And yet you are required to have homeowners or renters insurance to have a house/apt. By your logic, if your domicile never gets burgled or burns to the ground then all that money you are paying for insurance is money wasted.

Security systems of any kind are reactionary, they only act if Something Bad happens first. In other words, you don't WANT to actually use your security system or insurance, you just want them available and standing by to mitigate any damage that comes from whatever Bad Thing happened to disrupt your home.

You may consider that money wasted but when you compare the cost of insurance or a security system against the cost of a home invasion or fire you are actually saving money. It's all about measured and accepted risk. If you truly believe that money is wasted then don't pay for it; just don't come crying to me when your house burns down and your have no way to rebuild or pay off the bank loan on the pile of ashes you used to call a house.

Global Thermonuclear Apocalypse

How many people check the cert fingerprint? If the rogue cert has the a good root CA signature then most browsers will likely not flag it and that is probably as far as most users go towards verifying their SSL traffic is not being snarfed by a MITM attack.

Frank Herbert (Dune)

FTFY

Because little people don't matter.

Sharknado?

So War really is Peace then? Suddenly it all makes sense!

1. Unify a broad coalition of groups that ordinarily hate one another against a common external foe (that would be us).
2. Keep them pissed off at common foe long enough for regional grievances to subside (figure a few generations for complete effect)
3. ...
4. PROFIT!!!

Because we have been meddling in their internal affairs for the last 70 years.

How would you feel if some jerkwad (the USA) from across town inserted themselves into a dispute between you and your immediate neighbors (the Middle East)? What business do they have intervening in matters internal to your neighborhood? Now factor in the fact that the neighborhood douchebag (Israel) is said jerkwad's cousin and gets special perks and considerations because of it. Now how would you feel about the jerkwad from across town?

Personally I would resent their actions, see them as an intrusion into my autonomy and want them the fuck out of my affairs. I imagine that most folks in the Middle East take a similar point of view towards the US.

And that makes it all kosher right?

Because Shrub wanted to show daddy what a big boy he was by declaring unilateral war all by himself?

Kool-aid or single-malt scotch?

Ah, the reboot, cure of all Microsoft-related problems

But do you know whether or not RMS was charging for the software itself or the media (tape in your example) the software was distributed on?