1a. Use it as an excuse to increase ballistic missile defense without provoking China.

My brain usually turns off after "You wouldn't pay..." My response is, "You're right."

The most important phrase I ever learned to say is, "I don't know."

I'm sure all your friends in Equestria agree with you.

Because the US and Russia possess two orders of magnitude more nuclear weapons than China possesses. Even after reduction each will individually hold more than four times what China currently holds.

In male yoga we "center our beings" by being in the back row and not doing a whole lot of actual yoga.

This would never happen at Deandale! I mean Greendale!

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/18/227234/mcdonalds-denies-profs-claim-staff-attacked-him-for-wearing-digital-glasses

They are used to dealing with big publishers. It is no surprise to me that they can offer those big publishers huge discounts on volume pricing, because this is the type of thing that doing once has roughly the same cost as doing in huge bulk.

So no, I'm sorry, I don't swallow the whole "very expensive" line or the "12,500%" markup bullshit in TFA. It's not markup. It's the cost. And you can get huge discounts if you buy in bulk. Just like about everything you buy at Costco.

Which is to say EA hasn't learned at all. I'd love a new SimCity game, but I won't buy it in this state. So not only did they spend the money to make it unplayable, but they lost some numbers of sales. I am hard-pressed to believe the *real* losses from piracy (i.e. those who would buy the game, but don't) are greater than the losses they are creating for themselves.

Even at the very beginning our government was doing things at the expense of one group to reward another group. Whether that was for "the common good" was a secondary thought at best. And even when intentions were good, the results were not always so. See: the American Civil War.

The government didn't used to be this huge spender. Despite some smaller scale stuff earlier in history, that really didn't happen until we started using fiat money.

"The government" didn't invest in Tesla to benefit "the common good". Politicians invested in Tesla to get votes. They didn't care (or even necessarily expect) to get the money back.

I think you should actually read the article you linked.

If you truly believe such behavior is merely "a tad creepy" and that it isn't a problem, seek professional help. I'm serious. What this guy did to these networks is way less of a problem than your disturbing analogy.

The last time I saw someone "helpfully" checking doors in my neighborhood I called the cops. There is never a good reason to test the security of a stranger's house, or even a friend's house, unless they want you to do so. If you really care, write a damn pamphlet about home security and hand it out or mail it.

Getting back to the network... You only have the word of someone unscrupulous that they didn't commit further unscrupulous activities.

You read that as Ubuntu Touch Porn-a-Thon.