I'm wondering if this would fall under parody.

I say we also develop sustainable space colonies in case they arrive here in the next few decades and obliterate our planet. It must be done, for survival!

Maybe they just like war. For all we know they could be Klingons!

You don't understand, I'm saying that it doesn't matter that a computer can store it forever. Last time I checked I could take a picture of anyone and anything I wanted in public places. It's the same concept as photography or human sight, just that video cameras are more efficient.

I don't think anyone is against having cameras on private property. The resistance is always about cameras in public places, but so long as the streams are available to the public I see no problem with it for the reasons I listed above.

I disagree, I see it the same as the ability we have to recognize faces and plates.

The thing that everyone seems to always forget when talking about public surveillance is that it's not anything that anyone couldn't get simply by looking out the window. Use a camera instead of your own eyeballs and it's suddenly a huge problem.

Winter and harsh winter?

Because if the hard drive is encrypted you can't access the data without the password.

Isn't there that feature in TrueCrypt which will overwrite the encrypted data unless you tell it not to by checking the box and entering the password? In this case I guess it's a matter of how much you want to keep the data compared to how much you want to keep it secret.

I'm not sure this is entirely true with the carriers now offering free battery swaps for customers.

I voted for the "when early adopters return safely" and I'm poor. For me it was "if I had the money how would I treat space flight" type of deal, I'm betting it was that for a lot of us.

I can't believe my brain did that, but yea, I didn't know what 'scale' meant so apparently I didn't even notice the word and think "what does he mean?".

There's probably a union of voice actors in order to prevent the industry from using what is essentially free labor, thus resulting in the loss of jobs for however many thousands of people. Just because you can find someone willing to work for free or dirt cheap doesn't mean it's good for society.

I don't think people who use Ubuntu are more savvy than Windows users. In my real life experiences the only people I've seen who use Ubuntu don't even know what Linux is. This is pretty skewed though because I hardly ever meet anyone who uses anything other than Windows to begin with. In the online world, if I judge experience and knowledge by the posts on forums I would say Ubuntu users are the least capable of any group I've seen. This, again, is going to be biased and skewed because Ubuntu has a lot more users than other versions of Linux, and I don't go to the Ubuntu forums. Which means that on general Linux forums this is the case, but for all I know all the tech savvy Ubuntu users either 1.) don't use forums, or 2.) mainly stay on the official Ubuntu forums.