"The former guy," as you put it, almost literally threw his VP to the wolves during the January mob.

And yeah, countries definitely use propaganda for their own purposes but at this point it's a meme how bad China is at international propaganda.

They seem to have taken their tit for tat attitudes to the next level by copying "the former guy's" brazen and upfront tough guy foreign policy.

They're more focused on keeping their people complacent rather than playing the global politics game right now. I guess their demographics shift is really going to cost them.

Except when we screw up we don't disappear out journalists and blacklist news organizations. God, I can only imagine what China has been doing to their people that we don't know about. What we currently know is only that which leaks out of the great firewall.

Hell, their PR response to this has been so rabid that I'm genuinely curious what they're so scared we'll find out if someone investigated. All of this would have been forgotten within 2 years and their party would have been able to play innocent by passing blame to incompetent lab technicians doing research.

But now, with the illogically rabid propaganda push and threats to other nations... this is going to stick in everyone's memory for at least a decade. They've lost face.

He's absolutely in a position of power, that's why everyone's terrified. He'll obviously act in ways he sees as logical but if he's given enough reason to think he might benefit from becoming a wartime president, it's possible he'll light this powder keg.

If anything, the researchers would perform a lobotomy of some sort and focus on keeping the tissues alive and viable outside the body. The pig wouldn't even exist after that point and it wouldn't be able to process any bodily pain either.

So can swallowing toothpaste, but that's why the body has chemical buffers to handle these temporary fluctuations away from homeostasis. Enzymes are replaced and we have chemical buffers that prevent our blood from becoming too acidic or basic, to efficiently intake oxygen.

Here's something to think about, many of us constantly use our mobile devices inches from our head for hours at a time, so why hasn't there been any significant increase in cancer rates in at least the eyes? Everyone claims to be addicted to their phones nowadays, holding their phones even as they walk to the store so you'd think that SOMETHING easily measurable would have popped up by now, right?

It's true that there might be an acceleration of aging, but that's just your chemistry at work. If you're that concerned, crank up your AC.

Hell, if there was nearly as much of an issue with radiation, you'd think we'd have abandoned the international space station long ago, because if a weak phone signal can cause cancer, you don't want to even think about how much worse it gets without an atmosphere and EM blanket.

Maybe it's not about what the A.I. needs, but rather humanity. Maybe A.I. needs a bottleneck to give us a chance to realize when we screw up before it's too late.

So say we all!

Probably so they don't have to use ICBMs. You wouldn't want Russia to even think a missile is headed their way, or to any other country.

They probably want the opportunity to use a conventional missile/bomb before thing's start getting nuclear.

The difference is that colleges have incentive to try keeping students by not harshly punishing. A highschool guarantees the seat of the student you just expelled will be quickly filled.

I just want something that auto decrypts the encrypted text. I dislike the idea of having to request a certificate from an external server to get permission for something that should be completely local. A simple plugin that lets you choose which key to use would be ideal. The point of end to end encryption is to make a MITM pointless, not delegate that security to a server somewhere unknown.

You've got that backwards. The current electoral college system silences the votes of conservatives in California and Democrats in Republican states. By removing the electoral college, you allow votes to actually mean something.

Don't mistake a lack of comprehensive user data (in an easy to interpret format) as an intentional protection by Apple. Google has intentionally provided this information in an easy to analyze format for everyday users, and it's because of this that the police are able to use this information. I'd always prefer knowing what is being recorded than not knowing. Additionally, location history provides alibis for those being unfairly accused of a crime.

I do not welcome our old corporate overlords.

It's a shame. It had really good integration with Google wave too.

It's also important to note that the anti-theft law is only intended to brick a device to prevent it from being used on another network without the owners consent. The software in no way gives the ability to unlock a phone already secured, only brick it.