It's not irony. The Declaration of Independence was an illegal act. High Treason against the Crown. Every signatory was eligible to be executed, if the war had turned against the colonists.

You just take them outside immediately they begin to disturb others.

Nice trick at 40,000 feet.

They do not like this and they learn.

You've obviously made an unannounced subject transition from "baby" to "school-age child". The earliest the "take them outside because they don't like this" trick can possibly work is about 3 years old. Much younger than that, and the kid is crying for purely internal reasons, and the only thing "taking them outside" does is remove the child from the presence of other people whom their crying is disturbing. An acceptable approach, if feasible, but not a learning one. Besides, at some point choosing between "being someplace for important reasons" and "not annoying people around you" has to come down to "being someplace for important reasons", and "other people" will just have to suck it up.

Actually, if you're a REALLY dedicated terrorist, replace all the cells with explosives triggered by the power switch. Kill everyone in a 10-meter radius in the security checkpoint at the specific command of the TSA agent, and make sure the post-event propaganda plays that up.

If the lowly peon isn't held accountable for his direct actions, then the next time management asks him to do something wrong or illegal, there's one less reason for him to refuse. If he refuses, he can be assured of repercussions from management, but experience has shown him that threat of legal consequences is low if he complies; the path of least resistance is clear.

What you're advocating is that the IT puke be arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and punished for... working an anonymous hardware ticket in the IT task management tool. Probably one of dozens added to the system in any day.

I'm sure you're envisioning IT minion being called into Big Bad Evil Bureaucrat's office and being told "This hard drive contains crucial evidence which will destroy every Great and Evil thing I have worked for so long to accomplish. You must destroy it... use the Impractically Slow Hard Drive Destruction Machine in our Sea of Japan secret volcano base."

In practice, I'm sure it was the IP weenie going "Huh. A hardware decommisioning ticket from Remedy. A dozen hard drives."

Yeah. There's individual moral responsibility. But while we're at it, let's imprison undertakers for destroying murder evidence in cases where the murder isn't uncovered until after the burial.

Their purpose is to earn a reasonable profit, for any definition of "reasonable" that translates to "as much as I can get away with".

This is capitalistic economics: "What the market will bear".

No more than "Lincoln" would be to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

Actually, maybe it should be. I don't think Fox News is really upholding its duty in fomenting recreational moral outrage.

Speaking of "Sioux", why isn't that being pilloried as derogatory? The most common etymology is that the name comes from Ojibwa for "small snake", but more recent research traces it back to a Ojibwa word roughly equivalent to "barbarian".

Neither of which are very flattering.

Note, indeed, that most people identified as "Sioux" often self-identify by one of the related nations (such as Lakota, Santee, or Yankton).

Nice troll. Ukraine isn't a US ally

That's funny; that's exactly what Obama said to Ukraine. Pointed out very carefully that if you read all the fine print in the Budapest Memorandum, the words "ally" and "military support" never occur. Those were just in the marketing material. Silly Ukraine for signing stuff without reading it first.

Iraq refused to sign an agreement with the US

Well, to tell the truth, there really isn't one Iraq, even in the government, and in they end they weren't convinced they really wanted or needed us. That's turning out pretty well in retrospect.

"Just world" hypothesis. The mental model that says "that guy got victimized because he brought it on himself, whereas I'm perfectly safe because I don't."

Cowards blame the victim so that they can reassure themselves (falsely) that it just can't happen to them.

I don't know much (ok, anything at all) about the Libre lines but the Dorado machines have some very unusual characteristics such as 9-bit bytes which would render anything other than hardware compatibility a total disaster necessitating a forced conversion to another platform immediately.

Right. Goes back to the multiple-of-9-bit native word length of the the entire 11xx/22xx heritage, back to the Univac 418. Since bytes aren't the native access mode in that architecture anyway, they're an afterthought and rather harder to code for in assembler.

That's not the only oddity of that architecture, too. 1s complement math? Negative zero?

Yeah. I'm an old grey geek that started out on an 1180 back in the day. Mostly assembler real-time stuff.

I'm a bit misty-eyed at the thought of that heritage code running, essentially, by run-time emulation rather than natively.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

You're advocating against millennia of moral teaching and (perhaps genetic) altruism: the willingness to personally endanger one's self in order to help someone else.

I'd argue these youngsters, and other white hats, are modern Good Samaritans. Everyone familiar with the Parable of the Good Samaritan picks up on how the Samaritan was socially unlikely to help the Jew, and under no real obligation to do so, and therefore a moral exemplar. But one of the subtexts of the story is that the Samaritan put himself in personal peril to help the victim: the robbers that nearly killed the Jew could have still been in the vicinity, and the Samaritan (with travelling funds and a valuable donkey) could have been their next victim... and he had to know it.

The fact that modern robbers make being a good Samaritan dangerous is no reason to teach people to avoid helping others.

The unavoidable weakness of which is pad recovery. As in, the adversary prevents you from destroying your pad and recovers it. Or, not you; someone else trusted with the pad (such as your corresponedent, who's languishing in a jail as an imposter receives your encrypted messages and decrypts them with the captured pad).

This is why self-destructs are so popular in "no-kidding" grade crypto gear, and why they often don't get an opportunity to work.

And the Inquisition was torturing to improve society too. Funny how extremism looks exactly the same at nominally opposite ends of the spectrum.

If the idiots think you're guilty, you'll spend the truncated portion of what was the 1/3 remaining of your life in incarceration. How're you going to work around that?

I'd personally hate to be a first-time loser after midlife. Prison life is a game for the young.