A few problems with your post:

• TVShack hosted links. See here for more information. All TVShack did was create a one-stop source for links to content, and that is what pissed off Hollywood / the US.

• Hollywood doesn't spend all their money making shows, and shouldn't kill people for it.

• Anyone can "rip off" (AKA "fork") Libre Office and sell it for cash- they just need to make the source code of the fork available. That's part of the freedom of the LGPL.

I think part of the problem here is you know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to make an informed decision- just like the type of people in Goverment / Hollywood who start this crap. If TVShack hosted content, then prosecute. If not, then pass a law against linking to copyrighted content and prosecute if TVShack is still in business at that time.

I remember seeing this in the past... but we used the 7 P's: "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance"

You're right, I wasn't. I was there for my Brothers- I fought so they can come home. Iraqis be damned.

I'll proudly say I served... USMC Reserve Veteran. I did two tours in Iraq (volunteered for the second) with the infantry as a grunt. My education was interrupted for that second tour. In the end, I laughed more than I cried, and I wouldn't trade my experiences away. Of course, I got out after 10 years... and I have no desire to go back until we can fight like we need to. Politicians (and cowards) are why we are losing our wars.

While it may be demeaning to the Civil Engineer, it does make the management of the janitor feel like they are not demeaning the janitor. "sanitation Engineer" in the sense of janitors is just to make others feel good, not the janitor.

Horses are a truly renewable resource- when one wears out, sell it for meat in a foreign country (or maybe our own some day), and buy a new one. Add a buggy, and a whip to go fast, and you are green.

On my third hand, Apple and Samsung have been suing the piss out of one another, and that is beginning to strain other business relationships.

He doesn't need citations... when the FDA starts the "War on Cows", you'll know.

Just one iDevice? I expect that someone who feels that a walled garden is the way to go would own at least 3 iDevices.

Off-topic but interesting.

In the past 4 years, I have gotten a better job, bought my first house, left the military, and have 2 more kids. I an better off, but not because of Obama. I would have done that stuff anyways.

It took me less than a minute to realize a coordinated attack on an embassy is not "spontaneous". If anything, it should be easier to determine the Embassy attack was "terrorism" (or at least coordinated and planned) than a Chinese hacker spearfished a certain person on a certain system at a certain time. Just because you stick your head in the sand and ignore warning signs of attack and indicators of planning, it doesn't mean the attack was spontaneous. Even during deployment in Iraq, I saw sugarcoating of events... I see through that bullshit. The Embassy attack was planned, plain and simple. It was well executed. A mob doesn't have that coordination.

That is the reason the article uses the word "might"... they are expecting the world to end this December, but in the unlikely chance the revered and more-advanced-than-us Mayans were wrong, we could see the comet.

The United States was embarrassed by WikiLeaks, and they are looking to "fix" that. The problem is, they can't take any of it back. This is all reactionary, and not real rational. If anything, they need to review how/why Bradley Manning had access to the State Department cables, since it doesn't make sense Manning would have had that access in the first place (just because people have a security clearance doesn't mean they have a need-to-know- and the information system should enforce that). They need to put blocks in place to prevent future problems.

The US can't change the past this early- they need to wait a long time to spin this (probably a couple generations). Punishing WikiLeaks won't accomplish much in this case, because the next time a leak happens another proxy will be used. They are trying to punish Assange, as they punished Manning, to deter future "leak" hosts. It won't work- while the US can control the military personnel and their actions, they can't change the rest of the world.

The US is acting like a child- "I told Timmy a secret, and he told Jeff, and Jeff told the rest of the school. I'm no longer going to be Timmy's friend, and I'll tell the teacher to suspend Jeff. That way, the school will know not to tell my secrets." It doesn't work- everyone knows, and you can't wipe the world's memory with legislation or prison.

In order for this to work, do you have to have the plugin loaded? There is an image transferred to the computer- it can be copied. Hell, it has to be copied in order to be viewed.