Mainly because the commenter followed the reference to Sandusky with a comment about the subject of his comment being able to see an elementary school from his front door.

You are overlooking the key part of the statement, "Hadley is a Sandusky waiting to be exposed." Perhaps you are unaware that Jerry Sandusky was a long time assistant coach at Penn State who operated a charity for young, fatherless boys. It was revealed that he had been using his position for years to get into a position to rape some of those young boys.

I switched from Google because I began to notice that their results seemed to be skewed. Certain types of results were not coming up in my searches, even when that was specifically what I was looking for. While it mostly appeared in politically loaded searches (although the nature of the skew makes it hard for me to determine the nature of the bias...I found both "liberal" and "conservative" viewpoints dropped from results) it also occurred in some searches for answers on technical issues.

I would agree with you, but even with your reminder I cannot think of any of those. In order to be "forgetting" them, I would have to be aware of them. So, would you care to enlighten me?

You are sadly mistaken. There are a large bunch of people who care about the Internet of things because they recognize what a boon it will be to mining personal data for the corporations who get their stuff adopted first. The IoT is the smart TV which reports your viewing habits, and random videos of your living room (or wherever your TV is) to the company which made it (Samsung, and probably others). I am sure there are other such devices.

You mean like the credible reports of an ISIS training base 8 miles from the U.S. border?

I just have trouble imagining that there is somebody with the ability to manage the world the way you imagine someone is doing, let alone believing it.

The only part of your post which is accurate is that Assad is a puppet. He is a puppet of the Iranian government.

Since you seem to be slow on the uptake, I will try again. ISIS has declared that one of their goals is conquest of the United States. This means that assisting ISIS is treason as defined in the U.S. Constitution. On the other hand, the IRA never, as far as I am aware, made any kind of war against the U.S.. These two facts means that the two things you said were similar, are not actually so.

Supporting a group seeking to wrest control of a particular area of land from its current government is quite different from a group fighting to gain control of multiple countries which has a declared goal of controlling the entire world (and which has stated that it is at war against the U.S.).

Why, yes he had. Or perhaps you were not paying attention to what has been going on in Lebanon and Jordan over the last few years. Jordan has remained stable and most of the damage in Lebanon was done by Assad's father, but that does not change the fact that Assad has interfered with their internal affairs.

Actually, there is a difference. As far as I am aware, the IRA never considered the conquest of the United States one of its goals. ISIS on the other hand considers conquest of the entire world to be its divinely appointed mission.

The laws were written to hold you responsible for helping if you provided the book and there is a reasonable argument that they should. On the other hand, if they just ask for the book without mentioning what they plan on doing as soon as the car is fixed means that you cannot be held responsible for their intentions. In addition, if you can make a believable case that you did not believe them when they said they were going to Syria to kill westerners, etc, you are also off the hook. Or if you can make the case that if you can't afford a mechanic to fix your car, you can't afford a ticket to get to Syria either. If you can reasonably see no connection between the aid they are seeking and their criminal goals, you cannot be held responsible for providing that aid.

Well, yes, if someone is targeting my data they are more likely to get it if I host it on my own system with security I rolled myself than if I host it on Google or Amazon cloud. However, if someone is just targeting valuable data, they are more likely to target Google's or Amazon's cloud than they are the system I am hosting.

The summary says that the evidence shows that they were trading "hundreds of years earlier than previously thought." That phrasing indicates that they were thinking that they weren't trading. If it was just a matter of not having evidence the phrasing should have been "evidence that the Romans were trading in Aksum hundreds of years earlier than previously." By sticking the word "thought" on the end they are saying that no one thought they were trading that early.

I did not actually address your point about voicemail. Personally, I do not find voicemail to be a greater pain in the ass than typed messages. As a matter of fact, my experience is that people who leave bad voicemail messages are even worse when it comes to typed communication. I have found that when people call me and do not leave a voicemail, they also do not communicate the reason for their call by any other means.

The result being that small problems I could have resolved easily become big problems which require a great amount of effort to fix. I am pretty confident that this would not change if they did not have the option of leaving me a voicemail.

The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of things I call someone about that are just not important enough to me to type a message about. With significant frequency they are of greater importance to the other person.