...knuckle dragging, to-hell-with-them-college-boys-and-their-durned-science, North Carolinian Republican dipshit waste of time. Noooo...., not because the science isn't accurate, but because it doesn't matter yet. A one-meter rise isn't going to happen in our lifetime, so why waste time legislating against planning for it now, other than to score political points with other dipshit Republicans?

Well..., no. Not if your primary aim is profit. Fuck national security. If your corporation can make a buck selling "defense technology", and it can make 1.5 bucks selling defense technology using cheap offshore parts, you use the cheap offshore parts. Dealing with bad PR like this is what lobbyists are for.

Noooo.... YOU are about to be informed that Windows suits my narrow needs and I'm quite happy to put with it's annoying idiosyncrasies so that I can use the handful of apps that have no open source alternative. For everything else, and that means ALL of the heavy lifting (you know, the part that makes "shitloads of money" for a medium sized collection of business units, including the largest Internet retailer in it's market space, I use Linux. Oh, and by the way, that "handful" of Windows apps? Management tools for the Linux stuff. The point is that all this Windows vs Linux fan boy stuff is just childish bullshit. One uses the best tool for the job (or the only tool, in some cases), regardless of the OS upon which that tool runs.

No. It will not... ever. Your mistake is in assuming that what people will value, and how they will treat the things they value, is always based on reason. If history teaches us anything, it is that people are often far from reasonable. So no matter how much bitcoin has going for it, when viewed dispassionately, it is not shiny and tangible. The fact that the shiny things, and more importantly, the things that people build and do for each other are far more tangible, and that those things would steadily become worth fewer bitcoins per unit rather than more, is guaranteed to keep it nothing more than another geek fad.

Not a joke, really. A marlinspike is a sailor's tool. Most of it's uses are antiquated, but it's still handy for certain jobs, like prying open a jammed knot.

Riiight. Think just a little bit longer/harder on that one.

Suits me fine. If the Republican'ts want to continue their stated strategy of doing nothing whenever possible, let the Executive Branch take initiative where it can. When all parties want to quit the grammar school, partisan bullshit, let's talk about tackling the "more important" issues.

Don't be silly. Laws against stealing are for "little people", right?

Thank you for tickling my irony bone so early in the day. Co-workers must be wondering what the big-ass smirk is all about. :)

I beg to differ. Access to the truth, or at least to all places where that truth may be found, is a basic human right, one which transcends borders, draconian laws, religion, etc. I assert that every person on this planet has that right. So bite me. I most certainly will not stay out of the Pakistan government's disgraceful attempt to control their citizens by cutting them off from large portions of the Internet on some dip-shit religious argument.