You're both not wrong, of course...

But. In exchange for the lack of personal inconvenience your compliance ensures, your rights die just a tiny bit.

I understand the wisdom of not getting cross with the leos, and admit there are immediate and everlasting benefits, but know there are consequences as well.

Every year, it seems more and more like I'm on the planet Krypton and the scientists are arguing with the politicians in a language the pols do not well understand.

Ordovician... Jurassic... at too long an interval, we are all doomed to repeat what we have no chance to remember.

Or money, from weekly tithes, for that matter...

Encouraging animosity toward the World's billions of non-revolutionary Muslims has to be one of the main goals of those engaged in these attacks.

That is how it's done.... grow your army and such by making innocents also hate your enemies.

landing on a remote-control barge in the ocean to maximize rocket recyclability.

Expectation.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If you steal for a living, and you haven't watched enough crime TV to know you don't want to be carrying a subscription cell phone with you on game night,

shit, you need to investigate another line of work.

Attention to detail is not your strong suit.

Two words put together by no one ever who sounded authentic.

Fairly or not, just like the "coach", he is rewarded too much for the victories and berated too much for the losses.

One of my hands is a crafty devil, and he has come up with more than a few epic one liners and (+5 insightful) comments in his day. We debate often about the likelihood that even his very best idea was ever truly original, given the 107 {+/-} billion humans to have ever lived. Our consensus is, despite the probability someone has built that mousetrap before, there is no shame in hitting the nail squarely on the head a second, independent, time.

Innovative thinking is often modded down by conventional wisdom.

To be fair, there is usually a great deal of noise to sift through in any given period.

Since the revelations of Snowden have effectively changed nothing, does it even matter that members of Congress are publicly against the actions of the arm(s) of government that gathers the secrets?

Wink.

Seemingly every law, movement, action, or drug comes with these side effects. I believe the skill associated with doling them out so they cause more good than harm is quite rare indeed.

It is conspicuously absent in the hands of a politician.

Well played coward...

Da. Mann.

Absolutely this.

Yesterdays news with a better takeaway than you'd get from the current news folks.

Dive in. If nothing else, the other users will make you a better poster, and if you pay attention, a better thinker.