You don't actually believe this will change anything, do you?

"Hey, it's no problem if you want to protest. We have zone far away from the cameras, surrounded by snipers and riot police. There's no food, water, or porta-potties. Feel free to protest, as long as you do it there."

You need registry access to change those associations.... if these were changed by an untrusted source, your system is already compromised and changing the associations doesn't matter.

If someone has altered the file associations, that means they already had enough access to your system to compromise it in far easier ways.

What harm does it do to rename a JPG to TXT? Why would I distrust an extension? If you put an infected executable on my machine and gave it a TXT file extension it's totally harmless. So it tries to open the file in notepad....no harm there.

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.