That's a long con that has been in existence since the very first newspaper introduced a dating column.

Flimflam people have computers too.

"Sounds like time for some skeet (clay pigeon) shooting practice, but with self-propelled targets."

The Spanish royal family is more known for shooting slow moving elephants, which are much easier to hit.

Let's hope that the agency responsible for this has thousands of users searching for TV-series on the office computers and get directed by Google to the Number 1 malware site where they download said malware on the office computers.

"Or is this folly, best left to experts? "

Since you don't seem to be or have experts nor money, it's obviously folly.

"Actually heating the road is easy, with a little creativity. I was going to suggest adding plutonium to the road mix, but the same end could likely be achieved more cheaply by just using nuclear waste. Solves the waste problem at the same time.

Of course, there may be some undesirable side effects...."

Indeed, it would trigger the Iran anti-neutrino detector from 2 articles father up and send the the brute-squad on the way.

It's nice to see on the photos, that at that time, they were dumb enough to go at ground zero without any protection.

The FBI goes after thoughtcrime, ideas and tools that _may_ be used to commit a crime who would have thought.

How about guns?

if everybody was mentally healthy, they wouldn't have any followers.

"Since when does the FBI have jurisdiction over citizens of Romania ?"

Since when are pirates and parrots in Romania?

What's so mysterious about it. They got a national security letter, can't talk about it and they will be hacked this or next week, the plans will be published by wikileaks or Anonymous and you will be able to order a completed product on Aliexpress for $29.95 in 3....2.....1...

"at least one major candidate"

Well, the Republican candidates are not so versed in operating the series of tubes.

They have their church-app and an online bible and that's it.

"Have you seen women's pants lately?"

Only the inside.

But seriously, 'lately'?

Have you ever checked women's skirts, robes, dresses for the last couple of hundred years for pockets?

That's why they invented handbags. If you ever checked a woman's purse, those wouldn't fit in any imaginable pocket anyway.

"That was an example of taking a good point and stretching it..."

Wouldn't that be a line?

I've given to MS 'Charity' (their shareholders) each time I bought a computer the last 25 years, if I wanted or not.

In France, on their TGVs (High speed trains) there are outlets for every seats.
ditto in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium ....

The London Tourist office is surely not amused.