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Sure. It can even be true in debugging if the bug is location sensitive.

I have been noticing, unhappily, that politicians are no longer doing politics. All they seem capable of doing is round-the-clock campaigning. We don't breed statemen anymore. Herders are always unpopular by the herded because their actions are limited. This is called society. When its based on law, the population has generally agreed to herd themselves, collectively. When the herding is handed to a few people, the social structure rapidly deterioates into a dictatorship or an oligarchy.

The Louisiana mess is a beautiful demonstration of politicians who do not know how to do the work. All they know is how to campaign. In our olden political times, political machines did the training. Nothing has taken the place of that infrastructure.

This is still happening. People simply have too much money and are told every day by their politicians that tax money will solve all problems and the taxpayer won't have to do any labor at all. the

I see these conflicts as a continuation of the very first Muslim war. The Islamic factions have not settled the first difference yet. All of these factions are pointing at Western civilzation for recruitment and smoke and mirror purposes to herd their socieites towards their goals. M3

You cannot if you have a need to talk further away than the back fence.

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Establishing fire walls between functions helps. Democrats in this state keep trying to remove the three sectors of government that were established to check and balance each other.

Keep watching. When loans are handed out based on the value of expensed items as the collateral, duck.

This state has spent certain future revenue three times by borrowing against it. Another spending habit that they are acquiring is to spend $20 for $1 recovery through suing (numbers have been pulled out of my butt and a niggle says the ratio is more like 100:1). The Big Dig is going to "cost" $28 billion before the politicians are through with it.

BAH