Right? Same thing goes for allowing private citizens to drive. Only truck drivers and taxis should be on the road. Freedom is so anti-American.

I agree.

It doesn't really need to be that difficult -- just require a license, like flying a plane. Educate people on restricted airspaces, and that will resolve 99% of the problems. There will always be scofflaws, but most people are law abiding.

Spending money for making sure you can protect yourself from Muslims is never "wasted"

I beg to differ...

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals

If so, I hope they use a much softer material. :(

The heavier the phone, the easier it is to break.

Did you mean "the lighter the phone," because if not, I've got a steel phone that begs to differ.

Not really. Anyone with sufficient skill and patience can cheaply replace their own battery, and manufacturers and third parties both offer that service if you'd rather not DIY. Whether it's worthwhile, of course, depends on how new your phone is, and the cost of an upgrade, but for many people in a 2 year contract, it's much cheaper to replace the battery, even through a service, than to upgrade or replace the phone.

You would need half the cycles to do the same amount of work, but how long would "the same amount of work" really happen though? I think manufacturers would probably add features that are prohibitively expensive from a power budget standpoint today. That's an easier and more distinguishing selling point for competition than battery life. I mean, a flip phone will go for many days without needing to be recharged, if that's someone's primary consideration.

Right, just like a chalkBOARD, a chessBOARD, and a leaderBOARD. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take my keyBOARD and go home.

The difference is that both genders have locker rooms. What if there were only locker rooms for girls, and boys just had to change anywhere they could? That's what this is.

That would be sarcastically.

Everybody writes shitty code. Not all code is as widely distributed as Adobe's.

I could have, but it's important to remember that things aren't written in stone, and that we can change its mission through public debate and the political process. Ostensibly, anyway.

The NSA is an offensive organization, not a defensive one. That's it's mission. There's a very good argument to make that it should be prioritizing defense over offense, especially given, say, the OPM EPIC hack, but that's not it's mission right now.