Either the instigator loves chess and is stupid or hates chess and is quite sly..

While I can guarantee that this move will cause a lot of hate towards chess and chess players, it will also most probably foster some quite interesting variants of chess..

When unloading containers at the central Nike warehouse in Netherlands, we'd find a container that was ransacked once or twice a week on average and missing or opened boxes were a daily occurrence.

Once, after a particularly bad while our supervisor got a bunch of pictures of the seals in the container doors and was told to compare every seal to a picture before anyone touches it and call office immediately if it looks different in ANY way. After that we found no more tampered containers.

..For two days..

I haven't ever had and I probably never will own a locked phone or any telecommunications device. First of all, there is a matter of principle; I own my personal communications devices, don't rent them.
Also, I travel a lot and wherever I go, I can usually get a prepaid simm card for my phone and cell modem.. Saves quite a penny in internet cafes and pay phones.
Fun fact: Until 2006 tying the sale of a cell phone to the contract was actually illegal in Finland, and even today, the law mandates the maximum contract as 2 years after which the phone must be unlockable and they must also offer the contract without the phone. In addition, this is only allowed with 3G cells, video phones or some other phones that are not basic GSM phones, those must be always sold unlocked.
Think about it; until 2006 hardly anyone in Finland even knew what 'a locked cellphone' is.

And I'm an atheist. Is there a better way to say 'yup, i'm a fascist and in power, so fuck you.' without having gas chambers? And yes, I know I just pulled the Godwin one. Once in a while there comes a time when you CAN legitimately hit the table with the nazi card.

Vast areas of europe.. "Hey USA! Libya's disrupting communications of the 'coalition of the willing' and I'll bet that some are NATO members to boot! What're you gonna do? complain? Bawk Bawk Baaawk!"

There will be many, many kids who will never, ever trust their parents again.

I think Gibson wrote about it first in idoru.

Yeah, maybe 20-30% have the ability to look at the source code. If you want any meaningful understanding, you'll have to drop a zero from your statistics.

Which I strongly suspect you pulled out of your hat :)

I vote in every election, and I am politically active. No party that I have voted for has ever got a single seat in parliament, I belong to an association that has been active for over ten years and has hundreds of paying members, but still is not officially recognized.

Pray tell me, am I responsible for my government because I'm not throwing molotov cocktails?

If you wanted to see your local organic farmer toting bags of industrial nitrogen fertilizer, you're in for a disappointment.. :P http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Nitrogen+Fixation

But about energy, you're quite right. Unless we find some new source of energy, or notably improve an old one, most of us will be looking at substantial reduction of material standards of life. Personally, I don't think we will have any magical tokamak of legend suddenly pop out of some phycisist's head.

We will just have to blow on the same coal, so to speak, improve energy efficiency, curtail frivolous usage, invest in renewables and hope that it will tide us over until we have usable fusion tech.

If games could not be copied at all.. The prices would increase because nintendo.

The word you're looking for is urolagnic.

At least in northern scandinavia, the sami people usually fed fly agaric to reindeer, their metabolism converts more muscarine(very bad) and ibotenic acid(not good) into muscimol(very good) than a human one. - In effect, the brew is not only cleaner but more potent as well when run through a biological filtration system mark rudolph..

"Oh, I'd like to just get a refund then. Thank you. Hello, I'd like to buy a new iPhone." Or is it that you can't buy a new one after getting a refund?