This state blows nuts. I'll be glad when I'm the hell out of here. This state is notorious for not siding or even giving a damn about it's people.

What did you expect? As Charlie Daniels famously observed, the devil had to go down to get to Georgia.

The new technique is only secure, the patent admits, in cases where the user leaves a mobile device's charger at home.

And even then, it's only secure if nobody breaks into your home. And you'll need a separate power adapter for use outside home. Under these conditions, you can ditch the home power adapter and replace it with a piece of paper with the password written on it.

Oct 1st, when the DoD has new funds to release to defense contractors like my employer.

Somebody truncated the "like we need holes in our heads" part.

This one's been around for a while, but it never gets old.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol3.htm

The last time we declared war was World War II. How many bombs have we dropped since then?

When climate scientists say is often used to justify restricting in various ways things that most people either rely on or enjoy.

I challenge you to present me one published paper where a climate scientist tells me what I can and can't do.

You are implying he claimed something that he did not claim. Re-read the GP. He did not claim that what climate scientists say is often used BY CLIMATE SCIENTISTS to justify restricting yada yada yada.

There is no "dark side of the moon". A side of the moon always faces the earth, but it doesn't always face the sun.

It seems to me that there ought to be (and, in fact, there are) more productive uses of gold than to have it sit in a vault serving as backing store for another medium of exchange.

It seems to me that SGAE is the victim here. They were the ones from whom money was embezzled. The perps are the senior officials within that organization.