>>>> If you hear emergency vehicles before you know they're there through visual cues then stop fucking driving.

If you are sitting in a normal car like mine, you can usually hear emergency vehicle sirens LONG before you can see them through the minivans and pickup trucks. That is, if you are paying attention to driving like you should be (especially on the highway when you're moving fast enough to die on impact).

No, India is being called out for this because they did it when there are people (and other satellites) to be put in danger.

Yes, and which day per week should it be shut down?
- the original Sabbath?
- the second-revision Sabbath a day later?
- the third (or is that fifth) revision Sabbath two days earlier?
- one of the other four days?
It was seen as major steps in the "blue laws" at the time when NY went from "every business has to close on Sunday" to "every business has to close one day per week", and then to "every *worker* has to have at least one day off per week".

If there is a suit on board the ISS that is not ready for use, then it might as well not be there. OTOH if it's really a matter of only 12 hours of work to get it ready and usable, rearrange the schedule to get that lifeboat ship-shape. Shouldn't the first priority on any vessel be to ensure that all operational equipment is in working order, especially life-safety equipment? If the first act of a "Babylon 5" or "Battlestar Galactica" episode showed a suit still in its bubble-wrap, you could bet that by the end of the episode someone would be dead because that suit was not ready. ("Star Trek" would have had someone manage to get it ready JUST IN TIME, because "failure is not an option", but that's not always how the real world works in an emergency.)

OMG if Warren Miller had had 3D for his SKIING movies . . .

>>> American, with a gun, overly confident and rude

You mean "overpaid, oversexed, and over here"? Well, yeah.

Mod parent up. And let's add the more obvious and more practical lesson that "All our past imperialism and land/resource grabs from indigenous peoples looked like THIS EVIL from the other side", before we list the speculative possibilities.

New meaning for DDOS: *drone* denial of service.

Yes, there will be abuse in the direction of classifying all sorts of things "sensitive"; OTOH how much of this is a grab by business to get hold of data (even more data) that is currently less available, and making taxpayers pay for destroying their own privacy (what little is left)? Just because something is revealed in interaction with the government, doesn't mean that it is completely "public" data. An old example - someone's alibi for not being at a crime scene is being at a hotel with a lover. Witnesses etc. (nowadays security video) confirm. But neither someone nor lover wants it to be "public" knowledge, and police have no reason to make it so if it's not germane to the crime; their only statement is "suspect has a solid alibi, no longer considered a suspect".

>>> because the people with the ability to fix it (that banks) have no incentive to do so

Not about "fix it", about doing it right in the first place. The merchants with many swipe readers - like gas stations (where the reader is integrated into the pump) and fast-food chains - didn't want to pay for new hardware with chip handlers, so they convinced the banks to delay. The same merchants didn't want to slow down transactions, so they didn't want the "wasted time" of PIN entry; after all, the chip guarantees that the card is valid and not cloned, right? Well, yes, but it says nothing about whether the PERSON is valid.

Add in American exceptionalism (why should we do what everyone else is doing, even if it's right?)

I believe there is a huge difference between "I did plenty of stupid shit in my youth that could have resulted in ***MY*** death" (emphasis added) and doing something to put someone ELSE at risk.

Woody Allen, "Sleeper" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anyone I know who uses Windows does all they can to prevent updates, including - perhaps especially - IT departments. For some strange reason, it only takes one time of the CEO having his computer go into a forced update in the middle of a presentation to lenders, and policy changes REAL fast.

Maybe it feels "natural" for a single reference, but for a comparison it is useless, unless the group is exactly the same. And if the group is 100 . . . . we're done here.

And this differs from the state of affairs in America . . . how?