"With concerns being raised about the deal's impacts on everything from intellectual property rights to government sovereignty, it is surprising to many that Congress would abdicate their role in determining the specifics of agreements that may have far reaching implications for their constituents."

Why is it surprising? Gives them less work to do! They're all pro-business, which is the reason they're in office. Whether or not they agree with tighter gun laws, or minimum wage, or black/gay rights, or abortion, or equality of any sort etc...those aren't interesting to people in power other than as something they can use to sway voting voters on any given election. These people don't give a fuck about you in any other way, and in any case, stuff like copyright etc is just not of interest to most people; there's simply no votes in it.

"We found DNA from 12 different people, a cow, three different pigs, a chicken, genetically modified pineapple, tomato and yeast. Only one of these lived in the house."

Following a compass that is. Not sure if the magnetic north pole is still in Canadian territories as it has been wondering northward, but I'm pretty sure the magnetic south pole is well into the Indian ocean by now.

KeySmart contains a 64Gb flash, two office keys, 2 house keys, and a boat ignition key. Leatherman isn't airport save, but has a carabiner so it gets left in the car, scissors, blade, tweezers and flathead screwdriver. All up everything is smaller than the palm of my hand.

If they want to make a profit they need to roll their sleeves up and get to work. How do other people make money from my site after my death? I'll give 'em my credentials and they can do what I've been doing. Next.

How is this any different to a newspaper reporting on, say, increased drug dealing in a named part of london? "But people are going to go there and buy drugs now they've read about it in the paper". Yes, but they were already doing that.

I wonder how a law which tried to prevent such reporting - assuming said interference of the state was legal and desirable - would look, and how it would differ from censorship performed in more embarrassingly run countries.

No, if you're obese you risk a lot more than "a few" (what is that? 2? 3? 5?) years. It puts extra stress on just about every part of your body especially, crucially, your heart. 1 in 5 americans die from obesity related illnesses. People eating obviously unhealthy foods watching the news and worrying about Al Queda when there's a 9/11-sized death toll every day from what they're eating.

The comments are definitely c++.

Somewhere there's a terrorist reading your post and saying "that's what I'm talking about!".

> But no , the "Not Invented Here" meme popped up its ugly head again and some know it alls
> decided they could reinvent the wheel better. Well so far the jury is still out on that.

You say that, but why have nearly all distros moved to systemd? You're saying there's not a sound technical reason for it? NIH makes sense as a criticism in a few areas, but linux distros, largely run for free by hobbiests? They're imposing it on themselves for no good reason? Really?

Agree but i've had problems with Mint for a while, and the official forums for it are dead; you're much more likely to get help on AskUbuntu or UbuntuForums, so I've gone back to Ubuntu then upgraded the ui to xfce. Problem solved! (I tried briefly but unity is still a mixture of awful and buggy).

You're stating it wrong. When someone is dead you can say what you want about them.

But people want browsers to run applications. It would probably be better if chrome ran android apps, or languages other than javascript (java, perhaps), so that it wasn't a hack to do anything other than say "here's your webpage".

OEM, sure. But it's not my understanding that if you buy a PC and buy the full, expensive version of windows and the PC dies and you buy a new pc then you need to buy another copy of windows. Otherwise....why would anyone pay for the full version; you'd get the oem, right?

We're not talking about rumours here, though.