What are the International Laws against spying? Do we have treaties with China and Russia not to spy because a lot of those operations have been brought to air by Snowden and Co. And it seems to ignore that everyone within the governments involved acknowledge that everyone spies on everyone, but the outrage is always…

No - you wife and the mailman hire a driver, make him sign non-disclosure agreements and assurances that he's being hired to keep the location secret and pay him to drive them someplace. The driver assumes its a lovenest and announces it to the world.

Not as simple as your simple statement imho. Snowden had a job to do - it included not disclosing information that he had access to. He was hired with this understanding and he accepted it. He chose to break that agreement with his employer.

Then, of course, there was the plan to lay a cable from Brazil to Europe

I think it's more along the lines of: "The people I identify myself with are being/have been mistreated or do not fit some cultural norm. I am not ashamed of being part of this particular group and am making this information known to the public, opening myself up to potential mistreatment and hopefully serving as a…

Get used to it kids.

If we can tap either of these sources of energy, cost isn't just reduced. It effectively becomes zero. For nuclear fusion, unlike fission the main fuel is available to every nation on Earth and is effectively unlimited and free - it falls from the sky.

The flaw in that argument is how you define "We". Most people making that argument define "We" as the modern western world working hard to produce lots of food and then handing it over to the less fortunate people of the world.

I'm never surprised when people do the math on one-child limits and such. The total life expectancy is longer, and more people make it to be senior citizens in the first place, so plenty of 50+ people are in today's population who would not have been there before. Those people really aren't reproducing, so birth…

We could already feed everyone in the world. We WON'T, and that's the root of the problem.

insect birth control strategies

Hi. I have raised chicken with my family. Corn fed is a bunch of trollop bullshit that you are being fed by the mass media. Free range chickens will only get corn in a proper setting, if it comes on a cob or some left overs from the table at our house. Proper chicken feed includes many things, but almost all of them…

A bit of background on the character and his creators: Static Shock was created by Milestone Comics, an imprint founded, owned and operated by a group African-American artists under the specific (and very true) premise that minorities are sorely underrepresented in American comics. Milestone created, in addition to…

I'm very socially liberal, and very fiscally liberal. "Socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" is usually shitty people's way of saying, "I have gay friends, but I don't want to spend a dime on people less fortunate than me."

I remember reading somewhere that no president has ever really had a successful or popular second term (except maybe FDR of course), one of the reasons Kennedy is remembered so fondly. This is just a reflection of something new losing it's shine. White millennials don't identify with Obama as much as African American…

From 9to5Mac, seems like a lot of things have top line up for the randomization to take place (and then change again) and there's probably be a good subset of useful data still floor where wait times would be useful:

Holey sheet!

He says it was consensual, she says it wasn't

Physicists tend to think of color as a wavelength of light because emission, reflection, and absorption of light is important in physics and because wavelength usually corresponds well with color. A physicist would say that anything which mainly emits or reflects blue light is blue regardless of how it is perceived.