Bored, due to the uninterestingness of tasks at hand, I intend to steer very far away from the objective in front, to another object of obsession. Geeks are obsessively compulsive dudes. OCD in short. Today’s subject: writing an exception handling for money politics.

Money politics does not only exist in politics, but also in corporations, federations, associations & communities. We all know the problems behind & before money politics. Instead of tackling that problem head on like everyone else, I prefer look at the problem & figure out what makes a situation rectified to be involving money politics.

Then, I stumbled upon this post about how Tweetmeme is having mad beef with ReTweet.com. It’s about somebody stealing another person’s 20 lines of code. Realising that this is also a good example of a possible trademark/copyright wars, inevitably involves money & politics in the long run, should Tweetmeme decides to pursue.

Based on this, I wrote a simple formula to start assessing the situation:

(steal) ? copy = true : copy = false;

With the power of crowdsource, harnessing feedbacks from @cheeaun & @ngeow, I came out with this in the end:

You can download a copy of the code right here.

Rinse & repeat. The common stigma.