1) A shot in the right place will kill faster. Not all shots are in the right place.
2) What does this have to do when civilians are the target in Syria?
3) Citation please

While I don't disagree with your assessment of chemical and biological weapons I think that you are downplaying conventional weapons too much. Wounds from bullets or knives can take hours or even days to kill if left untreated. Don't forget there is no air ambulance to call in to rescue people in Syria. And land mines, bombs, and shells can last for decades in the environment. They are still pulling up shells from the first two world wars.

I'd be more impressed if they actually fought the demands for the customer data in the first place rather than wanting to disclose a few non-specific details about how they complied with them.

You might also want to look at how patterns are added to the file too. If they are added to the end then the latest spam of the day message will need to parse all of the patterns until it hits the latest pattern. Of course ideally you might want to set something up that looks at the hits each pattern gets so that you could parse the most likely patterns first followed by the latest patterns.

And Bester only knows that the Federation is weakened because he has the remnants of the Psy Corps working for him.

I'm still using plastic bags because they are useful. They are great when you have something cold on a warm day. They are much more convenient than paper when on the bus. You do take the bus instead of driving do you? They work great for keeping meat away from the produce. They are great for lining garbage cans (or else I'd have to buy special purpose bags). I take them back to the store to be reused and when they are damaged take them to be recycled.

The problem isn't the plastic bags. It's the people that misuse them.

Yes but those were well defined problems that also had relatively easy solutions (in that a substitute could be found, lead taken out of paint, etc) and in relatively short time frames. People could easily see how fast the hole in the ozone layer was growing, what was causing it, and had a readily available substitute. Climate change isn't like that at all. There just isn't one source to the problem. There's burning fossil fuels for a large number of reasons, methane escaping from pipes and wells, farm animals creating methane, and a whole bunch of other sources for rising greenhouse gases. Therefore there isn't a simple solution. Heck, there's barely a simple solution to solve one of the sources! And the problems caused by climate change aren't easy to point to. Yes we may say that a particular storm might have been stronger due to the effects of climate change but the storm wasn't caused by it. For the most part oceans are rising but not that you can tell by looking at it. Damage due to climate change is talked about decades and centuries into the future and it isn't in the basic human nature to worry about such things. People want their easy and inexpensive lives today instead of worrying about things that might happen after they have passed away.

The US is just taking the easy way to make itself look better. It much easier to maker your friends fatter than to lose the weight yourself. You look thinner relative to your friends but with less work.

Hey Bill, when a kid has diarrhea what's your polio vaccine going to do for him? And btw, there are websites that instruct people on how to treat diarrhea so that it won't kill them.

If the owner really feels so strongly that the government is committing crimes against the people and infringing on his Constitutional rights then he should grow a pair and show the world exactly what was going on. Yes it will mean sacrifices and will probably mean going to another country first before blowing the whistle. But I guess the big comfy house and fancy car are more important than doing the right thing. Because if people just meekly hide in the shadows and let the government get away with such things then the government will continue to take away your rights and freedoms. People have to start standing up and doing the right thing. But it doesn't require as much courage to sit back, say that the government won't allow you to talk about things, and hope that someone else steps up. I certainly hope that the owner doesn't have children because it's a poor example being set for them.

It doesn't have to leach. Animals, especially birds, will eat the shot and the lead gets into their systems that way. I'm not saying that it contributes as much as leaded aviation fuel but it is a serious problem.

There is a lot of lead shot that is fired during the various hunting seasons that ends up in the environment.

I never had a problem with booting my iPad. I charge it nightly and it's available for me all day on standby. It'd last longer on standby but I use it too much to go without the nightly charge. I've had to reboot it two or three times plus a couple more when there were iOS updates available. Not that I'm saying you should get an iPad because what works for me might not be the solution for you. Just giving you my experience.

Why does everyone care about how long it takes a computer to boot? They should really care about a system that doesn't need to reboot so the boot time becomes irrelevant. I don't care how long my Linux server takes to reboot because I rarely have to reboot it. Same thing with my Mac desktop and iPhone.

that this is just a hoax to get the heat off from revealing who the new Doctor is so they created this program to announce the favourite? Then at Christmas the new Doctor is someone that we haven't heard of?