While I lived at RAF Gatow, Berlin (dad was in the RAF) during the 1980s, we used to play a heck of a lot in the extensive woods on base - we even played in and around the fairly large bunker on the edge of the airfield. Until, that is, someone discovered a second entrance to the bunker, and a second level - full of aircraft engines, parts, and about 200 tonnes of WW2 era high explosive in the form of rockets, bombs and other stuff. There were two chambers each about the size of a basket ball court.

In the four years we were there, they discovered previously unknown cellars in three major buildings on base (including the Havel School), and a two mile long tunnel linking the airfield with the Havel river.

All of this on an RAF airbase which covered only a few square miles, and had been active in allied hands since the end of WW2.

There is plenty yet to be discovered in ex-Nazi occupied land, mark my words.

It's actually really easy to print from a Chromebook or Android device, it just needs you to have the printer connected to Google Cloud Print somehow. The OP's specific issue is that his father wants to use 3G, and thus only the Chromebook is connected to the internet and not the printer.

I would suggest getting a 3G modem/router. Then the Chromebook and the printer can both connect to it, as well as any other devices his father decided to get in the future like a tablet or set-top box. Then it is a simple matter of using Google Cloud Print with a compatible printer.

List of compatible printers: http://www.google.com/cloudpri...

so we can make new works using them. You know, Disney didn't write the story in the Lion King, right? It's an age old story. They don't write _any_ of their own stories (even Lilo and Stitch was just something they bought because they thought they could get 626 toys out of it).

The idea was that copyright and patents encouraged people to share information so that it wouldn't be lost. The entire point was to get the works into the public domain at some point. We've turned it into a rent seeking scheme. If it started out this way we'd all be paying royalties to some Nords and a few Egyptians who claimed ownership of stone tablets from 200 B.C..

in order to qualify for the "Safe Harbor" part you have to take down the "infringing" content immediately. No questions asked. Only _after_ you take it down can the person who put it up apply to have it put back up.

It makes it really easy to get stuff silenced and much harder to get it back out there; especially for quasi-legal journalistic sources like leaks.

If you have a society that is willing to steal, its economy will die.

Pretty much every government in history ever has levied taxes. You have no basis for comparison for your claim.

business regulations

Business are only created by edict of law: i.e. regulation. Therefore by your reasoning, businesses are theft.

What I find obscene is theft.

Indeed, the theft of shared resources, such as clean air and water is obscene. This is why strong regulations are required to prevent it. And of course tax to pay for that. Without regulation and tax, everything of worth will be stolen by the strongest person.

And the guy who was running silk road didn't have his bitcoins seized and auctioned?
And bitcoin is immune to manipulation of its value against other currencies?

Never underestimate the power of denial!

If something has value, someone has/will figure out a way to steal it or manipulate it, and governments will figure out how to seize it.
There, by reverse logic, I just proved that bitcoin has value.
Happy?

That's all fine if you are a US citizen and believe that the current US judicial system is fair and reasonable. For anyone else, particularly foreigners who don't want to under US jurisdiction, avoid Gmail.

I wonder if they got anything useful from this? Metadata, for sure, but you would hope that someone involved in Wikileaks would be using strong encryption.

Straw man. The Pope and the mainstream environmental movements are not arguing for that, so using it to criticise him is not a valid argument.

Wow, you really like these straw men, huh. When I think of moral imperatives, I think of things like equal rights for black people and the end of slavery, equality for homosexuals, not polluting the world or hunting species into extinction, that sort of thing. ISIS isn't really representative of the Pope's views or what he means by "moral imperative", so I'm happy to say you are wrong.

It's a shame his hands are tied on some of the most important issues though, e.g. contraception and family planning, or full acceptance of homosexuals. Those things cause a lot of unnecessary suffering.

Platinum and other noble metals are expensive because they are genuinely hard to extract - the yearly production is measured in _tons_. If we had access to cheaper supply of these metals from asteroids then we'd be able to significantly increase their use. And that means cheaper fuel cells, more durable alloys, better catalysts in chemical plants and so on.

Are you a practicing climate scientist who has personally checked all those facts? Not many people who would agree with you are. But they are looking at something written down that they- perhaps even you can never check or verify other then asking someone else if it is correct. But it's your version, it's real and factual, just like the faith Jews or Christians, or Muslims have.

Bullshit. First, there are degrees of wrong. Plus, you know, science works.

I am actually a published, practicing scientist. I can do the basic smell test on the papers, if not understand the tiny details.

To come to the conclusion that "the concensus is probably right and that in any case, I have no compelling reson to doubt the conclusions" the only "faith" I need to have is to discount the preposterous notion that the world's climate scientists are engaged in a vast conspiracy to defraud us all.

That's some funny shit right there.

Funny indeed: you refused even to condemn rape and rapists. You insist on finding excuses to do otherwise.

Let's try again: rape is bad, mmmmkay? And if you rape people you'll be bad, mmmmkay?

To fuel your paranoia, you had to pick two completely isolated examples from widely scattered corners of the globe. Why not also pick an example from Saudi Arabia where women aren't even allowed to drive?

To pick an opposite example: it was a few years ago ruled in the EU that insurance companies were not allowed to discriminate against men with higher premiums.

Also: a gym isn't transportation. I know they have bikes, but they're called *stationary* bikes for a reason.