Says the guy that has no clue what Libertarians believe.

It's about liberty... including liberty from business and even other citizens. Anyone that understood and followed libertarian ideals would want this sort of practice stopped.

What you're talking about are anarchists.

My understanding is that they mail it to you... you drive around a bit and mail it back. Not quite the same thing.

I'm pretty sure everyone DOES want to be a successful indie dev like notch... the problem is the chances of that happening are pretty slim. I don't do "games" so I'm not really in that boat, but I am a musician however. I'm damn good to. The problem isn't that you're not good enough, or don't put in enough time... there are plenty of people that are very smart, very creative, and put in enormous amounts of time. What has to happen is that what you are interested in and doing has to, completely by random, end up being the "Thing" one year.

How many silly puzzle games were there before Tetris took off? It wasn't that tetris found some magical formula that, if discovered a few years earlier would have gotten just as huge. It's the combination of the programers skill, the design of the game, the hardware coming out at the right time and most importantly, the publics fickle interests just so happened to swing in the right direction at the same time that game came out.

In music, if you were a Banjo player in the 80s and 90s, you'd be hard pressed to find work. Fast forward to todays music sceen and even pop starts are featuring Banjo in the background... who'd have thunk it. How are you supposed to prepare for something like that? It takes 10yrs to get good at an instrument. But the time you do, public interest has shifted.

Luck is the most important part of commercially successful art. As such, being an independent is very risky.

The Russians don't have the complete Snowden Archive. Not even Snowden has it. It was passed over to 3 journalists in hong kong before he left.

You're proving his point. Miyamoto didn't even know how to code at the time. The real programmers names are lost to time.

You've no idea how many times I've finished a big project, walked into the presentation meeting and had whomever my boss was at the time, who had been at hooters during most of the project and use phrases like "It was a lot of work but I'm glad you like what I have done.

And of course, as soon as there's an error somewhere... he didn't write that bit... it was me. :-)

I'm the biggest privacy nut there is... but figuring out when I'm coming and going? come on... 8am to 5pm I'm at work. Wow! You've totally just invaded my privacy!!!

No, the real issue is what the NSA is doing. They're reading my damned mail, listening to my calls. This story and others like it are just red herrings to make us think we're addressing privacy issues when all we're doing is changing how consumer products operate. I don't care if Google knows more about be so they can better target ads at me. The real problem is the information being collected by the government with the goal of capturing, imprisoning, torturing and even killing their targets.

Once the NSA is no longer an agency, I'll care about Google. Until then, if I'm concerned, I'll just not use their products. How do I "not use" the NSA?

Right, the US has gone completely off the rails in recent years. "oh, this guy stole some credit card numbers... Let's kidnap him, fly him out of the country and try him in some random court outside the country! Yea! Go USA!"

Seriously? It'd be one thing if he blew something up... but credit card fraud?

Thats not relevant. If criminals figured out how to smuggle drugs deep inside a thier brain stems, that wouldn't give the government the excuse to put up road blocks and perform brain surgery on everyone that happened by.

Right... the problem isn't SSNs, or even the security of them... it's the fact that creditors will ruin your credit over the internet with nothing more than a 9 digit number and having never met you in person or even mailing you a letter. The majority of SSN fraud is done on the SSN of people who are dead. And not like "died last month" as in, dead for decades or even longer. The creditors don't even check to see if you're still alive before issuing a loan. There are more rigorous checks on your identity when you sign up for an online game than there are for getting a $50k loan. It's nuts.

I'd suspect those rocket scientists planned to, oh, I dunno, put GPS satellites into orbit around mars prior to landing the rover?

I love everyone. Give me a hug.

OR... you could just walk around as you type throwing off their algorithm and not introduce another overly complicated and insanely annoying security feature that would simply push people into not securing their devices at all.

put down the joint and re-read my post, very very slowly.

I'd just do it anyway. Fuck them, let them sue me. If they took me to court and made me take it off, I'd ware a "Fuck DC Comics" Tshirt as I chiseled it off my dead sons gravestone by hand over a period of days and invite every media org in the country to tape me while I did it.

The circumstances of their original detention are often a mystery. Many of the Guantanamo detainees were captured by locals and literally sold to the US Military. In many cases they have testimony of the group that captured these guys, but many question if it was more of a local dispute and one sect was trying to get another detained... etc... So your question is hard to answer in that way.

In 16 cases however, the only still existing physical evidence against those detainees is the watch that was found on them when they were captured. So is it the only evidence against them? Not really... there's questionable eye witness testimony from people that could likely never be found again if they're even still alive that was relayed to random military personnel in the middle of a war zone. But in the case of all Guantanamo detainees, the burden of proof is on the prisoner. They are required to prove they are not terrorists. They've no access to lawyers, research, the internet, newspapers and often the evidence against them is "Classified" so they're not even allowed to view that.

What's worse is, you don't even need to have a watch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

They accidentally captured a German car salesman. Flew him out of the country, tortured him for months. Realized he was the wrong guy, but kept him anyway. The only reason he's still alive is because Condoleezza Rice accidentally found out about him and immediately ordered his release. You don't even need to have a scary looking watch. Simply being detained, and knowing how the process works is a threat to national security, so if they capture you by mistake, they'll hold you forever so you can't reveal what happened.