A sociopath would not damage their own company to the point of having to declare bankruptcy.

You are making an assumption that a sociopath while willing to steal from clients, would not choose to go so far as to damage the company as a whole. That assumption in turn depends on 2 other assumptions

1. He feels that there is future value to the company to be worth preserving
2. He has enough knowledge and skill to avoid the accidentally damaging the company

If Assumption 1 wasn't true he might decide to cut his loses, create some story about hackers stealing stuff and close the company while keeping the stuff he already has.

If assumption 2 was't true, he might damage the company past the point where the theft could be hidden. Sociopath only states that an individual feels no social or moral responsibility for his acts, it says nothing about their technical ability in any given field.

Did they look similar to thousands of other warnings about others that never panned out into anything? If so, then it was just noise.

With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight that warning was proved to be accurate. That means it wasn't noise, it was actually a signal lost in the noise.

Office of Research Integrity

At it's most basic, it's used as a texting app but the text messages are sent via the data channel thus avoiding the text message charges imposed by mobile operators.

"Real People" are not the ones who decide if MS is used in gov't offices or not.

"Real People" who spent their formative years at the coal face of IT 10-15 years ago are now in a positions of increasing influence if not outright power. They have spent their careers watching how MS manipulates the Windows ecosystem for MS's benefit at the expense of MS's customers.

I'm guessing they were hoping for a confession which makes for a much stronger case than just evidense.

Sure invading Iraq reduced the risk of a maniac launching a first strike against America but it created far more terrorists.

Something of which there was no risk of anyway since he had no weapons capable of doing it.

Americans are the most charitable people on Earth

Looking from the outside in, news reports about the US really don't give me that impression at all.

How many stones in a metric shitload?

0.15 stone shitloads... which is still alot because of how big a shitload is.

The energy was collected over the very short time span of a plant in a swamp.

No, the energy was collected over the time span of however long the ecosystem survived... and over a geographical area of however big the ecosystem was.

Fossil Fuel represents energy collected over vast areas and timescales. Then compressed and transformed over a period of millions of year.

Not only are we burning it quicker than the feedstock could be transformed into a fossil fuel, we are burning it quicker than we could grow the feedstock given the growing area we can provide.

I know you're joking but even if there was a mini blackhole at the center of the earth, it would just be absorbing matter from the earth.

Earth loses 100kg, the mini blackhole gains 100kg, but from the outside the combined mass of both the earth and the mini blackhole would be constant.

It wouldn't necessarily have to be the time traveller posting the message. It could be someone they interact with from our time learning something (probably very mundane and not realising the significance) and making a post which references the new knowledge in some way.

Spying on ally countries as well as domestic US traffic should be frowed on and with good reason.

Agreed.

The reason that spying on ally countries, especially mass spying of ordinary citizens of allies, should be frowned upon is because it makes it far too easy to arrange a reciprocal spying agreements where no agency breaks it's own countries laws but still gets all the juicy intel about it's own citizens.

kill them all and let the pengiuns sort them out

Only the public key.