into one division that writes the viruses and another that writes the antivirus.

Do any of the servers you connect to actually provide 1 Gbps if you try to DL a file?

I have 15Mbps via TWC and rarely max it out unless the server I am DLing from is geographically close to me.

In addition to a couple popular-among-single-issue-voters hot isses like gay marriage and medical weed, they also have a terrible property tax system that screws the public schools and a legislature that controls only about 15% of the budget because the easily manipulated voters have commited the other 85% of tax revenues to specific projects by voting for things they no almost nothing about.

Representative government is better than mob rule, but with decisions like "citizens united" essentially selling all our elections to the highest bidder, it's only just a little better.

1) Thank God they don't pay attention to most public comments. Can you imagine the magnitude of the disaster that would result from a California style of mob-rule in Washington? We definitely DON'T need THAT.

2) They pay far too much attention to their corporate sponsors instead of doing what they are paid to do- use their brains and think about how to give us the best possible services. It's no surprise that the Republicans have a major hand in screwing us all, after all, their platform includes denial of science.

More specifically, we eat things that aren't main characters in Disney movies.

If I were an Al Queda or ISIS big shot and wanted to do some damage that would scare the crap out of people I would send 20 or 30 suicidal jihaddists to Liberia to get themselves exposed to ebola, then put them on planes to whatever western countries I didn't like. You have a couple weeks after exposure before you get sick- plenty of time to travel. Some would get stopped at the borders, but some would get through and be able to deliberately infect as many people as possible before becoming too sick to function. Maybe they don't even have to travel to the target countries- If they infect people in airports they can spread the virus all over the world very quickly.

I am surprised I haven't heard any speculation about a scenario like this on the news- especially Fox "News".

Do you realize that was almost 50 years ago?
Do you also remember the Challenger explosion? That was done by the same country.

The country that sent a spacecraft to orbit mars for $74M was India.

So what does metric/English units have to do with any of that?

Is the "conservative" party the party of "stupid"?

It may mean different things, but in the US they ALL vote republican. Republicans have targeted every stupid single-issue voter in the US and done a great job of it.

"If privacy is a voter's primary concern in the US, it's probably best to vote based on the individual candidate's position than on the candidate's party."
Stupid stupid stupid advice. First, suggesting that there's a best way to vote for stupid single-issue voters is the reason we have the quality of candidates that we do. Second, assuming that there's any difference between the parties on the issue of privacy is nonsense. Third, what a candidate says is his position and what he does once elected are usually far apart.

I have a better suggestion for all the single-issue voters out there: stay home. We don't need more stupid people voting. We need more intelligent people who consider more than one issue.

some of them are set to do that for people who have "shy" kidneys. I don't know why, but for many people hearing the sound of running water is an inducement to urinate. I've even seen people spitting into the urinal to get their flow going. Others sensors maybe were just never adjusted. Others may be broken. And you may make the argument that such things break down so the train would be less safe if it depended on sensors, but I would counter that with the fact that urinals flushing is not the same importance as keeping humans safe so the electronics is going to be much simpler, specifically without the redundancy that would be used in a system to keep people safe.

Finally, I question whether the Japanese people or train companies care that much about safety. Physically pushing people (and allowing yourself to be pushed) into train cars to the point of bursting can't be safe. I used to live along one of those lines and after riding like that a couple times I decided I was not going to do it any more. Just wait about 5 mintes for the next two trains to pass and suddenly the third one will be almost empty.

Are they making $ off this or just doing it for the lulz?

Are you suggesting they can't detect when someone is preventing a door from closing completely by any means other than a person looking?

Interterminal trains in airports all over the world operate without human operators.

Did you know that automatically flushing urinals use sensors that detect the presence of someone standing in front of them and then flush when that person has moved away? No, it isn't a camera with someone on the other end paid to watch you pee and then flush for you when you're done- (well, OK, maybe in North Korea it is...).

I always wondered why they had drivers. How hard is it to start and stop a train? I asked one of my Japanese coworkers why he thinks they have drivers, what with all the technology in Japan and all, and his reply was very insightful: "they have drivers so they can blame/fire someone if something goes wrong".

THAT is why trains have drivers.

"Other reactions include rapper, Tyler, The Creator, saying that having the new U2 album automatically downloaded on his iPhone was like waking up with a STD."

They're so straight-to-the-point, and really put things in terms that all of us can relate to.

We're all going to have to start wearing Burkas if we want any privacy at all.