I don't think there are many guys out there, video game addicts or otherwise, who would prefer masturbation to porn over sex with someone they like, trust, and feel comfortable with.

I see you aren't married...

I don't live in Australia to know what the practice is there, but here in the US it's not uncommon for a company to advertise one price, but then tack on a variety of fees, taxes, and surcharges to the final bill that actually pay for the service and cost associated with providing it.

"Oh your rate plan for your [cable|internet|cell phone|whatever] is 19.99. Your monthly bill is $82.45 after adding in sales tax, USF fee, phone number|IP rental surcharge, regulatory compliance fee, capital improvement fee, lobbying surcharge, fee just to fuck you because we can fee, CEO compensation package fee, legal defense fund for when we get in trouble for all these fees fee, fee to make more money fee, fee fi fo fum fee, and finally are you even listening any more fee."

By making the company include any of THEIR business taxes as part of the service fee, they can't just bury their additonal costs as a line item and pass it on to the customer without affecting the price of the package.

Is there a requirement that everything has to look as it always has, forever, especially when what's existing never met any standard to begin with?

You've not lived in a area subject to a draconian home owners association I take it?

They just simply don't keep up and don't have modern college training in the latest security threats and program hacking methods.

I have a modern college degree, BS in CS from Purdue. I can't recall a single class that discussed security as a topic, let alone dedicated to it. Fuck. I just realized the classes I took were nearly 20 years ago. I'm an "older developer" aren't I...

Did you drive to work today? I bet you exceeded the speed limit at some point. Or possibly pushed the limits on that yellowish-red light you ran. Have you ever sang a non-public domain song without paying a royalty (including Happy Birthday)? Jaywalked? Failed to register and/or vaccinate your pet? Not changing your address when you move?

Guess what. You're no longer law abiding. He doesn't have to change his attitude since he qualified his statement. If he said "the phone records of citizens are none of the NSA's business" then we can talk about his attitude if he were to be elected.

You also have to be careful because of these states where there are "mutual consent" laws about recording. i.e. in some states you can record a conversation surreptitiously, while in others, all parties to the conversation must know it's being recorded.

Most (all?) states allow video-only recording without two party consent. Two party consent typically pertains to the audio portion of the recording.

If you're going to steal the drugs, you're just going to slip into the room, snip the tube, and walk out with the bottle of narcotics. You're not going to bother to hack the system so that it doses out an extra mg or two for you to siphon off. Even if you did manage to bypass any other hurdles and got the machine to dose out more than it was suppose to, at most you'd get fairly limited supply before they realized they went through a bottle of narcotics far faster than the machine should have been administrating it.

How can any law even be a law if it's made in secret?

It is a deadman switch. It's a device that is automatically activated in the event the operator is incapacitated.

How is the script guaranteed to run if the operator dies? It doesn't as the drive may never be removed. A deadman switch that may or may not operate isn't a very good implementation.

Anymore isn't it if you didn't compose the music, write the lyrics, and then perform both, all while using a series of words, notes, and/or chords that have not been organized in a similar fashion, either as an entirely or as smaller subsets, then you have no right to think about it in a public space.

How is it that if I shared that many songs with that many people without authorization I'd be fined literally trillions of dollars, but they get to walk away like this?

Because you aren't a incorporated company. Individuals in management might get to walk away, but the company and all it's assets (if any) doesn't.

While the end result is that the average citizen gets fucked in the end (and not the way that makes you feel good and sleepy), how can you say that the US only has a 1 party system? Pick almost ANY topic and the parties are going to take polar opposite views of it.

So I presume you write everything in machine code then? Or do you take the easy way out and just use assembly for all your projects?

allowing buildings to develope emergency lockdown procedures that take only seconds to secure dangerous equipment

Can you give an example of what type of dangerous equipment would need to be secured and could be done so in 10 seconds?

there are many high-quality Android tablet alternatives in every form factor imaginable, the Nexus 7 isn't needed so much.

I just wish more manufacturers would not try to customize everything to the point where we have a Samsung Android and Moto Android and LG Android and... My last two Android phones one of the first things I did was find the Google Play Edition rom on XDA-Developers to remove all the bloat and crap, not to mention forced lock in to some apps.