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Why don't you actually present a single piece of evidence, rather than just irrelevant innuendo?

Actually we do have a overall decrease in the number of states over the past few centuries. The USSR is a special case because it was actually based on ideology and not just streng…

Isn't it obvious that anyone can accuse anyone of anything? Usually it's more meaningful when they have evidence. [edit: since this is receiving downvotes - clearly we have evidenc…

Something people should remember when talking as though bringing down the US government is a great option.

The price of an apartment is determined by supply and demand for housing units, not by dividing the price of a house occupying similar land area by the number of units. Taxes are t…

Software in general is 'picking up steam and maturing a across the board'. We now have almost 2 billion consumers carrying a unix box in their pockets, not running open source. If …

Nobody is saying this is a random criminal prosecution. He's being pursued for fraudulently obtaining a security clearance and stealing classified state secrets.

It's an informative answer. Ellsberg remained on US soil and handed himself in to a US court. The court acquitted him. Now consider how he would have been viewed by the US if he'd …

Open source is not a magic security bullet. It does allow many eyes to inspect source code - which is certainly important in developing cryptographic software. However it currently…

Useful software takes a lot of time and effort to write, and there is a lot of investment in learning required to get to the point where one can do it. Unless a person is independe…

That comment isn't well worded, but I've made similar ones. It's a counterpoint to people saying that Snowden is being 'persecuted' and that the USA is now a place that freedom lov…

Quite possibly not. If the revelation of such secrets allowed china or russia to rise to power we would be worse off. Remember China is a country in which a policeman can send you …

Snowden is not being persecuted for his views or criticism of the government. He is being chased because of his intentional theft of classified government documents. Can you name a…

Snowden is not a persecuted person. He's someone who deliberately lied in order to gain access a government spy agency and then stole state secrets which he is selling to the press…

Google has nothing to do with this project - it's just on a PR push to associate it's name with futuristic projects. [edit: like a cigarette company sponsoring sports events]

No - an apartment usually costs more per sq metre than a house.

How does locking your bike prevent people from pointing a gun in your face?

I guess that assumes your country doesn't develop rapidly and experience the accompanying inflation of the cost of living.

How is this different from delivering textual advertising to children doing homework?

Taxes are usually linked to property value, not land area.

What does 'already having housing' mean? It's state provided? Even in a country without property taxes a property you own outright will require maintenance. 500k still seems low bu…

Therefore it never will.

Please do elaborate though - that figure seems about 10-20x too low.

What has justification got to do with anything? People aren't arguing with you because they like the fact that the government uses force. The argument is that if you eliminated the…

Taking your two answers together, it seems that hiring a security company to provide armed guards to protect me would be perfectly acceptable to you. What's to stop consolidation a…