That is just what THEY want you to think!

Thanks for playing,

Mr Tin Foil
maker of hats.

The Vatican Secret Archives, is not really that secret anymore. But at one time, the Archivist (currently Cardinal Raffaele Farina) was one of two Cardinals, that could leave and return to the Papal Conclave (pope election). The new rules, allow for sickness.

This will all be porn to the filters, since the artwork often has no clothes {/joke}

The technical term is "Misuse of Monopoly", that is a crime.

THIS IS NOT TRUE! Linux uses Unix copyrights! - Daryl
In other news: Hell has declared a snow emergency. Souls will only be picked-up on snow routes.

We all migrated from Mars. The ecology went south, so we moved to Mars. It was a giant meteorite, not man's pollution.

This is why there are two creation stories in Genesis! It also explains why we used to have such great tech to build the pyramids.

[/sacarsm]

Programming is everywhere! (tm)
For the last 30 years, 90% of the our new hires were EEs.
We do mostly embedded programming, so reading a schematic and a chip spec is just as important as math.
Basic (no pun) math skills are a daily need, but higher math is rare.
The other 10% employees handle the hairy math and hairy programming, the rest of us are clean shaven (/pun).

As always, in a "free" country, the question is who watches the watchers?
Embarrassing vs Dangerous or both?
Is the "reporter" out for glory or sees real criminal behavior or a political agenda?
Who gets to decide? If they are arrested, a jury/judge gets to watch the watchers.
The correct answer: all of the above.

My rush hour is from 5:00 to 5:05. Small Town of 35,000. Large City is 30-45 mins for major shopping trip. We have a handfull that use a bicycle during the good weather. Company has showers and lockers!

You attack Fox News as agenda based, so are any of the big networks honest? NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, MSNBC, climatologists? Please advise as I would like to see and hear honest news. What is the definition of honest news? It usually depends on the listener. The only honest think you have to say is the Register and Andrew Orlowski can't take criticism.

Appearing in black face is illegal in many states.

I've forgotten most of the book. Did he elaborate on how they dealt with divergent views on politics, morals, philosophy? How do you deal with stagnation (one world view) vs change (anarchy)? All of these "sciences" are opinion based and have change over time. For example, "God chose the king" changes to democracy.

not in general use
v.s.
commonly available

Just because you can buy it "cheap", does not mean a "clear majority" of people would know it is a possible spy attempt.
i.e., you need to close your blinds so people can not see you ... (insert crime here)

OTOH:
wiretapping is commonly known as a possibility, yet you still need a court order (ignoring patriot act-for sake of argument).

Also ignoring, that most people believe cell phones are secure.

I forgot the sarcasm tags around the Olympics portion. My comment is calling attention to the hypocrisy of child labor laws not applying to sports. I consider gymnastics specifically, as well as any other mostly under 18 Olympic competition to be child abuse.

"one set of rules for us, one for everyone else" is a very simplified look at reality. As most models do, they simplify by throw out the details, to make it understandable, but then lose accuracy.

The real question is: "What do we want out of the UN?" There is no simple answer to this question. One World Government vs National Sovereignty, again is a simplification. Making the UN a world police organization?