Errr *DON'T deviate.
Stupid, stupid. Proofreading necessary.

These middle class Russians of which you speak sound nice like KKK members are probably nice if you're white and Christian.
Last I checked, niceness is a trait that applies to how you treat all people, and not just those that deviate from one's small-minded ideas of what categories people should fall into.

Day one server issues for a AAA release??? STOP THE PRESSES!

Is there anything to suggest that this law will be any more effective at curbing the free distribution of illicit data than previous laws currently failing to do the same? I'm guessing "no."

The only benefit to this technology that the article mentions is that it "can greatly improve the device robustness and durability" and says nothing of the sound quality. It made me assume this would be used for MP3 player earbuds rather than headphones but then the article mentions "the speakers consume relatively high levels of power, because of their low efficiency of converting electrical energy into sound." Sounds like this has no practical commercial application at the moment.

The flu is an emergent bug in a natural system. We haven't seen the first truly malicious virus yet.

I thought we already had an internet filled with blackjack and hookers.

Thank god we have decades of research proving that an overactive massive industrial infrastructure is just the solution to this sort of thing. A few more coal plants should fix this, right?

Italy's cutoff for corporations being required to pay into the socialized medicine system is ten employees. That's why 90% of its workforce is employed at companies with less than ten workers.

This was not only anticipated, it was planned. Gotta kill those evil big corporations y'know!

How appalling! Has anyone reported this to China's Petitioning Depart-... oh wait.

Fortunately a buttload of pressurized air doesn't actually have much force behind it.

Source: personal experience.

Social media is a tool no different than any other tool. People who go out of their way to understand the tools they use rarely encounter problems with them. But like an inexperienced driver climbing behind the wheel after having "only a few" drinks, too many people browse social media sites as if every word is fact, unaware that nearly everything written online should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. But there's no helping people who will believe a FB group about the moon landing being fake while dismissing contradicting posts like this as part of the government cover-up. As long as there are people who thrive in the social experience of collective willful ignorance, every tool can become a menace to society. That doesn't mean we should take them all away.

From the SUMMARY:

Euthanasia needs to be extended to people suffering from chronic illness. As someone with severe Crohn's Disease who spent three years more ill than you can probably imagine if you haven't been there (constant fevers of 102-104F, diarrhea 20-30 times / day with seconds of warning, severely low iron requiring monthly blood transfusions, constant pain that was not properly controlled even by high doses of opiates, inability to eat - my weight dropped to 130 lbs and I'm 6'2", etc), I sympathize with the terminally ill, but when you have a chronic illness - especially one that does not respond well to medication - and your life is essentially a long road without dignity, support, or hope, you need the option to choose your own death - especially in a country like the US that does not offer decent medical care to its citizens.

I would strongly prefer to have cancer to Crohn's: at least with cancer, there is a winner, i.e. either you or the disease. With a chronic autoimmune disease, it's like a neverending battle of enough illness to incapacitate you completely, but never quite enough to cause you to die.

The only thing that kept me going during those three years was suicidal ideation, as it was a choice that I could make when it felt that I had no options and was otherwise completely helpless and powerless. The knowledge that I could kill myself if I chose to was the warm, fuzzy blanket that made it tolerable, and I spent much time researching and collecting things to give me the power to make that decision. I did ultimately try to kill myself and failed, but wish that I hadn't.

I'm fortunate enough to be healthy (relatively speaking) now, although I will have an ileostomy for life. It's not a nice thing at all, but given what I had to endure beforehand, it's such a tiny price to pay for the ability to live now that not a day goes by where I'm not thankful for it, even through the embarrassing incidents that arise as a result.

In response to comments about deliberate opiate overdoses (I logged in and now can't find the original post), if you're opiate-dependent, and you try to overdose on opiates as a euthanasia measure, it may be difficult to achieve reliably given a heightened tolerance, and then you run the risk of failing and not having even a maintenance dose of opiates to stave off pain and severe withdrawal symptoms.

There is also the issue of many opiate medications also containing acetaminophen, and acetaminophen poisoning is one of the most horrific, slow deaths you can imagine.

Killing yourself with prescribed medication is not a good idea, unless it is specifically prescribed for that purpose. Having a severe, chronic illness that left me in extreme pain with virtually no quality of life for three years, after a failed suicide attempt via high doses of opiates, benzodiazepines, nonbenzodiazepines, and alcohol, I realized that it is all too easy to screw up, even with very careful planning, and the consequences you face after the fact can be quite overwhelming and far-reaching.