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Perhaps the legal justification needs to be abstracted from specific cases. Only if a specific case fulfills the justification can that justification be used in secret prior to full execution of that move which then requires full disclosure in post mortem of the event. A non-indefinite yet reasonable time limit should be another requirement that forces either rescinding the justification and/or requiring full disclosure.

This way a justification can be made without details being made public that would alert a sensitive target. It is also necessary to make sure that a potential authorized kill could not be held open indefinitely and the details released publicly in a timely manner.

Where is Jason Bourne when we need him?

What happens when an ultimatum is given and Russia does decide to do something?

  “also be remembered that there have been ultimatums at all bases, including the one I was inside at Feodosia yesterday. They were ignored, and nothing happened.”

I use Trillian and avoid going to FB.

You missed the part where the idiot got served. He's lucky he didn't get any charges besides his unpaid parking tickets. Next time, let's see how the cops react when he points a "cookie gun" at them.

The last data I had seen (when I'd voted), had Miley Cyrus ahead by millions of votes. When did Snowden jump ahead? Was that 4chan "to the rescue"?

What do you mean by "never need the Inquisition"? The CIA/DIA/NSA Inquisition has been happening 24x7 for years now; we just haven't been privy to it.

The actions of Snowden are far more likely to cause war than stop it. Some of Francis' actions are more cause to stop "holy war" than anything else.

Money isn't always enough. Sometimes numbers of volunteers are needed more than money. Money doesn't buy help, it just buys getting some jobs done.

And yet highway robbery is the dirty secret the transportation industry doesn't want people to know about. It's an increasing trend in the transportation industry to install hard/software that allows for better tracking and incident reporting. Everything from robbery to driver "safety" ratings and insurance investigations.

Isn't it safer to assume that something is unsafe, rather than to assume it is safe?

I was on a domestic Delta flight recently and someone brought a trombone case and 1 personal item without issue.

I'm not sure what is worse, pigs or chickens.

You're forgetting past history and the present times. It's not just Bill. IBM and Xerox before Bill Gates was worse. Apple now is far worse than Microsoft was in the "golden days".

Microsoft stole ideas, improved on them, and made them accessible to the public for far cheaper than anybody else. It wasn't just anti-competitive practices that put them at the front.

Apple stole ideas that others have done, improved on them, and made them accessible for a price HIGHER than everyone else because of marketing. It isn't just their anti-competitive practices that have put them at the front.

If you are going to make a claim to history and "you had to be there", then remember ALL of history and don't be condescending and assuming it was someone young that voted you down.

jQuery does not actually solve every possible cross-browser compatibility issue. I still occasionally have to code around some browser issue, especially considering the lack of good plugins to support localStorage.

A&W is listed twice as well, by separate companies.

Depends on the country and the crime. In Canada it is 24-48 hours to report your tires being slashed, 1 year to prosecute a vehicle collision, but 25 years for something like rape and/or molestation.

Try this... version 13 of software... 13th rc release... on the 13th... in 2013.

What part of "Science Friday" is not Hacker/Science-y enough?

I tried the HD prototype at Unite 2013 and it looks really really good. Just look for the video of RogueCraft and you'll see text appear just fine.

If I recall the history correctly, it wasn't the subsidies as much as it was the tariffs on sugars. The state (of being) that US farmers are in isn't what it used to be.

I disagree with the assertions made by cuttooth.

I have two 12 year old cousins who are very interested to get into video game development. They have some great ideas and are thinking of ways to make games like Minecraft more enjoyable at a base level as well as new gaming modes and/or features. Not only that, but they are thinking about monetization and how and why people would be interested in this. Not only that, they aren't just thinking about Minecraft either. They have ideas for their own games, and games they haven't played yet (not old enough by the ESRB and their parents' standards).

On top of this, they play sports. Outside. Not the EA type. It's only after their homework is done and they don't have any sports activities or friends over playing a board game (remember those?) that they are allowed to play video games. These kids are smart and enjoy the outdoors.

I would definitely say that they are regular kids and extremely engaged as a "regular" human being (whatever that means). At the last family BBQ, when they found out that myself and two friends are making our own video game, let's just say I was bombarded with questions about how to start and what to do and learn ;)

Their dad was also especially happy to hear that there are free versions of Blender, Construct2, and Unity3D.

Canadian here: Electrical bill of $60-80 every two months in a 600sqft condo on the third floor of a west by south west facing unit. It's also possible to rent a room or small basement suite for $600/mo and have all utilities included.

If you're on minimum wage, internet is easily accessible from a library, McDonalds, or Starbucks. Or find a landlord offering it bundled.

Cheap cell plans from $20 upwards do exist.

I'm not saying this is ideal, but then again, we're talking about minimum wage. I used to work at McDonalds in Canada and one of my co-workers worked her way up to manager and managed to go to college part time. Granted, she was also living at home with her parents and our post-secondary education is heavily subsidized up here.

"The government is an accomplice to companies that harbors and supports terrorism."

Got it.

Narrator's comment, to which I was responding, implied that some might want a fork because the host is a 'bad' host.

The other barrier is the effort required to compete with what is currently the most used Linux kernel base. It's not like forking OpenOffice, KDevelop, or Eclipse where you can compete as an alternative on top of a standard OS. It's replacing the basis of the OS that everything else is written to work for.

The only problem with this perspective is that Linus is kind of the only show in town where it regards the Linux kernel. You can't just leave and have your own party without the host because the host has a monopoly on this particular party.

Sure, you can fork the kernel, but good luck with that!

Definitely a Star Wars reference, but I also thought for a second it could also be alluding to one of the Voyagers having become a "moon" and therefore in actuality being a satellite.

Even if his comments were as an NSA employee, the comments still stand.

And it's really not that hard to look up a user's profile to see where they work if they put that sort of information there.

Couldn't such words as what he said in your class be evidence that he is in some form of contempt of court for not ruling unbiasedly?

I happen to be married to an American and have discussed this topic at length with many of my American relatives.

The big problem is that Obamacare is nothing like a universal system or even the Canadian system, and it does not address the colossal spending costs.

Also, I think Canada happens to have built its medical system at a bit of a sweet spot time. We have enough people paying enough taxes to give a pretty decent average quality of care (assuming you don't live in the boonies). Too many more people or too little taxes and the system will fall apart.

As run4yourlives said, > There is a reason your health spending is almost double per capita to the next highest nation, and it has nothing to do with your population.

Ditto. Canada and other countries aren't doing that. So in the mean time our skilled workers will keep going to the USA to get salaries 3-5x higher than what they would make and keep on taking the money out of the USA.