There are no US citizens captive in Cuba. We did put one in the brig in South Carolina for a while, which was absolutely a violation of due process. That was the last President, not this one.

There's a difference between expedience and casualties.

If the police come to arrest you, and you pull a gun on them, they are not going to risk getting shot and are going to shoot you instead. No trial.

If you have a 5-year-old in a bunker, and the police think you're about to cause harm to them they are not going to risk it and they're going to shoot you instead. No trial.

If you are hiding out in enemy territory where any American coming to get you is going to be shot on sight, there's no reason for us to risk the lives of Americans to come force you to trial when you don't want to go.

When you make it clear that you would rather kill the people coming to arrest you than be arrested, you're going to get killed. This should be obvious.

If you want to remove yourself from the rule of law, you can't complain when you lose the benefits of the rule of law you removed yourself from.

If you want a proper trial, simply present yourself at the nearest major international airport and I'm sure the US government will be happy to bring you home for one.

If, however, you know your government kills members of foreign terrorist organizations living in certain lawless areas of the world, and you publicly declare your support for such a foreign terrorist organization, and then move to such an area of the world to associate with members of that organization, don't be surprised when a missile lands on your head.

There are certain definitive actions an individual can take where we know they have decided to give up their due process rights. For example, in World War II, if you traveled to Germany and put on a German uniform, you got treated as an enemy combatant, not a US citizen. No trial necessary.

When the belligerents are not uniformed members of a state military power, under when can we assume a US Citizen has decided do not want to participate in due process? It is reasonable to assume that an individual in a terrorist camp in the desert of Yemen isn't interested in standing trial - they have, through their actions, obviously declared themselves an enemy combatant, by declaring and acting on their intentions to be one.

Choosing to avoid due process is not the same as being denied due process.

Or it could mean that if your father is an irresponsible dick..

- He's less likely to marry your mother

AND

- You're more likely to be a criminal

Unfortunately it's unlikely that more marriage is going to make your father less of a dick. Or that telling your father he should get married before having children will help.

Personally, I favor castration. Once you're behind on child support for two or more kids, off with your nuts.

- Spending your lifetime saving for your retirement, and it all disappears once you're about to retire
- Rape

I'm not sure there's a clear choice there.

Anyone with a business can easily rack up $100k in credit card charges a year. I probably do $200k per year between business and personal spend. I take the rewards as airline miles, and I can turn 250,000 airline miles (mile per dollar plus bonuses) into $8 to $10 thousand in international business class airline tickets.

Now, that does mean that whenever I use my card, the merchant is paying 3-4% fee instead of a 1-2% fee if I were not using a rewards card. But since the cost to me is the same, I'll take the rewards.

If merchants want to charge me more for using a credit card than cash, I won't complain about it. And I'll probably still pay the fee - worth the miles and not having to carry cash. I actually don't use cash at all anymore.

T-Mobile offers a cheaper plan with no phone subsidies, and there are plenty pay-as-you-go carriers as well (boost, virgin, etc)

It's not like there are not alternatives out there. Yes, the major carriers generally push subsidized phone purchases with a contract, but there are also plenty of pay-as-you go providers, and T-Mobile even offers plans that don't offer phone subsidy and have lower month-to-month costs.

Most consumers don't care that they don't get to unlock the phone after the contract, because they're going to get a brand new phone on a new contract.

So I would submit that the consumers not only know exactly what they are getting, they also LIKE it!

"cable" is figurative here.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a submarine full of tapes.

Sure, the bandwidth of a surface vessel would be even more, but submarine transport is harder to intercept.

The submitter might as well be David Beckham asking how he can get Victoria Beckham to play soccer with him.

Look, the fact of the matter is, you've been playing video games most of your life, so there's few things that are true for you that are never going to be true for your wife:

1) You started when you were very young. Very young is when most people pick up new interests, and one of the things that makes that interest interesting in their adult lives is that it was part of their young lives. No matter what you do, video games are never going to be a part of your wife's young life.

2) You have tens of thousands of hours of experience. That means even when you encounter entirely new games, you get to apply that experience to the new game. Your wife will have no frame of reference. For example, let's say you tried to introduce her to WoW.... you know what a character level is. She has no idea. You probably played RPGs at some time in the early 90's (or a bit earlier or later depending on your age), she's done it... never.

3) When you're playing with her and your skill level is going to be much higher than hers is. EVEN if you're playing cooperatively, that's going to be frustrating. We're talking basic skills here, like even manipulating a controller, or precise mouse use. Doing activities with someone who is at an entirely different skill level than you - even the simple version of that activity - is rarely pleasureably.

4) Because of 3) your wife is going to have a bit of a learning curve before she can really enjoy a game. That might be OK, *IF* your wife wasn't married with kids. And I imagine at least one of you has a job. By the time she spends an hour or two working on that learning curve, it's going to be time to put the kids to bed or go to bed yourselves and she's just going to think the activity stinks if she never gets past the learning part to the fun part.

And, the laptop is the LAST place you should attempt this. There is nothing that requires a laptop to play that you should try and get a novice gamer interested in. If you can't play it on a phone, it's almost certainly too advanced.

The reality of this is, if you dated this girl before you got married (and I hope you did), and she didn't pick up an interest in video games during that exposure to you, it's not going to happen now.

Maybe you two can play words with friends together.

It is against international regulations to have luggage for a passenger carried on a plane where the passenger isn't flying.

Passenger/bag matching is a bit of a deterrent, but not much of one when we know terrorists are willing to fly planes into buildings, or attempt to blow up planes with bombs in their crotch.

If you don't board they'll pull your bags.

If the bags don't make the flight that you board, no biggie.

It's $0.45. $0.46 come Jan 27.

Anyone who thinks suicide is easy hasn't tried it.

I'm going to prove you wrong, as soon as I find someone willing to click "Submit" once I've done so.

You realize the vast majority of small arms being used by the Syrian revolution came from A) Army defectors and B) Foreign supply, right?

Syria is a civil war with combatants split largely on ethnic lines, with one half of the military fighting the other half. It's absolutely not a case of an armed populace against the military. It certainly isn't an example of an untrained, armed population fighting off the government.