I can't speak for any other potential freedom fighter, but I can speak for myself, so here are my answers:

(a) I will never target innocents, and will always make every reasonable effort to protect them from harm, including enemy reprisals.

(b) The blood flow stops when one side surrenders or everyone on it is deceased. It will likely be mine. We don't have the numbers to win, only to weaken the enemy and reduce its ability to rob, enslave and murder people, and to buy time for future generations of patriots to learn, prepare, and eventually renew the fight when the time is right. I am reluctant to kill for this or any other goal, but I am willing to die for it if necessary.

(c) I am willing to parole an enemy combatant once. He gets a nice brand or tat (in a non-prominent location) so he can be easily identified should he surrender again. After that he is detained or semi-permanently deprived of the ability to fight. (If I can do that without killing him I will. Life is precious.) As for the leaders, my belief is that a FEW of the very worst should be tried and punished for their crimes, publicly, according to their own law. After the conflict ends, if we are in a position to grant amnesty to the rest conditioned upon future lawful behavior, I will strongly recommend that we do.

(d) Anyone who uses force or violence against us or against innocents is a legitimate target, and that absolutely includes those who *knowingly* support, defend, promote, or give aid or encouragement to the enemy; but, as a practical matter, we will likely be focused on immediate threats only. Even in war I presume anyone who isn't shooting at me is innocent until proven guilty, and my goal is not to imprison or kill millions of people; it is to restore a society based on respect for life, liberty, property, and rule of law. And I understand that violence will not accomplish this goal, which is why I will fight only once attacked (or once attack is imminent) and fully realize that it will fall on those who come after me, those who remain after the fighting has ceased, to carry out the true revolution in the hearts and minds of the people.

Nitrogen can kill innocent people nearby if one is not careful and responsible, so, if you choose this method (which I might at some point), please take every reasonable precaution to warn and otherwise protect those around you. Don't do it if others are in nearby rooms. Make signs that people will see immediately on entering the building, and again on entering the room, warning them of the N2 and that they should get out and let the place air out. Don't use drastically more than you need. Try not to be noticed or found, until long enough afterward that most of the N2 would have dissipated.

I am sorry for your loss. For whatever it is worth, I do not believe you did anything wrong by confirming her wishes. If you had not, she would have died anyway, but probably much more painfully. I hope that time will dull the pain of your loss, but preserve the happy memories of your times together.

Unless you are trying to run on either crap or very new hardware, I can't understand why your Linux experiences would differ so much from others'. It is, by design, a different experience than Windows. But if it truly never worked, it would not be, by far, the world's most popular operating system (before you cry "troll" I am referring to all devices, including, e.g., Android (Linux) phones, not just desktops/laptops). Do you mind if I ask what exactly about Linux has not worked for you, and what distribution(s) you have tried? I'm not an expert but I might be able to point you in the direction of useful help, if I can better understand the problem. Thanks!

Just south of the Canadian border, in Cleveland, we experienced well over 120kph (70mph) winds from Sandy, probably closer to 140kph, although, in fairness, that was a once-in-recorded-history event. 100kph is quite common and all of our structures are designed to handle that, although trees are not, and often fall during storms, sometimes killing people when they do. We also get frequent tornadoes, as do, at least, the Canadian cities closest to us (London, Windsor, Niagara Falls, and Toronto). Most tornadoes are not in populated areas and are category 3 or less, but that is *not* always the case, and, as natural disasters go, they kill more people than any other kind except for heat (#1 by a very large margin) and blizzards (#2). (Blizzards should be no surprise, but heat on the Canada border? Yes; up to 45C/113F, though that's uncommon; the real killer is the much more common 35C/95F plus humidity which can linger, even at night, for days or even weeks, causing death from dehydration and/or heat exhaustion particularly in the older and poorer parts of the population).

In other words, too late, they already did? Not sure whether to feel horrified, or more horrified.

could also help paedophiles escape. So let's close all the roads, shut down the trains, and require everyone to "shelter in place" permanently. After all, someone must think of the children!!!!

Not actually true if you count being able to run proprietary binaries and WINE . . there are packages to kludge together Netflix support on most Debian-based systems, and it will work on many others with some tweaking (e.g., I've made it work, though clumsily and at the expense of others apps that needed a different WINE version, on Gentoo). I'll agree though that Hulu is probably a better deal for most Linux users, but most of those who want to run Netflix on Linux now can.

That kind of system can't scale. The site *should* have collected just enough information to show users the relevant plan(s) and approximate costs. When someone decided on a plan, it should then have collected just enough additional information to forward to the actual providers so they could sign people up, and/or contact them for more information if needed. No real-time interfaces to any external systems needed. Yes, perhaps some batch processes to verify citizenship, to send out e-mails, to confirm pricing and signup, etc., yes, but nothing requiring real-time, two-way hookups with dozens if not hundreds of other parties.

Relativity has been demonstrated to be approximately correct - within the limits of our ability to measure, and in the cases we have been able to observe. It is not known for certain, at this time, whether it is absolutely correct, or simply a very good approximation in the cases we have been able to observe and test. A certain amount of humility, and openness to new data or new theories, is needed if we are to significantly improve or expand our current understanding of the universe.

What would be a safer low-level systems language than C? I'd love to see one, preferably, one with a LOT less undefined behavior, but still within 2-3x the performance of C, and with the ability to call C or C++ libraries when necessary. I'm not looking for a fully managed environment like Java or .NET, or a higher level language like Python or Ruby. Definitely *not* looking for C++ either . . . I know one can write safer code in it but one can also, quite by accident, write very unsafe code in it as well. Maybe something like D?

Very. It's a highly rare substance. It's not like air was made up of 78% of it or anything ridiculous like that.

I do not believe you understood the GP. The suffering in suffocation results from buildup of carbon dioxide, not the absence of oxygen. As far as we can tell or reasonably surmise, that would not happen in a room filled with pure nitrogen.

Anyone can be trained to hit a target tens of meters away. And there are typically several shooters, not one. I would guess that having several rounds tear through the heart would result in fairly rapid unconsciousness and death. (Disclaimer: I do not believe states should have the power to execute people. That power should belong to victims and their families, and only after something much closer to a fair trial than most people on death row in the U.S. initially receive.)

LA certainly is car-centric as are most U.S. cities, but to say it does not have an extensive train system is a misconception. That was true for many unfortunate decades, but you probably aren't aware of the significant buildout that began about a decade ago and is still ongoing. According to the linked article, LACMTA runs the country's second largest light-rail system, ninth-largest heavy rail (subway) system, and also has commuter rail, Amtrak, and a great bus system that is very well-used and extensive by U.S. standards.

Your choice of Cleveland as a comparison is similarly unfortunate. I live and work in/near Cleveland, which has one heavy rail line, serving primarily industrial areas, with only a single downtown station. It has two light rail lines as well, both serving the suburb of Shaker Heights (they were an integral part of its design) but also sharing that same single downtown station, and a bus rapid transit line, which is nice, but definitely not comparable to rail. I like Cleveland's transit system, and its main flaw is not that there aren't more trains, but that there aren't more buses. But comparable to any of the others I mentioned, or to any city in Europe or China of comparable significance? Definitely not.