With a Japanese power company managing the project, what could possibly go wrong?

It's not outside the realm of plausibility. Three out of five only comes out to a brain and a half in total.

Given how absolutely awful MSNBC and CNN are, it's no surprise that so many people prefer Fox News. Cable news has been in a race to the bottom for quite some time now.

IRS and NSA resources being put to good use!

There, I said it. While I still prefer Gnome's integration with the OS to other alternatives like KDE or ICE, I stopped using Gnome as my primary desktop environment a long time ago. (I use sawfish as my primary because of the easily scriptable lisp backend and REP loop.). I usually keep a Gnome session active on a different ttty for the rare occasion that I want to use some of the added functionality that it provides, but this is pretty rare these days.

You had me until this point.

At least not for a very long time. Long before you have reached Europa, the radiation will have cooked your brain and reduced you to a jibbering idiot (assuming you survive at all).

Just because someone, through no fault of their own, is hideously disfigured, lives under a bridge, and collects levies from unsuspecting travelers on pain of dismemberment does not give us the right to call that individual a "troll". This is a clearly racist epithet.

My father, an early pioneer of automated teaching (and a teacher himself) once told me that computers would soon replace teachers and, he added, not long after that they would replace the students too.

As we all know, no *true scotsman* would believe in anything that leads to monopolism and vulture capitalism.

This is not true in my experience. I sent a leaded glass piece through the luggage scanner recently. It showed up on the monitor as a large black disc. I had to remove it from the luggage so they could rescan the bag.

"Additionally, the government would not authorize us to separate NSLs from other government data requests or to express the NSLs that we have received, if any, as a range from 0 to 1,000" If they're not allowed to say that it's in that range, presumably it must lie outside that range.

Not calling everyone born before 1980 "old people" might be a good start...

They are certainly not less worthy of being represented by the same government. But the top 1% is vastly over-represented in our government. Setting aside the fact that their proportion in Congress is ten times greater than in the general population, the very rich are essentially able to pour unlimited funds into elections.

Naturally. What other kind of ammunition should one use against scientists and environmental groups?