My interpretation was that Russia intends to continue harassing non-allies, and they've figured it's time to have a better story. So just like the green men weren't Russian-controlled troops, but patriotic volunteers, the story on hackers will be the same.

How do you manage to believe your post was on topic?

All your complaints seem to be policy points, not facts of any kind ,and certainly not government data.

Cervical cancer is virtually always (according to cancer.org) caused by an HPV infection. Effective prevention as part of healthcare is how you combat STDs like that, so yes, it seems reasonable to expect that poor healthcare will lead to increased cervical cancer rates.

Yet another reason to kill video autoplay. Seriously the shittiest web trend at the moment.

Well, maybe there's a reason it's better to wait two weeks before selling a stolen phone. Like a limited number of phone shops to sell them to. Might set off some alarms if someone brought a used phone to sell daily.

Climate change is an existential threat to the whole species. None of the issues you listed even begin to compare in severity.

It's all a conspiracy. You're a troll on the Russian payroll, tasked to create chaos. I'm a monarchist pretending to be a confused bleeding-heart liberal to create chaos. Obama of course is a lizard pretending to be a muslim pretending to be an American, all the better to create chaos. Or maybe you're just nuts.

You wouldn't replace rainfall, you'd just desalinate enough for drinking water. Couple that with no water for toilets or washing, and the population should go down to more sustainable levels in no time, so the water issue would cease to be a problem.

It seems to me this is a very honest comment from Obama, surprisingly unvetted for a US president. Why? Simply because he does a piss-poor job of calling anyone to action here. This is a lamentation, and it seems Obama genuinely has no idea how to deal with the problem he's describing. I feel I should note, in this context, that my username is derived from a Sam&Max quote, and does not reflect my political views. I sympathize with Obama's frustration, but am worried that he and his cohort (much like me) seem unable to do anything about it other than complain.

Swarms of autonomous drones carrying explosives encased in nuts and bolts. I'm surprised and glad it hasn't been done yet, but it seems like only a matter of time.

Sortition is a good idea, but why water it down with this electoral college idea? Just select the president by lottery. What's that, it's way too risky? Well, maybe a king by another name isn't what a modern society should have in the first place...

If you could get results like that with skill, Vegas wouldn't exist.

I've got my tinfoil hat on tight, so it's baseless speculation time: How do we know Apple didn't help them? They could have just done the court dance to keep up appearances, and help the Feds out on the sly. Win-win: Apple keeps their users happy and even gains extra points for standing up to the government, and they keep up good relations with the Feds.

I pick up, wait for the sales pitch to start, then leave the phone on the table. They have gone for up to a minute before realizing no-one's listening.