Don't you think that it's a cruel God that has created so much human suffering? Obviously he can't/won't prevent the harm caused by other humans like wars, genocides and famine. But how can he morally justify the famine, plagues, parasites and all the other natural abominations he has created? If I believed that the Christian God existed I would surely foresake him for all the evil he has created. The Abrahamic God behaves like a child burning ants with a magnifying glass. Jesus seems cool though.

Pervert.

There are definitely a lot of choices, but that can easily be solved with some kind of ratings system and more metadata. Also since they are free, provided there is little time cost in adding and removing them, it doesn't really matter if you make the wrong choice from time to time.

Who the fuck modded this up?

Agreed, the only connection I could find between blackwater and the TSA from a cursory Google search is this thread.

WTF is a "gimbaledl"?

When you exceed 50% douchebags, and the douchebags all get along, maybe they're not the douchebags ;).

Agreed, this should have been dealt with by Wikipedia admins.

Just like in China when dissidents disappear, they should just man up and accept the consequences, they knew what was coming. We shouldn't complain or wish it were some other way, lest it happen to us too.

Hey; they could always power those panels with oil lamps.

Perhaps it's for foreign businesses to target services to Chinese businesses or citizens. If I was running a multinational I would want to make sure that my servers in all countries were secure, and this requires cryptographic communications.

If all servers have to be assembled by the ministry of supervision, foreign businesses might be a bit suspicious.

How will they?

If the data is important enough, it will be secure. If the data is not secure, then they will have access to it regardless of it's real world location.

So this is a step in the right direction, if a somewhat pitiful one.

I'm guessing this is more about the use of cryptography, something that is already de-facto legal for foreigners.

Agreed, Stallman is way off base with that proposal. It's just the opposite, intellectual works with a low popular appeal, if any, would be the ones deserving of tax dollars. Surely twilight could get by with a couple of acne cream product placements or something.

Not really that hard of a problem, since public and academic libraries have provided books for free for a long time. If you have sufficient disposable income you'll buy books and ebooks, if you don't; you wont. Since buying books is essentially a form of patronage, why support those who are trying to dick you around with DRM?

Why is that a problem? It's not like your going to be reading about Kant's views on metaphysics and then suddenly stumble upon the smegma article (mmm... stilton), or even worse the psyduck article. If you don't want to read it don't type it into the search box. It's hardly Wikipedia's fault if you can control your compulsion to read the synopsis of every power-rangers episode.