Federal government is federal. LEOs are, in most cases, paid for by local and state governments. There are a few exceptions (DHS, FBI), but one could make the argument they

1) don't contribute much to day-to-day safety anyway
2) shouldn't really constitutionally exist to begin with (DEA, I'm looking at you)

Rijndael and RSA are both deterministic. However, your implementation may be adding a random salt/initialization vector to the plaintext pre-encryption. I'm not sure why it would be doing this without being asked, especially in ECB mode, but I'm not familiar with BouncyCastle.

RSA encryption and decryption are both just modulo exponentiation by the public and private parts of the key. No random there.

The AES algorithm is slightly more complicated, and I don't have time to fully analyze it, but it is also deterministic. The issue is somewhere in BouncyCastle and how you're calling it. (AES was designed to be fast. Cryto-quality RNGs are really slow and complex: it wouldn't make sense to use one)

I understand how that is true, in a sense, but in another very "real" sense, your processor is imperative. Function calls are just a clever trick played on you by your compiler, your standard library, and some assembly macros.

(Well, unless you're running on a Reduceron or something.)

But there's no need to make the copyright on BSD-licensed stuff go away, for exactly the reason you described: you can make closed-source derivative works.

hindsight is 20/20

Go back and read the rest of the comment before you complain about it.

The US Constitution overrides state law, if the Supreme Court feels like it that day.

Incorporation

Although it looks like all of Amendments 1-8 (with 2 clauses of exception, related to excessive bail and right to a jury in a civil trial) have been held to apply to the states, the 9th and 10th have not.

Probably they tried to hide it. It looks like this breach took a month to expose? You can't backdoor a system without having a backdoor, and with sufficient scrutiny that's going to show up.

You appear to be right in the specific case, (which surprised me), but you're completely wrong in the general case. Most prototypes are given Y designations. For example, the F-22 started life as the YF-22, while the X-22 is a V/STOL technology demonstrator, not an air superiority fighter.

The production energy may be the same for a bioreactor vs. PV, but what he's saying is, the bioreactor has a longer lifetime to amortize production costs against.

What makes the muscle I pay to enforce my contracts with taxes inherently better than independently contracted muscle?

He can do that now too. Occasionally does, by accident. (OK, perhaps salmonella in peanut butter and mad cow disease aren't poison per se. Close enough.) Incredibly bad for business, I might add.

I will admit to not having actually read Adam Smith as such. I feel virtually certain he has a quote I can use to answer this, but 5 minutes with The Wealth of Nations and firefox search was not enough to uncover it. Those economists in the Austrian school, at least, would however disagree vehemently.

The whole point of an Invisible Hand is that maintenance of order will arise spontaneously from chaos, because order benefits everyone. All the externally imposed order of government does is force men into a pattern that is slightly unnatural.

The 1st Century Pax Romana wasn't actually peaceful. In fact, in that time the Romans conquered all of England, large parts of Asia Minor, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. Pax Romana actually refers to the relative paucity of civil war in the early Roman Empire. (As in, it only happened once or twice.)

So saying "Pax * implies no wars are being fought anywhere" is untrue to the concept of Pax *

This country *was* built on tax evasion.

Though I suppose a great deal of the early (pre-Independence) immigration was for religious reasons. It really does make sense for those two to be joined like that in the modern US.

Jesus specifically discouraged tax evasion... hmm. American Christians don't actually follow Christianity. Shocker.

TrueCrypt's been doing this for years.