I mean, we're Apple!

Just sayin...

So, "he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the NSA".

Ho, hum. Wake me up when he gets that whole "right and wrong" thing figured our and schedules a welcome home dinner for Snowden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I need mister Starr's help to write a smartphone app that will tell me where mister Starr is at any given moment of every day. So that I can be at least one mile away at all times.

I am mostly in the U District, Fremont and Ballard orbit here in Seattle, so don't get up to Capitol Hill much, but I will need to make a trip to the Lost Lake Cafe

Starr? Glasshole.

OK, whoi thinks the wireless networks are really wireless? Cell infrastructure requires physical backhaul and COs and such. If your basic POTS infrastructure is destroyed, your cell infrastructure isn't likely to be doing so hot, with the added prospect of saturation. Be nice to POTS.

I am getting pretty tired of reading asserions like "we can't even launch a damn website". What they were trying to launch was not a Website but a very complex, probably too complex, brokerage-type system to mate people with myriad insurance options.

While I think that the Shirky article makes a lot of excellent points, I'm not sure that it deals with a problem of sanity: We didn't try to land a man on the moon in this case. We naively believed that we could land one on Jupiter.

All of this is a predictable result of a flawed approach: placing the interests of insurers far above the interests of people who actually need health care.

There are similar stories in circulation.

Who has been telling the truth since June? Snowden.

I am amazed that so many are taking this sniff-test-doubtful story at face value and debating whether the engineered sysadmins should be fired or shot.

Ain't it funny how these "sources" might layer on a bit of devious sociopathy, to try to make Snowden fit the role of criminal wrecker?

Among the principals (NSA, GHCQ, executive branch, most politicians, Snowden) it is pretty much only Snowden's testimony and participation that hasn't been full to the gills with half-truths, contradictions, lies and attempts at character assassination.

Oh and how devious:

"People familiar with efforts to assess the damage to U.S. intelligence caused by Snowden's leaks have said assessments are proceeding slowly because Snowden succeeded in obscuring some electronic traces of how he accessed NSA records."

Read: "You ought to believe that Snowden did more than totally embarrass us, but he is so devious that you'll ave to take that on faith!"

"Sources said". Blech

NO CLEMENCY FOR FEINSTEIN

I wish I had mod points.

How can anyone use the word "simple" in this discussion or somehow be surprised at the dog's breakfast that is healthcare.gov?

Obama and his advisors must have been asleep in 1993 and missed the last immense failure of cockamamie Democrat special-interest-friendly "reform".

Arrogant, inept, and insane.

34? That's old.

If you weren't looking to be comforted and did want to be modded "Funny", I guess I should get the joke, but Taylor offers the sanest comment in the whole oiece. Let's repeat it: ' Worry more about the fact that when she's a teenager she might be driving around in cars with drunk boys.' Yup, something that has an unfortunately high chance of happening which will kill your teenager dead or destroy their life that you can actually try to prevent.

Firesign FTW!

Brilliant move, Britannia.

Having spent a fair amount of time in Texas over the years I think can understand why there might be a certain degree of skepticism about evolution.

... it is mass hysteria.