Wow. My whole laptop cost less than a Kinesis keyboard.

Same situation here, but I had lasik done around 30. Now about 12+ years on, my distance vision has degraded, but not back to originally bad condition. I don't regret the choice at the time, it was a tremendous improvement from my original vision.

The problem (as I've been told) is around the early 40's. The lens of the eye hardens. It causes a shift in vision. My eye doc described this sort of like cooking the white part of an egg. Once it goes from fluid to hardened, there is really no going back. Although I think working in front of screens all day for a decade plus has biased my vision to near-sightedness. Had I a different job that required distance vision, maybe truck driver or something, then I might have ended up that way.

Sometimes I find I can focus on distant things, but it takes quite a while. The lens hardening seems to really slow the focal change speed. I find if I'm looking down reading something close and someone asks me something from a distance, when I look up that person will be blurry, and it takes quite some seconds to focus on them better. Similarly if I drive for an extended period then I seem to be able to read the roadsigns better.

Monty Python gave the answer ages ago.

I'm even quite sure that's their motivation. Or at the very least their excuse. "We're keeping them safe!"

Ignoring that people should first and foremost have the right to choose whether they WANT to be kept safe. That's the fallacy of self proclaimed "protectors": They don't ask those they "protect" whether they'd want to be protected in the first place. "Protecting" someone against their consent is basically illegal restraint.

But the manager was dead, right? Please say so, I need closure!

Try to convince a Manager hellbent on joining "The Cloud" and you know the answer is no.

For a chuckle, have him explain what "The Cloud" is before you do. At least it provides some entertainment before you try to convince him he's about to sink his business.

Discrimination? Who speaks of discrimination? We're just asking a few harmless questions. And of course you may opt to not answer, that's completely within your rights. And of course not answering, or providing an answer we don't like, will have no influence on your chance to be employed whatsoever...

So? There are full blown fascists right now in the State Department, hellbent on derailing the United States Constitution and nobody gives a shit.

If there is a god, they wanted to take a good look inside whether the stuff is still in there.

1914? Are you high?

Businesses are so intertwined internationally that it is virtually impossible to start a war with anyone without offending at least half the businesses in your country. And that's something no government on this planet can afford.

Hate to pull the Godwin here, but it fits.

People during WW2 who dared to help those that were prosecuted for no other crime than being who they are were living in constant danger. Not just of being arrested or inconvenienced, but of being killed. Along with their family. Still, people did just that. By far not many, but surprisingly many. They sure as hell could not hope for fame and glory (especially during the first years when it sure looked like Germany would win that war), actually all they could expect is that sooner or later they'll be betrayed and end their life in a concentration camp.

Sometimes some things are more important than your convenience.

Guess someone took hook, line and sinker the spin that the US population doesn't support what Snowden did...

Same cost, same corruption and same amount of taxpayer money being squandered, but at least you do NOT get anything for it instead of getting inconvenience and surveillance.

I'd say it's a step in the right direction.

Dude, you have to learn how to read slogans. "Yes we can" means "We CAN, but we DON'T". And Hope and change means that you may hope for change. If you so please. It's a free country after all.

Seriously. Did anyone really expect anything just 'cause the guy is from the other end of The Party?