Sold back to the utility? No, they are cut off... Our energy/water management is absurd.

Absolutely! Liberty is hedonism! [You're doing great.]

What?! They suck! I'd start a revolt too. If they want to name something 'Styx', make it the rings of Uranus.

Encryption standards that actually work are kept secret, except maybe one-time pads..

passé... eh, close enough..

...most of them honeypot level.

Exactly, the whole story smells, designed to vilify whistle blowing in general. Sad to see it working so well.

I hadn't heard that Snowden had taken up arms against the US, or was directly aiding anyone who had.

Your drone program needs no such assurances. And if he does get killed, that means he's guilty, by default. That's the policy.

A free and fair trial... Obviously that can't happen, hence the search for asylum... Of course this all depends on whether this whole story is even real.

What about the Occupy movement?

Yeah, what about it?

Learn to type:

touché

All that progress and yet people seem to be about as uninformed as ever. In some cases they are worse off since the opinions of charlatans and cranks are more available than ever. We'll leave the tendency of people to avoid unpleasant facts for another time.

:-) Yes, we've noticed...

Ha! You have it so wrong. When I 'research' a topic, I go to the bar and place some bets. The damn internet destroyed that business.

And if it takes minutes for your answers to show up on Google or Wikipedia, then you should complain to your service provider about latency issues.

Dude, you are nuts. The entirety of man's economy is literally under a gun. It doesn't matter whose it is.

Well, let's see... You "cheerfully voted for Virginia's Constitutional Amendment..." that upholds the grand tradition of centuries of suppression of the right to a business contract (that being what marriage is) by a certain group of people you disapprove of. It's a classic case of that thing you so vehemently deny.

Now I have to ask, is this little infinite loop an intentional distraction, or are you just becoming more forgetful?

I did not know Microsoft won that battle.