Believe the true intent is to have a ground force that can repel Amazon's copters.

Relying on SSL/SSH only protects the socket between you and the server that you're talking to - which may not be the server that you think you're talking to. You are including a whole lot of stuff in your trust circle. Now if you meant use OpenSSL or similar libraries for your encryption core, then I agree.

Wouldn't that be a better world? Posts would be short. And insightful. Like this one.

From the original article that spurned all of this anti-U.S. tirade "Arguedas said another issue stalling passage of the 14th amendment is the fact that legislators are looking to pass a law that is more extensive than the requirements of the agreement." So, after all of this, it's the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly that's the evil guy and there are 322 (and counting) posts from people that never read the 300 word original article (including me until just now).

In 2007, the U.S. exported 991 tonnes of sug1r beet for $76,000. In 2007, the U.S. exported 373 tonnes of sugar cane for $190,000. In 2007, the U.S. exported 103,138 tonnes of processed sugar for $391m. http://faostat.fao.org/site/342/default.aspx

And when Costa Rica becomes a state, sharing in the national debt and under the IP laws of the US, then they can sell their sugar to Montana.

Shouldn't the generator of the original story (Adam Williams/TicoTimes.net) be slashdotted directly? Wouldn't giving the originator credit for their story be correct? Does the original author deserve the AdSense revenue for writing something interesting? Isn't this a bit ironic for a story on IP?

Dear Comcast, I can't believe you terminated my account. Ok - maybe I can believe that you terminated my account, but I can't believe that you didn't tell me you terminated my account for over a week, and in the mean time told me that the reason that the internet was down was due to my faulty modem. I can't believe you sent out two crews to diagnose the problem, and were about to send out a third (and probably would have had I not found your crew-sending-out routine a waste of my time) when you "discovered" that my account was terminated due to excessive bandwidth. I also can't believe that, being the last one on cable in my FIOS-infected neighborhood, I was really hurting your performance. Really - there was only one other cable connected to your pedistal and one of your crews disconnected that thinking it was the problem with my service. Then, I couldn't believe that you re-enabled my account saying all was forgiven only to terminate it again after just a couple days. The biggest thing I can't believe is that your "security" department said that I violated a network cap that he wouldn't tell me what it was. I can't believe what a jerk he was in saying that he didn't care how many crews came out to my house since it didn't matter to him. Finally, I can't believe that it took me so long to switch to FIOS.