Depends on the time of the month.

Sure, okay. He's making easy money in a legal grey area. Just like loads of bankers and businessmen have done in the United States and all over the world.

His only "crime" is not "contributing" to the war chests of politicians.

And if we could align them in a series, we'd have Internet in space! BRILLIANT!

Don't forget guitar amps. You're not gonna get the same aesthetics out of silicon. The best amps all pretty much use vacuum tubes.

Oh yeah? Well this morning, I played the Torchlight 2 beta and got an Engineer all the way to Level 12! And then I'm going to the dentist in an hour!

Man, fuck those guys that put my life into perspective. ):

On the first spacewalk, slyly plant a North Korean flag on some random american satellite, with the Korean for "BOOSH, BITCHES!". Wait a few months and watch NASA flip their shit trying to figure out how the North Koreans did it.

We have stuff like Truecrypt that, with a proper key, is pretty much uncrackable.

What happens when we have a filesharing client that reaches this apex? All it takes is some dedicated kid at Caltech or MIT or Basement U to come up with something that would basically be untrackable. Would the government make a completely legal program illegal? Massive spying?

It's going to happen and it will be interesting to see how its handled. I'd pay a hefty sum of money to see the face of the MAFIAA execs when a tech guy tells them "No, there really isn't any way to track this program. It's impossible."

If they were done right, I wouldn't necessarily see what's wrong with ID scanners.

I mean, sure, there's a business building a database of their customers. You know what, though? That already happens. Pay by credit and it wouldn't be all that hard to compile a list of everyone who paid by credit at a bar or club and find out about repeat business.

"Okay guys, I let you put your stupid cameras in my nightclub. Now tell me what the numbers were last night."

"Well, according to this, 134 police officers, 3 entirely separate instances of Prince somehow being there at the same time, 18 registered sex offenders, 22 donkeys, two thirds of the local city council, and an emperor penguin."

Well, I'm an Atheiest. I'm not like super-vocal about it, but I don't shy away from it either. In a lot of places in the States, "atheist" is tantamount to a slur, like if you called someone a commie in 1950s America.

Well, here's what would help:

Make it legal to pull over to the side of the road for any reason whatsoever.

Some businesses require live (or nearly live) communication with drivers on the road. Some people are so goddamned tired but they can't pull over, put down a couple triangles, flip the hazards on, and take a nap because they'll get ticketed and they (stupidly) would rather risk driving tired. Some people have the occasional urgent call or text that they need to take.

What are these people supposed to do here - take an exit off the highway, find parking in whatever town or city they pulled into, finish their business, and then get back on the road?

Right, because logic and ethics factor in when companies are being discriminatory.

"Our medical research division says there's a chance this gene causes cancer, so we're not going to hire you. Our insurance rates will skyrocket. Have a nice day."

I'm just concerned an "Australian" kangaroo will "spontaneously" explode in some American city, and then before the ink on the infrastructure rebuilding contracts is dry we'll be flying upside-down C-130s and invading down under to "liberate" them from a "terrorist atheist criminal dictator".

Man, the fucked up thing is that the Australians aren't even the most dangerous thing on the continent. We'll probably lose a couple hundred guys just to the local wildlife.

Ah, well, I tend to clench my left buttcheek more than my right one.

Well yeah, but wouldn't an end-to-end LEO flight be something like 30-60 minutes? I recall reading somewhere the aimed goal is 30 minutes from A to B, where A and B are points anywhere on the world.