I'm afraid you fail to see a much bigger ignorance in your mentality. You talk about citizens while you should rather say the tiny % of citizens who actually give a damn about internet freedom (or lack of control and regulation).

People make revolutions for things they care about; unsurprisingly, they let politicians do what the lobbies command on all the other issues.
In my country I can't see thousands of protesters in the streets on this issue. Not even dozens. Not even one.

Politicians are evil, but on this matter they don't even need to be, to get what they want.

Whoa, do lobbyists use violence in Finland? Because AFAIK they use cash everywhere else, so it's greed over spinelessness

Or mature rock guitar players, in which case the bot's mother would likely have any charge dropped.

You're already on the tricky one in point two. What's obvious for you might not be for others. Bill Clinton's cheating behavior was child's play compared to JFK's, to name one. But when the big dogs start barking the whole Land of Freedom barks. And when they don't, no Chihuahua does.

Coming to Tricky Baracky, do you really think that private sexual behavior is less compatible with the office than, say, keep on talking in an official occasion during the Queen's Anthem, being hushed by her in front of everyone and thus becoming the laughing stock of ... well, anyone who cares to notice? Trained waiters know better. Is there a minimum competence level which is compatible with "the office"? Does this level include the oratorical ability not to talk folly in case of teleprompter malfunction? We all know this guy isn't smarter than Bush II, but "we give a breathalyzer to asthmatic children in the ER", for fuck's sake!?.

But I truly admire the US ruling class artfulness in choosing a guy who's so hard to hate or even criticize for any fool around the world (Benghazi and Snowdengate under Romney, go figure ...).

Your implication is false. Albert Schweitzer didn't hate blacks and considered them inferior. Something similar could be said about Lincoln. You would be right only if science showed blacks are truly inferior.

1) Yes. 2) No. 3) At the ATM, to get some cash.

, which would make insurance either unnecessary or very cheap.

I'm afraid you belong in a negligible minority of people who don't love ads. Reluctant people like you will require more aggressive techniques. Just be patient and enjoy your current freedom.

The USA is deploying a strategic anti-missile systems. Russians are freaking out on that. Provided anti-missile systems really work (you never know) the Russians' best counter-measure is having many warheads AND many fake ones (the enemy mustn't know which is which).
So, why should the Russian not boycott a new START?

Actually, the only good news since the cold war is that Russian decision-makers (Putin's fat-cat friends) have much more to lose than the average American one.
This is quite different from the cold war era, when the flower-bearing American dreamer was no match for the Soviet war-hungry Politburo member.

One more thing: I'm really bothered by the fact that the Administration is trying to sell a new START as a move towards peace and not a simple cost-cutting measure (is it, /.ters?). Sounds like Tricky Baracky will have to look elsewhere for his little publicity stunt.

If you travel to Europe don't miss our theaters, where people are not forced to buy popcorn, soda and Junior Mints (whatever the latter are). 8$ is reasonable.

Yes.

I partly agree, the analysis sounds a little too black and white. Many corporations are just too large to let everyone in the teams meet face to face with one another. There are periodical team meetings and more frequent subteam ones. The bottom line is, shared workspaces when you're in the office, a variable amount of telecommuting days for much of the workforce. As usual tailored solutions are the best.

Did you miss the second half of a 2-line post?

And part of the first, too, since "almost" referred to the incidents occurred to a single customer and not to the general population of customers.
BTW, that's consistent with my experience, too.

I think you're confusing a situation in which the sender trusts the receiver blindly (encryption is OK) with another when the common goal is partial.

"Doc, if you want to sell my MRI to Evilpharm at least make an effort and rip my MKV"

What we actually do is investing education money in a way that maximizes the return for society. And we should do that even more.