They cannot find what you are not carrying.

Of course they can. Which leads us to the only real solution: don't go anywhere near the United States. Of course that still doesn't make you save from random drone strikes or kidnapping, but at least that requires targetting you or someone who happens to be in the general area.

They are not my parents. The highway code is not a set of moral values

Indeed. So why are nitwits screaming about "freedom" here? You don't have any moral freedom to speed on public roads. It is entirely appropriate for the government to set safety standards for vehicles allowed to operate on the public roads. It is entirely appropriate for those standards to include restrictions on top speed for such vehicles.

Rigidly applying the speed limits does little to serve that goal.

If your speed limits do not serve the end of public safety, then your limits need to be revised.

Just go the whole hog and do -1^0.5.

Your mainstream press at work again...

...and so you link to the Washington Times, and completely destroy any credibility you might have had.

Two problems. One, the mainstream press did cover the story. Two, old rocket engines and old chemical weapons shells in dumps and scrapyards tell us only that Iraq used to have WMD --- never a contentious point.

The conclusion that Iraq had no WMD at the time of the American attack isn't some liberal media (ha!) conspiracy, it's the conclusion of the gorram CIA.

Bush lied, and the Fox "News" set continues to lie, about Iraq.

I don't understand this obsession with "70mph."

It's far more dangerous to go a couple of miles per hour over 30mph in a built-up and busy area where 30mph is the speed limit (pedestrians, cyclists, dogs, cats, vehicles stopping, turning using junctions etc.) than going 5 or 10 mph over a 70mph speed limit (on a dual carriageway or motorway).

I'm not trying to justify speeding, I'm just very cross at the number of ill-considered populist laws that are being proposed these days in the name of safety, whether it's safety from terrorists, safety from perverts or safety from anything else.

When all the traffic is traveling at the same speed in the same direction, the risk of collisions is negligible. That's why motorways can be so safe... but nowadays we have different speed limits for different vehicles on the motorway so lorries jockey for position at ~50mph, old grannies do 45 in any lane they please and the PHBs and salesmen do 100+ in their Mercs and BMWs (also in any lane they feel like, changing without warning, without looking and without signalling).

My driving is the best in the world. Everyone else is rubbish.

One day I will rule the world!!!! Be afraid all ye who read this warning.... Muhahhaha!!!!!!

What this says is that every rich person in this country is lying through their teeth about needing immigrants.

The Top doesn't want immigrants, they want visa workers. The difference is that an immigrant moves into a country, builds a life there and isn't affected by possible unemployment any more than anyone else, while a visa worker takes what his employer cares to give him and thanks him for it or gets evicted.

And yes, the Top does need visa workers, to drive down wages and working conditions. It's part of their War on the Middle Class, the same as most other things they do.

So if your stupid crotch fruit eats some drain cleaner it's the drain cleaner manufacturers fault fault, right? No moron. It's your fault.

If you use terms like "crotch fruit" that's usually a sign that you felt your argument can't stand on its own and needed emotional appeal for the "har har look how tough my callousness makes me" -crowd. The interesting question, then, is why make said argument in the first place? Vested interests? Psychological problems? Trolling?

Also, drain cleaner usually comes in bottles with safety caps, presumably because manufacturers of dangerous chemicals think they might be held responsible for not taking reasonable precautions.

Robin Hood was a thief. You are only a wannabe thief, too cowardly to steal for yourself, insisting that the government do it for you.

These two claims are in direct contradiction with each other. If taxation is thieft, then Robin was a hero who took stolen property from thiefs and returned it to the rightful owners. If it's not, then why call it that?

The really problem wouldn't be that you simply want to side with the Sheriff of Nottingham and his modern-day counterparts, now would it?

Welcome to the Botnet!

It's pointless anyway against the NSA. Seriously. Every single modern operating system (including on routers) has tons of unpatched exploit vectors. There's even a black market for them. The NSA can just infect your machines and ex-filtrate your data and/or the encryption keys... See the previous story:

[NSA] Budget documents say the $652 million project has placed 'covert implants,' sophisticated malware transmitted from far away, in computers, routers and firewalls on tens of thousands of machines every year, with plans to expand those numbers into the millions.

Hell we have multiple celebrations of insecurity every year called "computer security conferences" where without fail new systems are compromised. How can you even look at stuff like Pwn 2 Own, and not have your brain melting in cognitive dissonance as you try to believe there are network attached scenarios where your data is safe from the NSA?

You want your data kept secret? Use whole drive encryption on machines that are never connected to any networks -- And even then there's the Ken Thompson Microcode Hack, so your systems could be theoretically pre-hacked from the factory... I won't buy a CPU that has remote cellular capabilities... Like Intel's Sandy Bridge. Laughed my ass off when I heard about that! "Security Feature" indeed. At least if the machine can't get on the networks there's a much lower chance of your data escaping if it's pre-hacked.

I don't know of any hacker worth their salt -- black, gray or white hat -- that doesn't have a directory of unpatched zero day exploits.
I keep mine in: ~/with/great/power/comes/great/responsibility/
Me having to navigate the directory structure has saved many a newb... The NSA has no such sensibilities.
If the data's encrypted, they assume it could be from a foreigner, and thus give themselves license to get at it, and they can.
This is what happens when you let Threat Narrative run amok.

I've only taken one for a lousy Circle K job that I never got, so I don't know if I failed it or if they just didn't want to give me the job. It was very weird too, involving meeting some guy in a motel room to take the test.

Did the test require you to strip? Because this sounds very much like the kind of test that requires stripping and testing rods.

The problem is that LEOs are always looking for "magic bullets" that will make it as easy as "its that guy" but the simple fact is none exist or are likely to ever be found.

Unless the wizard really did it.

Science is never about human experience.

A theory that doesn't ultimately accept its inputs and provide its outputs in terms of human experience is not only untestable, but also incomprehensible (by definition - you have no idea what it's talking about). Science is, at the end of the day, just systematic use of common sense and senses. It's entirely based on human experience and can never escape it.