Not a problem. The US and Eritrea are pretty much the only countries in the world that taxes non-resident citizens. Usually I would question any policy only followed by a single other country, but in this situation I can see why a country might like to have such a policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Giving up your US Citizenship might help your unborn children's tax situation, but might not help yours:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"U.S. citizens who renounce their citizenship are subject under certain circumstances to an expatriation tax, which is meant to extract from the expatriate taxes that would have been paid had they remained a citizen: all property of a covered expatriate is deemed sold for its fair market value on the day before the expatriation date, which usually results in a capital gain, which is taxable income."

The entire point of everyone having a gun is so the GOVERNMENT is not safe - from the people.

Oh give it a fucking rest you American Gun Nut Anonymous Coward. The government has drones, warthogs and TANKS. You really think the Colt 45 you keep under your pillow and caress every night before falling asleep is going to make a difference?

Now go away and watch your VHS copy of Red Dawn again and leave the rest of us in peace.

Have you seen the Iraqi military in action lately?

Saudi Arabia has 200,000 active-duty military personnel, in a country led by old men who consider the middle ages to be a little too progressive for their liking.

Google Maps puts inappropriate weight towards making a route more complicated with short freeway hops

I wouldn't exclusively blame Google for this though.

I travel regularly to the USA on business, and I've used rental GPSes (Garmin / TomTom) as well as Apple and Google services on my phones. They all seem to do this equally - I'm always puzzled why I'm merging on and off in a 1/4 mile....

It's interesting how Joe Q. Public continues to think that their data and voice zips around the globe via satellites, when in reality the vast majority moves on our terrestrial networks.

Just last week I overheard someone commenting on how their text messages were going via satellite.

It is easy to look like victim and bully peoples [sic]

You just quote the parent in your reply and presto problem solved.

For me, one of the most interesting (yet seemingly ignored) cultural component is the droids.

In the Star Wars universe, Droids like Artoo and Threepio and, presumably, millions of others, are self-aware and intelligent. They appear to feel physical pain and have emotions like happiness, fear and sadness.

Yet as near as I can see in the canon, droids have no rights whatsoever. They can be bought and sold, ordered to their death, kidnapped by Jawas, melted, sent to the spice mine of Kessel or smashed into who knows what.

...and don't me started on restraining bolts.

I for one look forward to staring face to face at strangers

What in the picture of the config suggests you'll be staring face-to-face?

Try 18 hours Melbourne (aus) to London. Overnight.

Well, when you consider it used to take 3-4 weeks (by ship) this feels like an improvement to me.

This design violates current social norms for personal space. As such I dislike it.

Did you RTFA? In the picture, the people next to you are further away than they are today, and you're not looking directly at anyone.

This was pretty funny: "Earlier this week, North Gulf Air based out of Atlanta GA announced they will now be charging passengers for not only the weight of their bags but for their personal body weight as well. For a base fare of $29.00 passengers will be allowed to travel anywhere in the United States with a total of 90lbs, but after that it will cost customers $2.50 per additional pound. "

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisis...

Note that "This is That" is a satire radio program - the podcast it pretty good.

The original poster should probably just do this - log into the account (maybe by resetting the password) and then reset the email address to something else - maybe you can find out from the web interface the name and address and phone number of the person who screwed things up - call them and tell them their new password. If the system requires some validation to reset the email address, use an address at https://mailinator.com/ or another similar place.

You are right that I would probably feel insulted, but if I responded to their letter saying "we are not in the same business, there is no infringement, I don't need a license" that in itself would probably satisfy their need to defend their trademark. If their response was, "sorry, it looks like there is infringement, you really need a license" I might actually consult a lawyer.

The offer could be more of a cross-liscencing deal with no money needing to change hands.

Remember, this is under the assumption that there really is some actual need to defend the trademark. If some company actually spent money on a stamp and a polite request to make sure the "Juvenile Base for Egregious Dumb Asses" was not confused with "j-beda", I might be open to a disclaimer on my website.A rude demand with threats from random bed manufacturer who wants me to just turn it over without question, not so much.

I think that is not completely true. A simple exchange of letters and perhaps an explicit licence for a nominal sum ($1 for example) or a memorandum of agreement that the potential infringer will not enter into the domain that the trademark coveres would probably be sufficient to defend the trademark. And significantly less expensive.

This type of behaviour is stupid if they are merely trying to defend their trademark.

Oh come on, every Windows installation slows down with usage, to the point of requiring to be formatted.

Incorrect. I'm writing this on a circa-2012 consumer grade HP PC, running Win 7. Performs the same as the day it arrived here and it's never been reformatted / rebuilt.

At work I've been running my first-gen Surface Pro daily since Spring of 2013. No reset, no reformat.