-left by any stretch of the imagination. I'm glad to have made you laugh. It's Friday. I will be enjoying some adult beverages soon, and laugh at the f***ing rain outside.

At least paper can be physically examined. It's not just bits on a magnetic storage disk.

We've had Leave No Trace lectures in every Mountaineers course with which I am familiar. The policy on Blue Bagging is usually to comply with whatever rules are in effect in the area. For example, the MRNP has a Blue bag policy is in effect on the Kautz route. I climbed the route with some visitors from Canada who did not comply and in fact I was ridiculed for following the rules. They ridiculed you for not polluting a wilderness area with their Canadian crap? F-ing unbelievable.

The moderate republicans for the most part are the ones who lost the house races.

There's a lot of shitty software out there. I'm amazed anything works sometimes. I don't trust the people writing this software, nor do I trust the people installing and running it. There are hacks and backdoors to just about any system. In this case we are talking about tens of thousands of client applications connecting to servers from diffuse locations.

Electronic systems could be manipulated in very insidious ways. We can not trust them. Here is an example. There are 100,000 registered voters. 60,000 actually vote. A hacker electronically fabricates votes for say 5,000 of the remaining 40,000 - enough to turn an election. Where would the paper trail be? Logs of requests to a server? The requests could be made to look legit.

It doesn't need to be posted - it's common sense, and part of Leave No Trace guidelines.

Republican In Name Only

I'm a software engineer, and I'm telling you all: don't trust this software. It can be hacked, misused, and abused, and who knows how well it was tested in the first place (there are always bugs that software developers miss anyways - with testing or not).

Hmmm. I'm a liberal progressive, and I value self-reliance and independence. I'm also conservative, in that I believe in conserving resources such as clean air and water --recycling, energy conservation, and all that. I tend to think of political conservatives as very materialistic and resistant to policies that discourage consumption of developable land --and therefore not conservative in an economic sense. There are a lot of RINOs out there (or should I say CINOs in this thread)

with the new congress, at least the parks might get the funding they need to make repairs/maintenance now

Actually I think there's something to that. Being over-simple here, conservatives believe in self-reliance and independence; liberals believe in social, community support (it takes a village). Both traits are useful in an evolutionary sense. Nature has hedged its bets.

How about doing away with the senate too - same principal.

That's the Democratic modus operandi: when you lose, bring in the lawyers.

It's ironic how when the R's win, the left screams that there is widespread voting fraud, disenfranchisement, not to mention a stupid electorate. But when the D's win, nothing of the kind. And note the class shown by R's in close races: they concede rather than drag in lawyers and recounts. Something the D's should take and example from (fat chance).

More levity

I think proportional representation rather than runoffs would be better, but otherwise I agree.

More evidence that lefties are Marxists in (a thinly-veiled) disguise. There should only be only party on the ballot, and one party member in office at every level of government, ne pravda li tovarish?