Judging on the way they handled Turing for his 'crimes' I suppose letting them know all about everybody's lives is just OK. After all only criminals and terrorists should fear.
  Oh wait they apologized afterward so all is well then....

I seriously doubt that he had anything to do with freeing me from tyranny. These were my fellow citizens who kicked the collective ass of communist party plus communist parties themselves by running their economies to the ground and seeing everything as danger to communist ideals thus suffocating all non-governemnt initiated activity except resistance. He happened to be just at the right spot to take the glory.
US were sick when he took office. I am not sure they recovered all that much unless of course you take that the status of US finances is perfect.

This is a bit OT but still. I saw a documentary about him not long time ago where they said that although he was a right wing anticommunist radical there were only 3 'marines sending events' at his watch - the smallest number since WWII. No wonder nobody likes US and US embassies have to look like fortresses. But hey this was apparently not his fault!

This and the antibiotics cooks in 3rd world do not have sewage processing plants for fluid waste from their production facilities. I mean the costs savings have to come from somewhere...

actually only napalm helps. Added bonus - after 12h constant application it smells like victory.

I think you did not read last memo - it is all Putin's.
But it us OK because his empire although very evil is just crumbling and unimportant.

You are probably right about insecurities in pin&chip but it is still better than what Muricans still have now?
The road of progress is long, boring and difficult.

Housing, food, drink and entertainment - one still need that and I do not see how this is going to be provided to people that have less work as he over-occupied uber-class (the one just below the owners of it all). If you do not provide that you will first need some powerful security forces - these could be quite automated so not so much occupation for a joe sixpack who will miss his sixpack altogether probably. Still even if masses cannot reach the 1% they still cause enough mayhem to make life of 1% unpleasant. So at the end - whatever happens there will be some jobs at controlling of the masses involving beating up the crap out of them and dealing with corpses. Gosh this can even be a ceiling for 'natural' civilizations.

So they found out that sometimes populations get stuck in situations without cooperation and that this is not beneficial for their payoff and for the population as a whole. So how is this showing cooperation is bad or impossible? It just shows that sometimes you get stuck and there is no way out. How does that calls cooperation into question? Only in /.tards eyes maybe?

if the grain of salt is too frequent it is bad for you too.
Just saying...

Actually I recall study that showed that most of the time - the more you work, the shorter your lifespan is. There are of course exceptions - working on own farm in a fresh air of Kaukasus was one. Working on a small farm in India is not.Or to put it bluntly - roof maker is not going to work till official legal pension age because of health issues, a white collar guy is not going to work till official pension age but his life is still going to be shorter and more miserable than those of the '1% elite' - those that can afford to work as much as they want and take care of their health when need be.

but but but all men are rapists! It is OT for this discussion but it seems to me that in some societies on this beautiful planet, a man approaching a woman must be in a company of a lawyer and a witness just in case things will be investigated. I think making sex between humans illegal, when at least one party does not have a witness and a lawyer at his/her side, is not far away.

but that is not how some understood it. Alco is no help - evil then!
BTW: I know the dark side of alco as I lost a friend and a member of a family to alcohol (or to late effects of misuse). But you can overindulge in almost anything. Humans are very inventive at that.

It may be that alcohol helps in surviving a party with all those people around, that either are too intellectual for their own good or are to silly to allow meaningful discussion. I have a comparison because I had to give up drinking some time ago due to health concerns.I did not have problems without a drink. I had a problem without a drink during parties. I found solution - I do not go to the parties anymore. I have more time and save money too - win,win!
I miss a glass of good wine and/or beer tho. The taste of it especially red wine - I liked it as it made the taste of my meals complete.

just to be sure - where did the summary use word 'cheat'?

in networking redundant is a base for constant amusement - all these people trying to figure out why loop protection software is not working or why certain things were switched off by loop protection software. It cannot really get better than this.....