If he had only released the information related to domestic programs he would not be exiled in Russia and under threat of arrest the minute he leaves Russia. He could have used the foreign surveillance information as a bargaining chip to severely limit or even eliminate any legal consequences in the US. He could have returned all the information on foreign intelligence programs for a get out of jail free card. The government would have excepted that deal in a minute. The information on the domestic programs would still have been made public which is what he claimed to be his stated goal. By releasing information on the foreign intelligence programs he showed another goal which was to damage the US in any way possible regardless of the consequences. His claims about vetting the information to determine if the disclosures would be dangerous or not showed an unprecedented level arrogance on his part. How would he know what information is dangerous and what information is not? He set himself up as the sole authority and arbitrator for determining what information constitutes danger.

Except that doesn't actually seem to matter.
People in the most godforsaken areas of the planet, well past their carrying capacity, continue to have children like it's going out of style.

If you claim "people can't live in that dense a space because there's not enough water" I'd point to the Sahel.

First let me say that I know very little about astronomy, other than what's available on the internet. However generally people that are into astronomy are pretty open to folks like you (don't rely on slashdot alone), and would probably be very willing to point you in the right direction. I have a few friends that dabble in the subject, and it seems to be somewhat of a community that depends on sharing info, sorta like the farming community.

Try out those courses, only time will tell. As far as your mind's sharpness goes, well, your ability to use that mind has obviously made progress, otherwise you wouldn't be in this pursuit. Since you're focusing on what can be, rather than what should have been, it shows that you have wisdom. Use your wisdom.

Nailed it. So the more people, the more problems.

I've done research in the past, and concluded that if all of the money (when I say money, I mean all of the cash, and bank accounts from all countries, not an estimated value of property and such, converted into American dollars. It came to $630,000,000,000,000) on the planet was distributed evenly between all of the people on the planet (This was a few years ago, but I think the population I used was 7billion), each person would have about $9,000.

I could be off a good bit regarding the total money count converted into American dollars, this is an estimate, but per person it'd probably only mean a few hundred dollars each. Either way, it really puts into perspective the difference between the 1% and the rest of us (us = world population). There are so many poor people in the world that live off of around $5 a day.

Yeah, they'd need full negotiations of course, but being denied EU membership is, to me, unthinkable. It's a western country with laws already aligned with EU, and economy tightly tied with that of EU. Just because for example Spain might not be happy about it, vetoing them from joining would be a step towards breaking the whole EU.

Scottish people is not one entity, it is composed of individuals. There are many of them who would really like to choose their own destiny to be part of GB still.

Anyway, for a major change like this, if it is tight vote, and not everybody votes, then actually it'll be that actually a minority of the people decide to change the destiny for everyone. I think for a big thing like this, the change should require at least like 3/5 or 2/3 of the total votes cast.

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Um, Thunderbird has not been killed. Release notes for current version, released last week: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/31.1.1/releasenotes/

It may not get new features any more, but that's not same as killed. In fact, many people would argue that this is a good thing. There's need for stable software too, and for mail clients, Thunderbird is that. Don't dis it just because you may want something more cutting-edge.

You mean, like CALEA, a law which was written to cover POTS phone calls, but later expanded by non-elected bureaucrats (via regulatory "law") to include VoIP and Internet traffic?

What makes Apple not a telecommunications carrier subject to CALEA, with their Facetime, email and other such offerings?

Are you using KDE or Gnome? I'm only familiar with KDE, but In KDE, I don't experience the problems that you mention. There may be a conflict with the sceensaver vs power saving stuff. Maybe you've already looked into that, but check and see if the screensaver is enabled, if so, disable it and see how it goes.

Oh, ok. Then how about I rephrase the question (even if just for you).

Has anyone ever wondered why justice wasn't brought to Mark Klein?

They picked Lars as a drummer and have kept him.

I've seen ROLAND drum machines with more talent.

Hi APK!!! I see you stopped taking your meds again....

You must be on good behavior at the group home, they gave you access to the computer.

That was before law enforcement became the worlds largest street gang.