At least in the US, the government has gone after people unwittingly hosting illegal data many times before.

Don't make it sound so sinister. The vote wasn't to demote Pluto. It was a vote to settle on the criteria an astronomical body must meet in order to be a planet. This was necessary because we've found more Pluto like bodies, and chances are we'll find more in the decades to follow.

The guy was 83. Most people who don't smoke die before then.

Don't worry, somebody has his Katra.

I don't think anyone uploads pictures to Reddit. It's mostly posts linked to imgur.

I suspect all those pot-smoking teens are drinking too.

It's not a recent trend. It's been the biggest argument for decades. Alcohol kills people. Alcohol turns regular people into assholes. Weed? Waaaaay more benign.

The same could be said for every square inch of the earth yet we've managed to create very large and powerful countries. The oil wealth in the Middle East may be just the thing that one or two nations need to overcome the other factions and create a large stable influential nation rivaling the US, or China.

Perhaps that was the goal all along. An unstable Middle East can't get organized enough to become a significant threat to the west.

You're lack of faith is disturbing. Now all we need is another Sandy Hook to get the Democrats attacking the 2nd amendment and Republicans attacking abortion and that'll scare you and everyone else back into a two party frenzy.

Most people don't need to write code at all. What are these simple scenarios that are awfully handy? I could see some business oriented folks maybe needing a little VBA or something...but most people will never write anything even if they were taught a language is school. And then, chances are the language they learned is now obsolete.

Clearly you have not taught much programming. Yes you can teach most people to write simple programs, but there's a big difference between that and writing professional or even usable code.

Only outlaws will have fixed machines....I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't suppose you could provide a little help on how one actually utilizes HTML5 within a C# application. I've been looking for information on how this is done and found nothing. The best I came up with is a webpage loaded inside of a winforms browser control. But that's still using winforms. What am I missing?

No they don't. It isn't stupid. It is, in fact, stupid that the bomb squad wastes their time with these.