Guns aren't meant to kill. They are designed to fire a small metal ball at whatever it is pointed at. It could be a paper or metal target, or it could be something alive. But it is the person holding the gun that decides whether or not it kills. Hammers are designed to apply a large amount of force onto a small area. That area could be the head of a nail, or the head of a person. Either way it is just doing its job, just like guns.

The ants that deleted the emails sent by the researchers recruiting for the study because they thought it was spam must be pissed.

Because they used one piece of "evidence" (very tenuous at best) and just cast out a wide net to suspect someone from half the country away. It's the same as if a witness of a crime in New York said the suspect was 6'2" and blond so the police start interviewing 6'2" blond people living in Utah. Partial DNA matches should not be enough to get a warrant for someone who lives 1700 miles from where the crime occurred, especially if there is no other corroborating evidence.

It misses pretty much every aspect of the movie. They are even referred to as "cap troopers" when there isn't a single capsule in the entire movie.

Did we read the same book? I took out of it that war is horrible, leaving the lucky ones dead and the unlucky ones in broken bodies and scarred souls, but still a necessary evil to allow the people back home to live peaceful, happy lives. It also implies that drafts are bad and the only soldiers should be volunteers who willingly measure the rewards vs the risk of dying/getting injured, realizing that their sacrifice benefits the whole. Remember that the general feeling of the cap troopers was that they would be happy if the war was over tomorrow and no one was ever forced into a capsule if they did not want to go, and they weren't even punished for doing so besides getting discharged.

That's why I said you had to basically overlook all the criticism that either omits things from lines or takes them out of context. If you do that then it is a decent movie. If they re-did the movie from the standpoint of "why you fight" and "violence as a specific means to an end instead of mindless killing" it could be a very poignant movie. Especially considering the current climate in the US with the recent withdrawals from Iraq/Afghanistan and as evidenced by the success of American Sniper. It would be like the 1st half of Full Metal Jacket plus Platoon without most of the anti-war stuff(going from not sure why you are fighting to realizing the why doesn't even matter in the first places, you fight for survival and your buddies), in space.

I never understood the whole anti-religion thing of the 3rd movie. Made no sense since in the book every unit had their own chaplain who could be from any ordained sect of any religion and had to counsel someone from any religion. And they turned the powered suits into giant walkers. Horrible.

The movie was decent-ish as long as you ignore the obvious jabs against propaganda and the militart-industrial complex (and the thinly veiled Nazi/SS-inspired uniforms). Although who would select fully automatic weapons without any sights as a standard-issue weapon is beyond me (and why even wear the armor if it won't even stop your own general issue weapon at several hundred yards?). But I do wish that someone would take it and actually make a movie closer to the book with powered armor and all that. Could actually make for an excellent movie if done right, and we all know Hollywood loves making reboots/redoing movies.

Depending on how much child porn the Library of Congress has, that might not be that much.

The obvious solution is to just install a filter over it, to keep the first filter from getting clogged.

People don't pay attention to scenarios involving plain old flu. Zombies are essentially a placeholder for all types of disasters. Responses to zombie outbreaks include quarantine, crowd control, logistics, evacuations, communication with media and the population, areas blocked off due to a natural disaster(flood, earthquake, etc) modeled as "infected area", etc. For people, a zombie "bug out bag" containing water/food/medicine is good to use if you lose power or have to evacuate to a shelter during storms/disasters, and planning routes to avoid heavily trafficked areas are helpful if given an order to evacuate as well. Zombies are just a generic disaster that cover pretty much every facet of any kind of disaster response.

I firmly believe that the Kurds are the only ones with the willpower to stand up to and defeat ISIS. The problem is that the US cannot supply arms to the Kurds because they also want an independent Kurdish state which would essentially destroy the friendly government we have in Iraq.

The Chinese government only wants their own backdoors in technology used internally, not ours.

I'm going to take all those with/on a computer patents and add on a truck to the end of them. I'll be rich!

That's about the only way to save money these days. (Note: not a programmer/developer) I recently changed positions in my company that was literally (and I mean that in the actual sense and not "figuratively") a 60% increase. Haven't changed my spending habits at all, other than eating out a bit more. Went from breaking even each month to actually being able to save some AND I can actually pay off some of my student loans.