Congress funds the NSA. All you need to do is vote for representatives that will cut the funding.

While the other violated his NDAs and is now wanted for treason.

At least the NSA can be voted out of office.

I guess this hits the nail with the hammer

In the end, religion is like having a penis. It's ok to have one, and it's ok to be proud of it. But if you're going to take it out and attempt to shove it down my throat, we are going to have a bit of a problem.

The difference is that the occupants of the Oval Office were elected, and could be thrown out every 4 years. Same can't be said for the great-grandma that rules Great Britain.

In metric, one millileter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree celcius - which is exactly one percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point.

In the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is "Go fuck yourself", because the American arbitrary roller-coaster makes it impossible directly relate any of those quantities.

Because the marketing droids who came up with the press release are based in the U.S., the only country next to Birma to use this arbitrary roller-coaster as an official standard.

Mod parent up.

When comparing the US with the UK, I'd choose the US within a second. At least the US isn't ruled by a great-grandma.

So in your reasoning, anyone associated with the Taxed Enough Already group, is guilty of "violently attempting to overthrow the government" because some of their affiliated politicians are attempting to protect their interpretation of the second amendment through non-violent means such as the court system and congress?

You, sir, are a genuine idiot.

And although I'm very much pro gun control, I do feel that it is people who kill people, not guns. Guns don't pull their own trigger. If you want someone dead, you can choose a lot more methods other than guns. The only reasons I'm pro gun control is that with so much weapons on the street, impulse murders are way higher than they should be, and the chances of innocent kids finding weapons and killing themselves are way too high.

You mean like this?

There is only one reason for the government to step in: make it easier for smaller ISPs to start shop. I'd love to start a small ISP in my area, but it is practically impossible.

Nobody forces cellphone vendors to manufacture phones for the California market. They are free to sell their phones elsewhere. Only the future will tell whether or not vendors will comply with the state law or just choose to sell their phones elsewhere.

One example of this would be California's CARB compliance crap. When I bought a generator a few years ago (are you ready for an earthquake?), I found out that it isn't that simple to just go on Amazon and get one. Noooo, you need one that is specifically made for the California market because some idiot in the air board decided to create additional rules, just for CA.

Secretly I hope that the next Iphone won't have the killswitch and won't be sold in California. Let's see how long the treehuggers are still in control of this State after that.

...which is a completely irrelevant way to measure quality of the market.

The carriers (read: AT&T, Verizon, Comcast etc) who use carrier grade equipment don't care about market dominance by deals or market dominance by image. They care about what works. Routers are not consumer products.

I guess we're part of a similar generation, although I have about 5 years less (started in 1997 with Linux).

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, it has worked for years, and that's why you like it. You (we?) are now that "old generation" that I was referring to, and I'm not about to become a grumpy old admin.

Let me give you another example, which is geared a bit more towards my current profession. In the last couple of years, I worked for two large vendors of networking equipment. Vendor R used your way of doing things: each network protocol has its own daemon. So you end up having ospfd, isisd, bgpd etc. Worked just fine. I also worked for vendor J, who used one big binary: rpd handles just about every routing protocol you can imagine. Is J bad and is R good? According to the market, J is doing very well, while R has been acquired and assimilated by a another company.