Not like there's much room for options. Here's how it's gonna go down:

New Finance Minister nee Valve Employee: Ok, goodbye austerity, hello ballooning spending! Ok, loan us money at tiny rates we can afford. Oh, I think I see some. Let me fire the portal gun at the wall so I can get it.

> Plays host to a system of five small exoplanets

No, it plays host to a system of five planets. Unless you think surgeons, after cutting open a patient, should talk about operating on that there exoliver.

"Income inequality" is a red herring. The real measure is average health and wealth in a nation.

This, by the way, is skyrocketting in the now-world economy as China and India and other nations become more economcally free, and people can better themselves.

You should be happy for capitalism, as it is the cause of this, now that it can operate there, just like it did in the west 150 uears ago with the industrial revolution.

But nobody listens or looks at the bigger picture. They just look at stagnation in the west brought on by spending driving fears of tax increases, making investors say fuck it.

Mexico is a corrupt nation, where you can'tt do anything from build a building to get a driver's license or even pay bills without having to pay for expedited service kickbacks.

Thhat's why they remain full of suckage. As usual, the government fails to secure rights.

Welcome to third world, postapocalyptic status.

I guess the first men to the stars really will be the Chinese, who were opening the trade routes, making business easier, rather than closing them down, like Europe, and now the US.

This was some bizarre leftist. Sorry, I must adopt their knee jerk rhetoric -- extreme leftist disasterbation fantasy.

Apparently we have no right to go anywhere without car and license plate tracking, and facial recognition software on tens of thousands of cameras. Or in cyberspace without tracking everything. Or using credit and debit cards, to buy anything untracked.

Dictators of old would dream of such a thing at their disposal. England, having abused it badly during the revolution, would have caused the founding fathers to have banned it all...had they succeeded, which would have been far less likely.

More and more government observation can "be done by steam", in the words of Blaise Pascal. It shouldn't be. When politicians have a system "they're supposed to" get a warratlnt for (probably not even that in this case) but no penalty or even alarm if they don't, it will be abused to track political opponents to those in power.

This is blown way out of proportion. Companies are made of citizens who get to persuade officials like anyone else.

I (insert Senator's name here) stake my reputation on it!

Thus does the repblic fall, and the center of empire move on to the outskirts, where the roads of trade remain open, and the old empire does little other than impede trade. Hail China.

Doesn't matter how well-reasoned (or well-memed) the impedance is. Just that it be a burden. The latest in a death of a (hundred) thousand cuts.

Now downmod me, as censorship driven by outrage, caused by that meme in your head, is part of the meme's meechanical method of operation, of which you are literally a driven cog.

Kind of scary to see it that way, isn't it? The meme has fingers reaching into your outrage center, by way of which it induces you to behave in ways that protect it, and its spread.

I thought the Supreme Court ruled a long time ago Americans had a right to encrypt by way of free speech.

Was this rape case listed on the warrant? Or was it the real case where they think he paid for the leaked info.

Whether or not you believe the last part, it's still a real investigation.

I wouldn't worry about Dish even in the worst case scenarion. Here's how it would go down:

FCC: You violated Do Not Call 57 million times. Times $16,000 per, that's, lessee...

Dish: I can't afford that! I guess we're bamkrupt. :(

FCC: Ohwell, sux 2 B U!

FCC: No, sux to be you!

FCC: Whaaaaaaa???

AFCC: Yes, when assigning spectrum, we promised Congress there would always be at least two satellite cable networks.

FCC: Rats!

Dish: Ha ha!

FCC: Yeah, ha ha!

The article points to a YouTube video of him doing this.

10 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled, in the case of IR devices, that, although they were passively observing, government needed to get a warrant to use them. Technological adgancements shall not obviate expected constitutional protections. People expect privacy and advances that did not exist then cannot take advantage of loopholes like that.

So, I hope these people are getting warrants, or I expect to see hundreds of law enforcement officials going to jail.

By the way, as people move more and more of their lives into virtual, online arenas, they take with them the same expectation of privacy. The Supreme Court should similarly require warrants for all that, too, closing the loophole that, since it's at some coompany, "you have no expectation of privacy."

People create this virtual presence for their own convenience, not so government can have a virtual warrantless panopticon.

It's the long periods of inactivity that are the problem, not cardiovascular health.

There was a related study several years earlier that suggested people in good shape who went home and plunked down on the sofa for 6 hours suffered as much as couch potatos.

So break that time up and that's the goal.