Delta IV Heavy + deep impact targeting system + B53 = 9MT wherever you want it on the asteroid. The B53 is already hardened for use as a bunker buster so as long as you can keep relative velocity at impact similar to the reentry speed it was designed for you don't have to worry too much about where you land it on the asteroid.

Which brings up an interesting point, the WH doesn't seem to have an intermediate defense against things like small aircraft, cruise missiles, or mortars (the IRA attacked #10 downing street with mortars). I wonder why they don't add CIWS to the roof as a complement to the manpads which are intended for larger aircraft?

To be honest he said 15 years of his life which means he may have start before Dish became spammers (not sure how long their scummier business practices have been around since I have a mental filter on snail mail spam that gets immediately recycled and my home phone is given out to noone who doesn't absolutely need it like our local schools or our doctors office).

Whatever fines are collected should be distributed to the people
They are, in a much more efficient way that cutting everyone a check, by lowering the amount of taxes which must be collected or the debt that must be incurred by the federal government.

Where Muslims dominate government, law becomes Sharia sooner or later. That is not a world in which you and I will be permitted to believe whatever we want to believe, and if we insist upon it, one in which we will not be permitted to exist.

Perhaps you missed the bit of history where Spain was controlled by Muslims for nearly eight hundred years with Jews and Christians living freely and being left to practice their own religion, and then they were kicked out and the Christian leaders that replaced them forced the Jews out under penalty of death if they did not convert or leave?

Even if we assume that for every active terrorist there is 100 people supporting them (a high estimate, but not outside the realm of possibility at all), we're still talking about only hundreds of people.

Well, official estimates say that some 1,200+ people have left France to join jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria so I'd say your estimates are quite low in how many support the terrorists ideals, 1,200 people have been so enraptured by the same ideals that they have left their homeland to take up arms in a distant country, how many more must there be that support them but haven't been so moved yet as to actually take physical action? I think the problem is much, much larger than your musing imply, and it's something that needs to be talked about and dealt with. Is every muslim in the west a terrorist? No, of course not. Have the majority of terrorist attacks against the west in the last 2 decades been perpetrated by extremist muslims, yes.

There is NO software vendor that offers longer support than MS for free, not one. There are only a handful of products that even offer a supported lifetime longer than 10 years which is the MS standard, and of those the longest other than IBM's mainframe OS is 12 years. This isn't about extortion, it's about the realities of the software industry and the inability of companies to profitably support the very longest of long tails.

Just like with the AC unit, the vendor isn't telling you you may no longer use the product, they're merely telling you they will no longer offer support for it, if XP continues to work for you, then that's fine keep running it, but it won't be updated by MS just like the manufacturer will no longer offer warranty extensions or out of warranty repair parts (although for at least 3 more years MS will support 2003 if you sign a custom agreement and pay them high 6 to mid 7 figure annual support contracts). I've seen CNC machines running MSDOS in the early 2000's, many many years after MS stopped supporting the OS, so it's not like the software just dies at the EOS date.

Imagine if you would, you have an air conditioner on top of your building. Costs a million or so dollars. Then you get a call from the company you bought it from telling you you need to buy a new air conditioner. You ask why, and they tell you its at "end of life for support"

Happens all the time, if you can't get a new compressor or control board and there are none available on the secondary market you have to scramble to find a correctly sized replacement and get a crane in to do the swap to the newer unit. We had that happen with our 15 year old building here at our HQ, luckily our roof units were installed in redundant pairs so it was without the mad scramble for a replacement unit, but we had to replace a relatively young AC unit because parts were no longer available from the manufacturer.

We're fairly similar, our counts are 100x 2003 boxes (almost all ready to be retired, only about 20% really have to have projects in the next 6 months to move their functions to new boxes), 304x 2008/2008R2, and 31x 2012/2012R2. Almost all of the 2012 boxes are MS stack functions, most third party vendors either don't have it certified or only on the edition released in the last few months. We actually just started our first LOB app install on 2012R2 yesterday =)

An arrest warrant is NOT a search warrant, unless the weapons were in plain sight or the arrestee made some move towards them that would indicate immediate threat of harm to the officers then yes, a search warrant was needed to conduct a search, and if the marshals service wants to use these devices as a part of servicing an arrest warrant then they need to file for a concurrent search warrant.

Look, it's not like there are too many judges that are going to fail to issue a warrant for Marshalls to observe a residence before conducting a raid so this is about police following proper procedure and making sure that scope of the technology usage is limit to permitted actions under proper oversight of the courts. It's a matter of the fundamental role of the courts in reigning in the excesses of the executive.

With some dangerous exceptions like NSLs you as the accused are to be informed of any warrants used to gather information against you at the time of arraignment as a normal part of discovery. If the police were actually obtaining warrants for the widespread use of such technology you'd think that defense attorneys would be made aware of it and would be talking to the media. We already know that with the stinger cellphone interception technology that police forces used the technology in an unconstitutional manner and covered up the use of the technology and the details behind it as a mandated cloak in the NDA from the tech company behind it (the police can not sign an NDA for something the intend to use to gather evidence as that necessarily means the defense does not have access to relevant information which is clearly against due process)

According to this chart the 50 largest police departments cover some 51m people or 16% of the countries entire population. If you don't consider nearly 1 in 5 people being covered by such technology large-scale then I'm not sure what to say.

That doesn't really get around Kyllo since there were civilian thermal imaging cameras available (commonly used in energy audits) but were not in widespread use by the general public. A better analogy might be detecting the name of a WiFi access point from the street that says "drug den", since the police could use commonly available equipment that are in general use to detect the AP it would not constitute a search.

No, we already have a ruling, Kyllo vs U.S. where the court quite clearly stated the limits of extra-sensory detection equipment:

"Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant."

Gimp uses dbus to do a named pipe to the running instance if you launch it from the CLI and there is already an open instance under the current users context that tells it to open the new file within the existing instance, and dbus is now part of systemd. There are alternative ways to package Gimp that don't use dbus since it also run on Windows and other platforms, that just happens to be the simplest way with the current Gimp source tree. A LOT of what systemd is about is easing thing on package maintainers.