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Many people are calling for the army to go in, but the problem isn't that the police are ineffectual and outnumbered, it's that they're not allowed to engage.

If you mean scary looking rifles with certain evil cosmetic features, like the ineffectual, now-expired 1994-2004 ban dealt with, say that instead.

This is the sort of stuff that made me decide to stop donating money to the FSF. Instead of using my money to help fund the development of new and improved GNU options that will help convince people to switch, they're wasting a whole lot of time on ineffectual campaigns like this.

So splitting the hash is mostly totally ineffectual, as is having two separate hashes of the same string - the attacker usually doesn't need to examine both.

Balkanisation may be the result, or ineffectual laws and regulations, maybe even something useful.

Back then, I at least got the sense that they were devoted to aiding whistleblowers, not some silly and ineffectual crusade against the US government, no matter how right that cause may be.

[2] Apartheid opponents in America and South Africa applauded the vote, while critics argued that it would be either ineffectual or lead to more violence.

But it takes 5 months to sell a house, because nobody is selling liquidity; instead, you have to work through an ineffectual sell-side agent who takes tens of thousands of dollars out of your hide for the privilege.

As the article says,Many call it de facto legalization, because medical marijuana ID cards are laughably easy to get. While California’s experience shows the downsides of ineffectual laws and lax enforcement, it has not turned the state into a story of rampant addiction, crime or community upheaval.

The update date on that and this document recommending an insane and utterly ineffectual rebrand caused me to revise my opinion of its accuracy from "Oh please, nobody, not even Gox, is that stupid" to "I think today will be a very interesting news day."

No one learned anything in that class: You either already had some experience with programming and were thus far beyond the scope of the curriculum, or didn't know anything and were introduced to difficult new ideas by a horribly designed curriculum and ineffectual teacher.