Nonsense. You can see whether the light is on or not. We don't even know if god ever existed, let alone whether he is alive or not.

There's more to it than that, I don't know if a god can exist or not. That's why I'm not an atheist, but an agnostic. I don't claim to have knowledge that no one on earth possesses. Atheism is just as arrogant as theism.

That is irrelevant. The question, as asked, does not reveal whether one is not a theist, only if they are. You could just ask if I'm a theist. But I already answered that question, so you're just being redundant.

So, get to the part where it's google's fault that Microsoft is too incompetent to take security seriously?

This did not deserve a flamebait mod. Somebody mod it back up again.

That's a pretty broad brush. What exactly is your definition of "public" philanthropy? And how do you define its success or failure?

AC is right: I was defending Ol Olsoc from towermac. Ol Olsoc defended himself four minutes before I did, but I didn't see his post until after I submitted my own. As AC said, he probably mixed up the threads.

They try to spin it as so malicious, including:

This is at least the second time a U.S. warrant has been served at Google for data from someone connected to WikiLeaks. A sealed warrant was served to Google in 2011 for the email of a WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland.

Right, it's not like they had any probable cause of illegal activity back in 2011, no sirree.... You've got a Wikileaks volunteer who was at the time acting as an unofficial spokeman for the organization in the news, voluntarily coming up to them and telling them that Assange is working with Anonymous and LulzSec and ordering hacks and spying, including against US targets, and providing troves of data - are they supposed to just ignore that?

Well, putting on the uniform means you can be ordered to take actions that will result in property destruction and loss of life, and (a) you have to do it and (b) you enjoy some protection from legal consequences as a member of a uniformed service.

It's quite common (and legal under international law) for countries to execute "spies" for doing things that "soldiers" do all the time. As a soldier you can drop a bomb on a dam that kills people both directly and indirectly and you are not criminally responsible. But if you drop a "logic bomb" on an installation as a civilian contractor your status isn't so clear. If you travel overseas the target country might well try to extradite you under anti-hacking or anti-terrorism treaties.

There's also the fact that whatever NK has been selling it's population about the west will have nothing to do with reality. The two main characters will humanize westerners, the portrayal of Kim will contradict his mystique, and the production value will hurt the effectiveness of NK productions.

It's definitely a long shot at making any positive difference, but I don't think it's a complete write-off. Media can be powerful, maybe this does provide an opportunity for some North Koreans to bond over poking fun at the leader.

Amazon sells books..

You've really got to try to fix a few things before you can appreciate how uneven the situation can be. I've fixed some little things, they were easy. I've tried to fix some other apparently little things and failed, and found some other solution instead. Or not.

A lot of people think that by joining and taking up a civilian-ish MOS, they're not actually in any danger. Which is simply not true. I had, for example, a friend who joined up for a job doing lab biopsies of medical samples. Figured he'd always be stateside. Then the Iraq War broke out and they simply reclassified his whole unit as field medics and send them over to a FOB near Fallujah.

If you're in the military and they decide they need more people on the front lines, it doesn't matter what your MOS is, you're "draft pick" #1.

I do. China has empty cities in China for Chinese. They'll hand-pick the Africans they want and lift them up and make them into factory workers, eugenics by employment. Can't say I'm upset to see it, although it's sad it's going to happen under the Chinese.

Then a dog dies, if the owner can be located they are cited for a violation of the leash law, and my insurance company sues them to recover their losses.

Most states have a law against cutting people off and slamming on the brakes, but you're going to need a dashcam or some reputable witnesses (more reputable than the other driver, that is) to prove it.

...and with the corollary that you also have to not be outdriving your vision. I often see people come around a corner head-on in my lane and at speed and they clearly couldn't see whether they were going to hit me or not. A little faster, riding the center line, we'd have met, they'd have been at fault, we'd both have been badly injured and possibly killed. And these are predictable results at legal speeds.

Equipment failures are more than twice as likely at 120 mph as at 60 mph, and roads don't have run-offs like race tracks do. In cases where race tracks don't have those run-offs, racers often die.