I grew up way before the Internet became a reality to the wide world. Scams are scams. "On the internet" is not enough to garner a patent, it is not enough to garner a new name for an old art: Scam.

If you can fall for a scam on the Internet, you can fall for one through plain old snail mail. The Internet just makes communications quicker and exposure more likely.

Fuck you. Prove it. I am sick of this shit. When I went to school way way way back in the mists of time, girls were encouraged over boys. My own son dealt with this shit too... and yet girls are STILL not at the top of the heap.

Stop abusing boys. You can not force girls to be on top of the heap... and this is nature: There will be a heap. Deal with it asshole. All you are doing is creating misogyny.

I am cool with this. Darwinism in action. My only concern is for the truck driver. :)

If you are going to be driving wastefully, doing it as efficiently as possible still makes sense.

I *WANT* one of these. Madly and desperately. Tesla heard my only objection left: All Wheel Drive. I have been maneuvering my finances to buy one since the AWD version came out. Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)

If it were true, wages would be sky high. Ipso facto, it is not true.

Let's see how the women's soccer team does against the men's soccer team. So the unspoken argument is that you should hire inferior people to fill the role.

Somehow, I do not think that is the message they want to get across.

Only a few months ago? At least you removed it... I removed flash from all of my computers back in 2009. I was responsible for vulnerability analysis and noticed that every month, there was at least one vulnerability for flash and another for java. I removed both.

I bought a laptop in 2013 that had Windows 8 on it. The very first thing I did was start patching it and downloading updates. It did not matter, I got a virus less than 4 hours after starting the patching process. How? Through a flash plugin that was not installed in such a way that I could even see that it existed.

I formatted the drive with a vengeance and installed Arch Linux on it... which it is still running to this day. Flash can burn in hell as can Windows 8.

Looks like the NRA has some more work to do, since someone will try to ban this too.

Cymbals are also a dead giveaway. Either the "airiness" is lost or they sound too sharp.

One song that ALWAYS shows weaknesses in lossy compression algorithms is "My Name is Mud" by Primus. Something about the mixture of bass and drum really messes with all of the algorithms. I have successfully performed double blind tests and can always pick out the lossless version of that song. Other songs can be much more difficult, but paying attention to the cymbals frequently reveals lossy compression.

How will taxing the rich help? The government, any government, will just spend that money on new fighter jets, spying on their population, and redirecting the money in non-taxable form back to the already-wealthy and well-connected.

Tying up all the wealth into a few people and institutions is the root of the problem. Taxing does not address that.

Of course the exception to this that in some cases, when you are in jail you're not allowed to write books and make money off your crimes. Free speech would be you talking to someone about it, but you would not be allowed to detail the crime and make money from it.

The original question isn't about freedoms really, but more about ethics. The data is stolen. You shouldn't be looking at stolen data, or even pseudo-copies. We see with Snowden that even large media companies makes mistakes with release and redacted information (e.g. revealed ISIS current intel because they didn't properly block out a PowerPoint slide). Perhaps you'll feel differently when you see someone who's stolen your name, address, DOB, SSN, work history, history of living, interviews of friends, financial information and a trove of other information put out on the internet, and then have someone do "analysis" of your stolen information. No, this hasn't happened YET. But if the Guardian can do it with stolen documents from a business, there's no barrier to doing it with a person.

I think you fail to understand that the laws of physics are non-negotiable. You can't just step in front of a multi-thousand pound vehicle moving at 25 to 30 miles per hour and expect the laws of physics to suddenly change and allow it to stop in under 10 feet. It just can not happen no matter what laws or rules are in place.

I am an American who has been alive for a while. At no time did I think "black person" when I saw Jar Jar for the first time.

What that implies is either that the effect intended was not a negative racial stereotype or that racism is effectively dead for mainstream America.

You choose. Either way, the hate-fest ends here.

And why would anyone do that? I own my own robots that grow food, make stuff, and provide security. The smelly homeless guy in the street expects me to shelter, cloth, and feed him? ROBOTS SHOW THIS TRASH TO THE CURB!!

Sure there will be plenty of charity types who will do the good work, but society as a whole will eventual get sick of those that can't or worse.....wont. With robots as weapons I can see the wonts pushed out pretty hard.

Essentially there will be no need for the bottom %'s. Those is power will bribe or force those at the bottom to stop breeding. Eventually the world will be filled with nothing but the top percent. Is this a bad thing? Maybe may be not depends on your philosophy.