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don't hide it any more in the pristine EuroCenter!

namely, a lovely line from Tom Clancy concerning a black helicopter pilot where he shouldn't be without enough fuel to scat... "Son, right now I'd burn piss if I had enough."

and if they're collecting too damn much information to hold it, let alone process it, then it's almost all GIGO. dump the assumptions and Orwell on your desk for reference, and narrow your search. the FBI never caught a bootlegger chasing the history of every barefoot kid on the street, either.

I'll see your "my fellow Americans" and raise you a "my distinguished colleague..."

which further reduces the changes of Snowden having any chance at a life, or a glimpse of sunlight. IMPHO he can only come home after being granted a full and unconditional pardon. try that in the face of spy bureaucracy in full sway.

God invented Pi. don't get his lawyers into this...

given the incidents in which Russia is posing like the Bad Old Days are back, we need at least two operating alternatives to their facilities.

what Mullah wants, Mullah gets. and Mullah wants scalps on the wall.

namely, Bill Gates' home from the 1990s, which changed music, lighting, temperature, all sorts of things when you moved from room to room. thanks to a smart tag that linked to your preferences.

so how'd Apple get that patent, anyway? another case where examiners have a black hood over their cages after their work shift, so they can't read or hear anything?

warden, meet Bubba. you get the bottom bunk.

big ass noisy dog does wonders.

somebody is shouting over a bullhorn, and kicking in my doors. I'll be right back........

1) no priority tag, data is at priority 0

2) no lower "trunk cost" to preferred customers. trunk costing used only to route traffic to the cheapest/fastest/lease congested route .

3) due to latency and jitter issues, VoIP could be set midrange, at priority 3.

4) one price for all at a specified bandwidth.

that's all the regulation you need, and you need an iron fist to maintain it, considering the number of fat weasels out there.

Germans beat us all to it, and called it the Zeppelin.