I even started in South Africa and did nothing but buy infection methods on a symptomless bacteria, but Madagascar still closed the shipyard before I could get there.
@5-Dave:
No, I tried that. Bought down all symptoms and bought all infection methods, and nothing.
While I agree with the programmers in the audience (former programmer here) about the other epic fails, anti-virus software is well-known for interfering with a large class of applications (usually anything interacting with a network, since a lot of anti-virus software installs buggy network code).
The Cygwin project (a unix emulation layer on windows) has habitually run into problems when anti-virus software is installed.
See their Big List of Dodgy Apps and note how many are anti-virus.
Crecy - Another Warren Ellis book, this one a one-shot retelling of the battle of Crecy from an English archer's perspective. Great book.
Alberto @ 12:
I'll take random gabbling at this point over proper articulation. :-)
Re: satisfying to have the experience to know someone: would it work as well if the person was completely fictional? That is, the reader knows (in general, I believe, it is somewhat drummed in from the back cover forward) that the gulag existed, that Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner there, etc.
Is it possible to bring the reader into a completely fictional world so thoroughly?
If yes, who has done it?
If no, why not?
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, though; one day, we'll understand it...
I've been waiting for an open thread.
Question: What makes "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (which I enjoy immensely) a good book?
There is essentially no plot (Shukov ends the day where he started, no happier, no sadder, no wiser) and the entirety is worldbuilding, yet it is strangely compelling.
Is it simply the ultimate in "show me" (the repression of the Stalinist society) rather than "tell me" (Stalin was bad and his society sucked)?
Help me out, here. I reread it last weekend and, while I still enjoy it immensely, I don't understand why...
Nancy:
"Graydon, why do you think access to the ballot box is getting more foreclosed?"
See also:
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=63639
"[Georgia's new voter id bill] eliminates 12 of the 17 forms of ID currently allowed, including Social Security cards, birth certificates and utility bills. Critics call it the most restrictive in the nation and fear it will unfairly impact the elderly, the poor and minorities."
And Lexica, that was my thought process.
The Constitution has, over the years, permitted some pretty abhorrent things:
* Slavery
* Racial Segregation
* Racial and gender discrimination
[pick one from the next two lists]
* Mass murder of innocent lives
* Sodomy
[or]
* Control of individuals reproductive freedom
* Invasion of personal bedroom privacy
And so forth.
To Patrick's point - no, this isn't fucking right.
Patrick, the question asked by Dru was specifically Constitutionality, not righteousness, in "doesn't the Constitution apply to all people, not just U.S. citizens on American soil?"
Dru, re: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Since the Declaration is not legally binding technically, there are no signatories to the Declaration"
http://www.unac.org/rights/question.html
Andrew, not all of the Constitutional rights apply to noncitizens, even those in the US legally and indeed even those who are about to become citizens.
Among other things, "The government may bar noncitizens from entering the United States because of what they've said or are likely to say, even if the speech would have been constitutionally protected if said by a citizen."
http://volokh.com/posts/1123520953.shtml
"doesn't the Constitution apply to all people"
No.
Whether it should or not can be debated, but as interpreted it does not.
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