And that's about all I ever really need or use. I suppose my behavior might change with better bandwidth (maybe I'd start downloading like a madman), but getting a 11ms ping on Battlefield 4 basically is all I care about.

So was I...until I got one. I found that tablets supplant maybe 90-95% (depending on your usage patterns) of what people consider the justifications for a laptop and does it *better*. Unless you truly need a mobile high-end computing environment (say, you're a student or admining a network), you'll probably find a plain old desktop and a really nice tablet are a good platform pairing.

For me, network admin at home (rarely needed), storing action camera video on the road, and the possibility of doing LAN parties (haven't in ages) are the only reasons that justify my laptop (and mine is too bulky for anything but LAN parties. I've even thought about selling mine and going with a cheap desktop and ultra-portable laptop.

...if they got rid of those ridiculous capacitive screens. My only criticism of my device was having to take notes in class with essentially a crayon.

The plate of discarded BBQ chicken parts I ate last night has more art in it that Warhol. Guy was an awful gimmick who somehow got himself to be taken seriously. I like art even some of the modern genres and I did check out his museum in Pittsburgh. Literally, there's a canvas where he pissed on wet paint. There's also a huge room of polaroids/photos of gay guys having sex. That's it, no composition no framing no nothing. I try to give every artist a chance, but how he got his name associated with great artists and American culture is incomprehensible.

Law enforcement (being allowed to lie) already uses the "we've had noise complaints" or "there was a X crime in the area" bullshit to harass people they have a "hunch" are up to no good. I got a (WWB) Walking While Black once at college before I knew what was up. Like a naive kid I started asking the cop about what happened and gradually realized he just made up the story as an excuse to run my ID.

Abuses are bad enough as it is. You can guarantee cops will use the anonymous tip to launch a search, then let the union and DA worry about the consequences on the rare chance a citizen gets "uppity".

You think that because you don't have a clue, hence your "it really seems" comment. Go look at the groups specifically targeted for AA by your college. This list at my alma mater included kids from economically advantaged communities and backgrounds in rural towns (which in Kansas means probably 99% chance of being White). AA also applies to women.

AA isn't about letting Forrest Gump into Yale. It's about people who *have* potential but haven't had the means to exercise it. Schools want the athlete with the 3.5 GPA not the sheltered bookwork with a 4.0. For example, you might have worked 40 hours a week to pay your way through college and thus your grades may have suffered. Now, for the sake of argument say a kid who didn't have to work, didn't participate in activities, probably had all his bills and car paid for by his parents, etc. shows up with a slightly higher GPA. Universities want that guy who's a hard worker *and* doing more with less. Remember, they want people who are going to go out into the workforce and produce both alumni revenue and reputation, not disappear into quiet government lab.

Another example, in my high school we had a girl who was just about a straight A student and took technical classes. In her senior year, a girl from another school enrolled who went to a school with AP classes (that we didn't have) in English and literature and didn't take any technical classes. Now, on paper one had a 4.0 GPA and the other had a 4.5 [sic] GPA. Who do you think a university wants?

It's silly to think that the enrollment process is so

Years back, my boss got a whole class C for a company with ~5 employees and network footprint nothing more than one website. Maybe they can get some of the corporations with class As to give some back? (yeah yeah I know)

Your answers are based on a normal civilian prosecution. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but can you imagine watching someone on drone footage assembling a dirty nuke in a camp in Afghanistan; someone who intel tells you wants to use it against the US. Is your answer, "OK we'll wait for them to enter the US *then* nab 'em." Should you lose them, the repercussions for "allowing" an attack to happen would be enormous. PERSONALLY, I am willing to accept that kind of risk. The vast majority of Americans are not.

The problem isn't the option of prosecution in normal civilian courts. It's being able to act proactively. Years ago, my answer to the problem was "well just make sure Congress has oversight." It's become apparent, that Congress doesn't want any of the responsibility, so they just sign off on whatever the President asks for.

Most of the commenters are ignoring the ambiguity of anti-terrorist operations when American citizens might be involved. Say, it's 1999 and Osama Bin Laden is spotted in an Al Qaeda camp sitting at his workbench building IEDs. Most Americans would scream for a drone strike.

Now, what if Joe Smith from Arkansas is sitting right next to OBL building IEDs? Now, lose OBL and it's just Joe the Terrorist from Arkansas in an Al Qaeda camp? How does the law apply? Most Americans seem perfectly fine with the idea of hitting terrorist organizations in whatever country supports them.

I have no clue what the answer is because I can see all kinds of loopholes where permissive laws could be abused.

There wouldn't be an impeachment if the Tea Party controlled both houses of Congress. One of the first things the Obama administration did was get Congress to sign off on everything they were doing including the illegal surveillance.

I respect your decision not to have kids, but I don't know if overcrowding is the counterargument. Overpopulation is more a problem in 3rd world countries where people still have big families as a traditional counter to high mortality rates.

From what I've heard they have to do a TON of reading. So, if you're acing your classes odds are you have very good time management skills as well as the ability to read quickly and produce comprehensive writings just as fast.

Lobbing shit into space with a huge failure rate is easy. Now, try doing it where the failure rate is acceptable enough to put an astronaut on your rocket.

Dude, he was being sarcastic