"When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden came forth last year with U.S. government spying secrets, it didn't take long to realize that some of the behavior of the U.S. government revealed could bring on serious repercussions"

I think that you're missing the point of Selective Service Registration. They already know who you are, your age and where you live (they sent you the notice). In principle, you get to choose which service you would like to be drafted into, but in practice the major demand is for "cannon fodder" - so your choice would be irrlevant.

Once you eliminate all the stated reasons, all that is left, and so the true purpose of the Selective Service registration, is to attempt to be a nucleus for protest. Those who chose to protest the military-industrial complex in the US by failing to register can all be rounded up and eliminated. Or, the next best thing, eliminate them from all federal programs, which, unless they are massively independently wealthy will prevent them from ever being in a position where their views will be heard.

Actually the question is really freaking stupid. If you're serious about embedded development you cross-compile on the fastest computer you can find and then deploy to the target board. If the question had been "what's a good embedded target" it would have made marginally more sense, except that parameters there are how much i/o volume/cost, performance, etc.

Given that there's remarkably little proof that this is not caused by humans, wouldn't it be better to follow the path that would avoid a catastrophe in the event that the models are close and it is human caused.

I'd rather look around in the future and curse the scientist for being wrong than acknowledge that they were right, but that it's now too late to do anything.

There's a path forward that does not carry huge economic damage, indeed may help the economy. The problem is that this is at the expense of the oil and coal companies. Organizations not noted for doing the right thing but for protecting their limited interests with large campaign contributions and educational trips for politicians (not to be confused with bribes).

You've posted another opinion, unsupported by ANYTHING as if it were FACTS. Have newer data that disproves mine - post it. Have citations that support you positions - post them. Until you do, you're just making it up...

As I mentioned, you are entitled to your opinions, but you are NOT entitled to your own facts. Coal usage in the EU is decreasing, renewable use (not fossil fuel generation) is increasing:
http://theenergycollective.com...
http://www.renewableenergyworl...
(older data) http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-...
While the price per kWh in Germany is high, it's not even the highest in the EU and certainly not the highest in the world. That statement is just plain WRONG. The price in Germany is not even that far out of line with the rest of the EU where prices are generally at least double the US rates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Wow, one comment that Obama is a socialist and one that the Christian Democrats in Germany are a facist dictatorship.

These must be comments from the US, the home of the NSA and the largest domestic spying program in the world.

In the US, as in Germany, you are entitled to your own opinion, however only in the US is there a clear belief that ignorance makes your opinion more worthwhile. Here's a clue, it doesn't. Study some facts, get information from places other than FOX news and come back when you actually know something about, well, anything really, but you could start with geography and the poltics of countries in Europe. Here's a hint, Ted Cruz is not electable (even on the crackpot fringe) and Obama is center-right anywhere outside the US.

Yep, just like Germany which, one day last month generated 50% of their electrical power from solar and is planning to phase out all coal-burning generation (they've already eliminated nuclear after Fukushima). Oh, wait, they have one of the strongest industrial economies in the world. Or Estonia with close to 100% Internet connectivity and a network of EV charging stations nationwide.

But, but, but...

What happens if we clean up the environment and it not the cause of global warming. All we'd have then is no smog, non-polluting power and clean water.

Or there's the English expression:

A bird in a taxi's worth two on a bus.

Yet, when the MPAA/RIAA come to the door, they figure out a whole scheme that goes beyond the DCMA to block, or put ads on, material that their secret algorithm finds to be infringing on copyright.

So, they've already demonstrated that they CAN filter content. I see lots of repercussions to this ruling, but I'm not at all sympathetic to Google's plight - they already demonstrated that they have the technology and have used it for evil purposes.

You have to be kidding. Are you seriously suggesting that Internet usage in Europe is significantly different from patterns in the US? Just becuase the US services are missing doesn't mean less streaming. One obvious one is the BBC in the UK, I'm sure most other language groups have similar.

I think that the difference is that, just like the US, they dumped money into expanding broadband, but, unlike the US, they got value from it instead of companies like Verizon saying "thanks for the cash, BTW how about if we just provide wireless, and then only if people pay and we'll just pocket the money instead of doing what we said we'd do".

The only problem with that theory is that most Europeans have faster, uncapped service at a lower price.

That just means that you never used PC Write. No one went back to WordStar after using PC Write. No one. There was even a way to get it to pause (now I've long forgotten how) so you could change the daisy wheel to get symbols.

IIRC the story is that Bob Wallace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace) would always carry the one-and-only source code floppy with him at all times. He kept it on the passenger seat when driving. Supposedly at some point the floppy failed and he wrote the code to read/write raw floppy disk sectors to recover the source code. That feature was subsequently a part of PC Write.