It's not an unfounded speculation. We know he revealed information about US spying on China to the Chinese authorities. In any case, putting himself in Russian custody and begging them for favors (asylum) while in possession of tons of classified information is not a good idea if you actually intend to keep that information secret.

I would think one of the biggest factors is the increased reliance on unmanned aircraft. If you become a pilot today, say in your early 20s, there is no way you are going to hold on to that career until retirement, be it commercial or military. Right now, sure, we still need pilots. In 10 years you will be a dinosaur. In 20 you will be completely obsolete.

I used to just delete spam but one day I went through a whole bunch of them and clicked on unsubscribe. The amount of spam went down to almost nothing. Totally worth the 15 min of effort. Legitimate companies (who make up most of the spam I get these days) honor unsubscribe requests, the illegitimate ones will not care about any anti-spam laws anyway.

I very much doubt this would meet the US safety requirements.

What are you going to do about it?
 
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Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, the new axis of evil LOL. Three corrupt banana republic presidents trying to distract their ignorant and impoverished populations from domestic problems. In public only, of course. In private they beg for trade privileges with the US.

Did Dwight feel his life was in danger?
 
That's your problem, right there. It doesn't matter what Dwight feels. The question is whether a 'reasonable person' would conclude that Dwight's life was in immediate danger. That's what the law says. To me it seems obvious that this test does not pass in case of Martin (guy follows him) but does in case of Zimmerman (guy sitting on him and pounding him in the face)

Because we don't only know things that we personally experience. For example, I have never seen an elephant and yet I know they are small, furry and good swimmers. I read it in a book.

He does not lose his right to self-defense because some 911 operator told him to back off. So he followed a guy walking around in the rain in an area that had recent burglaries. So perhaps he 'profiled' him because he wore a hoodie, perhaps because he was black. Perhaps he did a poor job as a neighborhood watchman, he got too zealous in protecting the neighborhood (not as much as some mall cops but whatever). None of this has any baring on the fact that once Martin jumped on him and started bashing his head against the pavement (as all evidence suggest he did) he had the RIGHT to defend himself with lethal force. A legal right, as in under the law in force at the time. Charge him for sucking as a neighborhood watchman, or for following the guy (whatever crime that is) but there is no rational reason to charge him with murder. It is pure mob justice of the worst kind.

That didn't make sense. Short of installing Obama as the ruler of Egypt, we can hardly get any more involved in what's going on there.

Don't be naive. Short of installing Obama as the ruler of Egypt, we can hardly get any less involved in what's going on there.

North Korea is better than Egypt was under the Pharaohs. Different time, different standards.

So Obama throws Mubarak under the bus so Egypt can have democracy, now he supports a military coup to remove a democratically elected leader by the same military that used to keep Mubarak in power. Way to have a consistent foreign policy, chief.

First of all, the US created the UN and other international institutions against the will of Europeans and most other nations, who, prior to Willsonian idea of collective security, did not understand or attempt any form of international relations not based on balance of power. Not disagreeing that there are many of us in the US (myself included) who think this is dumb on our part, but it is just a little bit unfair to single out the country that contributed the most to international cooperation as being against it.

Btw, international cooperation today is greatest it has ever been due to capitalism and globalization so you should be happy. Just about every person in the world is involved in voluntary and productive cooperation as well as competition with people all over the world within the global market. Lookup Milton Friedman's example of a pencil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Gppi-O3a8 for a beautiful illustration.

Governments are not the place to look for any kind of cooperation that sacrifices the interests of their country for others, even a little bit. It is not only very difficult and unnatural for such a thing to happen in any democracy as such gov. will not last very long, but it is morally suspect as well. Try running for election in any country on a platform of say reducing welfare benefits or increasing taxes for citizens of that country in order to help the starving in other countries in the name of eliminating nationalism and patriotism and see how far that gets you,