Just because the government hasn't immediately confiscated something from you does not mean that there is no long term plan to do so.

Furthermore, the aim of the powerful is to preserve their power. If their agenda is met without sparking malcontent by taking toys away then they will let you have all the toys that don't matter.

What are the toys that matter? Well the tools, lobby group connections and access to finance required to run a presidential campaign for starters.

What was Bitcoin's value two years back from today? And which stock index, mutual fund or hell even stock has outperformed that?

That analogy is useful, however with the rubber sheet example there is the force to time misrepresented analogy. That ant example is just changes the time analogy to bring motion rather than force, and is also flawed thus. There really isn't a way to understand relativity without, well, understanding relativity.

Not that I have any idea what I'm taking about.

Why buy it? Surely there are open source options for that sort of thing?

And about as scary as a teddy bear.

Math fail.

Canadians and Mexicans don't like being walked over regardless whether they are staying in low cost accommodation or not.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/62261-direct-metal-laser-sintering-used-3d-print-working-metal-pistol/

You were saying?

ring ring
Honda Clarity FCX

Wow. It's rate to see genuine insight into positive relationship management these days. The norm today seems to be "if you're dealing with an asshole, be a bigger asshole until they give up". Unfortunately, it seems that the obvious flaw in this world view has been lost.

What am I saying? STFU, we don't need your stinkin' advice around here!

Enough with the deadpan humour.

No, I don't, but I missed it by 1 haha.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4038271&cid=44444445
Oh well.

So if your friends like webmail and want to be secure, set up your own community mail server using SSL protected RoundCube backended with whatever IMAP server you like. The UI is easily as good as most webmail providers, and they get the added benefit that all mail between them won't leave the server and SSL ensures that the mail is protected.

SSL protected RoundCube is the easiest way for a group of friends to securely communicate.

Self-signed certs and trivial user training for all those who care about privacy. Anyone cluey enough to know privacy is a problem is cluey enough to be able to add a cert to their browser.

The answer: Don't use cloud.
OwnCloud. Zimbra. Jitsi. OpenSIP. All of these allow for strong encryption.

What do we need commercial cloud services for again?