Heavy-handed Wikipedia editors with serious "WP:OWN" issues often run roughshod over articles, creating seriously biased articles that no one can change because these editors engineer "consensus".

This case will be refiled, and I hope it costs Wikipedia a pretty penny, if not in money, than in reputation.

It's hard to take your point seriously when your post contains only an accusation masquerading as a glib comment with no real content.

A government IP range is automatically "known to be biased"? It sounds to me like you have some bias of your own.

I have an account. I have for the last 10 years. But often times I don't feel like being abused by editors / admin with "WP:OWN" and God Syndrome issues.

Microsoft is based in the United States, so there may be some valid argument here that as an American company, Microsoft data regardless of where "in the cloud" it is stored is subject to American legal rulings.

The *real* question is what about companies that do business here but are based in other countries?

I work at a major US Air Force base as a civilian in a middle level management capacity. I edit Wikipedia "articles" related to the military several times a week from work (possibly on my lunch hour, it's a grey area).

Does this mean I'm editing on the orders of my superiors?

About point 2: $119,000, not $60,000

About point 3: The stolen material was recovered.

I think what you may mean is many rural Washington towns have no cable or DSL. If you have a phone line, dial-up is still (yes) available, and both Hughes and Dish offer down and up link to the Intertubes. Expensive, yes, but if there is a cell tower nearby... there is Internet.

I agree. 10 years ago, I thought about all the money I had spent on cheap watches that I later destroyed or that simply stopped working. The next time I needed a watch, I purchased a $500 Seiko, which has served me well as a watch for the last ten years, it's really a nice time piece.

For me, there just isn't enough screen real estate on a watch no matter how much computing power it has. Sure, I often look at my phone for the time, but my Seiko is a mighty fine and quite accurate piece of "man jewelry". I really like it.

I also have a Rolex Oyster, but I only wear that to impress douche bags.

Most people avoid jury duty like the plague because they don't get properly compensated for lost time at work.

My employer (the federal government) pays me my normal wage while on jury duty, so I take it whenever it is offered.

Uh, yeah. Most judges rubber-stamp search warrants.

Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?

The cops get bolder every year, and people just go along.

Cop: "I asked him for his ID, and he went fishing in a pocket. IT COULD HAVE BEEN A GUN OR KNIFE, SO I SHOT HIM".

Very much so.

Hardware is difficult for experienced engineers. I think really smart kids (of which this may be one) should think more in terms of software, perhaps even embedded software. This is an area that a teenager who lacks real hardware engendering knowledge can excel.

It's not "trivia", that's not allowed. It's "In Popular Culture". Much more encyclopedic.

Jesus, shut the fuck up. It's assholes like you that drive people away from Wikipedia.

So basically we're talking about weed here, right? Those dominoes are falling.

My main objection to the process I went through to get my TS was the fucking "lie detector" test. Junk science is going to tell them if I'm "solid" or not? Please.