I don't even understand your statement, or how it relates to my post.

Voluntarily working for government is the same as being a slave? I think not.

They can leave at any time that they like for a better job.

I don't mind public worker unions until they start striking and shutting down billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure that we all paid for to use.

Did anybody in Russia notice that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are not the same person? I'm afraid even trying to think like a looney, anti-gay zealot, I can't figure out the line of reasoning that led to this decision...

Currently to send a letter I:

1. Put a stamp on the corner.

2. Write down the address where I want it to go.

3. (Optional) put one of my return address labels on it.

Their method

1. Have one of their laser burners put a 'stamp' on the envelope.

2. Pull up an app and scan my 'stamp'

3. Tell it where to go (either through my contacts or by manually inputting it).

I don't see how this is 'simpler'...

So if you are twenty feet from the intersection doing 50 MPH, and the light turns yellow, you are suppose to slam on your brakes to avoid running through the intersection while it is yellow'? Remind me to never drive anywhere near you...

What an odd sentence. Did you mean "...it makes the software 10 to 300 times harder to brute force"?

...but rather talking about taking foolish risks and then bitching about the outcome. If I leave my car running in a bad neighborhood and come back an hour later to find it gone, is it my fault? In a way, it is, because I should have known with nearly 100% certainty that my car was going to be gone. Same with the nude photos. The internet is not a great place to store sensitive documents. It's not a 100% certainty that the photos were going to be found and distributed, but since the point of the internet is to distribute information, you could have seen it as a likely outcome.

I feel bad for these people that their photos were stolen, but when Jennifer Lawrence calls it a 'sex crime', I think she sounds stupid.

Seriously, PETA sounds stupider and stupider every time I see them mentioned in the news. They are actually upset that A CAMEL WAS ALLOWED TO WALK IN THE DESERT! The Onion couldn't have come up with a better headline to make fun of PETA with. Does anybody actually take PETA seriously anymore?

Then you didn't look very well. I still have most of the CFLs in my first house that I put in during the California power crisis over ten years ago. So let's say that they only last even half of that. Power costs for an incandescent vs. CFL over five years:

$0.15/kwh

3 hrs/day run time

Incandescent: 100 watt- $82

CFL: 33 watts - $27

Are you really going to sit there and tell me that you are paying $50 for a CFL?

Well, too bad that isn't what actually happens. You guys just take whatever the hell you want, using things like 'National Security Letters', gag orders, and scooping up anything and everything into giant server farms. We don't trust any of you one bit to not invade our privacy. You brought this on yourself.

When I am shelling out a big up front cost, I am going to be pissed if one of these things burns out in a year or two. Sure it is probably covered under warranty, but then I have to make sure I keep the receipt, which receipt goes with which bulb, etc. I use CFLs because I won't mind as much if one burns out early because the cost for them is relatively low.

Hmmmm... should I pay the $1,500 up front, or risk the $1,000 fine? Decisions, decisions...

Really? A radio and TV communications commission can block legal credit card transactions?

The problem with broadcast vs. internet streaming is that the streaming companies don't have a set amount of broadcast time. Netflix is on demand, so it only streams what a customer asks. The networks can set x% of their broadcast time to Canadian content, but that won't fly with a service like Netflix.

Are you running for Miss America?