What's even more sad is that he has most definitely not "personally overseen the sending out of several thousand emails". At best, he has sent some memo around that said something like this: "Send out emails now! That's an order! Yours sincerely, your boss. P.S.: Fuck you!"

I'd go a little farther and suggest that AdBlock Edge is the most useful plugin. I highly recommend it.

Then again, I'm a doctor of philosophy and I agree with the original poster.

The crackers are going to love breaking this in 1, 2, 3 ...

I'd ask the other round, why do they not have access to Facebook?

Is there any reason besides assholery to not let them use social media? Is the goal of the US prison system to guarantee that inmates become 100% sociopaths with no friends or acquaintances except for criminals?

Putin is a poison murderer and responsible for the death of many women and children. So yes, that qualifies him as an asshole.

That's the principal flaw of modern software development. Instead of fixing bugs features are piled up.

I'm making music as a hobby, so I use a halfway decent audio interface (UR-22) and KRK KNS 8400 headphones, plus some midi equipment and microfones. I guess that puts me in the low to mid range category?

Anyway, I wonder why built-in PC audio is such a horrible laggy crap (Realtek anyone?), if there are already reasonable external audio interfaces with midi in the $100-200 price range. Saving costs everywhere, I guess?

That's irrelevant for many people anyway, including me, it's a matter of psychology. I wouldn't even pay $2 a month or $24 a year. Call it irrational or however else you like, but one-time costs != running costs for me no matter what the end result is. I do not lease things.

But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.

Sounds no less plausible.

Bugging individual suspects is not ethically worse than pervasive mass surveillance of the population as a whole. The former may or may not be unethical, depending on the circumstances, the latter is always immoral and dangerous to democracy.

and taking quite some bullshit. Oh well, news at 11.

In most countries (though not the US) you have to ask for permission before photographing them.

Okay, next time I see you having a dinner, I'll point a huge directed microphone at you to capture everything you say. You fucking dumbass moron.

If you're in public, you do have an expectation of privacy as well, though of course not as much as at home.

Why dou think he is not concerned? Can't we just prefer not to be filmed at all?

What's wrong with (glass)holes like you?