You act like the issues really matter. The true issue is which backers will get the favoritism. She won't favor the GOP business interests, but the DNC business interests one in office.

Well, it's probably not even illegal. I imagine the entire thing is some government department following the ethics of the regulations and since the law says these chips can't be exported for certain purposes and some other department said these groups were working on those purposes, they put out something saying these chips can't be sold to those groups. Can those groups probably get their chips from someplace else, perhaps even legally? Most likely. Do the people that told Intel care? Probably not. That type of caring is a different department.

In the end, this will probably delay the Chinese research some time and cost them some more money. Every little bit counts in the grand scheme of things and that is probably all this action is supposed to do, add some small percentage of inefficiency to China's research that will cost them more than it will cost us to implement.

However, they are more widespread than 3D printers, and the designs out there for tools are a lot more useful than anything for a 3D printer. Better to say that any moron will, eventually, might be able to download a design and hit the big print button when the state of the art on 3D printers and designs will allow. Currently, they can do the same thing for cheaper and come up with a better result using CNC machines with just as much skill and training as it would take to use a 3D printer.

When I see consistent evidence of such. Last time I checked by comparing pre and post gun ban statistics, what you say was not the case. Over all, while deaths by gun diminished, the actual murder rates did not. The idea that more easy gun mean more senseless death seems to be an unsupported assumption rather than shown causation. There are lots of other factors involved in gun bans. People who want to commit murder can still commit murder. Guns are not death incarnate. Without lots of training, they tend to be inaccurate and no more deadly than getting stabbed with a knife. Also, people, in the case to threats and robbery, usually don't argue with a gun, where they are likely to do so with a knife or other weapon, so gun bans could easily result in more deaths. In cases where significant crimes is involved such as violent gangs, I doubt prohibition will stop the killings or even the access to arms any better than prohibition of alcohol did.

The one place this does seem to be the case is suicide. Guns do seem to be too much of a quick and easy way out for people, and other, even easier, methods of committing suicide get used less even after significant periods of time.

Well, I think that you'll find that most matters of perception are actually selecting for traits that correlate to either health, youth, or fertility, all promoting more surviving children. Colorful feathers, sounds, clear skin, long silky hair, all correlate to these features. Our very past ancestors that favored them, ended up having more children and our bred those with other selection criteria. I would expect that height also corresponds to health.

I suspect that like most religious thing, it is just a justification for their behavior. In this case, they're still pissed about having their island and land taken from them in a coup sponsored by the American government in favor of corporations against their sovereign nation, the mess it has made for them since, and the general disrespect they get from everybody else. I have enough friends from there to know that if they said "it's part of our heritage" and you said "Boo hoo, fucking ghosts." Whether they believed in those ghosts or not, you'd get punched in the face because you generally being disrespectful to people who are complaining about people being disrespectful to them.

I'd say you are exactly wrong. A regular language may be easy to learn, but that does not make it a successful language. Flexibility and adaption of new words make it a successful language and turn out to be the exact opposite of a strictly regular language as it leads to variations in spelling and irregular verbs.

Marshal Law is a deconstruction comic dealing with superheroes as hypocritical villains and the self loathing of those who find themselves with powers. There is also a second series where they train new superheros and a third where he meets Pinhead from Hellraiser.

Yes, this! I hate American football too!

Switzerland has 8 times the population and GDP though.

It's designed to capitalize on marketing hype.

Business, which I suspect is a lot of their income, has been on a subscription model for decades already. It's called Microsoft Service agreement. The place I work at has at least 5000 seats and we get our Microsoft products through our parent's service agreement. I'm sure they are all counted as Windows 8 installs by Microsoft, although we take the option to downgrade to Win7. We are even paying the extra fee for the current XP fixes still. Add in office, costs for servers, Office 365, etc and our parent business coughs up millions a year for a subscription to MS products.

People are people. Social engineering works. Training can help against specific and obvious threats, but history isn't much help if the very information you have access to is only partial or wrong to begin with.

Remember, Goebbel's propaganda wasn't primarily used to fool other nations, but to fool the Germans themselves.