It is a terrible argument, is a government only legitimate when a certain subset (nation, region, county, constituency, street, or household) elects it? No, that's daft, anyone arguing for that … (View Post)

It's a tad worrying that it takes a crisis like this to learn such a lesson. I would have thought that it has long been obvious that we cannot trust the Russian government. (View Post)

That's true, but I think Thompson beat him on politics. That said Parliament of Whores is well worth a read for anyone here. (View Post)

Anyone who likes Putin, or even just thinks "he has a point" isn't fit for any office in any democratic country. Putin is a murderous, lying, thieving head of a mafia-state. (View Post)

It's always amusing how people in the field have wildly different views from people outside of it. For example, essentially nobody who works in computing, and particularly those that deal with c… (View Post)