At some point, you have to start trusting people/organizations/companies.

What you're really saying is, "You don't have a choice, so just suck it up, princess. Privacy is so 20th century."

No, you don't have to trust people/organizations/companies who have not earned your trust. You are the one paying. Use the power you have as a consumer. Weaponize your purchasing power.

And always, always reserve the right to just say "Nope, I don't need it, I don't want it, and I'll find another way."

Why would you want to adopt a rifle that was in many ways already outdated when it was adopted into service, and is so outdated by now that even Russians themselves seek to replace it?

And what allies use AK 74?

Wait - I'm confused. Have we renamed it ad neaseam yet? Or is it still nauseam?

Bruce

What makes you think we haven't already done that with ad neaseam?

Sincerely,
Bruce Hecklesby
Chairman,
International Time Travelers for Proper Latin Spelling

Lol.. i'm not wrong. Trucks pay more than four times as much but more importantly, the amount of taxes collected are enough to cover the maintinence from the combined damages on the roads the trucks drive on. It would likely be enough for all the roads if portions of the money wasn't taken and used for other things.

For us here in Norway PSTN/ISDN was our bad time, when the one monopolist could charge pretty much everything they wanted. When we got DSL, the market was deregulated and lots of offers showed up. In the US, far more people get Internet via cable, which obviously has far more reason to protect their traditional business. As for recent fiber roll-outs it's really the power companies that got the ball rolling there, eyeing an opportunity to break into a new market by running fiber optics as well as power lines. Obviously the incumbents couldn't sit around and watch that and it became a race to lay down fiber first, since it's rarely profitable to come second. So it's a very nice three-way race to roll it out, though the prices are fairly steep.

Really you have two options here. Either that Martian life would be entirely different to us in which case it is unlikely going to be even able to survive on Earth let alone devour anything or it is somehow similar to life on Earth in which case would it really be any worse that the collection of highly infectious, nasty bugs we already have in labs around the planet?

Certain science fiction loves to go on about alien superbugs because they make good stories but I expect that in this regard reality will be a lot more boring, and safer, than fiction.

What? Lol

This is the opposite result of less regulation. The government was sharing the costs of bringing broadband to rural areas. Now they cannot because a single entity by regulation changed a definition that specifically applies.

Do you see how your statement defeatz itself in context?

He did not say only criminals use it, he said criminals love to use it. Also, as long as that is the theme being pushed by the governments (propaganda), his point is still valid as governments and law enforcement are demonizing it and it will make them the enemy.

You are crazy if you think the amount of wear and tear or damage to a road from one truck is 8 million a year. The prius is getting over charged but that doesn't matter.

Now your facts are a bit off too. A tandem axle has a weight limit of 34,000 lbs which effectively reduces your 20,000 to 15,000. and the steer axle is limited to 12,000 lbs. The 20,000 lbs is only if there is ten feet between center line of the axles even if they are rated for 20k or there is only a single axle on the truck besides the steer axle. But we are talking about semis now unless you want to change the goal posts again.

  Also, the prius has single tires per axle side and a semi has dual tires or the equivilant in what is called a super single. Its not a direct comparison but the math works out to the truck paying over 4 times as much as the prius anyways.

Except if you got a bad batch where some kind of material or production defect will cause many disks to fail near simultaneously. The overall MTBF might be true for all the disks they produce, but unless you make a real effort to source them from different batches over time you can't assume that's going to be your MTBF.

Plus the extra weight of the radio and the antenna. Tiny, perhaps, but not inconsequential.

Soylent is often tastier.

I don't care how good it tastes. I'm not eating anything made of people!

azimuthally

Saying that word is like a party in my mouth.

   

Interesting. I was confused by this since I was taught as a kid that The Hague was the capital of the Netherlands and, if Wikipedia is to be believed, that is still where the government sits even though it seems that Dutch law defines Amsterdam as the capital (which was something I'd never heard of until today). So apparently at least in the UK we used to be taught based on the definition of capital, i.e. where the ruling government presides, and not whatever local laws would like to call a capital.