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Plus One Day Completed - 16-17 April 2010
Apr. 18th, 2010 02:27 amGood morning, people. Hopefully, if you’re in the United States, you have passed your filing deadline for the Internal Revenue Service with flying colors and a refund check. (And yes, plenty of people complain about the complexity of the tax code while advocating against the creation of taxes that would probably simplify things greatly, because they suspect that the government would have its cake and eat it, too.) In November, if your library is up for a levy or millage vote, please do support them - libraries are one of the bedrock resources in a recession.
For those looking for reading material of a potentially age-restricted manner, the Girl With a One-Track Mind presents her advice to men on how to stand out when posting to a casual sex website, most of which involves common sense about dating in general.
More specifically, and perhaps in a funnier way, she also admits that she has the same problem with male crotches that men have with exposed cleavage - and asks men to kindly keep their legs closed so that she’s not distracted, or at least doesn’t stare at someone without their permission.
Bookmarks this for Setpember - the top 10 challenged/banned books of 2009. Penguins were bumped from the top spot in 2009, replaced by a series of books where teenagers talk about all the details of their lives over instant messages. Twilight made it to the top ten, and perennials such as The Color Purple, The Chocolate War, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, and To Kill A Mockingbird remain and return to the list. Additionally, the top 100 challenged/banned books of 2000-2009, with Mr. Potter topping the list. Apparently more people find the boarding-school adventures of a wizard more dangerous (probably because of their popularity) than some of the other books on the list that are far more graphic, explicit, and sexual that Mr. Potter ever was. This is probably more evidence that the Moral Guardians of America really are people who believe their religious viewpoint is the only valid ones and that all others must be suppressed, especially in kids’ stories. Did we mention the upset Catholics because it looks like Jesus has a gigantic penis?
And, because we’re in the balloon-deflation mode, now, Add to your list of people who didn't return all their library books the name George Washington, yes, the first President of the United States. And this was while he was in office.
Last before the regular news, remember to read the EULA, lest you give someone a claim on your soul.
Out in the world today, a volcanic eruption in Iceland continues to ground air travel over a significant portion of Europe, as the ash clouds emitted by the volcano are lethal to turbine engines and utterly undetectable on their radar screens (they contain no moisture, which the weather radar detects). Those on the ground are left to seek alternative transport, which you could afford if you were, say, John Cleese. If, however, you’re a more pedestrian sort, the grounding of flights means produce and perishables may be in shortage until the ash cloud clears enough to fly.
Extremists continue to target civilians - human bombers killed 41 at a refugee camp in Pakistan, around a food distribution point. Maximal terror, maximal death and destruction.
Domestically, President Obama pulls the entire country slightly further into the Century of the Fruitbat, directing the Health and Human Services Secretary to draft new rules permitting patients to designate who has visiting privileges (and possibly power of medical decisions) for them, opening the way for homosexuals to designate their partners as able to visit as well as the members of certain religious orders that may designate a friend or fellow religious member as having visiting power or decision power.
For as much as they rail against a mythical Communist-in-Chief, tea party activist groups have Edward Koch to thank for much of their funding. Koch has Stalin to thank for his. And for those concerned that they’re taxed enough already, well we could take a look at all the untapped wealth of the top 400 earners if you want to relieve some of that burden on yourself. And, it stands to be noted, the President is working toward reforming those situations, and despite the rhetoric, this year had some of the lowest tax rates across America. Mind you, that may not be a good thing, because tea partiers are also often against increased spending, but defecits are what happen when someone reduces revenue and then raises spending. We’re looking in your direction, recent Republican administrators...
Mind you, some of the people attempting to look respectable while trying to appeal to the tea party base are hoping that the case of a local tea party leader evading a protection order after tweeting offensive phrases about illegal immigrants won’t be generalized to mean all of tea-partydom. Working against them, however, is FBI director Robert Mueller reminding us what the Homeland Security Secretary said and then was forced to retract - home-grown extremists are just as dangerous as foreign ones. And former administrator William Clinton sees far too many disturbing paralells between the current tea party and the extremists opposed to him that resulted in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
For those wondering whether the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had real effects on the economies of the states, South Carolina certainly benefited from stimulus cash, even as their lawmakers claimed they didn't want it and tried to resist it. That also doesn’t stop opinions claiming that the economy is not recovering right now, because the foundations on which it is built, like stimulus bills, are sand.
And as for businesses that helped create the recession, information comes to light that some of them were putting together packages deliberately designed for failure so that people who wanted to bet against them could make quite a bit of money on the matter. The system was meant to be gamed, and those people who did it walked about with a lot of money.
Elsewhere, a Wisconsin judge has ruled that calling for or proclaiming a National Day of Prayer is a violation of the Constitution, because it is governemnt action for a specifically religious purpose and does not have any secular value or purpose. One can expect the appeals to continue to climb the ranks, and the judge noted that her ruling is not to be considered a ban until all the appeals have been exhausted.
Polling data indicates the polarization of Americans on health care legislation remains unchanged, even after the passage of the bill, and the article continues to make the assumption that the opposition holds the same motives for that opposition. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
Oh, speaking of, does it really matter what the statistics are on the charitable giving of Presidents and Vice Presidents? I mean, if one were wanting to make a point about charity being one of the virtues of self-confessed Christians, then maybe, sure, but we note in this case that the charitable giving of most people who claim to be Christians falls below the idea of the ten percent tithe. Perhaps they expect the rich to give more because they are rich? (Also looking for a biblical jab here, I suspect, but we note the widower who gave all she had was praised more than the rich men who gave from their spares). We could turn that argument around and say the rich should be more willing to pay the lion’s share of taxes (using “Render unto Caesar...” if we’re still in the Biblical frame) to help their fellows out with, instead of trying to entertain the pipe dream that voluntary charity would be able to create the social net needed if the governmental one were taken away. What they give charitably is between them and the Father in Heaven they follow. You know, the one who sees the things done in secret?
Last out, a jury indicted former Xe (nee Blackwater) president Erik Prince and four other officials on charges of masquerading as a sheriff's office to purchase weapons with so they could exceed the legal limit for those weapons, attempting to avoid export controls on weapons, and hide gifts of such weapons to Jordanian officials
In technology, Google unveils a replay tool that allows people to see what Twitter was saying about what and when.
Infecting viruses can now turn to blackmail, threatening to leave up a history of your web surfing habits, including your pr0n, unless you pay them. Of course, they don’t take the money, but your credit card info and use that for nefarious purposes instead.
And using gene-swapping techniques and the IVF process, mothers with incurable genetic conditions may be able to avoid passing them on to their children, as healthy material can be swapped in to overwrite the damaged stuff.
Into the opinions, where Cory Doctorow lays out why he's not getting an iPad, and he thinks you shouldn't, either - it’s closed-everything, from being unable to hardware mod it (or even change batteries) to being unable to run cross-platform stuff or anything not in the approved store (without voiding your warranty and committing a copyright infringement by circumventing technological protections), to the stuff that is available completely sucking when it comes to sharing or moving stuff between devices.
Additionally, Mr. Frederick Douglass explains succinctly the difference between Christianity and the popular religion of most Americans, using the clearest example he had available to him at the time. Those of us in more modern times should easily be able to see the examples of our own era.
The WSJ cries foul at the requirement that there be labor agreements in place on all federal contracts, because "everyone knows" that having a labor agreement means only union contractors can get federal contracts. Bzzzzzzt. While it might be easier to hire union shops because they already have their agreements in place, there’s nothing there that prohibits the non-union shop from getting contracts - they just have to have an agreement on how things will go on the project. Stuff like that might, y’know, help with safety and sanity. Just a thought.
Elsewhere in economics, The Washington Times tries to get you opposed to government assistance programs and mandates by showing the cost and scaring you with zomgSOCIALISM!, but only makes the case that America needs to be more efficient with their spending if they want to go that way. One suspects that if we did go fully that way, we might find those efficiencies in so many ways, including not allowing The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) to set ridiculous prices for certain items that have long since passed from experimental/cutting edge to standard stuff and could easily be genericized, were it not for junk patents. Mr. Elder says the Armageddon promised from health care has arrived, but it is not fire and brimstone, but the creep of zomgSOCIALISM that results in "lower productivity, diminished initiative, fewer jobs, rewarding reckless behavior and poor choices, a lower-than-otherwise standard of living, less economic freedom, greater government dependency, and fewer resources to spend on national security and to secure our borders.". Mr. Elder, if that bill actually came anywhere close to any of that, we could have a serious discussion. Or if the government were making actual attempts to go socialist, we could talk about the merits. But instead, because you believe in the idea of I Got Mine, Frak You, anything that looks like it might infringe on that must be dangerous.
And speaking of taxes, Mr. Rove says that the populace believes itself over-taxed, despite the evidence that the Obama Administration has been largely about tax cutting, following the Sacred Republican Doctrine. Hrm, I wonder why that might be, Mr. Rove - perhaps because you and others are out trying to scare people with the spectre of new taxes to get them to oppose things you don’t like? And ginning up tax protestors when, as it turns out, . If it were the case that nearly 50 percent of persons filing income tax returns received refunds from the government, then that should be cause for celebration, right? You would think that, but no, the complaint is that the 50 percent are freeloaders, pandered to and given bankrupting entitlements by the Democrats, who count on them for votes, which they happily do to get more “free” stuff. The explosion of recent tax cuts and is to blame, of course, and the explosion of entitlement spending by those freeloaders will soon become a dangerous tipping point where they vote themselves more and more free stuff while expecting a smaller and smaller percentage of the populace to pay for it all. So, what does the Heritage Foundation recommend? Expire the tax cuts of this administration, and extend the tax cuts of the previous one, so as to slow that tipping point down. So make the poor pay more as a percentage and the rich pay less as a percentage? Isn’t there something perverse about that?
On the matter of possible Supereme Court nominations, Gawker takes offense that the White House took offense at the rumor that someone on the short list might be a homosexual, at least managing to pay lip service to the thought that such a suggestion would let social conservatives have a field day with the nominee on subjects totally unrelated to judicial views and or qualifications. Plus, as we have found out throughout time, outing someone without their consent has negative repercussions all around. So the angry denial seems politically justified. Either way, it should be left to the person to decide if/when they’re coming out of the closet, if indeed they are in the closet at all. There’s a farther-reaching aspect to the pre-emptive threats and warnings coming from conservatives that anyone that isn’t completely in line with their politics is too liberal for the court - anyone looking for people who actually are liberals to get on the shortlist will be sorely disappointed, as a nonconfrontational administration chooses to throw them under the bus in the interest of getting someone that will sail through the process. Of course, since the justice hasn’t retired yet, we don’t actually know who the nominee will be. The President might surprise everyone by flying the bird to those warnings and nominating someone he’s ready to have another knock-down drag-out over. As the article points out, thoguh, it shouldn’t be the case that the most conservative of conservatives is an obviously qualified candidate, when even the slightest hint of liberalism renders someone outside the acceptable mainstream. To see how we got there, though, Mr. Goldberg provides an illuminating opninion on what he believes liberals think - that deciding on the law should always be done with an eye out for how the decision will affect people, and that the only acceptable way to interpret law is to do so strictly by what is wrtten there and with no other guide. Thus, there is no room for empathy or for actually considering whether the law is harmful, only on whether or not it is legal.
The setup for the next round of “Obama Hates America” rhetoric will likely stem from the following: the President remarked that whether they want to be or not, America is a military superpower, and thus gets pulled in many directions and conflicts, all of which are costly. And thus, here we go on the indignation, starting with "zOMG! Obama bows to Hu Jintao, an obviously submissive gesture to a foreign tyrant!" Or, perhaps, the culturally acceptable form of greeting in China? Couldn’t be that. It must be that Obama Hates America and wants to see its exceptional status wiped out, so we can be subjected to the rules of the rest of the world, and stop fighting for freedom while communists and Muslims take over, develop nuclear weapons, and use them against us! It’s the end of the world!
...or not. But that won’t stop the comment squad from claiming Obama wants to sacrifice our allies, especially Israel, to try and make friends with our enemies, who laugh at his attempts, or claiming the remark means the President doesn't want us to be a military superpower that can push other people around, which means doom for America (or, if I may geek out for a bit, a Seldon Crisis), while he also pursues policies that make us weak and more likely to go to war, apparently. All this from one nuclear posture review and a summit. We are also apparently abandoning our role as spreader of freedom and democracy in the world with this.
And last out for tonight, Mr. Hanson has a smug "I told you so" for people who were against the war at its inception and through the surge, because of the stable democracy that’s appeared there.
And last for tonight, a person has managed to utilize the Dwarf Fortress roguelike city-construction and management game to produce a computer, one the author claims is Turing-complete.
For those looking for reading material of a potentially age-restricted manner, the Girl With a One-Track Mind presents her advice to men on how to stand out when posting to a casual sex website, most of which involves common sense about dating in general.
More specifically, and perhaps in a funnier way, she also admits that she has the same problem with male crotches that men have with exposed cleavage - and asks men to kindly keep their legs closed so that she’s not distracted, or at least doesn’t stare at someone without their permission.
Bookmarks this for Setpember - the top 10 challenged/banned books of 2009. Penguins were bumped from the top spot in 2009, replaced by a series of books where teenagers talk about all the details of their lives over instant messages. Twilight made it to the top ten, and perennials such as The Color Purple, The Chocolate War, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, and To Kill A Mockingbird remain and return to the list. Additionally, the top 100 challenged/banned books of 2000-2009, with Mr. Potter topping the list. Apparently more people find the boarding-school adventures of a wizard more dangerous (probably because of their popularity) than some of the other books on the list that are far more graphic, explicit, and sexual that Mr. Potter ever was. This is probably more evidence that the Moral Guardians of America really are people who believe their religious viewpoint is the only valid ones and that all others must be suppressed, especially in kids’ stories. Did we mention the upset Catholics because it looks like Jesus has a gigantic penis?
And, because we’re in the balloon-deflation mode, now, Add to your list of people who didn't return all their library books the name George Washington, yes, the first President of the United States. And this was while he was in office.
Last before the regular news, remember to read the EULA, lest you give someone a claim on your soul.
Out in the world today, a volcanic eruption in Iceland continues to ground air travel over a significant portion of Europe, as the ash clouds emitted by the volcano are lethal to turbine engines and utterly undetectable on their radar screens (they contain no moisture, which the weather radar detects). Those on the ground are left to seek alternative transport, which you could afford if you were, say, John Cleese. If, however, you’re a more pedestrian sort, the grounding of flights means produce and perishables may be in shortage until the ash cloud clears enough to fly.
Extremists continue to target civilians - human bombers killed 41 at a refugee camp in Pakistan, around a food distribution point. Maximal terror, maximal death and destruction.
Domestically, President Obama pulls the entire country slightly further into the Century of the Fruitbat, directing the Health and Human Services Secretary to draft new rules permitting patients to designate who has visiting privileges (and possibly power of medical decisions) for them, opening the way for homosexuals to designate their partners as able to visit as well as the members of certain religious orders that may designate a friend or fellow religious member as having visiting power or decision power.
For as much as they rail against a mythical Communist-in-Chief, tea party activist groups have Edward Koch to thank for much of their funding. Koch has Stalin to thank for his. And for those concerned that they’re taxed enough already, well we could take a look at all the untapped wealth of the top 400 earners if you want to relieve some of that burden on yourself. And, it stands to be noted, the President is working toward reforming those situations, and despite the rhetoric, this year had some of the lowest tax rates across America. Mind you, that may not be a good thing, because tea partiers are also often against increased spending, but defecits are what happen when someone reduces revenue and then raises spending. We’re looking in your direction, recent Republican administrators...
Mind you, some of the people attempting to look respectable while trying to appeal to the tea party base are hoping that the case of a local tea party leader evading a protection order after tweeting offensive phrases about illegal immigrants won’t be generalized to mean all of tea-partydom. Working against them, however, is FBI director Robert Mueller reminding us what the Homeland Security Secretary said and then was forced to retract - home-grown extremists are just as dangerous as foreign ones. And former administrator William Clinton sees far too many disturbing paralells between the current tea party and the extremists opposed to him that resulted in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
For those wondering whether the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had real effects on the economies of the states, South Carolina certainly benefited from stimulus cash, even as their lawmakers claimed they didn't want it and tried to resist it. That also doesn’t stop opinions claiming that the economy is not recovering right now, because the foundations on which it is built, like stimulus bills, are sand.
And as for businesses that helped create the recession, information comes to light that some of them were putting together packages deliberately designed for failure so that people who wanted to bet against them could make quite a bit of money on the matter. The system was meant to be gamed, and those people who did it walked about with a lot of money.
Elsewhere, a Wisconsin judge has ruled that calling for or proclaiming a National Day of Prayer is a violation of the Constitution, because it is governemnt action for a specifically religious purpose and does not have any secular value or purpose. One can expect the appeals to continue to climb the ranks, and the judge noted that her ruling is not to be considered a ban until all the appeals have been exhausted.
Polling data indicates the polarization of Americans on health care legislation remains unchanged, even after the passage of the bill, and the article continues to make the assumption that the opposition holds the same motives for that opposition. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
Oh, speaking of, does it really matter what the statistics are on the charitable giving of Presidents and Vice Presidents? I mean, if one were wanting to make a point about charity being one of the virtues of self-confessed Christians, then maybe, sure, but we note in this case that the charitable giving of most people who claim to be Christians falls below the idea of the ten percent tithe. Perhaps they expect the rich to give more because they are rich? (Also looking for a biblical jab here, I suspect, but we note the widower who gave all she had was praised more than the rich men who gave from their spares). We could turn that argument around and say the rich should be more willing to pay the lion’s share of taxes (using “Render unto Caesar...” if we’re still in the Biblical frame) to help their fellows out with, instead of trying to entertain the pipe dream that voluntary charity would be able to create the social net needed if the governmental one were taken away. What they give charitably is between them and the Father in Heaven they follow. You know, the one who sees the things done in secret?
Last out, a jury indicted former Xe (nee Blackwater) president Erik Prince and four other officials on charges of masquerading as a sheriff's office to purchase weapons with so they could exceed the legal limit for those weapons, attempting to avoid export controls on weapons, and hide gifts of such weapons to Jordanian officials
In technology, Google unveils a replay tool that allows people to see what Twitter was saying about what and when.
Infecting viruses can now turn to blackmail, threatening to leave up a history of your web surfing habits, including your pr0n, unless you pay them. Of course, they don’t take the money, but your credit card info and use that for nefarious purposes instead.
And using gene-swapping techniques and the IVF process, mothers with incurable genetic conditions may be able to avoid passing them on to their children, as healthy material can be swapped in to overwrite the damaged stuff.
Into the opinions, where Cory Doctorow lays out why he's not getting an iPad, and he thinks you shouldn't, either - it’s closed-everything, from being unable to hardware mod it (or even change batteries) to being unable to run cross-platform stuff or anything not in the approved store (without voiding your warranty and committing a copyright infringement by circumventing technological protections), to the stuff that is available completely sucking when it comes to sharing or moving stuff between devices.
Additionally, Mr. Frederick Douglass explains succinctly the difference between Christianity and the popular religion of most Americans, using the clearest example he had available to him at the time. Those of us in more modern times should easily be able to see the examples of our own era.
The WSJ cries foul at the requirement that there be labor agreements in place on all federal contracts, because "everyone knows" that having a labor agreement means only union contractors can get federal contracts. Bzzzzzzt. While it might be easier to hire union shops because they already have their agreements in place, there’s nothing there that prohibits the non-union shop from getting contracts - they just have to have an agreement on how things will go on the project. Stuff like that might, y’know, help with safety and sanity. Just a thought.
Elsewhere in economics, The Washington Times tries to get you opposed to government assistance programs and mandates by showing the cost and scaring you with zomgSOCIALISM!, but only makes the case that America needs to be more efficient with their spending if they want to go that way. One suspects that if we did go fully that way, we might find those efficiencies in so many ways, including not allowing The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) to set ridiculous prices for certain items that have long since passed from experimental/cutting edge to standard stuff and could easily be genericized, were it not for junk patents. Mr. Elder says the Armageddon promised from health care has arrived, but it is not fire and brimstone, but the creep of zomgSOCIALISM that results in "lower productivity, diminished initiative, fewer jobs, rewarding reckless behavior and poor choices, a lower-than-otherwise standard of living, less economic freedom, greater government dependency, and fewer resources to spend on national security and to secure our borders.". Mr. Elder, if that bill actually came anywhere close to any of that, we could have a serious discussion. Or if the government were making actual attempts to go socialist, we could talk about the merits. But instead, because you believe in the idea of I Got Mine, Frak You, anything that looks like it might infringe on that must be dangerous.
And speaking of taxes, Mr. Rove says that the populace believes itself over-taxed, despite the evidence that the Obama Administration has been largely about tax cutting, following the Sacred Republican Doctrine. Hrm, I wonder why that might be, Mr. Rove - perhaps because you and others are out trying to scare people with the spectre of new taxes to get them to oppose things you don’t like? And ginning up tax protestors when, as it turns out, . If it were the case that nearly 50 percent of persons filing income tax returns received refunds from the government, then that should be cause for celebration, right? You would think that, but no, the complaint is that the 50 percent are freeloaders, pandered to and given bankrupting entitlements by the Democrats, who count on them for votes, which they happily do to get more “free” stuff. The explosion of recent tax cuts and is to blame, of course, and the explosion of entitlement spending by those freeloaders will soon become a dangerous tipping point where they vote themselves more and more free stuff while expecting a smaller and smaller percentage of the populace to pay for it all. So, what does the Heritage Foundation recommend? Expire the tax cuts of this administration, and extend the tax cuts of the previous one, so as to slow that tipping point down. So make the poor pay more as a percentage and the rich pay less as a percentage? Isn’t there something perverse about that?
On the matter of possible Supereme Court nominations, Gawker takes offense that the White House took offense at the rumor that someone on the short list might be a homosexual, at least managing to pay lip service to the thought that such a suggestion would let social conservatives have a field day with the nominee on subjects totally unrelated to judicial views and or qualifications. Plus, as we have found out throughout time, outing someone without their consent has negative repercussions all around. So the angry denial seems politically justified. Either way, it should be left to the person to decide if/when they’re coming out of the closet, if indeed they are in the closet at all. There’s a farther-reaching aspect to the pre-emptive threats and warnings coming from conservatives that anyone that isn’t completely in line with their politics is too liberal for the court - anyone looking for people who actually are liberals to get on the shortlist will be sorely disappointed, as a nonconfrontational administration chooses to throw them under the bus in the interest of getting someone that will sail through the process. Of course, since the justice hasn’t retired yet, we don’t actually know who the nominee will be. The President might surprise everyone by flying the bird to those warnings and nominating someone he’s ready to have another knock-down drag-out over. As the article points out, thoguh, it shouldn’t be the case that the most conservative of conservatives is an obviously qualified candidate, when even the slightest hint of liberalism renders someone outside the acceptable mainstream. To see how we got there, though, Mr. Goldberg provides an illuminating opninion on what he believes liberals think - that deciding on the law should always be done with an eye out for how the decision will affect people, and that the only acceptable way to interpret law is to do so strictly by what is wrtten there and with no other guide. Thus, there is no room for empathy or for actually considering whether the law is harmful, only on whether or not it is legal.
The setup for the next round of “Obama Hates America” rhetoric will likely stem from the following: the President remarked that whether they want to be or not, America is a military superpower, and thus gets pulled in many directions and conflicts, all of which are costly. And thus, here we go on the indignation, starting with "zOMG! Obama bows to Hu Jintao, an obviously submissive gesture to a foreign tyrant!" Or, perhaps, the culturally acceptable form of greeting in China? Couldn’t be that. It must be that Obama Hates America and wants to see its exceptional status wiped out, so we can be subjected to the rules of the rest of the world, and stop fighting for freedom while communists and Muslims take over, develop nuclear weapons, and use them against us! It’s the end of the world!
...or not. But that won’t stop the comment squad from claiming Obama wants to sacrifice our allies, especially Israel, to try and make friends with our enemies, who laugh at his attempts, or claiming the remark means the President doesn't want us to be a military superpower that can push other people around, which means doom for America (or, if I may geek out for a bit, a Seldon Crisis), while he also pursues policies that make us weak and more likely to go to war, apparently. All this from one nuclear posture review and a summit. We are also apparently abandoning our role as spreader of freedom and democracy in the world with this.
And last out for tonight, Mr. Hanson has a smug "I told you so" for people who were against the war at its inception and through the surge, because of the stable democracy that’s appeared there.
And last for tonight, a person has managed to utilize the Dwarf Fortress roguelike city-construction and management game to produce a computer, one the author claims is Turing-complete.
