My parents' house was flooded a few months ago and they did the same thing for the kitchen appliances, just to be safe. Then the flood reached a height of 2m (~6.5 feet)...

Snowden did talk to the only superior who didn't know about these programs: The people of the USA, which are by their constitution designated as the highest superior available. All others below them knew about the programs and participated in them in some fashion. Telling these superiors about things they already knew wouldn't have helped at all.

While I fully agree, this series wouldn't involve a single human. I don't think this would really work, since it's harder to relate to some foreign species, especially as alien as Vulcans and Romulans (to the general public, anyways). Note how a large majority of the main characters in every single Star Trek series and film were human, even though plenty of alternatives were available.

I personally would love to see Klingon everyday life before the warrior caste took over the whole social structure.

Not quite, the EU already requires adherence to the privacy regulations. The only thing that is discussed right now is the problem that it's officially ok to use the US, even though its companies actually aren't adhering to them.

How has it reduced crime? This cabbie's head is still somewhere it doesn't belong.

That's not true. At least in Europe and Japan, there's a critical shortage of young people for work and paying for social welfare. Only the xenophobic think that there are too many foreigner families coming in. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those right wing nuts in those places.

Just like PPTP! I think I can see a pattern there.

Their reasoning was: As a newcomer in the phone area, they didn't have any patents to contribute to that FRAND package, so they would have been the only ones to actually pay licensing fees, giving them an unfair disadvantage in the market.

It's designed by Apple in California, it says so on back side of the case!

I'm pretty sure that Fox News "news" are copyrightable.

Well, what if he is caught and "suicide checked"? Not a single country can or would even try to stand up against the US. The government can promise whatever it wants, since there are no negative consequences for breaking them.

Why would a developer care about devices that don't connect to the App Store (and thus don't get anything bought for)?

As an iOS developer, I can confirm this. However, the amount of devices running older iOS versions is negligible, see this graph (this was released by Apple at this year's WWDC, so it's quite current).

From a computer science point of view (e.g. everyone working on the iOS platform except the armchair managers who came up with this shit), this also didn't make any sense. For example, there's no conceptional difference between loading XML or any other format like Word documents and interpreting a scripting language. This is even more vague with scene description files used in games, since these instantiate game objects and build connections between them.

Where should the line be drawn?

Since I'm an iOS developer, back when this was in effect, I had to explain this restriction to other programmers. I really struggled with that.