And where do you put yourself in this scheme?

What we see is a common property of humanity; the constant attempt to establish a pecking order, with oneself at top and others below. The reason there isn't a dialog is not because the two sides are incomprehensible to each other. It is because the two sides simply reject the other.

I've known a lot of people for whom the facts they accept are just a convenient club with which to beat others. This happens in other human pursuits, too: some people use the law cynically, to get their way, rather than heal injury or achieve justice or even keep the law. People do that in religion, and they do it in science.

Most of the people in the debate between evolution and Creationism are not arguing purely out of intellectual interest in their position. Just by reading your post, I can tell that you don't know much about Creationism, and that implies to me that you might not know more than some buzz words and debate points regarding evolution. The fact that "Nature" stoops to encouraging this sort of behavior simply demonstrates the surely nature of a lot of evolutionists.

Saturnalia lasted more than one day, though how long depended on the era.
When Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar in 46 BCE, he set December 25 as the Winter Solstice. Over time, differences between the Julian calendar and Earth's actual movements in space caused the Solstice to drift to December 16. In the 16th Century, the Catholic Pope reset the calendar, except for 3 days, making the Winter Solstice fall around December 22.

North Korea continues to exist because we keep giving it money, food and supplies. At least at importantly, China keeps North Korea alive, if only to keep North Koreans out of China. North Korea is China's ghetto. Kim Jong-il is the slumlord. Whenever the slumlord wants more money, food or supplies, he rattles his cage and makes faces and threatening noises, and the rest of the world tosses him a pacifier to quiet him.

North Korea is implementing Communism on at least 2 counts:

1) In Communism, the individual lives to serve the state. Communism is one form of Collectivism, and all forms of Collectivism consider the greatest good to be the benefit of the state, not the individual.

2) Leninism, a form of Communism, states that bloody revolution is essential to converting society to Communism. Leninism advocates violent revolution as much as possible, to spread Communism.

As for the ruling class of North Korea living better than the peasants, this is such a common feature of Communism that Orwell parodied it in "Animal Farm."

North Korea is what happens when the state assumes the role of god. North Korea is what an officially atheistic state always looks like.

I'm inclined to agree with those who state this was a honey pot. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but standard security procedure is to have a honey pot open and available for naive, young hackers to fall into. You probably aren't the first person in it, either, if this is a big name institution. I read that an unsecured computer left open to the Internet will have hundreds of attacks compromise it a day, within seconds of going online. So, I would guess those credit card numbers are also fake.

Your best bet is to leave it alone. If this isn't a trap, that's for the company and the customers to deal with it, and the repercussions that follow. The fact that you need to ask here what to do about it leads me to suspect that you are in over your head.

"The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination

"there has never been a successful suit brought against someone performing CPR."

http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/askdoctor.html#Can I get sued

also

"if you give assistance, including CPR, for a medical emergency Good Samaritan laws cover you."

http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/askdoctor.html#Does the Good

That's why I live in Texas.

If the world were so unpredictable as you describe, no one would ever accomplish any of their goals. The reason that titans of industry succeed is that they can predict the outcome of their actions.

??? A free product? Like MS Internet Explorer? How was that going to go away?

Many people predict the future, starting from now. What's different about that from predicting it from the past? Well, for one thing, when predicting from the past, we do know how one outcome actually came out, and some of the reasons it may have come out that way. We can compare this to alternate ways the event might have played out.

I wonder how much porn and illicit downloading goes through the military networks? In all the other computer networks I've seen, if no one is holding users accountable, the network will be abused.

So, tell me, again, how the virus got on the machines? A "thumb drive," you say? And, the virus keeps returning? Hrmmm...

Who thought this network infrastructure arrangement would be a good idea?

Texas has what is known as an "Improper Photography" law. Relax, those of you who couldn't take a good picture to save your life. This law is aimed squarely at people whose photography offends other people, generally the people who shoot photos of complete strangers. The message seems to be that we don't tolerate street photographers in Texas. Now, that isn't how the law is sold to the public. This is supposed to be an anti-unwitting porn star law. It was born of the need to stop people from photographing strangers in locker rooms, dressing rooms and other places where they would have a reasonable expectation of privacy. However, the law goes beyond that. If you stand at a children's football game and shoot photos of the children, you stand a good chance of an angry confrontation, followed by police investigation. One professional photographer was arrested because people thought he was shooting too many photos of women at a street festival (his case was dismissed). IOW, the people who are being arrested under this law aren't in private places; they are out in public. Most of those arrested people who are now reported in the press do seem seriously sketchy, but nothing in the law would discourage someone from pressing charges against any photographer who shoots photos of several strangers in public.

In theory, the Supreme Court says that I have the Constitutional right to shoot videos of anyone who is in a public place. In practice, several Texans have informed me that if they see me shooting photos of anyone's children, they will inflict on me significant bodily harm. This law is part of their justification that they are in their legal rights to do so.

You make a good point, but why stop just at photography? Why do people need to spend so much time, money and effort in sports events? Think of how much more advanced the human race would be if, instead of spending time and money watching a ball or an animal race around, we were to invest in new materials processes, science and exploration! A city near my home recently spent nearly a billion dollars (US) building a sports stadium. Why not build a rocket complex? Why not build a particle accelerator? Oh, speaking of which... my country just shut down its only large particle accelerator. But, we are building sports complexes all over the place!