You didn't have top secret, then. My clearance when I was in military signals took 2 years to come through, and meant that not only wasn't I a risk, nobody in my immediate family or circle of friends was a risk either. They actually delayed giving me clearance because one of my idiot friends in high school joined the Communist party when he was in University. (and I graduated high school in 2000).

Tarot is probably more accurate, since most people who do tarot will ask probing questions (that are usually answered honestly) before doing the reading... ;)

Your bank probably has a legitimate reason to know it as well.... though I'm in Canada, and we have different rules from the US.

A partial Social Insurance Number was on my Equifax credit report last time I pulled it, and I've taken out large loans from the bank before. (> $30,000... I financed a new car through the bank... slightly higher interest than the "1.9%" that the car company was offering, but with the option to pay out early where the car company didn't meant that my loan was paid off faster and ended up costing less).

Probably some of the super-ultra-mega discount ones, but I have never flown such an airline. (cheapest/lowest end I've ever personally flown was Air Canada/Jazz... for trips to Europe, I usually take Air France or British Airways depending on where I'm flying to/from, though I've flown Lufthansa, too. My aunt is the one who regularly took Ryanair when she was in Europe).

Having a change of clothes stuffed in your laptop bag or a backpack isn't a bad idea... the point was mostly about not bringing a suitcase. :)

Ryanair is fine if you don't bring any luggage beyond your purse/carry-on. Though I wouldn't expect a 5-star inflight meal.

I know people who travel with no luggage at all... just go to a consignment on arrival to buy some outfits, and donate to a charity before leaving. Works remarkably well for them, and not actually much more expensive than paying overage fees. Also, if they're flying domestically, they get a tax writeoff for the donation (though that bit works better in big countries like Canada or the US... where Ryanair doesn't fly. ;))

Diesel is truly renewable as well... we can make it from vegetable oil ridiculously easily (and some diesel engines can run on raw vegetable oil). Hell, there's some strains of algae that literally shit it out... put them in a sugar-water solution, give them enough heat, and they will make diesel for you. Put them in the dark so they don't waste energy on photosynthesis, and they make more (as long as they have enough glucose).

The problem isn't that renewable energy sources don't exist. Many of them can even be used with our current technology. It's that the non-renewable stuff is cheaper/easier to extract. We're far more likely to see a switch to diesel instead of gasoline/coal in the future than we are hydrogen fuel cells, especially with the NIMBY folks going after nuclear, wind, and solar. (Nuclear, in spite of events like Chernobyl, 3-mile Island, and Fukushima, is still safer/cleaner than the coal we're replacing nuclear with). Personally, I'd like to see a switch to Thorium reactors, but that's not bloody likely, despite Thorium being *way* more common than Uranium, and less dangerous to boot.

Just put the data on a MicroSD card in your phone. It won't show up in the phone's music library or pictures so if they just casually search the phone they won't find it (assuming you don't have a file browser on the phone). You can retrieve the data by plugging your phone into the computer and mounting it as a thumb drive. If you want to distract them, have another thumb drive with your relatively innocuous stuff on your keyring.

I've had border guards poke around and make sure that the phone's not a bomb. I've had them comment that I liked some of the same music they did. I've never had them remove the SD card and make a copy of its contents.

Immigration for the purposes of, you know, immigrating, is different from entering the country for a 14-day stay.

They do not require your banking details if you're just visiting, and I have never heard a case of them requiring your e-mail details. Besides which, they could get most of that without your permission quite easily if they wanted to.

features break every time facebook updates their interface, but they're usually fixed in short order. I've been using it for years, and it does make the experience less annoying.

Lack of ability to clear the cache at all is why I stopped using Firefox on my tablet, actually... Still haven't found a browser that has as much privacy as I would like, but at least Dolphin lets me turn off cookies entirely and clear history/cache on exit.

There is such a thing as "didn't have bed bugs until his arrival" however, so could be quite interesting....

As opposed to a trans lesbian, who has to decide whether to adopt a cis-hetero role? :)

I think it's safe to say that all trans people would rather be "normal", as best as that can be defined. Some are lucky enough to live in a country where it is socially acceptable... I know several trans people who have not had trouble finding a partner at all. I also know several who've had a really hard go of it. Individual experiences will vary, but the overriding pattern I've seen in the trans folk I know is that the ones who have it easy are in Europe, Australia, and Canada....

Theoretically requires a Netflix subscription, so possibly not.

But to answer the question he asked more seriously... probably not going to get hormone therapy in a US prison. Can apply for special dispensation or house arrest, where such medical care would be possible, but, especially considering that Manning hasn't started taking HRT yet (so the current status quo doesn't pose a medical/health risk), it's very unlikely that Manning will be given that kind of treatment in the US penal system.

I can assure you Ottawa is not taking away habitat or nesting space from the geese... fuckers attack me every morning on my morning commute by bicycle as they've laid claim to the bike paths, and I pass several beaches (that are not open to the public for swimming) that are inundated with them.

It's something that makes cutting the cord and cancelling your cable/satellite TV subscription significantly easier. While that's not something that you *need*, it is something that's immensely useful to have.

Personally, I consider the $8/mo I pay for Netflix to be well worth it, especially when compared against the cost of a TV subscription. Your own economics may differ. But given the very wide array of devices I have where it works perfectly (including my cell phone, my tablet, and game consoles), I'm quite happy to keep the service, despite the DRM.

It'd be nice to be able to play it on my Linux-based laptop, and this allows that as well, but that is far from the only method I have to access the services. I am the target market for this app, not you.