Wow, I didn't realize Jonathan Swift posted on slashdot.

if you use netflix without waiting for buffering, you likly have the bandwidth rate to game remoatly.

I keep on trying, but the black knight who guards the socket on the other end of the moat won't let me plug in my TV.

Let's also not forget "love of pussy" and "love of money". These elites are also often essentially bribed to stay with access to premium housing and often whatever women they want.

Um, have you ever thought that maybe the reason there wasn't any response until June 2014 was because the movie wasn't hyped until then? Do you really think there is someone deep in the bowels of Pyongyang scraping TMZ looking for any hints of a movie that may not be portraying North Korea in a glowing fashion?

Have they ever read "The boy who cried wolf"? You warn people that their local community bulletin board website isn't encrypted enough times and they will probably start to ignore all your warnings. All this would probably do is annoy people to the extent that they will automatically click away any warning window, including when certs are invalid, possibly forged etc. In other words, it will really annoy people and could even be detrimental to security. Maybe if they restricted it to POSTs not GETs, though that may just incentivize lazy developers to use GETs instead of POSTs.....

You are looking at this through your own cultural lens. Take a step back and look at in the context of the broader culture and conditions in which these men live. Polygamy and much shorter lifespans for women has created a shortage of marriageable women in Afghanistan. This coupled with severe cultural taboos on pre-marital sex(in the case of Afghanistan, it's not just a taboo, it's illegal) means that for many men, especially those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, other men are essentially the only way they can have sex.

This is not much different from any other situation where women are rare to non-existant(prison, the front lines of a war etc). In these situations men often engage in what is referred to as "trade", but of course none of them wants to label themselves homosexual because:
a) homosexuality is taboo and/or illegal where they come from and/or
b) they aren't actually gay, they are only engaging in homosexual behavior because that's all they have available to them.

It doesn't surprise me at all that men in Afghanistan are having sex with each other but not declaring themselves to be gay.....

My former boss smoked weed(at Microsoft of all places) and basically had to write an essay when she applied for her clearance that basically said, "Weed is bad, I won't smoke weed anymore". Sort of a 3rd-grade level punishment but

Yeah, because all those US doctors who got ebola got sick because they were overseeing ebola patients in the mines they were overseeing. Your ignorance is showing, maybe your anti-US hatred is clouding your view of reality.

Yeah, Sony has been making parts for Apple well... pretty much since Apple started making computers. The author is either ignorant of history or just plain doesn't care. Either way a worthless article.

I will make a donation to the EFF for 5 cents for every thumbs down and 10 cents for every troll comment on the following: video

Please troll this video, it desperately needs trolls.

Do you realize what the "made in" actually means? It means simply where the final assembly was done. Final assembly is not a complicated process, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

How many people were saying the same thing about the Japanese economy in the late 80s? Answer, almost all of them. Do a google search for China and debt and you will see what I mean. They are also not the "sole manufacturing center for most of the west". Very little value is added in China, and it's manufacturing that can be done elsewhere, and is increasing done elsewhere as China gets more and more expensive, both economically and politically. Crappy hardware trade shows do not an economy make.

It's only going to get worse as the chinese economy stagnates. I've been saying this for years, but people are finally starting to realize that China copied the post-war Japanese model right down to the bad loans, today's China is pretty much where Japan was in 1988, barreling towards the cliff. The difference between the 2 countries is the government though. Outside of the economy the CCP has been deeply unpopular for years. However there was little unrest since the economy was booming. However what will happen when growth slows is much more unclear. Hong Kong like protests against the government would probably be the best case. More likely is large scale riots as unemployment coupled with a large # of men being unable to find a wife is a recipe for disaster. The CCP knows they are living on borrowed time and are going to do everything in their power, including perhaps returning to the days of the cultural revolution if it finds it necessary. In the short term expect spying incidents like this to become the norm.

So you'd have to somehow engineer a way to walk around in public bleeding, puking, ejaculating, and defecating on people around you - all without it being obvious that you were very unhealthy.

So.....basically you should attend burning man?