They're not saying they will build the island from the plastic. They saying they'll build the island where the plastic is.

Where does it say the island itself is made of plastic?

From the article: "The island would be built where the trash is located and would convert the waste onsite".

Would that be the Lisbon Treaty that was ratified by all the members' national parliaments, and which for the first time formalised how a member can exit the union?

I noticed, but I think it'd be hard to separate victims and origins. Even C&C servers are hosted on legitimate sites without the owners knowing it. Last year a Google newsgroup was found to be used as a C&C implementation.

The article doesn't elaborate on what they mean by "attack origin".

A bit rich coming from the country that, at least until recently, was only sabotaging international law. Being Dutch I particularly remember the Hague Invasion Act.

But hey, you have a different president now. So if we were to accept that a country that is an origin of cybercrime is, as a country, committing a crime: Who specifically do you advocate starting a trade war with? Europe, China, Brazil, India, Russia? All of them?

I think the number you're going for is 77%.

But the point is that according to those numbers, the major non-US sources of cybercrime are also your major trading partners and close allies. I don't think the US will be rushing to attack any of them with sanctions. Instead you'll be attacking or threatening the usual suspects, which puts on a good show but has little actual effect.

Top 20 Countries Found to Have the Most Cybercrime

So apparently, if you add up all of Europe we'd match the US as the largest source of cybercrime. But the hypocrisy aside, Europe won't be the target of US sanctions.

You already can, though not high-speed. At the moment people take that train for the sake of the journey, not just to get from A to B.

...and ban space flight, it still wouldn't be the "death knell of manned space exploration". There are other space agencies. If anything, seeing the Chinese or Indians land people on the moon might get you started again. I think international competition is more likely to drive space exploration than all of us holding hands and doing it together.

Either way, fact is that the US will not be able to maintain their lead indefinitely, it's just part of its decline in relative power and capabilities. When people someday travel permanently into space, it won't be the Americans doing the driving.

Even Greenpeace refers to Watson as "a violent extremist and an eco-terrorist". ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/5166346/Paul-Watson-Sea-Shepherd-eco-warrior-fighting-to-stop-whaling-and-seal-hunts.html )

I don't support whaling but I would also like to see Sea Shepherd blown out of the water (non-violently...)

I'll have my financial incentive now please.

it will also sort the ones who speak english from the ones who do not, and you might wish to keep the ones that do not. unless your site is english-only anyway.