Re: another VX site?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

> > How will you know which (for example) register entries to delete unless 
> > you hav an exact identification? Or which other files?
>
> Don't ask me!

That was a rhetorical question, of course, meaning "You cannot ..."
 
> I didn't I agreed with this approach, just that it has gained something 
> of a following of late (perhaps as a result of too much laziness and 
> hubris among the developers??).
>
> > The nightmare scenario is, malware that resumbles something else, but when 
> > you remove it as if it were that thing, that leaves behind a SOMETHING, 
> > which notices the bungled removal, triggers and ...
> >
> > Which leaves you with "OK, I had a malware, but my computer was working 
> > fine until I ran your product, which TRASHED it!"
>
> I absolutely agree!

Yuck.

> > > Or here -- NZ has had such civil unions for about a year (??) now...
> >
> > I expect the yanks will copy us soon.
>
> Not in the current right-wing, ultra-conservative-swinging political 
> atmosphere.  Did you not notice that one of Bush's first suggestions as 
> prez was to draft a new ammendment to the constitution that would make 
> same-gender "marriage" unconstitutional?  With such a climate and such 
> a complete lack of intellectual grasp at the head of its government (I 
> mean, a constitutional ammendment to _limit_ personal freedoms in the 
> country that prides itself in its openness and whose raison d'etre is 
> the advancement of personal freedom?  From a president who supposedly 
> represents the "less government intervention in your personal affairs 
> is better goivernment" position?  Are we sure he is really off the 
> weed???), such a move as "liberalizing" US marriage/civil union laws in 
> such a way that might not be in full agreement with the extreme 
> Christian ultra-right will be a long way off indeed...

No, the USA is very proud of it's leadership in the field of freedom, and 
when they notice that other countries have moved ahead in this area, 
they'll try to regain their pole position.

I can't believe that the religious nutters can possibly bury the American 
committment to freedom.

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