If you can substitute the term "white male" into your premise and suddenly find it offensive, then was actually racist/sexist all along.

"a project that passes the test must feature at least one function written by a white male developer, that calls a function written by another white male developer. "

So... does that offend you? Why?

But even your argument had any truth to it, the question then becomes: where will the Russia gets the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and huge amount of materiel to lose again stepping on the same rake?

Well, it does have over 2 million men in reserve.

More importantly, Finland has a conscription army. Should Russia come calling, I wonder how many Finns would actually fight back? The economy is getting from bad to worse and all the budget cuts are hitting hardest those already weakest and most vulnerable. Add some recent high-profile tax refugees, and the question "Why should I shed my or anyone else's blood over this country?" is getting harder and harder to answer.

A welfare state can trust conscription, since it has done something to earn people's loyalty. But Finnish politics have shifted to the right, and continue to do so, so why wouldn't someone who's told to risk their life for it make a business analysis and cut their losses?

You dont have to upgrade the entire grid. These businesses are already using power, using solar to offset that and pipe some back to the surrounding users requires no upgrades to the current grid.

Why not the far simpler and more beneficial Grid tie syncing systems? They work great and will let the power generated spread out to others that dont have the money for a solar installation. It causes the benefits to reach out further.

Eliminate the batteries, system is simpler, and benefits more. It's a win,win,win, anger republicans which is another win.

No it doesnt defeat any security. It requires both machine to be pre infected to begin with, and the data rate is less than 1 bit per minute.

Just like the "hack using computer speakers" just install this malware first...

It's an interesting out of band communications process, a very very VERY slow one... but still interesting.

Whew....

General Ackbar and "its a trap" is ok then in the security line....

Not only that. my daughter does not want kids, she wants to have her tubes tied, but she cant because of laws not allowing voluntary sterilization of women younger than 25.

Hows that for some fucked up laws?

Because they encouraged the monopolies.

Franchise agreements were the first part, LEGAL contrasts with cities and states to keep competitors out with higher entrance costs and kickbacks.

Reminder: Finland is not a member of NATO. It's not an enemy of Russia like NATO is.

Rather, it's a potential target for conquest.

And Russia and NATO are not enemies. They're each other's best friends. Without Russia, how could NATO recruit new members or justify military spending? Without NATO, how could Russia distract its people from bad leadership?

Just look at how lost the entire global economy has been for the last few decades without Cold War creating endless demand. Look how desperately a few cave-dwelling barbarians have been dressed up as a serious threat. But non-secularized religions are too likely to act rather than just talk, even when they can get their act together, which they usually can't. If global capitalism is to be saved, what we need is a new Red October.

Luckily, Putin seems hell-bent on following in the footprints of the last tsar, so it's mainly a race between which country's populace gets tired of economic troubles first.

If you paid $1000 in taxes...

$600 went to buy bullet to kill people.
$200 went to pay for operation costs for government
$100 went to pay for infrastructure
$50 went to pay for social programs (Education is a social program, damn poor wanting to learn) ......

$0.05 of your taxes went to NASA and science.

As a country we value killing people way way above science.

We only had a couple of skilled admins, all the rest were brain dead MCSE's that barely knew how to plug in power cords.

But they were CHEAP! A lot cheaper than hiring people with actual skills and experience.

look, if you feel so strongly, why not just report it to the MODS?

We could fund it the same way we fund class action lawsuits: By giving the lawyers a big slice of the penalty if they win, and nothing if they lose. That way Google would end up funding their own prosecution, and no tax dollars would be needed.

Google would also fund its own defence. I'm not sure if giving FTC effectively unlimited resources would be a good idea, since wouldn't it basically allow them to do the RIAA?