How many millions of dollars and countless man hours did it take to understand that lightening can cause forest fires? Wonder how many millions of dollars will it take to understand there is no way to stop lightening or fire safe every forest on the planet?

Who says we would need any help at all. We have the best armed civilian population in the world. If someone was foolish enough to invade the US it would turn into a very successful TV reality show the minute the invasion started. The government could set up a bounty fee schedule for every foreign invader killed by a concerned citizen. Insurgency activities in the US would make the attempts in the middle east look childish.

So changing business strategies are described as "trickery"when MS does it but when everyone else does the same thing they get a big attaboy? The three top threats to your privacy are Google, Twitter, and Facebook but since they are not MS products they get to do pretty much anything when you willingly feed your data into these applications. People willingly feed their person data into these application and never bother to read the terms of service when using their cervices. Google, Twitter, and Facebook would not exist if they were forbidden to share the data they routinely collect every time they use on of those services. And their only option they have when they are told they cannot use the collected data to generate their cash flow would be charging the users directly to gain access their applications and services.

The US is sitting on large amounts of rare earth elements. The US closed down most of the domestic mining operations because it was cheaper to buy the materials abroad due to environmental regulations. "Rare" earth elements are really not rare they are just a pain in the ass to mine. Rare element extractions make oil extraction operations look like green initiatives.

Tiny steps may work but those wanting to address and stabilize global temperatures want to take major steps but never offer any realistic ways of doing so. And the fact is the US has been taking tiny steps for years. Since 2005 annual U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have declined more than any other industrialized country on the planet. (758 million metric tons) The EU carbon dioxide emissions come in first but the EU is not a single country. (770 million metric ton) During the same time period China and India carbon dioxide emissions have actually increased.

The Legislative branch has usurped more and more power that far exceeds the powers laid out in the Constitution. The legislative branch thinks checks and balances only apply to the two other branches of government. It is the Legislative branch that is responsible for destroying the country. The Executive branch has very little power compared to the Legislative branch. The Executive branch does not makes the laws or approve the budgets. A President has veto power but even that can be overridden by Congress. The Presidents Commander in Chief powers can also be overridden by congress after 90 days. Congress Controls the nations checkbook and can weaponize that power to rule by fiat. The President has a bit pulpit and bullhorn but that does not creates any tangible power. Congress has no term limits and have passed legislation to remove any limits on the amount of money that can be funneled into their political war chest. The first thing reported on when someone decides to run for office is how much money they have collected. And the Democrats are all but guaranteeing Trump another term and they should damned for enabling Trump. And it is past time to enforce mandatory retirement for all the government branches. A 65+ person has had their time in the spotlight and it's time for them to leave before the fuck things up even more than they already have, No disrespect but we had a Senator with brain cancer that was casting votes right up until he died. As old as are leaders are we will start to see them over taken by Alzheimer's and senility and still making policy and casting votes.

I will take the NSA over the Chinese MSS agency any day of the week. There are probably a lot of Chinese citizens who would make the same choice. In a perfect world neither agency would exist but we do not live in a perfect world. And if Chinese companies want in the US market they should be forced to adhere to the same conditions China requires when letting a foreign company into their market.

Storing nuclear waste on the moon is just moving the problem from one point to another. Who knows we might even encounter problems in the future if we attempt building things on the moon only to find out we have turned it into a radioactive trashcan. Sending it into the Sun will destroy the waste. But the point is mute because we are still using 1940's rocket technology to move things into orbit or beyond. We have about a 6 percent failure rate when launching things into orbit. Most of the failures have payload insurance so a 6 percent failure rate is an acceptable and manageable risk. Nuclear waste payloads are too high of a risk and no one is going to take the risk.

If we put our nuclear waste into space it would be better to launch it towards the Sun. It would just take a while to get there. But as it stands no one is going to risk the nuclear waste payload being scattered across the planet if the rocket blows up or fails to reach orbit and comes crashing back down to Earth.

I weep for the future. "learn to code" is just good career advice. It's good advice for those already coding and those wanting to start coding.

One reason? FDIC Second Reason? Fraud protection.

"All of these groups are speaking for them"
They are speaking for them because protesting within China is not allowed. The only protests the Chinese government allows are those aimed at Japan.

Texting while driving is a direct and immediate threat to public safety and the laws are a preventative measure. All moving violations are enforced for the same reason. Right now there is no danger in taking someone's picture in public spaces. The lawsuit got tossed because the people submitting the lawsuit cannot convince the court that taking picture your picture in public are harmful in any way.

This article was talking about a process that works but those studying the process did not know WHY it worked. When the first atom bomb was detonated the people who built it knew how the bomb was supposed to work in theory but there was still some doubt about other possible outcomes.

"9 times the world was at the brink of nuclear war" It is probably been more than 9 times but there are no unknowns or doubts about the damage a nuclear bomb would produce.

The scariest scenario we face today comes from bioweapons. It takes far less resources to create a bioweapon when compared to building a nuclear weapon. And countries around the world are creating bioweapons in order to create countermeasures. We are one laboratory screwup or one demented scientist away from having to battle the walking dead.

The last recorded words of the human civilization will be: "Wonder what happens if we push this button?"
We already avoided this fate once. Some of the smartest people in the world worked on creating the atom bomb but even they were a little concerned that the bomb might set off a runaway nuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere on detonation and kill everyone on the planet.