but let's not save them for space travel, or anything; nooooo, by all means, let's burn 'em now and use the juice to charge iPods! And similarly with crude oil. Because reasons.

No, actually the rule of law in the U.S. is that you're not declared guilty by the government and thrown in jail until proven guilty. Fleeing prosecution so you can't be put on trial doesn't mean you're not guilty, it just means you won't be punished for it by civil authorities. Your comment is so obtuse and devoid of analytical skill, it's painful.

no concerns

Are we both talking about the series of comments I directly replied to? If so, L2R.

STEP 1: Just write a couple thousand lines of C code replete with memory pointers ("->") and accidentally type one with an underscore instead of a hyphen ("_>") because you pressed the shift key too soon. STEP 2: Try to figure out why you're getting hundreds of errors and warnings that point to lines that don't have anything wrong with them. STEP 3: Definitely not "PROFIT".

Yep, a very small patch of beach, just like the judge said; were you hoping to make some kind of point or do you just like talking about random figures and their total lack of clear significance to any subject being discussed?

Not a single person in this thread knows what he's talking about. Welcome to the new Slashdot, gents... you'll fit right in.

If you file a legal brief that says "this number is really, really big and significant, trust us!" -- expect the court to laugh. Foreign lawyers accustomed to an inquisitorial system, perhaps? If so, better to do some homework next time.

gah, proofread fail; should read "only be used to dismiss a complaint THAT objectively pales in comparison"

As long as we're commenting on flaws in reasoning, notice that your broad conclusion fails because the other poster's reasoning can in fact *only* be used to dismiss a complaint for which objectively pales in comparison to some other, actual real-world problem that can arguably be categorized along with the first. So anytime somebody comes along with a complaint about suffering that does *not* pale in comparison to anything else that other people are experiencing in the world... you see where I'm going with this â" it's actually perfectly valid to attempt to diminish the significance of some form of purported injustice by comparing it with other injustices of the same type that are inarguably much worse.

Sorry, are you telling me it's just as easy to gain utter control of a device over the interwebs as if you have unrestricted physical access to it? And also you think that the Chinese don't do this? With all that confident knowledge, you should be on the Secret Service. You could have let Obama know it was safe to stay in the Waldorf, because if the Chinese wanted to build an espionage apparatus there, they could have done it already via GoToMyPC !

surrenders them to Chinese authorities without a peep of complaint, and brings them back to the US and is surprised when federal spooks demand to have a look at the physical and software surveillance devices that have been installed into it, isn't paying any attention to the world and has zero grounds to complain TLDR if you're important or powerful, don't willingly allow yourself to become an espionage attack vector for our first or second most powerful enemy

Sounds like you don't support the glorious revolution to end oppression, comrade. Your views have been noted by the appropriate people, and appropriate actions will be taken.

Excellent comment, four-digit username, would read again.

If the systems were affordable without the special arrangements and tax breaks, this article wouldn't exist in the first place because the panels would be popping up all over Florida. While lecturing others on correct logical reasoning you've committed an obvious error in practical reasoning, which is based mostly on human nature and the predictable reactions of people to situations.