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No. I'd vote Bradley Manning for president. This is just more reason.

> there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one. Also, the charts of fatalities by travel mode that I've seen have already scree…

Pft. Religion can be safely criticized because it's made up.

The blog you linked seems to miss the point. (Which I think is what you're saying.) If people try to guess URLs for what you see as (for example) steps 3-7 of a ten-step process, m…

> There's nothing "juvenile" in using this to describe someone who actually fits this description, it is very common turn of phrase. Maybe you commonly hang around juveniles. >> It…

> while censorship and control over the American media You seem awful fixated on the USA. If you're trying to make Singapore sound nice, try setting your sights on a well run human…

> same way that wearing miniskirts leads to rape. No, not at all. That's the dumbest thing someone has said on here in weeks. You should be ashamed. The miniskirt analogy is to des…

A good job of controlling something they incited? They didn't need to use violence on non-violent protestors. At this point they're lawless thugs with guns.

> "caused muslims to hate us" Well, that's a few simultaneous fallacies. But, yes, your policies led to the 9/11 attackers deciding to attack you. Is this not blisteringly obvious?…

Even in Canadian protests the police have been caught sneaking in trouble-makers with rocks and black ski-masks. If they didn't create the panic they wouldn't get paid for solving …

I helped a client write their own HN hiring letter. They'd originally had corp-speak in there like "5y PHP Developer". "Must have BS in ..." and we rewrote their requirements to th…

Especially with mobile, where the government parcels out the ability to play (spectrum) to the companies that cooperate with it. At least in areas without natural monopolies you ca…

It's too bad they can choose to stop once they've started. Like the patent trolls new-egg is fighting. New-egg should essentially be able to take the trolls to court and part them …

> denying you access to the firmware was never their intent. Unlikely. With a new person or company it's sporting to give them the benefit of the doubt. With Microsoft if you're st…

DMCA takedown. Expulsion. Streissand effect. Hilarity. They couldn't keep it online, but couldn't be seriously censured for trying, and they wouldn't be alone.

Actually, software licenses aren't required to simply use a program - though you can certainly obtain a copy by licensing it. Essentially, copies made that are inherently required …

> People accuse NATO soldiers of war crimes everyday without even realizing the legitimate war crimes we prevented every single place we went. Had we gone into Afghanistan in the 9…

Maybe it says that Afghanistan's border is a pile of western-motivated political crap and the country shouldn't be. Hell, Quebec wants out of Canada and we generally all get along …

You mean you can send someone to "the hole" for sending them a questionable book? And Amazon will fulfill this for order for any prepaid credit card? Am I the only one seeing a pro…

A couple thoughts, some more depressing than others. You could probably get three to six months off pretty easily. If just asking wouldn't work, you could hint a relative is on the…

It should be, but is not illegal for the government to ask for private data, or lean on companies to provide it, (see the NSA Warrantless Wiretapping affair, specifically Qwest - t…

Go out in the desert with one captive and torture them and we'd try to stop you. Enslave a few million and successfully arm yourself against potential rescuers and you meet all the…

You're pretty technically astute which leaves me thinking you're being obtuse for effect.

> Nope. It is because he stole tons of private info from AT&T and then boasted about it and then said he would totally do it again and with worse consequences to the victim. Wrong.…

> But, Afghanistan was the base of the 9/11 attack on the US that killed 3000 innocent US civilians. No, it bloody was not . Many of those people hadn't even been in Afghanistan. T…