If it can think for itself and have its own opinions, ever think it might just not like you?

Assume the Bible is true. How much do you like your Creator? You been doing a good job serving His divine will lately?

1) Souls are magic.
2) Quantum mechanics is spooky.
3) Ergo, quantum computers are alive. Ya know, because of the quantums.

You forgot "vacuum metastability event."

I've always wondered where Mr. Fusion's boiler and turbine were.

My dad was reluctant to buy my brother and I a computer when we were kids in the mid 80s. "What do we need a computer for? What do we compute? And if you want to play with one, isn't there one in the school library?" But we whined and whined and begged and he gave in.

Big mistake. We spent all our time on that thing, taking it apart, putting it back together, programming it, instead of doing good, wholesome American activities like sportsball and racism. Now we're both screwed-up adults with engineering and computer science degrees, stuck in the dead-end tech industry.

And she's in the UK. We know what's harming the children in the UK: the pedophiles in the government.

An Egyptian legend relates that when the god Thoth shared his invention of writing with King Thamos, the good king decried it as the enemy of civilization. "Children and young people," he bemoaned, "who hitherto labored to memorize their studies will fail to exercise their minds and become lazy and stupid!"

Kids these days. Ruining civilization since civilization began.

Oh woe is me. If only my parents hadn't ruined my childhood by giving me an Apple IIe that I could program and play games on, I would have grown up normal and healthy, with a real job like "child psychotherapist." Instead I'm stuck in a dead-end, worthless career in data warehousing and software development.

I'll make sure my kid never has a smartphone. He'll do much better in life growing up without instant access to all the world's knowledge. And I'm sure it won't limit his social interactions, either, as when the neighborhood kids text each other to set up a ball game, they'll be sure to bike over and knock on his door, too.

There are whisteblower protection laws that permit one to claim as a defense "yes, I did the act but it was justified because..." and if the jury believes the reasons to be justifiable, there's no crime and therefore no conviction.

However, matters of national security are specifically excluded from the whistleblower protection law. So he would not be allowed to argue, at all, that his actions were justifiable. If his lawyer tries to argue Snowden was justified, "objection, irrelevant." And it would be.

This is the problem with the "well, if he's such a patriot, he should come back and stand trial and let a jury of his peers decide if what he did was good!" He is literally not allowed to argue that what he did was good.

Without preconditions, the one and only chance he would have is, as the Coward notes, jury nullification. But, they would have to arrive at the decision to nullify essentially on their own, because Snowden would not be allowed to argue that his actions were justifiable, thereby making the case for nullification.

Now, he could have a fair trial with the condition that he's exempt from the prohibition on use of a justification defense in the case of national security. IANAL, but I imagine that would require an act of congress, passing an amnesty law, as I don't think the executive or judicial branches have the authority to make the necessary agreement.

Define "scum." I find your comments abhorrent. How certain are you you wouldn't be selected for "removal?"

"List of upgrades includes 'magnum-sized dong.'"

Hrrrmmmm...

See /r/forwardsfromgrandma. (NSFW? Frequent racism)

The trolls who make those kinds of memes that are then shared by people who legitimately agree with their content must be wetting themselves laughing.

The source can still be made publicly available.

Political parties in the US are organized by state. I mean, as a recognized party you can put on your voter registration card. National organizations are umbrellas for the state orgs. So, you can only register as a pirate if there's a state party, and there's only a pirate party in a handful of states. The one in my state shut down for inactivity.

Perhaps only allow a single sector change.

A large part of the problem is people who work in industry, then go work at the regulatory agency to make a bunch of rules for their industry, then go back to working for the industry. They have an incentive to the rig the rules to favor industry rather than the public.

So, you can work in the industry, but once you leave and join the regulatory agency, you can't go back to working for the industry. You can no longer be incentivized to rig the rules for your company because they can't pay you any more.
 

Wrong. The software developer is not forced to develop software at all.