The commercial interests, big commercial interests are negatively affected by this spying. It's going to hit some bottom lines big time pretty soon. If we're to believe in the strong arm of lobbying, domestic spying should end any day now, right? Riiight :)

As flayzernax said: swap them for some prostitutes. Keeps the number incarcerated locally constant :)

Let me know when there's a way to pull a few selected files out of a git repo, change them, and then push them back. Until then, shut up, mmkay?

Where the heck did you get the idea that I think git stores diffs? All I'm saying is that Git's merge support is useless for binary files, because it doesn't know anything about them. It'd be great if I could have git show visual differences in STEP files, but it doesn't do that, so merging is at the file-level, not content-level, so it becomes no better than what subversion has.

Now pray tell how much will I pay and how long will I wait when I want to check out 20 megabytes worth of drawings at customer's site, running through a 3G wireless modem - a common scenario for me. The repo is a couple gigs large in the current revision, and has the overall size of about 100G.

git is not the end-all, be-all. Where you don't need massive distribution or you work with binary files (say, a CAD repository), git and mercurial just get in the way. They still doesn't have sparse/partial clones where you could just download selected subdirectories. That's the make-or-break feature of SVN in some of my projects. Our CAD repository is over a gigabyte. When I work on a project, I only need our parts library and the project folder. git and mercurial are great for software, but software is not the only thing version control systems are used for.

Good luck trying to get a chargeback on your card if you use it for a donation. When the word "donation" is heard by the rep, they'll end the conversation right there. Donations with credit cards are like Western Union money transfers. Once you pay, the money is gone.

Note that a kickstarter contribution is not a donation, it's a payment for service, and you can certainly ask your credit card company for a chargeback if your backed project doesn't deliver.

And what's so different between gpg in javascript vs. gpg in machine code?

Why would you care? It's trivial to get it fixed with your credit card company.

Donations are not a service and are not subject to chargeback. End of story.

Paypal does not really work internationally. I've tried. You can't use a credit card in an account that's not in the same country as the card's issuing bank. If you have got credit cards in banks in ten countries, you need 10 different paypal accounts. It's insane.

Even worse: eBay somehow, by default, blocks foreign PayPal accounts from paying for purchases even if the seller ships internationally. I've tried to buy an iPad 2 for my sister living in Europe, using her credit card on her paypal account. 30 different eBay sellers would refuse to accept the payment.

Pray tell how could a donation be subject to a chargeback? I've donated once and wanted to withdraw my donation upon learning of some new policies of the nonprofit I donated to. It was impossible.

But BitCoin isn't an institution. It's an algorithm and a software implementation for it.

Like, um, to know well enough not to drive? Yeah, sure. Go right ahead :/

I'd like to point out the conspicuous absence of the element Li in the NiMH battery chemistry. You're interestingly off-topic :)

New factories are in the process of being built. Always. Almost independently of what industry you choose. Even if it's horse/buggy repair shops.