Here in Massachusetts we have far fewer ccp holders and practically no one carries guns outside of law enforcement, but we also don't have gun battles breaking out or people "trying stuff" that would be stopped by guns.

Basically, it's more due to us living in a safe country than the number of guns.

But Google benefited from Snowden's actions. It was from the documents he released that let them know the NSA was tapping links between data centers.

Officer: "Have you been recording me? Let me see your phone."
Person: "Officer, you may have my phone..."
Officer: *yoink* "Thank you for your cooperation"

Well they couldn't really get to a worse situation than they are at the moment, so why not go for it?

I'm more concerned about the "papers" that contain gibberish nonsense than one where the author isn't correct. Those are both names that could easily exist, but even if they didn't, it shouldn't be a problem to publish an article by Anonymous as long as it's peer-reviewed and contains good material.

I didn't say it's OK - I think it's a bad idea but I don't believe in supporting my arguments with misleading or inaccurate facts.

The $9.50 figure is also per year, not per month

Looks like it would be about $9.50 on average in CA. However this is also assuming the router is being used a max power 24/7 when it's sharing and would be completely idle 24/7 if it wasn't. It's more likely people would be using their own router so it wouldn't be idle in which case it would use a negligible amount for sharing.

Auto threading is extremely useful - it makes messages make much more sense since they're in order and together

I end up using my email that way. Emails about stuff I haven't dealt with stay in the inbox (though only one for each thing) and when the task is done I archive it. I don't create emails for that purpose, it's more like an email with tickets to a show or someone suggesting a feature for a program I'm working on or a credit card statement.

Maybe for simple minded people, folders are more like the office where mail can be filed away. GMail has something that's a vast improvement to that: labels. You can label your email the same way you would put it in a folder, but many emails will fit multiple labels and you can do that. Folders lack that flexibility.

Well it's still true - if people don't donate blood, the existing reserves will be used or go bad in a few days (maybe weeks depending on circumstances).

Well I get faster speeds when connected to LTE compared to 3G, but apart from that by bill is the same and bandwidth allocation is still "unlimited". Faster speeds are good.

Well we have a 4th generation data network which is faster than the 3G (third generation) data network. It didn't follow the official standard for "4G", but it's a different technology so it's not really 3G either....

I live in one of the few US towns with municipal power and we have great reliability because they do all the maintenance needed. The only time in the past 5 years we lost power was during a hurricane when something took out the substation (and it was fixed in hours, unlike the surrounding areas that were still out the next day). A lot of lines are underground, but I think the maintenance with cutting back trees and replacing bad sections also has a big part to play.

But that's not the case - there is actually a duplicate of all the data on a second drive. It's only one period of time (the most recent), but it allows you to recover the data in the event of a hard drive failure (and the loss of data on that drive).