Alright. First off, go take a course in modern physics. Then you'll understand the concept of time-space better. As velocity of an object, let's say a spacecraft, increases time slows down for occupants of the object. This phenomenon has been tested and proven with the retired Blackbird spy plane. So, if you could travel at 10x the speed of light it wouldn't take 10,000 years to cross 100,000 LY of space, and I have doubts anything like that is possible, in this lifetime. I'm aware of the theories, and how it's quite possible Einstein was wr-wr-wr-wrong.

Now for observers of the craft it *might* indeed take 10,000 years, assuming observers had a way to detect something moving faster than light.

However, since we have no technology at present to push us to such speeds, it's all a wash. While we haven't built anything yet, we could technically build crafts to travel to nearby star systems at speeds of say .6C. At such speeds interstellar travel is possible in a single lifetime. Granted it's one way, and everyone you know would be old or dead by the time you made a round trip. I'm not going to do the math to say Barnard's star. As an example, given we plan on putting humans on board, we need to be concerend with acceleration and deceleration forces on the frail human body. So to travel at .6c we'd need ~6 months (as observed from Earth) of acceleration and ~6 months of deceleration (~323 d x2). Thus making a trip to Alpha Centauri (4.3LY) take ~8 years (as observed from Earth). The occupants would see it as under a year (being super lazy here, but comparable to the European Colonists travel times from Europe to North America)).

So anyway there you have it a time-space travel intro, aka the fountain of youth. Lastly, theoretically, at light speed, time stops, So traveling 100,000 LY @ lightspeed would appear to the traveler to be an instantaneous trip. At anything greater than lightspeed, I haven't contemplated, nor read any others theories. Now of course, it is likely still a one way ticket @ LS. Again, not sure of the result of >LS.

There's no mine because DeBeers dynamited the field years ago. The state turned it in to a tourist attraction. I've been there myself. The story is told inside the park if you care to actually do any reading, rather than just being negative. My visit paid for itself in semiprecious gemstones. A diamond was found while I was there, along with numerous other (semi-)precious stones. No, it's no longer a mine, hence the State Park designation. It was a mine, a DeBeers mine. As to the fact it is a kimberlite pipe, what else would you expect? Where else do you expect to find diamonds? Up Laurance Olivier's ass?

BS. No they don't I've deleted my account before and rejoined using thre same email address.

Anything you say can and will be used against you. Nothing you say, to the police or other second parties [unless under oath], can or will be used to help you.

So, yes it's evidence because you said it, and anything you say directly can be used as evidence for or against you.

Now, this case is a bit worrying. Sure she's a DUI driver and she should be punished and have her right to drive taken away.

The article doesn't state clearly whether deleting her facebook account was part of some plea bargain deal or not. In either case, it's disturbing. No judge or prosecutor should be making deals or orders to take away free speech rights, free association rights, freedom of press rights.

Let's face it, FB and Google+ and other social networking sites are the personal blogs of many "ordinary" people. Some people have real blogs. Blogs are the new priinting press. Let's face lots of us get news from bloggers and friends on FB or /. or wherever. Newspapers are dead. News magazines aren't far behind. This [the inrternet] is the new Soap Box in the town square. Forcing a person to delete a FB account is thse same as ordering them not to jump on a soap box in front of City Hall.

This sets a very disturbing precedent. As much as I hate FB and would not shed a tear at it's closure.

DeBeers had an office in the US. They used to own the diamond mine down in Arkansas. But due to the Apartheid thing, and the price fixing, they were forced out, and on the way out they dynamited the diamond mine rather than leave an operation working mine. Almost all the diamonds coming out of Diamond Crater are gem quality. The Star of Arkansas came from there. A beautiful colored diamond.

Diamonds are very common. However, large carat diamonds are not. Very large diamonds are indeed quite rare. As well as the fancy color diamonds. Red diamonds being quite rare indeed. Why people are willing to pay so much for plain old white diamonds is a mystery to me. Certainly flawless diamonds are more rare, but considering DeBeers, et al are sitting on the motherlode of them, it's hard to know just how much more rare they are, if at all.

Actually, I consider my fact #2 to quite a strong argument, unless of course you see nothing wrong with a National infrastructure designed to be able to track any given individual and hence by definition *every single individual* in the US 24/7/365.25, to be nothing to worry about.

I for one find it deeply disturbing that anyone in the US even thinks this is even remotely a good idea, and not at the least not in the top three most insidious ideas ever put forward. I can tell you one thing if it ever happens, I'm out of here. Now matter what the personal cost is to me and my family. I'd rather live in China, than a country tracking me everywhere I go. No matter how non-existent or insignificant a target I might be.

And had you bothered to even read my coment, rather than knee-jerk rea-act because I dared attack a comment that was clearly as over-the-top as the tin-foil hat comments, that my arguemnt wasn't all about things happening in the past, but mostly things happening in the now and in planning/implementing stages.

But apparently no argument short of a Stalin Death March proof will be strong enough for you. Hence you must be a troll or a fool who waits because first they came for the Free Press, but you weren't the Frees Press, then they came for the Socialists, but you weren't a Socialist, then they Democrats but you weren't a Democrat, then they came for the Catholics, but you weren't a Catholic, then they came for you type of person.

One person's paranoid delusion is another person's rational conclusion based on the facts and evidence available.

Fact, the Feds have build a huge database on every person in America.
Fact, the Feds want to build a National Facial recognition system to track every citzen in America.
Fact, the Feds have made wide indiscriminate tapping of inbound and outbound international phone calls in secret hidden and without reasonable suspicion.
Fact, the Feds have a long history of lying to and deception of the public. Some of which is necessary in order to do their job.
Need I go on?

The fact these were UDIDs and other information was not either released with it or contained in the database, neither helps nor harms Anon's claim. While the UDIDs may not be much use alone, and the claim they came from a laptop was always suspect, it would not surprise me to see a Fed agent with such a list and not encrypted. Since the list could simply be a useful tool in the field which could be later tied in to a real and complete db. But that's pretty thin.

You're absolutely right! The governement has no desire or plans to track every person in America. If they wanted to track every person in America, they'd just install/tap into a nationwide facial recognition network, which we know they'd never ... oh wait ...

you mean they are installing a nationwide facial recognition system? Well, they'd never implement a nationwide database of every person's DNA they could get their hands on. What? Oh.

Well at least they aren't compiling a list to track identities of every person in America. Say what?

Um, oh, well nevermind.

The simplest answer is Blue Toad is doing outsourced work for the FBI or another agency. Or it's as the article says, they have those ids because the've sold stuff to 11 million unique iPxd devices. Or both. What better cover than start a legitimate company selling to Peter and Paul at the same time. It's possible the DOS/DOD/FBI has outsourced this for multiple reasons. Not the least of which *might* be deniability. UDID? Us? No way. Never. That would be our sub-contractor's job. The gov't routinely outsources work to properly screened clearance approved private companies. Considering Blue Toad had the data.

The next question should be, "Why did Blue Toad have 11 miilion UDIDs from Apple and where did they get it from?"
Not, "Oh well that's not the FBI, why did Anonymous lie?"
Perhaps Anon knows that the FBI contacted Blue toad to get these ids, but can't say so, without risking exposing themselves?
Nope, the whole thing stinks. I'm more inclined to believe Blue Toad is shovelling something, and it's not chocolate shavings from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Mountain.Their whole business model seems bizarre. But then, I'm not an iPad user, and never heard of Blue Toad before today.

One thing: While they may refuse to let you on a flight, you have a legally binding contract with them (you should really read those plane tickets and the laws related to them sometime), and they are legally required to complete their contract. Either with them or on another carrier. There are situations in which they can break that, but none of those apply here. And in those cases they are required to cover the costs (including any reasonable hotel, restaurant and incidental costs) to make you whole and get you to your destination. So it's not analogous to a Starbucks. They can't just "kick you out". Also, if Star Buck had already taken your money, but not yet delivered your drinks and whatever else you purchased, thay can't just kick you out. They would have to:
a) refund your money, or
b) fulfill the contractual sale.

But airlines can't just refund your money and leave you potentially stranded far from your home, or your destination. Unless you are on a no fly list, or for other legal reasons. They can refuse to allow you to board if not properly attired. But since he consented to change his shirt, they didn't have that for a reason. Too bad he didn't know his full rights, and make them put him on a competitors flight at their cost.

Hell, I know you won't find me driving through the streets of Detroit. The only way I'd send aid to Detroit is an air-drop. That place is a freaking War Zone.

One point that should be made.

The FDA has charged him with:

"sale of foreign and counterfeit medicines".

Which would be true. The legal drugs you can buy in Canada are made in the US, and sold much cheaper in Canada than in the US. This is why so many people in border states would drive across the border and fill prescriptions there. The US passed a law [or tried to, I don't recall and too lazy to look it up] against that I think, or forced Canada to do so. Hence the origin of the Canadian Internet pharmacies. Which then attracted all the counterfeits.

Now had he been selling counterfeit drugs, they wouldn't have needed to add the "foreign and". Since they have linked them together, they only need to prove one to get a conviction.

Personally, if I could know for certain that I could order "Canadian" drugs from an online Canadian pharmacy, and that the US Customs wouldn't divert them, I'd buy from them. But the Pharma Companies have the US Gov't in their pocket and with both hands in our pockets in the form of ridiculously high prices in one hand and a big chunk of our taxpayers dollars in the other. It's list a fistful of dollars, except with both hands.

Except for the salary of the person who has to do it.

Mine also does blue-tooth to the HDTV.