How many senators do you own? If the answer is zero, the answer to your question is no. Make that a maybe if you don't currently own any senators but have sufficient funds to buy a few, outspending Sony in the process.

Closing the port they're using is not necessarily a reasonable demand. Unless I'm an idiot, if I have an open port, I have that port open for a reason, and it needs to be open in order for my system to provide whatever services it provides. This is a bit like telling someone they have no right to defend themselves in public because it would be less aggressive for them to simply stay at home and not expose themselves to the attack to begin with. True, but not reasonable.

No, he's "assuming" (or rather, correctly noting) that anti-aliasing and other distortions around line are unavoidable in any raster format. Only vector graphics can render to any display at any resolution without highlighting these blocky distortions. PNG is better than GIF, but it still suffers from this problem. Being yet another raster graphics format, is does share the limitations of such.

All dictionaries do. They're anthropological documents, really. They document observations of an aspect of human behavior: the words they use and what they mean when they use them. It boggles my mind that anyone gets confused about that, thinking they do anything more...

You have slain your strawman with skill. But if you want to look like you're actually a reasonable person instead of a paranoid partisan prone to hyperbole, you should actually wait for someone to make an absurd argument before you refute it.

What's an order of magnitude between friends. :p

Given a 100 light year sphere, "trillions" would be an understatement of the number of smaller than Super-Jupiter size objects within it, but large enough to be a threat if they were on the right trajectory.

That's certainly true, but utterly unrelated to this finding. There ain't jack-shit we could do about a "rogue planet" headed for Earth, other than throw a few awesome end-of-the-world parties.

Optimist... ;)

...and it should be noted, by the IAU definition, this "rogue planet" is not a planet at all. It's a "sub-brown dwarf".

Indeed. Apple charges premium prices for its products. Samsung wants a cut. Nothing wrong with that.

We tend to be Romulans during war, and Ferengi the rest of the time...

Nice theory, but when you get to the "we now know" part, it makes me question if you understand what "know" means. Much of what you said might be true, but we most certainly don't "know" any of it. Anything that follows from the premise "if we had done (something other than what we did)" is necessarily speculation. The only question is how good the speculation is...

The fact of the matter is, Britain did not get into the war to "try to help the French (and Poland)". They did it to try to save themselves. Whether it was necessary or not is unknown, but nation-states aren't known for committing to expensive (in both lives and money) tasks for altruistic reasons. Britain did what it did because it thought that was what was best for Britain, full stop. If anyone else was helped, that's nice, but not the reason why it was done.

What has he done other than give some pretty speeches and pass what was the Republican health care plan until he decided to support it so they suddenly decided their own plan must be "socialism"...

I got to my polling place in Brooklyn Center, MN a bit before 1pm, had virtually no wait -- the "line" had two people ahead of me, took less than a minute for spaces to open up for all three of us.

Um, no. Drone strikes are "just like" Anonymous hacks in the same sense that the Nazi invasion of Poland was just like knocking on your neighbors door to ask to borrow a cup of sugar. You can find things in common between the two, but it would be exceedingly idiotic to equate them as "just like" one another due to the similarities you find.