It's because the rich who own the means of production are absolutely terrified of teh disruptive power this tool gives the poor. They can see what's coming and they want it legislated such that the machines have to be registered because you know, people might print up a gun or knife... but they really want them tied up with loads of red tape to keep them out of the hands of the people.

or from NASA apologists trying to excuse the stagnation there since the ISS and STS ate up the budget for real exploration

no it bloody didn't... what ate up the budget for anything is the monstrous amount being spent on fancy weapons and research into killing people more efficiently...

bit rich considering Microsoft's limitation of liability amounts to exactly $5.00 and you have to sue them in Washington State where they've got every law firm that is good on retainer so they can't take your case for you...

These people who were caught/shot were throwing yet more bombs at the authorities as they were being chased. They had a whole house full of them as well. Do you think they stock piled them just for fun?

You honestly believe that crap put out by the authorities? they were patsies set up as the fall guys

where's my mod points when I need them... MOD parent up

As NASA will never be given the budget to perform the reviews.

make them pay extra to receive them...

10 inches in A4 portrait format is fabulous for viewing music sheets in sheet or chord lay out... music sheets are the killer for tablets... iPad in portrait are the killer format... all those Android tablets in wide screen format are missing the entire reason for having a large screen..

get yourself into a field where they can't outsource or insource workers. One where you need high security clearance and have to be a national in order to do the work.

It's in the service agreement, I think... smartphone = required data plan.

What fscking service agreement??? He didn't make one... they should not be able to do this to him... they can fsck off as far as I'm concerned... if they did this to me, I'd fscking dump that sim card as fast as I can... In the UK, we have decent pay as you go plans... and they can't change things on you either...

It had better NOT be the beneficiaries of this largesse... the corporations can have licenses as a reward for doing the donkey work, but the patents should belong to the people whose money is being used...

Central Banks make their targets public, are the sole source provider for their currency, sell the money at public auction and manage the currency for the public's interest.

Oh come off it... you honestly believe that what central banks do is really in the public interest? They're private organisations and are a cancer on all of us...

This is why I have two routers... one is the cable company's router and I've set that to no remote admin, the other is hung off that router and is the real router for my network

and refreshing the "product" with new characters to make toys of..

The content mafia will be astroturfing the crowd to the max that they can get away with... they have the software to enable their shills to appear as hundreds of other "citizens". So unless there are identity safeguards to positively identify each contributor as a registered citizen, they'll get the legislation they've always dreamed about...