Same reason some people actually pay for shirts with "Abercrombie," "Old Navy," "Aeropostale," etc. on them. I could never figure it out - if you're advertising for them, the shirts should be free.

You're a hypocrite. You argue that "idiot" can change meaning depending on the speaker. Then, so can "offensive" and 'hate." Who are you to tell someone what either means or that they're wrong in how they're using the term?

The statement said "offensive," not "hate," so you're arguing a red herring.

"Ellen made all the hard changes, like clamping down on politically incorrect speech."

FTFY.

"NASA is thinking about making these companies take out insurance policies"

Who do you think can make a better actuarial judgment of the risk, NASA or an insurance company? The government is certainly large enough to be self insured, which is in the long run cheaper than paying an insurance company which intends to make a profit to assume the risk.

And, forcing the private launch service companies to take out insurance adds even more cost, by adding another level of administration to pass the money through.

"for you anon and all the canadians out there, know this: your justice system rocks! your judges write clear and often pithy case rulings"

Yep, this in particular...

You were left with severely limited social skills and a significant educational deficit.

...reminds me of Animal House - "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

"In ham radio command and control over remote digital ground stations all have clear text passwords because it's against the law to encrypt on ham radio bands. "

No, it isn't, at least in the US. It's illegal to use transmit "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning," but the meaning of a password exchange is not obscured when it's encrypted. The meaning is user authentication, not the actual text of a password.

"The total resources of 300 million people is taxed and at the disposal of under 1000 elected people..."

...at the Federal level.

And that's the fundamental problem - the government which should have the most influence, and over which the electorate should have the most control, should start at the local level.

We're supposed to be the United States, but the Feds have used the supremacy clause to take over almost everything with real significance, ignoring the 9th and 10th Amendments, which are treated as an inconvenient speed bump.

IMHO, the biggest problem with the Constitution is that the Supremes should really be under the direct control of the States, instead of the Feds deciding what the Feds can do.

FCK THE NSA.

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, â" That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"

"Apple is like Santa Claus, descending yearly to give us some much-anticipated presents, with no forewarning about which of our wishes he'll grant this year."

Here's a lump of coal. You'll like it. We'll send you the bill later.

(Apple has always been like that - they Think Different)

Life must be difficult for you, being unable to derive meaning from context.

"things like fruits and clothes"

How many calories in a pound of cotton?

"see all the fallout style mutations"

Cue the "Total Recall" references.

1. Build cheap WiFi AP with poor output/range.
2. Market as "pregnant woman mode."
3. ???
4. Profit!