Because the war on drugs mob will claim they'll get addicted.

The US tortures even people who are NOT convicted, they are not much better than other dictatorships. The main difference between the US and other dictatorships is that in most others the people KNOW they live in an authoritarian state. US propaganda seems to be alomost as effective as the one in North Korea.

For destroying your own cloud industry and giving companies in other countries a better market. I hear already commercials each morning on the radio when I drive to work about a local Dutch company (KPN) advertizing their cloud because no forieghn governments have access to it.

Cisco and Juniper will be pleased too when they find that more customers move to Huawei. At least the Chinese are not interested in "regime changes" in other countries.

The Surface Pro is a full computer, but the Windows RT version is not. RT is more limited, like iOS and Android, but on Android at least I have the freedom of sideloading programs.

I would hope so. On the other hand, it didn't help much against other superstitions like chrisstianity either.

That's better than artificial monopolies. And if we as society feel such development usefull we can fund it with public money.

Not the same thing. "Monsanto" is just a subgroup of the group "malicious criminals".

Preventing lifeforms to be patented would solve most of the problems. For me, it's not the GE plants themselves but the misuse of artificial scarcity (aka "intellectual property) laws to monopolize them.

"This is a symbolic marketing/propaganda move against Monsanto"

Good. Death to Monsanto.

I'd more say number 3 and 4. Number 2 would have to be the UK.

Yes I do. Installing puppet governments all the time, like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At least the USSR let some parts go when they wanted to leave the union. That can not be said from the USA when some parts declared independence around 1850 or so.

"Bigger Bad"? I wouldn't say so. At the moment the USA is a bigger threat for my (EU citizen) freedom than Russia. Who's pushing for big corporations power in treaty's? The US. Who's pushing us to implement draconian copyright laws? The US. Who want's to force us to import Monsanto poison food? The US.

The only thing Russia thret's us with is "if you act against us too much we might start deliverinbg less gas".

I only read here about possible abuses of the government of this system. But what out the following scenario: I get arrested and the cops seize my phone. Some buddy non the lookout sees this and bricks/formats my phone so the cops don't get to see my contact list and textsecure messages. Wouldn't the government demand an undo option for themselves? Of course they'll sell it as "you got your phone back and want to use it again".

On a rooted Android, all they have to do is to replace / delete / rename /system/media/audio/ui/shutter.ogg.

What house? Pay as you go mobile has internet too, you don't need any (registered) house address for it.