Does that make them "freedom exploits"?

I'm a foreigner. I had the honor to be subjected to both your border guard and TSA. I wouldn't trust them with a fucking fruitcake.

...burning hydrocarbon is the energy source where the biggest part of the cost is payed for by society. Here, fixed that for ya!

Many eurotrash countries have a stiff government finger in the HV transmission soup, which means their investments might be based on something other than "cheapest stuff that probably won't cause global meltdown in next quarter". I live in Denmark and have had one 10 minutes power cut in the last 5 years.

Brilliant! Instant porn versions of all masterpieces! My kingdom to be hung like a horse!

Better Place, a chain of battry swap stations in Denmark, just went bankrupt.
http://green.autoblog.com/category/better-place/

At one job I spent a lot of time trying to circumvent the helpdesk. Did you know that if network policy forbids you to have automated login after a reboot, you can still do it? Just make a script that sets the correct registry keys, and use the feature where you can run scripts on computer shutdown. The network won't have time to overwrite the registry again. Even the power saving settings of the computer were "administrator only", and we had hundreds of PCs displaying flashy screensavers all night long, because the users didn't want to wait for startup in the morning. Rule no 1: if you forbid something, make sure you have a really good explanation why.

..and often end up in situations where I am using multiple at once. The big problem there is to keep track of which language to speak to whom, not the speaking itself. Switching languages can be harder that speaking them. My guess is the picture of the great wall makes these people flipflop languages in their head.

Been there. Close to the central square, there is a street that is quite steep. To prevent the unavoidable car crashes in winter, they simply heat the asphalt. I guess they could use datacenter heat right there.. Once you get out of the city center, it has beautiful nature..

Best to have a diversified diet. The government needs to do only 2 things: don't subsidize, and make sure every energy form pays for its REAL cost. And that means one motherfucking hefty CO2 tax, and a big piggy bank full of money next to every nuclear plant to pay for dismantling when the time comes.

And in every single Fucking IPV6 discussion this comes up again. Using NAT as a safety is like removing your wheels as a brake. A better solution exists; it is called a firewall. Look it up! Instead of biting the bullet and going IPV6, we are adding layer upon layer of crap and "optimisations" which are hard to maintain and hard to learn. And a billion chinese smartphones, you gonna NAT them as well? The only future of NAT is as a (very long term) transition protocol running in parallel with IPV6. I want my home PC on IPV6, and my smart-TV can then download updates over NAT. Unfortunately I can't get that here in Denmark (yet).

Corrected that for you. My brother is a DA working a lot with international financial crime. Ask the Letvian Police to block a bank-account and it is done within half an hour. Ask the brits and after 2 weeks you get an email back asking if your country support human rights. (And my brother works in Brussels!!!) The city is a no-go area for the police. These bankers can kill each other with machine guns and nobody will ask questions.

India is keeping its ennemies close. The nukes are foremost to keep Pakistan and China under control. Why the heck are they devellooping ICBM capability? Thy really just need to be able to lob them far enough over the border...

OSM is great, it beats Google in my part of the world, and I find drawing bike-tracks a very relaxing alternative to Solitaire. But right now the level of detail I can add to my neighborhood is really limited by the rendering engine. JOSM has a nice plugin for turnlanes, for example, but they don't show up on the map. JOSM shows icons for a carwash, but hese don't make it to the final map either.

Funny thing is this technology is never going to deliver anything (not even bombs) that a 20 year old ICBM wouldn't do faster, cheaper and easier. The only reason the USAF wants it is because firing ICBMs tends to get the Russians (and Chinese) a little jumpy. What everybody very hard does his best to ignore, is that the scramjet obviously also could deliver nuclear warheads, which means the foreign siblings of NORAD should be hard at work learning to detect these things. By the time this technology is operational, firing up a scramjet is going to make everybody else just as jumpy as firing an ICBM.