Why is the speed measured in knots? Do they throw ropes off the side of airplanes to measure how fast they're flying? I'm not in that business so I genuinely don't know. I just figured km/h, or mph if absolutely necessary, would paint a clearer picture. I mean if I ask Google what 80 knots is, he says its 148.16km/h. I can work with that number. I can relate to that number. But who measures things in knots? And why?

How about getting a president that isn't so unpopular he needs protecting from anything and everything?

Lawyers are the upper-class version of a street thug. You need someone taken out? Get a lawyer. Someone's got a beef with you? Get a lawyer. They are the worst kind of person in the world because their existence serves only to further their own existence. They are the cancer that is ruining your country. I'm not a doctor but even I can see that. What's worse is when a lawyer gets half a brain and starts going at it for himself. Then you have a politician. Lower down the ladder you have the people too dumb to be lawyers. They're called cops. So Cops Lawyers Politicians is what you have, and then all the people standing on the sideline cheering them on. I can't wait for your country to burst into flames.

Hack the planet! With heat! Wait a minute...

Hm. So I'm not completely off my rocker. That's actually quite comforting to know. I appreciate you taking the time to reply to all of my ranting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do we even know how big "space itself" is? I mean sure, we have an idea as to how much of it we can see thanks to radiation and whatnot, but who's to say it's not actually bigger than we ever thought? We live at the bum end of the galaxy, who's to say we don't also live at the bum end of a universe that expands twice or a hundred times farther in the other direction than we ever considered? And who's to say that all of what we can see actually belongs to our universe and isn't just spill-over from a bunch of intersecting universes? And who's to say our big-bang-bubble-universe isn't just one in countless universes expanding all throughout space itself? What is space itself anyway? Isn't it just an arbitrary construct created to give ourself some sense of importants, some sense of being in a specific place and time, because our simple brains can't cope with not knowing where we are and how the universe revolves around us? What is the question about life, the universe and everything, anyway?

So what you're saying is ignorance breeds anger? No wonder Americans are so angry . Muhauhauhauhauhauhauhauha.

You should've referenced that gamergate person. Whats his face. That would've got things going hot.

A pair of gloves with some sort of force feedback perhaps?

They don't actually block content. If you use your ISP provided DNS service then lookup requests for certain domain names will be hijacked, and redirect to a "This page done bad" website.

As the article states, actually blocking content requires snooping on content and that's not just expensive, it's legality is questionable. As such, if you want to torrent and whatnot, you are still free to switch to a public, unfiltered DNS service á la Google or OpenDNS.

The first few seconds of a VHS tape where the sound has gone wonky.

What do you mean? The article references a non-existing post by Geoff Wozniak. I mean, how the fuck can you not take to heart anything that Geoff Wozniak may or may not have said and then retracted? Shame on you. Shame!

A governing body for each continent controlling local policies like resource management and wildlife preservation, and whatnot, and a global governing body dictating global stuff like how much we must pay in copyright taxes and other such wildly important politics.

I'm not saying it's a good idea or not, but I can see it happening. We're already moving in that direction. Japan takes over Australia, Korea and the island nations, China absorbs India and all the other surrounding countries that don't particularly like China, including Russia once it collapses, Africa experiences a growth boom and becomes the new defacto place to be like China once was, European Union is already there, as is USA. South America just needs to stop fooling around and get on with it.

Suppose these ingenious Russians deviced a way to put one building on top of another. Each building would then be connected by a metal box that can travel up and down along a corridor, perhaps attached to cables for pull action, or some sort of push device. Wouldn't that just be fantastical?

Yes, but who really does that? Really? Who really does that?