Because movies based off of games have been awesome! You know like the Super Mario Bros movie...

So rather than do the sane thing to reduce attacks (which saves money both in the short and long run!) which is to fix our foreign policy to one of free trade and friendship rather than secret assassinations, embargoes, invasions and occupation that we currently have. We instead decide to spend even more money on useless counter-measures.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A tethered jailbreak is one where you have to re-jailbreak your device every time it boots up. An untethered jailbreak is one that stays jailbroken even when you reboot your device.

Untethered != wireless.

Is this a hardware exploit (which can't be patched) or a software exploit (which will most likely be patched within the week)?

Japan. A lot of products that failed in (or failed to make a large impact) in the US were fairly popular in Japan. The Japanese market is a strange one, a country where high-tech reigns supreme and so do... fax machines?

Its taken them this long to realize that the past and the future are very strongly correlated and that those in power haven't learned from their own mistakes? I mean, every war that the US has gone to since WWII has been played out multiple times in history, economies run on the same basic patterns, etc.

Except for a lot of the reason why there's a lot of pollution in Beijing isn't because there's no EPA, but rather because of the property structure in China. In most countries, if you want to build X, you can build it wherever you can buy the land to build X. In China that isn't the case, all the land belongs to the government and all non-urban land is reserved for farming.

Because of this, you've got China which has a lot of land and space for people (they're nowhere near the top of the list of population density) where everyone's crammed into cities like sardines if they want to work a non-agricultural job. And since the government owns the land, businesses can't move out of the cities. Because of this you've got a massive amount of smog because all the businesses are concentrated in such a small area.

Except that Twitter is almost never just 140 characters. Rather, it is 10 words of description and then a shortened URL to who-knows-what. There's very little meaningful information that can be conveyed via video in 6 seconds.

I've never understood the appeal in Twitter or this hype about abbreviated messages, videos, etc.

I mean, 140 characters made sense in an era before widespread smartphones, where the average person only had a phone capable of receiving SMSes and carriers often charged per message.

But its 2013, we've got faster internet connections via mobile networks than what most of us used to have back home ten years ago. With all this added bandwidth you think we'd be overcoming limitations, not adding in more.

Because life is about risk and reward. Do I want to live in a nanny-state where people try to ban toys in happy meals? Where the cost of living is so high that you could make $100,000 a year and only live in a crappy apartment? Do I really need all these "protections" for workers? Or am I smart enough to always be learning and adopt a mind of an independent contractor and not a slave?

Tyrant:

1. a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly. 2. any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically. 3. a tyrannical or compulsory influence. 4. an absolute ruler, especially one in ancient Greece or Sicily.

I think definition 2 fits the US government in its current state. Or do you think secret drone strikes are not oppressive? Or perhaps you think that throwing people in prison for non-violent crimes is perfectly just. Is propping-up right-wing dictators in the middle-east and central America right? What about killing civilians in third-world countries based on lies (WMDs in Iraq, etc.) is that not oppression?

Unlike the oppression in most other countries (Syria, Egypt, China, etc.) the US has taken its oppression global while maintaining lip-service to "freedom" here domestically.

Except, if I recall correctly this is about the laws governing the STATE income taxes, not the federal one. In fact, California could simply abolish its state income tax and sidestep the issue altogether.

...Except that Google is also based in the US and has a legitimate marketing program that is one court order away from being another spying program for the tyrants in power in the US.

Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.

And once the federal government starts making the entire country more business-unfriendly than it already is, expect to see massive off-shoring. Indeed if you were to start up a new online company and could base it anywhere in the world, the US and western Europe would be the last place where I'd host it.

This is why most of the West is doomed. Why the hell would anyone start up a business in California if they pull stunts like this? Indeed, if you've got an online business with no geographical boundaries, why even host it in the US/Europe? Why not host it in a country that actually -wants- productive citizens?

In economic terms, a tax is basically a government's way of saying, "we don't want you to do that". An income tax is basically saying, we don't want you to work. A payroll tax is basically saying, we don't want you to hire people, etc.

Stuff like this will only hasten the demise of the US.