Well, here's the thing. They had enough on the guy to get the warrant to plant the camera. No encryption (or in the case of heartbleed, broken encryption), and they can likely find ways to snarf all that information without a warrant, in which case it could (more easily) become a case of "find people fitting profiles we don't like, then sift through all this information and look for something that sticks"

you'd need to end paycheck income tax withholding and actually have them write a check on April 15.
Wouldn't work. You'd have a ton of people not setting aside for taxes, and when the tax season came all hell would break loose.

Windows 8.x is stable and in many regards is better than Windows 7
I call bullshit on this. Faster, potentially yes (on some newer hardware). More stable... tell that to the system I reinstalled the OS on *REPEATEDLY* over the course of 10 days trying to get the thing to *not* get stuck in a mysterious stuck-on-boot-logo loop. Win7 worked fine, win8.1 had some hate on for software/hardware I've commonly use across other OS's without issue

One of their favorite tactics used by law enforcement is to install cameras in your residence facing where you normally use your computer

At that point I'm pretty sure there should be a warrant involved...

I'd imagine that glow-in-the-dark animals would be at somewhat of an evolutionary disadvantage, but I'm sure the wolves wouldn't mind if all the prey animals were lit up like a birthday cake :-)

Smart at business/marketing, stupid at surviving/living...

Quite simply to have a halfway decent gaming rig you are plunking down a minimum of $1200 with many doing a multiple of that

Honestly, not so much anymore. AMD 7850k. Motherboard. 8GB RAM. 2GB+ HDD
$200. $100. $50. $100.

Throw in a case for $50-100 and you've actually got a pretty good machine (can play BF4 and most other stuff @ 1080p, high detail).
Throw in an SSD (under $100 for a drive that'll at least fit the OS and a few games) and you've got a pretty fast machine.

Well, taking herbal remedies to cure a fairly treatable cancer and then dying from it is fairly dumb...

Some people can be very smart in some ways and dumb - even gullible - in others.

Actually we're the only country that wasn't blasted into the stone age during WWII

Canada and Australia say hi...

"Windows 7 also runs great on older hardware"

On older hardware with enough RAM and at least 2 cores, yes. With the caveat that the older hardware has drivers for windows 7 (and yes, there's plenty of stuff that didn't, especially in terms of soundcard drivers etc).

"5. The best part of farts"

I'm missing this. How does being deaf relate to the moment 5 seconds after you exit the elevator when the doors begin to close and those recently who recently entered begin to gag?

So if you're gay and your boss is anti-gay, you're not allowed to say you'll quit?

I don't know about a political organization, but in terms of politically visible persons: George Takei was fairly vocal in this (with lots of discussion from his supporters/detractors in regards to that as well). Sometimes it seems that an official political "organization" versus "group with figurehead" is a blurry line sometimes.

"It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting"

Seems to me it's more "he can't lead because there's a small army of people actively attacking the company based on his leadership"

In this case though, it sounds like the conditions weren't so much created by the employer as created by the online masses.