If we're stretching the definition of the word "terrorist" that far we could argue that the Rainbow Warrior's crew were terrorists as well. Sure, sinking the ship was wrong, but it's also obvious that they weren't trying to terrorize anyone, they were trying to disable the ship to keep it from interfering with their nuclear tests in French territory. And since Greenpeace chose to moor the ship in New Zealand to stay out of reach of legitimate efforts on the French government's part to keep them from disrupting the tests they resorted to extralegal means. I.e. they sent agents to sink it.

A big part of Bush Jr's two terms was 9/11. He became a wartime leader and as such enjoyed a massive boost to his approval rating which lasted him into but not through his second term: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

And this is true for most modern file transfer protocols, if the client says everything went fine then it's highly likely that the client is right. It's not like we're just reassembling a stream of UDP packets and hoping we got everything (though I did once work for a company that used TFTP for firmware and config updates of client equipment, over often very shaky DSL connections).

My guess is that the OP is like a former boss of mine who would complain constantly about the shitty battery life of new phones yet would never charge his phone until it shut itself off because the battery ran low.

I mean, I haven't even heard of firefighters or doctors around here using pagers since sometime around the early 00s. Didn't even know they were still a thing.

Yup, my ISP sneakily moved their customers over to carrier-grade NAT a few months ago. Wound up having to call them to get a public IP address again.

Seeing as how a Boeing 787 is an American aircraft made by an American company (Boeing) that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

There's this other company you may have heard of though, they're called Airbus...

You're missing/avoiding something here though, the market for drugs is a lot larger than the market for underage sex slaves. Not to mention that there are already people selling slaves.

Now, you could argue that demand elasticity for underage sex slaves is tied strongly to the supply and that if the supply increased then demand would follow but I'm just not buying that, the market seems fairly small even in countries that look the other way when it comes to unsavory business like that (though still somewhat larger than the market in countries that really come down hard on it).

Now drugs on the other hand, even here in Sweden where you could theoretically go to jail just for use of narcotics we still find ourselves with a population where something like 20% have at some point used illegal narcotics...

Earth 2 was a great example of a basic idea that could have been turned into an interesting show but instead we got, well, Earth 2...

Total mortality VS mortality rate. The mortality rate for the flu is very low. Even with 100,000 infected you might only get a couple of thousand dead. With 100,000 people infected with ebola you're likely to see 50,000 - 70,000 deaths.

Check out the map in TFA, the northern half of the country is practically uninhabited compared to the south yet most towns there still have a citynet of some sort (and for those that don't have that it's almost certain that you can get DSL or wireless internet access unless you're literally living in a lone house in an isolated valley somewhere).

There are other royal/noble families than the British ones.

And in some cases their names can very well be something like Charles Robert XII of the grand dutchy of Backwoodsia where "Charles" is the "middle" name inherited from some great great uncle, Robert is the first name and the XII is because there were 11 previous nobles/kings with that title who were also named Robert and "of the grand dutchy of Backwoodsia" isn't actually a last name but a title.

This person then gets to choose between "Mr, Ms, Mrs and Dr" for titles and is required to enter "first name" and "last name".

This poll seems to mainly concern kids' toys. I have a kite, a Nikon DSLR, a gopro, climbing shoes and a bunch of other stuff that would probably qualify as toys in most people's eyes but they're not toy toys, like action figures or a slinky.

Well, if you know that you're gonna need more local storage you can just get the model with more local storage. But I do think this is mostly just a case of there not really being all that much demand for models with more local storage. Or rather, there are a lot of users who are perfectly happy with 16 GB so there's no point in discontinuing that model.

Where I grew up IRC was actually popular with the non-nerd crowd until ICQ came around, then that became the "standard" until some time around 2002-2003 when MSN Messenger started taking over more and more and remained the top IM client until Facebook became the one social networking platform to rule them all.

Amazingly enough America Online was never very popular outside the US...