Well, California is pretty hot this year and they're just itching for someone to blame.

You are, yes. Any water you use will end up in the atmosphere, because evaporation is inevitable.

I don't know. I have had zero phones stolen in my lifetime, but I am becoming increasingly interested in attending protests...

What scenario would any of your proposed "solutions" to the authorities bricking your phone actually help in? The time frame is obviously too short to make a trip to Walmart, and what kind of lunatic carries two phones all the time?

This is insightful. I wish I had mod points.

I don't see that this strategy solves anything at all, except making frivolous copyright claims even more powerful.

The flaw here is that they don't say which passwords to what, or with whom.

There's no good reason not to share the password to a shared computer, and yet this poll puts anyone who does so in the same box as anyone who graffitis their bank login information on a bridge.

People who live in a civilized nation where that is far from the population's most pressing concern.

Just wondering, but what would you expect a cop to do after shooting someone if they were perfectly justified in doing so?

No, it's still a perfectly legitimate strategy. You just need to make sure your armed drones are also blind.

So you'd rather have the unscientific congress lobbied by the eugenics industry?

And you're quite right about that, barring the introduction of other predator species like wolves that have been almost entirely eliminated from most states in the name of protecting livestock. I don't have a problem with meat eating in itself, but it is true that it is far from an efficient way to produce food.

Woooosh.

Longitude and latitude existed long before the US government was born. I doubt they can even attempt to make that claim.

Domestic animal only breed because the farmers allow it. If you want to reduce the size of your herd, you don't mix the males and the females. It's that simple. Seriously. Cows don't have calves because of magic airborne spores.