OpenVPN can use any port and is not detected as regular VPN communication, and can thus bypass firewalls that blocks VPN communication.

What Anonymous/LulzSec do (a good percentage of the time) is illegal anyways, yes? Why the crap do we need new laws when what they do is already criminal?

A growing tactic among the ruling elite is to accuse the political opposition of insulting the king, allowing for censorship and political imprisonment of those who dare speak out.

This entire disaster has been framed as a failure of nuclear power almost every time it comes up. People don't seem to say this was a failure of management or engineering in these discussions.

Well, a corporation's primary allegiance is to its shareholders,not to any random consumer, and their first task is to turn a profit, not to be the Goodie Good Guys.

Nice Guys Finish First (BBC Horizon television series) is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game. The film is approximately 45 minutes long and was produced by Jeremy Taylor.

As to your first point, I think that's the most logical option. Or would you rather contract that out to the lowest bidder?

As to the second, I can think of plenty. Say that whatever Japan's equivalent of CNN or Fox News runs the story "Fukushima to explode with force of 20 gigatons in 20 minutes, will obliterate most of Honshu". Mass panic erupts, and everyone tries to flee. Instant recipe for stampeding deaths, car wrecks, etc. With 100 million people trying to evacuate, you're going to get significant casualties. Or perhaps the alternate. Major news networks start saying "Fukushima completely safe, radiation is well below detectable levels. People start moving back in. Then there's another accident at the reactor, and BAM. Massive radiation leak in an area that is no longer evacuated.

No, I am saying that if "speech > weapons" and "limited regulation of weapons is acceptable", then "limited regulation of speech is acceptable". The key there being "limited" - the only time I want freedom of expression curtailed is when it would otherwise cause significant harm and/or death.

In "Debt of Honor", Clark and Chavez blind the pilots of a Japanese AWACS. They also use it several times to incapacitate guards. Their device was a 1kW light flash though, so I suppose this new invention is a bit more efficient.