"(and the draft dodgers were making a decision that in retrospect was a smart one)"

Think of it as evolution in action.

Camembert (2891457)
'Yeah right, it is soo typical of this entitlement generation to find excuses like that. '

Please cease and desist from using the Camembert name.
Camembert was granted a protected designation of origin in 1992 after the original AOC in 1983.
If you're not in Normandy, France and a Cheese, you are not entitled to that name even if you're old enough to be a bit runny. It's a copyright violation.

"Then explain how they can predict a population peak."

This statistics wizard can explain it to you with boxes, it's quite convincing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

You could travel to Europe, for example in Germany there are many hotels that are partially submerged right now.

"I don't think this works well as an argument (especially when it invokes the Nazis) because most people dismiss the possibility of a really bad government like the Nazis getting in to power in their own countries."

You don't need Nazis, Alan Turing was an invaluable part of the Governmental spy-agency and still they went after him because he was gay when they didn't need him anymore.

Bad laws made by bigots in the legislative don't need a bad executive.

"For the moment, until things change, nuclear power is the only source that provides enough to keep things going without buring stuff and putting it into the air and everywhere....Anti-nuke people haven't been paying attention. "

We were paying attention to Germany who shut down their reactors but nonetheless had enough solar and wind to export power to nuclear France when their reactors couldn't run because there wasn't enough cooling water in summer or frozen in winter. The also had their first day last year where wind/solar made enough to power the whole fucking country alone.

When such a wind-generator is obsolete, you don't have to guard it for 60 years, dismantle it for billions and guard the remains for a couple of hundred thousand years either. If it falls down, there's a dent in the shrubbery and unlike nuclear, they even have a fucking insurance to cover the damage.

"Is there a device to automatically disconnect network or otherwise time limit a physical connection to a network?"

Yep, it's called a router.

Just watch the video below, a Harvard prof will explain it to you, and he's real fast.:-)

Don't talk to the cops, part 1 and part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE

"My phone lets me make an emergency call without unlocking it. I believe there are some apps that allow additional numbers (i.e. Mountain Rescue, your wife, etc) to be set as emergency contacts that can be dialed without unlocking."

Why not let people dial any number in contacts?
If somebody steals my phone, he can gladly talk to Aunt Nasty as much as he likes, as long as it prevents him from calling anybody _he_ knows.

He could even call my ICE contact to tell him he's found my phone.

"Their considering boot times to be costs. That should tell you how much bollocks is in the article (I, like any true /.er haven't read it)."

It's government computers. They cannot just make the machines go to sleep instead of powering them down in the evening, sleeping on the job is frowned upon.

"But that is the origin, when somebody says: "I take the fifth", what they mean is that they will not testify against themselves. But to testify against yourself you have to be a suspect, you have to be the one on trial, that's why Lois Lerner, the IRS director [cnn.com] "taking the fifth" makes no sense, she wasn't on trial."

I you shut your cake-hole when the police interrogates you, chances are that you'll never go to trial. People always seem to think that they can talk themselves out of being arrested or indicted, let me assure you, it's not the case.

Don't talk to the police, ever! It can only hurt you. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or not.

They don't tell you for nothing that everything you say can be used against you, they mean it and they will.

We had beer fridges interfere with our work for 20 years and we don't even had internet.

"How is that going to be different if you had met this girl in a bar or your local handcraft workshop? "

That's not the 'normal' way.

The normal way is being forced to sit in your aunt's living-room with tea and cookies while she introduces one of her acquaintances daughter to you.

"Why an iPhone? Why any phone? Why you remove progressional photographers from the equation you'll get amate"

The remaining Chicago Sun Time readers are all over 70, they won't notice the lack of any progressive photographs.

"I can has cheezburger?"

We know you're a dog.