If you're old enough to join the army or vote you're old enough to accept responsibility for your actions. End.

... their opponents would simply wear sunglasses. Or some sort of eye covering that would block the light sufficiently. As a non lethal anti personel weapon it would probably work poorly once on the battlefield, then never again. Now in civilian control situations, thats another matter...

When you've done the amount of ham fisted nation building and interfering as the USA has done since WW2 you're going to make enemies that you need to defend yourself against.

Anyway, a common enemy either real of imaginary is an age old method of taking the mind of the people off of internal matters. The Romans were doing it, never mind the USA, and todays best practitioners are Putin and the fat kid running north korea.

Sorry, bad joke. In more than one way.

LOL! Spoken from a kiddy point of view or what :)

Believe it or not sonny, Facebook hasn't been around that long. Zuckerberg wasn't even born when I was 15 so the odds on there being anything online about me when I was a kid are pretty slim wouldn't you say?

And no, I didn't do anything embarrasing unless you think getting into fights, trying it on with girls and driving cars fast is embarrassing. But then you're obviously a millennial so who knows.

"Everyone has a chapter in their book they don't real out loud, including you"

Not all of us mate. Sure , I did some dumb stuff but nothing I'd be particularly embarrassed about. If a teen thinks posting pictures of their genitals or a "hilarious" throwing up incident in a bar or whatever isn't going to have future consequences then they're probably so clueless and thick that they're not going to go far in life anyway.

Most teens are sensible, why should be protect the idiot minority from themselves?

"an effort to change social perspective seems to be the sane and more permanent thing to do ."

Tell us oh great social visionary, how do you plan on changing the social perspective of 7 billion people?

That the best comeback you can manage? Go back to bed.

"To put it in your own retarded words:"

Not sure what the paraphrase is achieving there. I guess thats between you what passes for your braincell.

"I'm pretty sure that's not true"

Ok , no one with a clue expects.

"Are you done now making yourself look like an idiot?"

Sorry, I think you've been looking in the mirror by mistake. Go lie down and have a rest. Maybe the cluetrain will pull into town for you soon.

In plenty of fields (aviation, industrial, railway) there's always a backup failsafe system. No one expects any one system to be 100% fooolproof. Perhaps they - and you - could go learn something from these areas.

Wtf has power out got to do with it? That was a seperate issue question. FFS, can you read english?

To be fair, no one apart from a few vested interests are claiming that quantum computers are some sort of magical panacea. But just like modern graphics GPUs, they could be built into ordinary computers and used when the problem domain suits their capabilities.

Who said anything about a key? You ever seen a proper combination banking safe? Anyway, I meant have the mechanical locking as a secondary backup, not as a failsafe opening mechanism for the electronic lock.

No, I meant as a secondary seperate lock you idiot.

Thanks, but I did read the article first. However obviously you must have understood it much better than I, so if you could point me to the part that describes why a mechanical backup lock would be impossible to install in the safe I'd be much ablidged.