and lost his home in the process
and became a tool for international politics
and doesn't have a country he belongs to
Ed basically sarificed himself so that we become more than mere data clusters.
I hope some of you are reading this; the biggest responsibility in this terrible breach of human rights is on the ones who sold their expertise and soul to Uncle Sam for a bigger lawn. Your grandkids will grow up with the Big Brother.

Link?

That is the big scoop Snowden will reveal. Cisco started begging in WA that they stop it. This will kill off a huge portion of jobs in the US.
Most probably that fact is the moral dilemma Snowden is facing.

there is enough oil in north america but they "choose" not to extract it? fossil fuels are trending down. yesterday's russia/china deal told the west something very important: "when the oil reserves in the ME dry up, you better have found an alternative"

When you have no unique skills other than knowing people, you will need to be someone else's errand boy. No matter what line of work you are in or your level in the organization. The main reason (IMO) we have these pointless jobs is not because people decided to trade their freedom for cool toys/gadgets. It's because the organism we call a human wants to be lazy. Wants to cruise through life. Thus, people were happy to trade in their freedom/dignity for meaningless work. It's quid pro quo in a way; you stroke someone's ego and in turn they turn the other cheek and not reveal your redundancy.

http://www.minervaproject.com/

I hope we can code our scripting languages into a slime mold, one day.

mods are that bad
"So let's all slow down."
what is this? a frat party? these people are goofing around and trying their sub-par web design skills on us

for what it's worth - https://petitions.whitehouse.g...

http://bloodinthemobile.org/
I am one of the people who feels uneasy watching this kind of stuff as it makes you feel guilty for living your life.
However, watching this will probably make you feel a bit more strongly about the issue.

The absurdity of the story and the tragic situation Turkey has been in for the last decade cannot be overestimated.

- This is a power struggle between an Imam who lives in a mansion in Pennsylvania vs. his servant.

- In the past week, 5 ministers resigned. That is almost %20 of the cabinet

- In the past two days, almost all the police chiefs in the country were suspended

- When district attorneys ordered police to arrest some key businessmen, police refused. Eventhough this is a constitutional offense and has a penalty of jailtime, no one is on trial

- A reshuffle is expected tonight or tomorrow. Definitely before weekend. The servant wants to pick up the pieces but the Imam is bent on destroying them

- These fractions were once united through their belief in Allah and were hell-bent on destroying the old regime which they claim was built by American servants and godless infidels

- No Muslim country in the area would interfere if these two fractions are to murder each other this very moment. Just like Assad is murdering his country and destroying history that dates before religion and no one does anything useful

List goes on and on and on. You wouldn't care and I can't blame you. Just know that these are not much different from any other crazy religious people in the world. Just like anywhere else in the world, there are some people in this country who are harming its future. The mistake is that they are ruling now. This too shall pass.