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Why should a president be impeached?
For fucking sneezing on the salad bar.
That is to say, we should impeach the president of the United States of America for the smallest infraction of the law whatsoever. The president works for the citizens of the US as our highest law enforcement officer. He’s either within the law completely or he’s unfit for the work. If he’s not one of the greatest Americans living, he should not have the greatest job America has to offer. We’re not his lackeys. He answers to us.
It is that simple but I know some of you want more.
Many, maybe most, of the presidents we’ve had have damaged the United States. Whether starting wars, funding foreign terror groups and dictatorships, funneling money into personal interests, approving assassinations, putting Americans in prison camps, or pardoning horrific criminals—like William Calley—who don’t deserve it.
You think the current guy is bad, you’re right. But what happens whenever we have a guy this bad in the captain’s seat—and God! he stinks to Hell—is that we forget the last guy—Clinton in this case—was also an ass-‌reaming, child killing, tub of goo who spent more time trying to erode American freedom than he did getting his knob polished by secretaries, interns, and beauty queens.
So, they continue to get worse. The precedents build and soon there is no pressure for the president to do anything but exactly what the fuck he feels like doing.
And guess what? Because, in part, y’all were unwilling to legally oust Reagan and Clinton, that’s exactly where we’ve landed. [I will admit the words “President Cheney” and “President Gore” fill my heart with horror but the point stands and their heads could have rolled just as metaphorically.]
Barney Bush, the brains behind the PresidentGeorge W Bush, the pinnacle of human evolution and civilized progress said of Iraq–
I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me. George W Bush as reported in “State of Denial”
The President just remarked that he wouldn’t end an illegal, catastrophic, phony war. Not even if the entire Congress, Judiciary, and country stood up and told him he had to.
Without the threat of impeachment being a bit more than a joke, the only ones to whom American presidents are beholden now are their wives and dogs. Could be worse, I guess. Could be Tipper, Shiloh, and Daisy.
See also All purely hypothetically, of course.
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04 October 2006 · America the beautiful · government
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javascript array rand [2]
Already did a straight function to get a random element from an array. It’s even easier as a prototype to extend the base Array object. Then you can just call the “random” method on any array. 
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
Array.prototype.random = function () {
  return this[ Math.floor( Math.random() * this.length ) ];
}

var stuff = new Array('ant', 'grasshopper', 'scorpion', 'frog');

for ( i = 0 ; i < 10; i++ ) {
  document.write( stuff.random() + ' ');
}
//]]>
</script>
You can also shuffle/randomize your whole array up front with the Fisher-‌Yates algorithm and here are other ways to extend the native Array class.
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what's the name of the machine that can play chess better than any human
Kasparov v Deep BlueThat is Deep Blue.
I think it’s worth noting that Deep Blue took 30 years (of combined developer time) to build, ran on the most advanced computer gear available at the time (though many desktop computers can outperform it today and in 5 more years all new computers will), and the software was tweaked between games which, to me at least, is cheating. Also Kasparov may well not be the greatest chess player living, let alone of all time.
More to the point, computers only do excactly what they are programmed to do. So Kasparov wasn’t beaten by a computer but by a computer program that took years of mental gymnastics from three world class programmers.
It’s essentially the same as bringing all 23 volumes of the OED to a spelling contest. The only interesting part is that the dictionary was written; not that the combined, archived research of thousands can beat one human’s ability. Deep Blue is still just an artifact of the humans that made it.
See also Deep Fritz.
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javascript array rand
This function (with demo code) will get you a random element from an array (or any object as it’s written). 
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
function randomElement ( myArray ) {
  if ( ! myArray ) return false;
  return myArray[ Math.floor( Math.random() * myArray.length ) ];
}

var stuff = new Array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five');

for ( i = 0 ; i < 10; i++ ) {
  document.write( randomElement( stuff ) + ' ');
}
//]]>
</script>
See also javascript array rand [2].
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