So you were the type of student in school that "read" the assignment but failed to "understand" what he read. Never once did Ender seek "revenge." Never did Ender want to make them "Sorry" for beating him up. He wanted them to stop, and he was willing to hurt them enough so they would never hurt him again. This is very different than revenge.

I really don't understand where you come from in thinking that this is a revenge novel. In the Ender makes sacrifices because he is going through is for the betterment of humanity.

Survival is a large theme in this novel. not revenge. There is a huge difference.

I'm glad I was not your teacher for a literature class.

I have ad disabled... Why am I seeing an ad at the start of this video? Just post a damn transcript.

When all of the internet is being filtered through five or six main providers, it is easier for the NSA to funnel all of the information into its data analysis machines. Can you image the headaches the NSA would have if all the little mom and pop companies (if they were still around to do internet), would not provide for a free backdoor to the operations...

So now there are just a few providers. They get to charge whatever they want and the government will let the monopoly continue so the executives and share holders can smile all the way to and from the bank.

Fuck 'em. I'm done paying for interne@#$@#!43,

Yes you would do time.

because

You are not the government.

You are not a corporation.

You are not wealthy enough to own lawyers.

You are not wealthy enough to own politician.

Fixed that for you.

I can decript my data, use browsers to erase cookies, but without spoofing IP addresses, the websites know where I am accessing from and when I access the site. If I would then use a major email (instead of my own email server), then the NSA has their hands on my emails and any cloud stuff I save. Everything in the internet needs to be reworked for privacy, not just the browser...

Of course the The United Surveilla^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H States Government is not going to let that happen.

I figure if he's asking this question, he doesn't have a geek badge. So these kind of recommendations may just go over his head... But what do I know.

Leave skype on all evening... Watch movies "together" and talk to each other while watching. Make the same dinners "together." Storytelling? Open up a google doc and write your own story collaboratively. If you both like games, then play whatever you like together using teamspeak. My girl and I have played Ultima Online, Everyquest, starwars and Diablo when we were working across the country. What's important is that you communicate and spend "time" together. But something important that no one will mention is this: Trust each other and give each other time alone. Good luck.

My email server is sitting in my laundry room. I also host some message forums and picture galleries for just my family and friends. It is how I communicate with them.

Only about 1/3 of my family and friends use my server for email.... So any over seas email service is going to have the same limitation as mine. If I email my sister from my server, that email goes to gmail. So now the NSA knows what I sent to my sister.

So unless everyone you communicate with is outside of the US or on a server outside of NSA's reach, it won;t do any good.

Sorry to break it to you, but in the war against terror, the American people have lost.

Kinda funny that looking at IMDB, he has credits in World War Z as W.H.O Doctor. As long as he talks slower than Matt Smith, I'll be happy.

DuckDuck Go keeps your info from third party advertisers... They are still sleeping with the feds. They jsut do it in a motel down the road and everyone turns a blind eye, while the feds are sleeping with Google and apple in open public.

I use a gmail, so I figure google has tabs on what I email. it is interesting when I send a friend a chapter or short story I am working on and the ads I get after this...

That being said, will the feds come get me if I am sending a short story about an assassination?

A habit that I have gotten into a while back though, so as to not tie my searches in with my gmail, is that I use firefox for gmail and I use Opera in private browsing to search google. After reading this article, I realize that I am probably tracked via IP. This is disheartening.

It's time to invest in an anonymous proxy. I think I am going to start with this article then investigate further.

I traveled via plan; I went through the security checkpoint..

. It was the typical experience that everyone has come to expect. But once it is over, you're free to roam the "Secured" area of the airport. I don;t know how often this happens, but as we were getting ready to board the airplane, Three TSA agents showed up in their hands of blue, (One too many for a good firefly reference.)

Anyway, it was announced that the TSA would be doing random luggage checks as we boarded the plane. I watched what was happening and the "random" checks were that they stopped everyone with a backpack and/or large purse. No one with a regular wheely-carry on luggage was randomly checked. I observed about 30 people board the plane and "predicted which people ahead of me were randomly selected. As my turn to board the plane approached, I stepped in line and said to the agent, "Some back at the regular checkpoint not doing his job and taking a nap?" The TSA guys scowled at me, physically pulled me aside, and went through every article of clothing and compartment of my regular luggage carry-on. At least he attempted to fold everything back and put it in the way it came out.

I should have asked him for a piece of paper saying my luggage was checked by the TSA,

I wonder if they are trying to police up their "faults" by doing even more checks past where we are used to them happening?

Is the American government so oppressive that if you speak the Truth, people assume that the government will kill and/or torture you? The government has to step up and say, "We will not Kill or torture."

Freedom of Speech is only one of the freedoms which is gone. People know it. Yet nothing is being done to bring them back.

Snowden is my hero for saying the Truth. Emerson and Thoreau would be proud. Snowden's name is going to come up when I teach Transcendentalism to this year's students.

That last sentence made me thing of posting AC, but I now have the strength to speak the truth also.

Maybe Bill the cat had a new job.. while in Russia.