On the other hand, we can look at published academic studies which show that note-taking can be highly effective.

http://www.answers.com/topic/cornell-notes#Studies_on_effectiveness
http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol16/boch.pdf

BTW, by taking good notes in college, I learned that one must not rely on anecdotal evidence.

*Which* premise is wrong, and *what* part of the leaked documents shows that?

This alludes to a somewhat valid sidebar. A more intelligent algorithm would crack most passwords much more efficiently than a sequential brute force. E.g. prioritize
  - digits in forward or reverse sequence
  - repeated digits or repeated pairs
  - digits that can represent dates

In fact, a quick google search (!) reveals that there are quite a few shortcuts they could build into the scheme before resorting to pure brute. There's no sense giving up on efficiency just because the speed is already bottlenecked by mechanical limitations.
http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-passcodes

How naive you are. If the sovereign Panamanian government fell out of step with their American backers, you can be sure that a coup would bring things back in line within months. Again.

When you initiate an argument with "everyone knows that..." or by redefining the position of the group that you want to attack, it's usually a signal to the reader that what is about to follow is rhetoric and/or horseshit.

Now try that again, maybe even give an authoritative reference or two, and you'll notice that your response will sound significantly less like you've been brainwashed.

You're mostly right.
  - "Want a NSA clearance?" is incorrect.
  - "Want an NSA clearance?" is better.
  - "Want NSA clearance?" would be better still. There's no need for an article at all.

We can haggle over a working definition of privacy, but unauthorized waxing in *that region* is way, way over the line.

I've also found the prices, with shipping, to be less than competitive. However, I also live 5 minutes away from a TD retail location, and their prices -- when shipping isn't part of the equation -- are consistently 10-15% cheaper than any other option in my region, whether online or brick and mortar.

A jet aircraft? What a waste of energy. With all hot-air spouting blowhards on board, a balloon or blimp would've made the trip under passenger power.

Takedown is a noun.
Take down is the phrasal verb your title is looking for.

You're overstating the meerfage of sharing a common briogib. As long as the sufrabork is cognatious, the central mordage doesn't need to be the same.

He's a better gambler than two other famous physicists and an AI from the 24th century
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY

Customs / import duty.

If a leader was killed off every time a country attacked another, there would be nobody left to run the Western democracies.

The article mentions that the monkey went into space and back, but we all want to know whether Ahmadinejad survived or not.