"A civilized approach would have been to approach the Ukrainian government, asked them for it and offered a pile of money for it"

Which Ukranian government is that? The one that Ukraine elected, or the one that the US installed?

If you mean the former, then I think your condition was already met. If you mean the latter, then you just might be an incurable neocon warmonger with a ton of rhetoric that needs to go somewhere, anywhere, quick as a banker's pocket picking hand.

Yes.

The area these Latinos want to secede must hold a referendum vote, of course.

I fail to see where you're going with this.

Unless you'd have to repeat that process on 300 systems, or wrestle with generating a custom install.

Dude, it's literally 30 seconds to download Fedora 20 and replace Windows 8, like, and such as.

If you believe in democratic process, if you subscribe to liberty, then you must accept the vote whether it wads your panties or not.

The US is playing its "Hypocrite Card" very very poorly.

It makes us look petty and weak to Russia and China, when we're really just following Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard" in true neocon fashion. I guess Bushbama can't formulate foreign policy on his own, so he lets the predi-fascists do it for him.

The warmongers are no longer in favor. We The Peeps are done with their ilk. They have the spy network. But we have the arms. We have the rope. Go ahead and side with them.

The Crimeans did vote for it. Yeah, that seems at least as legit as purple thumbs in US-occupied Iraq. Moldavia asked to join Russia this morning. 'Because they fear the US'.

I'm sure Moldavia's fear of the US will make any good bully^H^H^H^H^Hneocon smile, but as a veteran who has sworn to uphold/defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, I've gotta say the enemies in DC are a much greater concern than your Cold War Palinesque fantasy invasion.

And this is worse than the US backing a violent coup d'etat against a democratically elected leader.....how, exactly? It's no threat to you or your interests, so I have to ask: are you an incurable busybody, or merely a war mongering debt-addict?

I saw that it's embraced by Blackberry... Nice name-drop! I'm in!

I think Valve's DNS check is a good start, and an excellent way to someday backdoor a PC with the user's permission. What kind of terrorist activities are you up to, that you would question authority in the way some here are doing?

Passengers must place all possessions (clothing, jewelry, phones, wallets, purses, eye-glasses, etc) in the trunk.

"Not necessarily--suppose the limo camera is basically there for security" This is type of justification that everyone from Hitler to Grandma Peaches uses to initiate their Really Stupid Idea. They never consider unintended consequences. "Oh, we'll only tap the TURRIST phones! For safety!" Jeez.

Handing more power to bumbling crony government authorities is no answer. It might make sense to create a private licensing and oversight consortium with the incentives (e.g., full liability) to guarantee adherence to operational safety standards. That would increase production costs, but accountability would likely improve dramatically, and that's where a lot of the problems lie.

Oil companies bring water to people when the oil company causes an accidental release of ground contaminants. I said nothing regarding fluid runoff pollution in my previous post. Reading comprehension -1 on that one, sorry. However, fluid runoff pollution is a managed risk of any type of natural gas or oil recovery operation, whether old-school or fracturing methods are used. It is also a managed risk in mining or water well drilling. The ground it seems is just full of nasty chemicals that you don't want to eat or drink, and digging or drilling invariably brings those nasty chemicals to the surface. You should read less MSM tripe and more engineering or geology literature: you'll sound less....schizophrenic on this topic.

This planet can sustain 1.5 billion humans, if they are all extremely careful. There are 7 billion people now, because of cheap petroleum. Cheap petroleum is gone forever and there is NO replacement. Try to mine iron with PV or algae, lol. Try to make a tire with a windmill. Try to get a strawberry from Chile to Florida using nuclear fission. Most pharmaceuticals, plastics, pesticides, and non-rusty metal are impossible w/o petroleum. And, no pesticides = no food. You are naive and gullible. You probably think Greenspan was brilliant and that Beta is da bomb giggity.

Nonsense. Stop gobbling the gullibility pills. The videos of burning tap water are from water wells that were already polluted (naturally) by methane. Fracking occurs MILES below any aquifers, and the bore is very well sealed. Water and methane are frequent partners and have always been. Forcing deep-well waste water back into the ground is different: there's reason to believe it causes earthquakes and has been banned as a result.

Yes, we left those philosophies - the ones that built this nation - behind. Now we're on the verge of social and economic collapse. We've created a society that Stalin and Hitler would drool over. But then, humans suck as a species so, nice work!