The issue is that SS is required by law to invest its' trust fund In Treasury bonds, and that transfer has not been accounted for as part of the official "deficits".

. . . but Ubuntu and other Gnome based desktops still can not deal with retina displays well yet

That's OK, my eyes cannot deal with retina displays well, either.

The last glaciation covered all of Northern Europe, Britain, parts of Germany, parts of Poland in massive, greenland-like glaciers and changed the climate massively all the way down to Africa

FTFY < /pedantry >
We are currently in an ice age, which global warming threatens to end for the first time in a couple of million years.

As a ridiculously coarse analogy, it's like saying the standard C library has the code for a chess game because if you take a tic-tac-toe game and then re-arrange a bunch of the code that controls how the stdlib functions are called you get chess instead.

Actually more like saying the standard C library has the code for a chess game in it because if you take a tic-tac-toe game and repeat it several times, a chess game appears (and loses in four moves)

And by the way, it irks me to no end how much people care about hate. Hate is a feeling. It can't do anything.

Hate is an emotion, that is, it causes you to move, causes your hateful behaviour. For that reason, people should care about hate.

No, and I mean NO! because central wealth distribution has been shown time and again to disincentivise people from actually doing something useful with their lives

I would say, rather, that the typical job is what prevents most people from doing something useful with their lives today.

being 18x the distance from Earth that the moon is doesn't really register to me as an "OMG WE WERE ALMOST HIT" event.

Being 1/2 the distance to the moon does, though, especially as it (the smaller asteroid) wasn't even discovered until a day or so beforehand. TFA was about two asteroids in close proximity to the Earth at nearly the same time.

A Galaxy III is stuck on a desk?

There are some advantages to leasing rather than owning, though. Owning is not free, and can be more expensive than leasing Leasing can give more agility, you can (usually) grow and shrink more easily, being saddled wit a 5-year lease or so, rather than a 30-year mortgaqge. Leasing avoids some risk if you sign a favorable lease, you don't have to worry about cost fluctuations, paying for unexpected repairs, or whether the lease pays for the cost of operating. You don't have to become an expert in constructing and operating buildings, you don't need staff for all that. If you're actually profitable, you can make money doing what your company does, and hopefully make a better return on investment than you can running the building. It's classic capitalism, do what you do efficiently and trade (using money) for what others are good at. Though, none of that means it is necessarily wise in this case, when Nokia already has the building, and seems to only be using the money to invest in losing more money.

Well, the maker of Wonder bread, Hostess, just went belly up, so I'm not so sure how popular that brand of bread really could be.

The level of the Lake Michigan, at least, (since I'm from the Chicago area) is largely under control of the locks and canals that connect the lake to the Chicago River to the Mississippi. This is often disputed in court, since ships using the rivers want to let more water out when the rivers are low and less when the rivers are high, but property owners along the lake want to divert more water when the lake is high and less when it is low. The amount of precipitation generally defines the starting points for the arguments, though.

The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child.

Actually, most actuarial tables, e.g. those used by Social Security, include life expectancy at various ages, and most developed countries still have longer life expectancies than the US at most ages.

This is a question of a foreign government's encroachment on the sovereignty of a business.

A business does not have sovereignty.

The parent post:

The idea of "Privacy as a right" is one that comes from the courts and jurisprudence and does not come from any actual legislation for the most part and for sure does not come from the Constitution

It is not a matter of just the fourth amendment
The ninth amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The declaration of independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.