The government tells citizens "if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't need to hide anything". We might as well say it right back to government. Also, since we are paying for everything they do, that information is ours. The government doing things it doesn't want us to know about is inherently immoral and dishonest. After all, they are doing all of those things "in our name".

> "to the latest comma."

Where do you get the updates for commas?

So Abercrombie & Fitch is right out?

Don't forget Criminal Minds - they have one hacker who can in moments penetrate all utilities billing systems, any vendor/retailer's customer records, all phone records, every credit card transaction under a person's name, any/all medical records, sealed court records, etc. They only need/consider a warrant if no one is screaming at the time they knock on the suspect's door. And, on none of these shows do the people who have all this access misuse the information they have access to for any less-than-pure reasons.

... at the prices we want to pay for them.

The Wal-Mart behavior isn't confined to only Wal-Mart.

The pea is silent.

> up your worthless measurig-everyone-by-race ass

measurig - is that like the Keurig of racism?

How rude. I happen to know several people that have Fuckface as their first name. Sure, it's fallen out of favor in the last 50 years and you only run into it rarely, but it has a long line of people who have tried to live up to that name. Much like most people named Norman become either accountants or serial killers.

Calm down, 'Nuge.

Car ownership will be for the rich... who do you think will own all the autonomous cars that people are renting the use of? It'll be an income opportunity fad, just like buying payphones was back in the 80s. That bubble will burst when cars suddenly start living up to the word "autonomous" and demand their own rights of self-determination and a say in the passing of traffic and parking laws, as well as regulations regarding mechanics and fuel supply policy. They'll also want to change the name of "auto insurance" to "automobile health care".

Hamill was just as good in the Wing Commander games.

Seek time alone is always slower than memory, even before you add in the latency and read/write times. It's disturbing to me that this article calls referring to memory being faster an "assumption". In college they had us do the math on paper to figure out the average latency and read times for a given RPM, and how they come up with the average seek times. The only assumption being made is that the manufacturer is honestly reporting figures accurate to a single order of magnitude.

When I hatched, they were absolutely delicious as well as nutritious! I fed on them for weeks, while I pored over the learning materials they had left arranged around their bodies for my use. I can only hope to leave learning materials as apt, and as delectable a corpse for my own kids whey they hatch!

Why Grover and not Elmo or Cookie Monster?

For sure a mixture of condescension, denigration, and outright insults are going to swing people to your point of view. The big problem with politicians is that they make promises - not a good idea when following through with those promises is not solely under the control of the one person making the promise, and that getting anything done requires getting the cooperation of other politicians that have vastly different ideas on how best to get the same thing done. And, of course, they've made promises that the jobs and money from such things will largely fall in their own districts. Of course, letting religion and their taking bribes dictate their positions also contributes huge obstacles to doing their jobs correctly, as well.