"Russia is one of the clear winners from global warming."

You really don't know that. Just because the average global temperature rises doesn't mean Russia will have sunny skies and stable weather patterns.

" filing misdemeanor criminal charges in juvenile court with a pre-arranged deal where they charges would be dismissed and the arrest expunged within 1-2 years would not be inappropriate."

What the hell are you smoking? It's a stupid classroom prank. Nothing that deserves to be called a crime happened here.

If you cage kids up for 6 hours a day, they're going to test the fences. This is healthy and natural. Well, testing the fences is. The forced incarceration, not so much.

And who cares if it ever happens again?

Good point. I should have said "driving backhoes through your street", but I posted in a hurry.

No regulations, no permits, no artificial barriers to entry. Open competition. Cool.

I want to lay my own fiber in your neighborhood. So I bring my backhoes and dig up your street and lawn. Barbie down the street wants to lay fiber too, so she gets her backhoes. Perhaps you can see that unregulated open competition for infrastructure would be a big mess.

I have libertarianish views, and I hear what you're saying, but what you call the problem is not really the problem. The problem is trying to privatize infrastructure we all share.

The most logical entity to own infrastructure is The People. Call me a socialist, communist, whatever, but that's how it is.

But people don't like government, so they "privatize", which is to say, hand a monopoly to private hands.

So your choice. Regulated public ownership. Regulated localized monopolies. Unregulated libertarian fantasy of every american with a dream driving backhoes through your yard.

Knowing what specific values triggers audits has nothing at all to do (hopefully) with the algorithm; it's just a variable.

If an algorithm has to be secret, it sucks. The good cryptographic algorithms are all publicly available. It's only the keys that are secrets.

RTFA:
"The World Resource Institute, which coordinates Global Forest Watch, notes that the loss is both of the permanent, human-driven varietyâ"razing for agriculture and developmentâ"and the cyclical; from fires, logging, harvesting, and natural tree death. In the case of the latter, forests can take decades to be restored. In the former, they are gone for good"

You learned predicate calculus.

NAND gates won't point out to you the fallacious thought traps to which the human brain is susceptible.

Also, supply is up. The US has been stockpiling oil. Now our reserves are full so our output is hitting the open market, causing a glut.

Health problems, including obesity, may be caused by what's in (or missing from) gut bacteria.

legal != good

"it'll be able to show what you were supposed to be "

I shoulda been a gynecologist.

What's wrong with getting rid of leaders? Do you require somebody to follow for your well-being? Do you depend on having followers for your own well-being?

"I do not have enough time... to actually verify what scientist have told me, ... So I therefor am going on faith"

I guess you can call that faith, but it's entirely different than religious faith because you *could* verify (or falsify) what the scientists are saying. And even if you don't do it yourself, others will, and will build on this work.

Neither your mother nor you nor anyone else could do that for religious beliefs. Religion is set up and religious faith is defined to make that impossible.

So your "faith" in math and science has little to do with your mother's "faith" in her religion.

This is +4 informative? Seriously?

For those who can't be bothered to read the summary, this is not about FO communications. Some guys are using the properties of fiber optics and light to figure out the temperature along a length of cable they dropped down a bore shaft to the ocean.

For some of us die-hard old bigots, "Ebola" actually conjures an image that positively rivals "Microsoft".