I have followed some of the stories about people going to jail for insulting the king.

The short version is that he sometimes pardons people jailed for insulting him, but after they've been arrested and in jail for a while.

As always, when Republicans and Democrats agree on something, you're getting screwed.

Only YOU could have won this war!

This idea is discussed in the book "Work's New Age", if you're interested.

Would you mind to explain why firing a direct hire is "much more expensive and legally risky"?

I don't know what country you're in, but I'm only familiar with working in the US. I thought that with "at-will" employment, you can be fired just as easily as you can quit.

I remember reading a post a while back to the effect that when a dictator wants his police and army to be willing to fire upon the people by his orders, he first will typically orchestrate events that cause the police and army to develop an "us vs them" mentality toward the civilian population.

I've known a few people in the military who obviously think that they're better than a civilian by virtue of their status.

Why is this just now being reported?

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100 times this.

There is obviously some reason that they don't do it. The question is, "What is it?"

If I read correctly, he took his *current* position three months ago. He said that he took his *current* position to get access to the documents that he revealed.

He said very clearly that he had a problem with what the NSA was doing for years while working there, so I think he's saying that he had felt obligated to do this for a long time, and so three months ago, he took a position that would give him the best access to the materials he thought we needed to see.

You should come work for my company, or the company I worked for last year. You won't have to work 80 hours per week (or even 50 or 60) to impress us. I don't think I've ever worked more than 45.

I would guess that they'll try to make an example out of him somehow.

They'll likely do something awful to him (like solitary confinement for years before having a trial). They'll do it in such a way that they can claim that it is part of their process while they "prepare their case", but they'll make it clear that if you do this, very bad things will happen to you.

However, I find it quite odd that these NSA leaks are coming out at the same time that Manning is finally going on trial.

Yeah, at least Bush was nice enough to lower income taxes.

However, you know all those stories about the Department of Homeland Security saying that they'll order billions and billions of rounds of hollow-point ammunition and do whatever they want to travelers crossing the border under the leadership of "Big Sis" Janet Napolitano, appointed by Barack Obama?

Bush created that damn monstrosity after 9/11. Feel safer, yet?

Benghazi is actually sort of like this Windows 8.

The powers that be screwed up, and they know they screwed up.

Yet, to the public, they pretend that nothing ever went wrong while trying to control the damage.

But then again, AFAIK, no one has died yet on account of Windows 8.

No, that is wrong.

The "Navajo Code" was a cipher that used Navajo words as part of the ciphering/deciphering process.

Hey now, even the first version of Windows 95 made you reboot to change the number of colors on the screen. It was only after they came out with an unsupported program called "PowerToys" that you could change the number of colors on the screen without rebooting!