...caused me to look fondly, once more, at Keks, my dog.C'mon boy, lick my hand !

Amen, bro.

In a New York Times article, Snowden reacts, stating:

"“I acted on my belief that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights. It is the first of many.”"

Ever heard of the meme "correlation is not causation", dude ?

That is not how beehives are made. I should know, I grew up as the son of a beekeeper. It is the "CNC milling" part in this initiative that may make it fail. Beekeepers have other things to do, and are often too money-stretched, than to invest in such equipment.

Thing is, already 35 years ago the first waves of Varroa mite swept over Europe and killed a bazillion beehives all over the continent. And we still don't have any insight into what CCD exactly is, what combination of factors it is caused by, what factors favorize it. We just and only gained some insight into how Varroa spreads. Apis carnica has hard times ahead...

Yeah, you can anonymously check out the source code from our SVN server, located near the big black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. Please take into account, however, that network latency may delay your project, although network jitter is near-inexistant.

This is the beginning of the end, much more than the end of the beginning, for Twitter. How sad I may find it - I DO think that this sort of ultra-commercial moves will induce a company that was, until recently, a start-up, to be technology conservator rather than an innovator. Interesting times at Twitter are over....

F*****g hell. Now you cast me into depths of doubt: am I a monkey or an ape. I *do* have some sort of tail, but then again, it seems to hang on the wrong side ?

"The world's most free" ?? That is a joke. If and when the journalists of a country - the journalists, for crying out loud - stop to mention certain topics on the phone because their government might be interested in the conversation, then that country is by all standards modern NOT free.

...there is hope for me, a code monkey !

Experienced this ( or something rather similar ) in a deep rock fissure in the Mauritanian Sahara. I had hiked through the desert for days, and finally found this place very, very far away from any human being. For five nights, I slept in there - that is: I tried. The silence drove me mad: I had to go outside to find sleep amid wind-generated, soft noise.

There is also the citation from Job, in the Bible, who has retired to a very lonely place to mourn: "The beatings of my heart subdue me with terror."

I do. Alas, the link points to a newspaper article in Dutch: You will need to copy and paste into Google Translate, I guess . And my memory failed me: the man had € 600,000 with him, not € 30,000.