"I don't think science means what you think it means. You're saying that data, models, and research don't qualify as science?"

I know that science is something other that what you think it is. Those things can certainly be part of science, but in themselves they are not. If a religion has data, models, and research, are you willing to say it's science?

At a minimum, science requires testability (see the "scientific method"). You can theorize all you want, but unless your theories can be tested (are falsifiable), you're not doing science. AGW proponents aren't doing science.

So, it's been said that the dot patterns in question link to a printer's serial number. Do your printers include their serial number in their emails? And don't the secret police think that the printer which talks through the VPN exists in the location of the remote VPN endpoint?

"We have nice printers at work that send email when they have problems or need supplies. They are also NAT'd out"

You're doing it wrong. They should be talking to an internal SMTP server.

"It's trivial to geolocate with IP"

Really? My printer has IP address 192.168.1.201. Where is it located?

"Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice"

The solution is obvious. Only do theoretical fracking.

"she was given extra food because they were worried she might not have enough."

So, they had her eat the processed chicken turds, but she went home with her bag lunch uneaten. How did that ensure "she had enough?" Really, if people are hungry, and have food available, they'll eat it. The school had no reason to get involved unless the girl ate all that was packed in her lunch, and then complained of still being hungry.

"taking the word of a four year old kid"

In what way, exactly? The girl's mother says she received a note from the school regarding the incident. Are you claiming the 4 year old kid faked the note?

They didn't force anyone to buy anything. What happened, whether a mistake or not, was perfectly legal, although perhaps in bad taste.

But, to be fair, this seems to have been a simple mistake by a single employee, and was quickly corrected. Linking through to the NYT article:

"the changes - which were in effect only on the British version of iTunes, and were reversed Sunday evening...the price increase was the result of an error by a Sony employee in Britain, and that the company gave no orders for prices to be raised on Ms. Houston's music."

How do you think this spectrum came open in the first place? They forced consumers that were still using old TVs to receive analog TV signals to buy new equipment.

Wow. You couldn't be more confused. Analog TV operated in 54-88 MHz, 174-216 MHz (VHF), and 470-890 MHz (UHF) bands. GPS is up above 1 GHz, 1.57542 GHz (L1 signal) and 1.2276 GHz (L2 signal) being the primary signals. The frequencies that Lightsquared wants to use have nothing to do with the any spectrum which was previously used for TV.