Which in turn cost ~1% of NSA's budget $50B and they can't keep a secret !

Fiscal conservtives are trying to save money supposedly ...close the guvmint damn it because the deficit is too large...and yet they voted yesterday ..
all of them ...the centrist to the righties...(there are no elected lefties in the US except for may be the Vermont Senator)
to pay and make us stay home...
Yup great fiscal conservatism. ...its like trying to drown a carp !

The problem is not government it is idiots running the government.

The IRS targetting of tea party was finally found to be bogus there was no explicit tilt in targetting as of last and it was the media only reporting what initially appeared to be ...but forgot to follow on when no simplistic story line was found.

A good and free press is necessary in a democracy ...not just a free press....otherwise they are free to report only on the royal baby or juicy event and forget to tell you what really is happening with people in power

If say 30% of accident are caused by drunks ...70% are caused by sober people...thus sober are more dangerous than drunks
thus having everybody drunk will reduce accident rate right ?

Just joking though ..it is no joke for those who have lost people in drunk driving accidents.

And that i am sure you include in your description the white folks in Arizona who ground the petrified trees in the petrified forest region for use as industrial abrasive material.
 

You tube is coming with specialized channels at $ 1 per month (hopefully i'll get all the sports i'm interested like world-football/ MLS etc) along with netflix/amazon-prime for series/movies (i don't care if i am a few season behind) ...i'm good.

For many people...

Socialism == Communism == Totalitarianism

Using the same standard
I wonder why
democracy != corruption / bad governance ...as in Democratic Republic of Congo for e.g

or

capitatlism != despotism/corrupt

as in Franco/Pinochet etc etc

It is the reverse they are talking about..
Using gmail to check your other e-mails on other servers using POP-3 (as an individual user you are allowed 5 different of such connections)...This is not about reading your gmail mail in your favorite e-mail program.

Indeed as usual ...we should fix what is not working...free market without control and checks will just kill people they don't need.
E.g the tunnel in Japan that just collapsed...private toll paid tunnel.

0) People chose GPL v2 for the kernel for very good reasons and the sheer success of it from phones to all Top 500 clusters is proof ..nuf said on that.
1) You can use LGPL if you want to release code that is GPL but allow people to link with proprietary blob but without forbidding users to see and modify the LGPL code.
2) Linux kernel is GPL V2.0 licensed not LGPL...so if you want to bind to it and release the binary then you have to release the code under GPL V2 of your stuff that is calling the kernel stuff...you don't need to contact any body if you abide by this
3) You can request all the copyright holders in the kernel code to release that bit of the code to you under another license if you do not like GPL.

Just a clarification: NRAO manages only the GBT and VLBA ..the optical telescopes are managed by a sister institute NOAO (note the O for optical).
So NRAO at best can fight/defend the cases for GBT and VLBA only.

Yes sucks big time for everybody though as even small funds for hardware/instrument development for astronomy at universities is recommended to be defunded.

The problem is the map app telling you where you are by using your gps + tower connection and giving you a routeway to go from where you are to where you want to be..without knowing the address of where you are...and keeps updating it as you move and suggesting alternate routes in traffic etc etc.

Is fragmentation a problem or is it freedom for each company to do whatever they want to support at a price they can make money ?

Or do people want the competition to be just like apple ...a controlled garden of 1 device ....1 appstore ...1 updates for 1 thing.

Fragmentation is the difference...it allows you to have amazon fire, the nook tablet, all kind of cheap and crappy tablets or phones to expensive and better supported ones etc etc...
who cares at least i can buy something from $79 to $500 ...i have a choice on my means even if its not what i want because sometimes i can't afford what i want.

If it is apple v/s pseudo apple ...then i would not have a tablet or a smart phone

When something bad happens ...we all cower and agree to whatever the government does in the name of protecting the country...remember 2002/2003/2004....
no ?

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This applies to highways /roads/DOTs and aiports/ntsb/faa etc etc which we ignore when comparing the cost of trains to other forms.....
Every form of public transportation is heavily subsidized, period.