When you hire, give everyone a chance.

Unless you're Uber.

it's a ride-sharing service

by that, they mean, a person with a car, who doesn't have any interest in driving to point A or point B, drives to point A, picks up one or more people they don't know, and drives them to point B for money.

Those two notions are not in agreement.

How long is it going to take before the American people get fed up with this.

Their elected representatives are to blame. They don't put real pressure on them to clean up their act. And how could they? Considering what it takes to have a career in politics, surely the NSA has too much dirt on each of them. So they occasionally put on a show but that's the extent of it.

That's exactly what it means: resolution is the number of pixels, always has been.

No it doesn't. It's the measurable degree of detail.

if your friends are requiring you to use dubious software are they really your friends?

If start with "If they were really my friends they wouldn't do X" you end with no friends.

The simplest strategy would have been to have already moved to a non-extradition country. He'd already racked up tens of millions of dollars in profits! What was he waiting for?

Another good strategy would be to just stop doing it. Taking a big risk when you don't have money is much different from taking it when you do. He had enough to be comfortable for the rest for his life. Why risk that? You've already won whatever game you think you're playing.