I promise not to own any car with any data collection systems not fully controlled by the end user in place.

Those who do are a mentally challenged Gordon Freeman. Also I think the plural of wepon is still wepon.

We're sending a squad up.

Actually, nothing is the perfect container for a vacuum. There's nothing to allow it to escape or fill it. As such the natural contents of nothing would be a vacuum - otherwise it wouldn't be nothing, would it?

The material for the quantum fluctuation was a true vacuum bubble - that's about as close to nothing as you can get. Again if we should assume that something magically appeared, "nothing" is far simpler than "universe-creating old man in the sky."

So, basically what I said, except you give to some kind of charity so you can lie to yourself about giving a damn - I'm sure the tax breaks on those donations help a lot too.

But that's what makes it easier, because the quantum fluctuation is a very simple thing that didn't have to decide to do anything, while an all-powerful universe-creating intelligence is very complex and would have to make at least one conscious decision. It's a much simpler explanation and there is at least a sliver of scientific evidence for it.

You assume that a god always existed. If we have to assume that something always existed, I'd prefer to assume that a quantum fluctuation always existed.

*Earning* money is for the peasants.

It's worth considering that they were all affected by the NSA's sabotaging of NIST standards.

NSA's BULLRUN program

A swig of grog for our mateys who are rotting in the brig! :-(

LOLWUT? I don't remember that. What did he say?

"Go forth and sodomize one another, let the santorum flow freely!"

They probably just had the date a little early, give them at least half a decade, look at all the refugees in the middle east right now. Climate change played a big part in triggering the Syrian civil war.

Wow, who said we have to return to 1700s lifestyles to go carbon-neutral? We just have to change what all that stuff runs on, it's not that difficult or expensive.