Thank you.

What exactly is the benefit here? I kept waiting to see that somehow variable frequency power would travel farther or be more efficient, or at least save power companies some money (which I'm sure it does, or this wouldn't be happening).. but I can't imagine why or how.

Without explaining the benefit, this makes as much sense as ICANN opening up the TLDs.

The cops, who are supposed to protect the victims here, decide to threaten them instead. Who's the terrorist now?

Ideally you don't want to communicate over a non-local network to make a local transaction, that's why. For security and because it just makes sense.

Good point, except I think they'd be able to do software-controlled radio without the terahertz processor, a next generation dual core might work.

What was the result of your experimentation? Seriously.

So you're implying that some of the workers might have thought that MS cares about contribution? Of value, to products they sell? No, I don't think anyone without a financial reason to would believe that, if they've used an MS product other than Excel.

"I find it extremely hard to believe that Microsoft would exist anywhere near its current dominant position if we actually did have capitalism."

Damn straight.

Same here. Screw the quitters who sold out, now I have to find a new VOIP solution.

You mean, is it wise to allow people to make the decision by vote directly rather than indirectly - but still by voting - on who gets to make the decision in secret?

Uh, generally, yeah, it's at least as wise. Once elections join the 21st century and are done with a level of security and quick tabulation technology matching that of, say, modern marketing surveys, it will be much more wise.

We could have stopped at locked and reinforced cockpit doors as far as what we've done so far, but it'd be helpful (and violently opposed, I bet, and perhaps not as practical as in the movies) to also throw in sleeping gas dispensers for the passenger cabin, so the pilot could set that off just before doing an emergency landing if an attempted hijacking took place. It might keep more people alive a bit longer.

And it'd be cool.

Ok, I mostly agree with you but.. seriously, did your friend who is from Hungary really say "In communist Hungary" when referring to their home country? Sounds a lot like "In soviet Russia"..

If they have gotten rich because of it, that's the only rational reason to consider DARE a success. Maybe the people who made DARE are less stupid than it seems, and it was an undercover thing to get people to do more drugs - by insulting their intelligence and then telling them not to. More drug use, more prisoners, more cops / guards, ... $$$. I don't think it was really a conspiracy, but mostly because people intelligent enough to think of that would have made better ads.

Screw the road, that is facism.

It's not even the perception, sir, unless you happen to work at the TSA and are paid to pretend that you think what you do for a living makes any positive difference whatsoever.