Righteous anger isn't always as Righteous or helpful as you'd originally thought. That's why we have a constitution, bill of rights, etc... To protect us from the whims of an angry fickle public when short term popular opinion may not be in the best interest of the long term health of the country. Amending the constitution takes a long time for a reason. DHS and other 3 letter agencies can only use 9/11 to subjugate us for so long... eventually the fear will fade, and get replaced outrage. History will not be kind to those that built, supported and continued agencies like the DHS and the NSA.

You mean like this ?

No-one that knows anything about mechanics would be impressed. It would be pretty sad if any sort of weather could hard your under-water RC boat. Even Babies have survived rides in Tornadoes after all.

It's an $800 phone
Proprietary store (you can't install standard google apps and I doubt your old apps will move to this phone)
Performance is about Equal or slightly better to existing phones you can get for $1 on contract like my HTC one(M8) or the Galaxy S5
Only new feature is "3D" which, like very "3D" offering in every other product to date, it's not actually 3D, it's fairly annoying, a gimmick and will get turned off within hours of getting the phone.

So you'd buy this why?

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my kindle. I shop on Amazon all the time and like it. The fire tablets were cheap when there weren't many cheap tablets out there. But this phone is DOA.

At least they're doing something constructive with their projects for once. As fun as the empty cities might be for film makers and urban spelunkers they're otherwise a huge waste. Maybe we can get China to build a space elevator!

So violence against me, is ok because I weigh and extra 30lbs than you?

Oh wait, that's right, it's my fault because I'm a man an should have fought back?

Fuck you. Violence is wrong. Not violence against women, not violence against children... just plain violence, without any modifiers, is wrong.

Right, so Google will issue them a refund plus $5 for wasted electricity over the life of the phone and everyone will go on with their lives?

You've got that backward. One group can, at worst, buy porn with your CC number... the other, at worst, will fly you to a random country, torture you for months and then dump your lifeless corpse in the Ocean. I'm more concerned about the 3 letter agencies thank you.

Who's liable when they roll into the parking lot of the local Best Western and do the same thing?

Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.

And how many Starbucks owners do you see in federal prison?

That's why I don't do voice chat. Letting random strangers whisper in your ear is a terrible idea.

I'm male, I've had men threaten all the same bullshit you just said. I think what women mis-understand about men is that men do this to men as well. I've been violently assaulted by other men before. In highschool I was put into the hospital. The "perpetrators" didn't even get suspended. I've had my tires slashed, guys show up at my house with baseball bats wanting to fight only to find out I'm armed to the teeth and that bats not going to do them much good.

I know a lot of guys don't get that sort of thing, but a lot of us do. Women aren't the only victims, and turning male violence into a womens issue is somewhat insulting. Men don't talk about it like women do because of social stigma, but it's a real problem. In the workplace if a man even smiles funny at a women he's walked out the door. The same man threatens violence against another man and it's treated as a joke. At least women have some legal and social protections. If you don't think it's true, here's a thought experiment for you... a Man shows up at work with a black eye... what's your first reaction? Now a woman shows up with a black eye... why should your reaction be any different based on their sex?

3 phase requires the return by code. Technically however, you are correct. That's just for safety and I often question if it makes any sense myself.

3 phase makes electric motors more efficient, and that's it. Technically, you could have as many phases as you could imagine having... each making the motor a tad more efficient. But they are not "smoother" and don't improve transmission.

'Phase' is often considered by some to be some magic property of electricity that somehow makes it better... it's not at all. It's a purely mechanical feature that's revolves around generators and motors. 2 phase means there are 2 electro magnets on the motor. 1 to the north, 1 to the south. When the North magnet is near and electro magnet that magnet goes to +120v and by contrast the south is at -120v. When you have 3 phase it increases efficiency by having an extra electro magnet. So now north is at +120v, but there are now 2 electro magnets to the south that are both 1/3rd of the way from that south pole and therefor at -60v each... It's a purely mechanical distinction and has no affect on anything other than the mechanical operation of motors.

Oh yea, and you can get 3 phase in the US. I got it, and most welding/milling shops have it as well.

How problematic is a 60yr old vial of likely dead virus anyway?

And they were sealed in melted glass? Come on...
Sounds like a BS "Panic! Your life is in danger!" story to distract us from the worlds real problems.

Example?

That's where we're at?
I see this garbage all the time... and I never understand it. Growing up my father ran a factory and was damned good at it. His people showed up on time, did great work, had low scrap and were very productive. How did he manage this amazing feat? Minders that followed you everywhere in the factory? Discreet blood samples taken hourly? No...

They had stats. That's it. You produce X parts per week. Go way above that get a bonus, go way bellow that, you get fired. If everyone is getting bonuses the stats would rise... if everyone was getting low stats they'd first check for procedural problems that might be hindering peoples work and baring that they'd lower their expectations. It worked marvelously well... people would think of ways to go faster and bring them up... because it meant a bonus until everyone else caught on. Anything that made production harder was immediately reported because people wanted their bonus.

Damn near every successful factory in the country works this way. Do the same thing for code. What my father always said was "They could spend 7hrs in the bathroom every day... I don't care... if they can come out at hit 1000% efficiency that last hour to make up the difference it's fine with me. But they better keep in mind their peers are going to eventually figure out how they pulled it off and change the curve."