cool story bro

I find the US' anti-UN attitude as irritating as you do, but it's not just the US. As the summary mentions there are many other nations in opposition, and the European parliament attacked the ITU as vocally and before the US did. This move was supported and partly spearheaded by MP Amelia Andersdotter of the European Pirate Party. When she's against something concerning the internet, something just might be wrong with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#Proposed_Changes_to_the_Treaty_And_Concerns
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/24/european_parliament_votes_against_itu/

Phenomenatrices. Things, ye ken well what I mean.

That sounds healthy.

But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there!"

If 100 out of 10000 non-coffee-drinkers got cancer (1%) and 51 out of 10000 coffee drinkers got cancer (0.51%) that's a 49% decrease.

Hauling cargo is actually of some use to the world.

Using the definition of "can lob missiles at each other", most nations in the Middle East are each other's neighbours. The really psychotic kind.

About my decision to dump it.

He's not a murderer and methcook. He's just a victim of circumstance and government conspiracy just like Hans fucking Reiser.

Who edits this crap?

Tor's bandwidth and latency are sufficiently abysmal that it acts as a throttle. Overwhelming a number of servers via the Tor network would probably be not much easier than overwhelming the entire Tor network.

The asshat federal US government sponsored the creation of Tor. Governments who want to crack down on the use of Tor are already doing so openly without resorting to the cloak and dagger tactics you seek to imagine.

But carry on. The disconnected phrasing of your post hints that observable reality does not significantly influence your thinking.

Associating monetary value with computing cycles would eventually incentivize the development of faster and better technology.

I just hope that whatever these guys come up with will also have applications in the real world.

come on.

Ouch.