I would say that this constriction of our Freedumz! was the actual goal of the attack.
Make us a pack of bedwetters begging Daddy for protections, liberty be damned.

"A Republic, Ma'am. If you can keep it." - BFranklin

You have it attached to your person as you are knocked to the floor. Pretty much a slam (your head) dunk (against floor).

Or at least lock the desktop.

You work for Sony Pictures, don't you?

You clearly don't understand business. Not like an MBA does.

/ Worked for an MSEE/MBA who couldn't design his way out of a paper bag, and thought the solution to low revenue from low sales due to high prices was to bump his per-sale margin from 200% to 300%. I questioned this move and that was the answer I got.

$150/mo is about what I'm paying for ISP/TV/DVR now.

/ other local providers suck just as hard, though.

This is China we're talking about. If you grease the right palms, it's the Wild West (East?).

Secret law enabling secret courts to charge and try you, in secret, and no one is allowed to say anything without thus becoming criminals themselves.

That ain't American, but that's where we've been for 13+ years now.

The National Security State will arrive, not with tanks and guns, but wrapped in the flag and carrying the word 'TERRORISTS!'

A tragedy is when I get a paper cut.
Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die.

When you can afford the very best (and totally amoral) marketing ...

If Voyager, MRO, Gallileo and Rosetta are spaceships, so is this busted pickup truck. .. or is the distinction you wish to draw between spaceSHIPs and spaceCRAFT?

We already knew that. They make the Koch brothers look honorable.

Who can afford better lobbyists, the ag industry or the dental?

Right on - you can hear what, seven octaves?
You can _see_ less than one, and there's lots of useful information outside that range. If some fundie complains that it's all lies because it has the word 'false' in it, ask them whether they believe infrared cameras show 'real' image. Same color-mapping principles.

Face it. We're a virus with shoes.
      -- Saint Hicks