One of my high school History teachers said the same thing about WWII. And he was minus one finger from when he was in France in that war. Beyond the scope of WWII, I'm dubious about that reaction continuing.

Where do criminals get guns? The overwhelming majority of them are stolen from mostly law-abiding, legal gun owners.

> the US has the most fucked up justice system anywhere in the western world. Can't really argue with that: it does have the highest recidivism rate in the world. source: http://www.salve.edu/sites/def... 25% of the world's prison population while only having 5% of the world's population, and the worst track record for correcting criminals. It naturally follows that the US also spends a lot more money than any other nation on prisons (feel free to look that up, I didn't. But since states in the US spend almost four times as much on prisons as they do on schools, I'm confident in my deduction.), and it would behoove us to divert a good percentage of that money into properly implemented rehabilitation. It doesn't really matter what nation's efforts we emulate, as our ranking couldn't get any worse on that measure. But think about how much money we could save if just 10% of the people we send to prison currently were to never get sent back a second or third or eighth time, and they were able to become contributing members of society.

How much are these agencies/countries now going to expect to be taken seriously when they find that China, Korea, Japan, Russia, or Lesotho have embedded some form of spyware in the electronics they sell us, and make an attempt to shame them for it or claim damages? They'll just roll along and do what they were doing before because they don't see any difference from how we treated them when we weren't at odds with them. The world has just been handed yet another example of how Brits and Americans can't be trusted, and actually deserve to be spied upon and stolen from. The fourth amendment shouldn't stop at our borders, since it is a limitation placed on government, not a perk that is only given to citizens. If you read it, it says "the rights of the people...." There's a similar concept in English Common Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

I bet it's going to be a PS4 controller.

KDC's lawyer probably advised him that getting involved in those cases would make him appear guilty, and despite not being factual, would still have an impact on jury deliberations. With all the data and assets of the company being seized by the US, would he even have the cash to afford defending the employees? Sure sounds like dirty prosecutorial tactics: deny the defendants access to their own income and property so they will have a hard time putting up a defense.

His rant against water-saving toilets was pretty cringe-worthy as well.

"The ECPA was written in 1986 and its provisions have been used by law enforcement to claim the right to access emails older than 180 days without a probable cause warrant." With that kind of logic, wouldn't they have the right to search, without a warrant, anything that you've owned for more than 180 days? Since when has there been an expiration date on the expectation of privacy?

"Consumers today also rely more heavily on big-box chains" Aren't Staples and Office Depot included in the definition "big-box chains"?

Isn't that how Transcendance started? Do we have to worry about a computer-translated Steve Jobs healing the sick, reversing pollution, and turning people into his little tools?

> So you would rather have a few incidents like what happened in France? How much planning did they need to do online for two brothers to walk into an office with a couple rifles? Just what online snooping could have prevented that? If they had been dumb enough to send messages online regarding their plans, it wouldn't look like "Terrorist Leader sends you Allah's greetings! You Terrorist Brothers are to meet Lefty at corner of Trois and Main at 1:30PM Wednesday for purchase of Terrorist Rifles. Then, on Thursday at 10:30AM take them to the Target Infidel Newspaper Office at 123 Napoleon Blvd and perform Terrorist Attack on the Infidels." so much as it would look like: "Meeting with Charlie at 10:30, Thursday. Don't be late, and bring snacks." No amount of online surveillance will make that look like something they need to take action on.

Yikes, who knows what kind of things would happen if the Russians ever get their hands on a nuke! We've got to stop them from developing nucular weapons at all costs, or they'll corrupt our precious bodily fluids!

The military gets dozens of satellite launches a year for surveillance crap that isn't needed. If THOSE satellites were of any real use, we really wouldn't need to be spending more on defense than the next 7 largest military spending nations *combined* to keep ourselves safe.

He has already published at least one article decrying the poor state of technology and performance of electric cars - why would he write an article that contradicts his already published opinion with pesky real facts? He's got a point to make, dammit!

The incubation period for the flu is two days - just not physically possible for you to get the flu from the vaccination in that period of time. I noted that you said sick and not "with the flu"... so you are most likely sensitive or allergic to something in that vaccination, and you just haven't found out what you're allergic to yet.