Velvet gloves.

That seems to be the difference from my perspective.

You may not call it invading. The US may not call it invading.

Russia, or especially North Korea, might.

That's (legally) how the world has worked for hundreds of years.

Why is this a surprise to you?

Change government entities and see how good it sounds for ANY other government to come into your country without legal basis there and take what they deem needed in their courts.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb...

You might want to cite some reference for you position.

Make sure to include references where they're also operating in separate countries.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb...

You might want to go look up what is a crime in those countries. You better be ok with ALL their laws.

That's actually pretty easy to do.

For me it was because I couldn't get what I wanted from a prebuilt system unless I wanted to get more than needed in a lot of areas to get the high end stuff in the areas I actually needed all while spending a lot of money. The biggest thing I needed was a huge amount of ram (32GB), a couple of SSDs of OSes and some large capacity HDD for bulk storage, not doing gaming I didn't need a high end graphics card but some of the programs I use will make use of a better graphics card for the vector processing so putting in the middle of the road graphics card provided a huge boost. With a prebuilt system running Win7 pro with 32GB ram, and a bunch of hard drives puts you in shopping for a high end gamer rig or graphics/CAD workstation which all carry a heavy premium since they come with the high end processors, and video cards. So instead of the $3000+ I was finding for prebuilt systems I spent about $1200 for what I needed. Add in that a lot of the parts were chosen because of their higher quality and the rare instance where going up to a substantially better processor was cheaper (unlocked 3770 from a middle of the road locked i5 of the same gen) I ended up with a machine that should have a very long useful life at a reasonable value.

My previous machine was a middle of the road Athalon 64 X2 that was 6 years old when I finally replaced it since it no longer met my needs. Most of the parts are still chugging along as I went and upgraded a number of relatives computers and what didn't end up there or in my new machine got hauled off for recycling but that wasn't much beyond the case and power supply.

Sure, but where can I get 1 billion hepa filters today?

Oftentimes, life gets in the way.

Let me guess where you're from.

A place where imagination is non-existent.

While the FBI has caught some terrorists the ones I keep hearing about all seemed to be surprisingly stupid, as it I am surprised they didn't choke on their own tongues. Also that is the FBI not the TSA who are about as worthless as tits on a bull.

As far as the TSA's ability to keep weapons off a plane they seem to suck at that given what I have brought through without trying like a 4" lock blade pocket knife with a nice heavy brass handle, an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammunition, about a dozen 12 gauge 3" shotgun shells (#2 steel magnum goose loads). The pocket knife has gone through several times and the ammo was in my coat pocket that went through the x-ray machine on different occasions. Then I send my open camera case through with the old all manual SLR film camera in it and it is time for an explosives wipe down.

Also from what I can tell it seems that I would have a better chance of winning back to back Powerball jackpots than having my luggage searched every time like it is. This is not an exaggeration either considering that over the last 10 years I have probably averaged about 1 flight a month (5 or 6 trips a year) and on every one of them my luggage has been searched, and I doubt they are searching 50% of all checked luggage but I used that number as it makes the math easy.

I'll tell you what.

Pick a country, any country other than the US. Let them have it for the next 25 years.

Now imagine you're neither country. Dependent on a bully country and some other random country for your internet control. Which would you take? Or the UN?

Yeah, lets compare a 40 year old monopoly company (making money w large contracts) to a bunch of small upstart developers (making money $0.99 at a time) and laugh.

More people are laughing at you.