only because they fight their wars IN their neighbors borders. See Lebanon and Syria. Also note that they manage to not have a civil war against another sect, see Syria.

Ok, they're also not as culturally backward as Egypt or some of their neighbors, unless you count their leadership.

Actually the problem with Iran has nothing to do with the US. Iran and similar countries are thoroughly dysfunctional without needing any reference to the US, see Syria.

All utter failures of authoritarian messes and delusions need to declare normal countries their enemy, otherwise their captive populations would demand a system like ours that wasn't Kafka's worst nightmare.

president caused ebola.

educational materials to be published at all.

I buy a reference book and only read the chapter I need for a current job, then the author is only compensated for 1/20th of what I paid Amazon and Amazon gets the rest?

Someone sue Amazon publishing so hard that they can't find their god damn feet ok?

Not true. I'm a generation after the Beatles and all of my friends in high school knew all of their music and had all of their lyrics memorized.

And if you really care you can get good digital copies of their music though the sources are odd. For instance the best copy of Abby Road is from the initial Japanese CD release (one of the first CDs ever made)... They were slapped down and told they didn't have the right to release it by the parent company, but since digital is eternal, there are flac files out there.

A few overplayed artists aren't on Apple, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Also you can't even get good version of, say "The Beatles" on cd since the record companies made them fatal victims of the loudness war after stealing their music.

I buy lots of Dells. But they usually break in the first month and have to be fixed or replace.

I know mine must be an anomalous experience or they'd be out of business. But the do sell a lot of defective electronics. Maybe they don't do any burn in.

Report them!

Comcast in the Bay Area disables routers when you torrent. You have to go unplug the router and plug it back in. It has nothing to do with legality, I've had it happen when torrenting Linux distributions.

Since I shared a router and didn't have access to unplug it, I had to rent a vpn proxy so I could torrent without tripping this.

etc

You're so full of it!

Can I has understand how exponents work? Kthanks!

It's this generation's Rocky and Bullwinkle. Seriously this is Bullwinkle ;)

Time to scale back the pointless spying. Also we spied on Merkel! Did we also spy on Angelina Jolie's shower? Because that would be even more convenient, also useless.

spies. So if they're still in trouble despite having years to prepare for this, whose fault is that?

I was 100% sure this would happen. Yes there are a number of ways it could have happened, but in the end they knew who had the keys. You point a gun at the person and say "tell me the password," encryption "cracked." Or you show that person a picture of their niece, father, first love whatever and then a few pictures of people you've torture to death. Encryption "cracked". Or you put a keylogger chip in a keyboard on a computer known to have the codes. Encryption "cracked". Or ... who cares. The information was high value, they knew where it was. They knew who had the keys. None of it and no one was protected by serious security.

And maybe the password was breakable. Even if he used 256 bit encryption, if he used a phrase that was too small, then, dummy. Whatever the outcome was assured from the beginning, because Russian intelligence and Chinese intelligence are the sort of people who will spend a million dollars to poison someone with polonium just to make a point.

but not fingernail clippers or water, so SUCCESS! Why do we have security again? Is it all a puppet show?