The article you referenced mentions:

Better the microbiome be out of whack than the macrobiome.
(see the Alt-Text for the less pleasant gut fauna transfer method)

So, the iceberg part is actually irrelevant. The ball could be anywhere.

Thanks. Seems "troll" is sometimes used when someone simply doesn't like what you say (or doesn't under stand it). I don't know whether to be sad or annoyed in those situations. In *this* case "off topic" might have been appropriate, as I was intending it as a funny comment to something in anther post, but not related to the main story, though people sometimes use that mod because they, apparently, simply have a stick up their ass.

In any case, I wasn't slamming systemd, even though I'm pretty sure it's a bad idea or, at least, a bad implementation - hmm, Lennart wrote it, so probably both. (see, that's a slam) :-)

The same can be said about masturbation. Doesn't mean it's better than actual sex w/someone else.

So far, the alternatives are a garden gnome from Canada, I mean, Texas, an ophthalmologist that can't spell "education" from Kentucky, or a really thirsty Floridian.

(That beer is looking mighty refreshing...)

Although, for some perspective, from Wikipedia for Glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor):

Sure, it's *way* more rare, but treatment options suck. My wife Sue died of this in early 2006, just 7 weeks after diagnosis - her only complaint was a persistent headache and mild disorientation. Remember Sue...

No it doesn't not for everything or even most things. You're over-thinking things and conflating the important with the unimportant, the big things with the little. Stop sweating the little things.

I used to get more worked up about things, like you apparently are, but then in late 2005, after 20 years together, my wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died, literally in my arms, just 7 weeks later. I heard her last breath, felt her last heartbeat and learned what the word "forever" means.

So, having my NYT or /. connection encrypted isn't really that important - my banking connection, yes, but I try to keep everything in perspective. The scenarios you've described lack some of that.

I'm not "intellectually lazy" I just know what is and is not important - for me anyway.

Also, entities like Google are not encrypting their connection to protect your privacy, it's to protect their revenue stream, so third-parties cannot skim ad/search information w/o paying Google for it.

The movie and recording industries use those for accounting purposes.

I disagree that Everywhere is a great idea. Seriously, does it really matter if an NYT article or /. is delivered securely, or 99.9% of search queries?

According to Google Drops Plus Sign from Search Operators

Thanks Chris Hardwick - FTW was fun. :-)

Everything will work fine until something, like an explosion, happens. Then the system will suffer from post-pneumatic stress syndrome.

And when your fitness tracker and car decide you haven't exercised enough, the car refuses to start and tells you, "walk to the store fat, lazy bum" ...

Perhaps Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus that makes an animated skull and cross-bones appear on the pilot's view screen - "ar, ar, ar" - 'cause he did it in Independence Day - to an *alien* space ship. Why would human airships be any less secure? It's possible, just not very probable...

Probably true and, by that, I imagine you mean that people will die for their religion. I have no problem with that, but with people dying because of someone else's religion or (possibly warped) religious beliefs.