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These days people expect Uncle Sugar will give them funding for every stupid project they come up with

It's a reasonable assumption when you consider things like this http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/27/good-news-congress-just-averted-a-global-helium-crisis/

Now that you mention it... http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/... The cops have the right to take all your cash if they stop you for a traffic violation. You have to challenge it and pay your own legal fees to get your money back, which could take a year. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent in this country.

Desert Snow encouraged state and local patrol officers to post seizure data along with photos of themselves with stacks of currency and drugs

Law enforcement doing their job — and bragging about it — is fine. All professions do that, it is normal.

I don't even mind them seizing the (illegal) drugs, but possession of cash is not against the law. Unfortunately, a loophole in the American legal thinking (as well as the British, which we inherited) does not provide much protection to a person's property . Nowhere near as much as to the person himself.

The Executive can seize cash, vehicles, and even real estate without Judiciary oversight or approval — and that ought to stop. Their justification — that what they are seizing things was used for "criminal activity" — comes into play, before anyone is convicted in any criminality.

That must stop. A judge may impose limitations on using of the suspect property (and fund-transfer) — the same way movement limitations are imposed on a person, while investigation is ongoing or a trial is pending. But no seizures ought to be permitted until a "Guilty" verdict is pronounced and the sentencing enumerates, what's to be seized as a punishment.

It's time to start carrying a form of money that cannot be seized by authorities. (That is, as long as you can keep your private key a secret.) Oh dear... what are the authoritarians going to do when Bitcoin adoption goes maintream?

Desert Snow encouraged state and local patrol officers to post seizure data along with photos of themselves with stacks of currency and drugs

Law enforcement doing their job — and bragging about it — is fine. All professions do that, it is normal.

I don't even mind them seizing the (illegal) drugs, but possession of cash is not against the law. Unfortunately, a loophole in the American legal thinking (as well as the British, which we inherited) does not provide much protection to a person's property . Nowhere near as much as to the person himself.

The Executive can seize cash, vehicles, and even real estate without Judiciary oversight or approval — and that ought to stop. Their justification — that what they are seizing things was used for "criminal activity" — comes into play, before anyone is convicted in any criminality.

That must stop. A judge may impose limitations on using of the suspect property (and fund-transfer) — the same way movement limitations are imposed on a person, while investigation is ongoing or a trial is pending. But no seizures ought to be permitted until a "Guilty" verdict is pronounced and the sentencing enumerates, what's to be seized as a punishment.

Back in 2006 it was already out that the NSA was sharing information with the FBI among others:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

With multiple leaders of the U.S. intelligence apparatus having been caught lying under oath, we'll never know. One of the techniques is for the NSA to pinpoint something then the FBI look at the target and find something else they can label as the "reason" they found out about it.

At this point, because of our government's shortsighted decision's (Bush/Obama) to pursue and institute a surveillance state (ala East Germany), we'll never know what the story was here and have to take any claim from the Feds with a huge dose of skepticism.

And how exactly did you come up with the estimate that 100% of Muslims who support fighting against Assad also support extremism?

The gentleman in question had wanted to use his laptop to update his notes after a business trip, if I recall correctly. He put the gizmo called 'knee defender' so that the passenger wouldn't recline as he worked on his computer. He says he should have handled things differently; he was stunned when 1) the passenger actually poured water on him, splashing a bit on his laptop, and 2) that their plane was diverted over the incident. He also switched to an airline that didn't have reclining seats the rest of the trip

Well, to put it more accurately, by installing the device, he removed the ability of the woman in front of him to recline her seat without informing her that he had done so. He noticed the complaint from the woman to the flight attendant that her seat was not reclining and/or the flight attendant asked him to remove the devices, at which time he removed the devices. The woman reclined her seat abruptly, which almost damaged his laptop. Then he pushed back hard on the seat and reinstalled the device, at which time the woman threw her drink at him. The woman was moved to another seat, but the man apparently verbally abused the flight attendant, and this resulted in the diversion. It was probably not his choice to book a different airline that did not have reclining seats, it was probably that the airline refused to book him a continuing flight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/03/air-traveler-at-the-center-of-the-great-seat-reclining-debate-im-pretty-ashamed/

That is nonsense. The US government provided arms to the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government lost control

The US began arming Syrian rebels with small arms and other supplies almost a year ago.

Back then your MSM still had you cheering for the "Arab Spring" and Assad was the bad guy. Remember that? The narrative then was the noble and oppressed peoples of the Middle East rising up to topple puppet dictators and NPR et. al. were thrilled. So we gave these noble fighters weapons.

Yay!

Predictably, however, the Islamists started filling trenches with the bodies of infidels. The "Arab Spring" meme had to be quietly abandoned and now you're taught to fear the terrors of ISIS.

ISIS, IS, or whatever, are the exact same violent atavists we were arming twelve months ago; they move freely across the Iraq – Syria border, pursuing their Caliphate using both weapons we've supplied directly to them and weapons they've managed to capture.

It's also going pear shaped in Libya, the place we "liberated" from the Qaddafi regime with airstrikes. Soon those Islamists will start filling trenches with infidels and photos of Hillary posing with them will vanish when we start dropping bombs.

Watch for it.

Many of us understood all of this back when the "Arab Spring" started. The elites took a little longer to figure it out.

There are no recent examples of extended power-sharing or peaceful transitions to democracy in the Arab world. When dictatorships crack, budding democracies are more than likely to be greeted by violence and paralysis. Sectarian divisions — the bane of many Middle Eastern societies — will then emerge

These are cultures that can not govern themselves peacefully. They indulge Islamic extremism and they're not slaughtering infidels only when a dictatorial strongman wields enough power to keep the imams and muftis under control.

The rulers that prevailed during the Cold War understood this and worked to keep a lid on this mess. Those policies are now believed to be "imperialist" and so we've become schizophrenic; we indulge Islamists as the nobel oppressed right up until their nature is exposed by their atrocities and then we start dropping bombs.

Personally, I hope for change. Real change. Like ISIS, IS whatever overrunning Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, etc. etc. until they reach the sea in all directions. Then, at least, there will be no more nasty little low-intensity squabbles as we try to referee this crap and all doubt about the threat Islam poses to the species will be gone.

One can dream.

That was good advice to read the article. Why can't Obama ask for a clean bill to fund this Obama thing? If he wants funding to handle the massive surge in illegal border crossers his policies encouraged, then he should pressure the Democrats in the Senate to get to work on the funding bills the House Republicans passed. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/... ).
Instead Obama is adding his illegal immigration poison pill so that he doesn't get the funding for the child illegal border crossers and doesn't get the funding to fight ebola. All he gets is political points against the Republicans (when the press blames them for Obama's mess) and a chance to usurp more Congressional power because "Congress won't act".

The article also explains how he's trying to renew the import-export bank corporate welfare by attaching it to another important bill. Unfornately, just as the immigration debate shows there are a lot of Republicans and Democrats willing to help their rich friends at the expense of poor and middle class Americans by bringing a lot of cheap labor, the export-import bank will show that that there are a lot of Republicans and Democrats willing to help their rich friends with corporate welfare.

Michael Brown's death was merely a trigger - the "Ferguson thing" was about much more systemic problems than that one incident. But it's easy to attack one kid ...

Radley Balko just published an amazing, detailed, well-researched piece on some of the issues in the area:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

On of the buildings destroyed in Iraq was Jonah's tomb http://www.washingtonpost.com/.... You know the guy from the bible that was swallowed by the whale. I would say that is pretty iconic.

Seems the international community did fuck-all to prevent that from happening in Iraq with ISIS destroying ancient buildings, so I seriously doubt intervention would happen here.

The pyramids are pretty iconic. Whatever building were destroyed in Iraq weren't.

A close relative of mine was declared "special" student (aka "short bus") and assigned to a "special" class. He was, indeed, "special" but he was not dumb. Unfortunately the school — in a perfectly wealthy (and highly Illiberal) town — treated all "special" students the same so, when he refused to do a dumb math classwork, the teacher sent his parents a note to the effect, that their son's development is slow and he, unfortunately, will never amount to much.

A few years later he entered MIT and, after graduating, proceeded to a PhD program (in Math) in one of the Ivy League colleges. He is still "special" socially, but he is a mathematical genius... His parents still have that dumb teacher's note.

which the researchers argue could help close achievement gaps between at-risk students and more affluent students

Ah, never mind. The "at-risk" was an euphemism for "poor". Sure... Never mind the single-parenthood — a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle — if only we had the money to play more music to these kids! The best we can expect, I suppose, from a University, that lists a couple of actual unabashed domestic terrorists among professors — one of them in charge of "Children and Family Justice Center", whatever that is...

Nobody in eastern Ukraine considers themselves Ukrainian, including my Family who has lived there for generations. Eastern Ukraine has always been and will continue to be Russian.

But doesn't it make more sense for your family to move to Russia than it does for Russia to move to your family?

Finally, pointing out that they're not responsible for the data being compromised is not the same as blaming the victims. As the article I linked mentions, in many cases these celebrities may not have ever fallen for a phishing attack or given their password to "tech support" over the phone. The only error they may have made was in keeping poor company.

WaPo article "Apple then goes on to offer some security suggestions for iCloud users who might be confused about how to protect themselves. The subtext is clear: If there's anything wrong here, it's in the way that individual users secured their accounts."

Apple press release: "To protect against this type of attack, we advise all users to always use a strong password".

read different things into it, but the fact remains: human being suck at passwords. we have sucked at passwords for 30 years, and we will continue to suck at passwords. There has been enormous effort to get people to be better about passwords. As a result, the most popular password is no longer "12345" - it's now "123456".

considering this, all software makers need to recognize that they have a much greater burden to create a security solution that people don't suck at. Apple did that with the touch id thing. brilliant and simple. until software makers (including apple themselves) take more responsibility, they will continue to get owned (yes the user gets hacked, but the reputation of the software suffers too).

a bright spot: in ios8 apple is supposed to open up touch ID so it can be used for things other than the phone unlock. there are a whole host of dangers with touch id, but at least it solves the weak password issue.

Nato seems to believe there are at least a thousand Russian troops in Ukraine. Ukraine says it is more like 1,600. Either way, Putin says 1,000 troops is irrelevant because he can take Ukraine within 2 weeks if he so orders.

So, not really just rumors.

ItÃ(TM)s the first time in more than 25 years that Moscow has raised the spectre of nuclear war.

So you were asleep in 1999?
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Putin should have more control over the "rebels" since there are plenty of Spetsnaz among them, not to mention Russian army units assisting them with tanks, artillery, and infantry.

The diplomatic solution Putin is seeking is for everyone to agree that Russia gets what it wants. Russia is preparing to slice up Ukraine and take adjacent territories.

War in Europe is not a hysterical idea

Can you please tell me about a place that U.S has annexed a part of other country into it self?

If you cannot, then you are misguided in your effort to justify the invasion and occupation of Crimea. I also want to remind you that what Russia has done is against U.N charter.

What Putin is simple. He is a brutal dictator, what he has not yet done is to show it. The propaganda from Russia is massive, the world channel for that propaganda is RT network. It pumps out misinformation, lies and just pure KGB style propaganda all days and not only in English but also in several other languages. Other good example of this is ITAR-TASS. Here is the latest news. I don't have to tell you that this is total bullshit "news".

http://en.itar-tass.com/russia...

People in Russia have in general no idea what is going on. Internet coverage is not that good as in Europe or U.S. They also have to deal with censored internet today inside Russia. Washington Post sums this up nicely.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

There is a lot of people in Europe and U.S that accept Russia propaganda as the truth. There is just one problem with it, it's all lies and deception.

Maybe he didn't last week, but this week, the FBI may do it for him.

The FBI said it is “addressing the matter,” calling the leak an “unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals.”

So, for Moot, do you see this weekend's celeb photo dump as threatening the continued existence of 4chan as we know it? Will you change the site policies in response?

This Map Shows Most Racist People On Earth.
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does this article not cover the other site of the apple.

While we have sea lvls on the rise we also have this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Now lets be some proper physicists and analyse it correctly. We have sea lvls rising and also we have ice lvls rising in the antartic... this means... yes that the water lvl is rising faster in antartic than anywhere else. But why? Not hard to explain. The earths outer shell is elasto-viscous which means it reacts time-delayed on outer increase or decrease of pressure. Exerted by water (ice) or land. Since the ice lvl is rising on the antartic continent it also pressures the plates down, additionally the sea lvl is rising. At the end of the day we have a higher sea lvl rise in antartic since two effects exerted over a long period of time add up. On the other hand we ll see far more secondary and tertiary effects...

I love sience.

The Western side of Antarctica has gained some mass but not enough to counteract the much more massive amount the Eastern side has lost. So, a much larger net negative.

What I find most amazing is this: 97% of the best climate scientists we have on earth have concluded that we have a problem. The insurance companies ["How The Insurance Industry Sees Climate Change", "For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change", "Rift Widening Between Energy and Insurance on Climate Change", "Insurer's Message: Prepare for Climate Change or Get Sued", "On Climate Change: Get Ready or Get Sued" have concluded we have a problem. But, in the interest of sticking with their political druthers, a significant fraction of the American population has decided that 97% of the climate scientists and the insurance companies must be wrong. These people--Conservatives, essentially--are willing to take a risk that 3% of climate scientists are correct and that the insurance companies and 97% of climate scientists are wrong--merely because it serves their political persuasion.

Do you think that Liberals would be successful at convincing 97% of climate scientists to take our point of view and the insurance companies too if this were bullshit? Yet, all these wiseass Conservatives are willing to take a risk with our frickin' planet just so they can jam a finger in the eye of their political rivals--ignoring the reality that has the potential to end life on the damned planet. In short, WTF is going on in the mind of Conservatives? How do you look at all these insurance companies and think: "It's a Liberal plot!" Can you be so stupid?

Mér finnst samt pirrandi THegar fólk gerir THetta. THað er ófagmannlegt - Washington Post er mikil fréttasíða, ekki eitthvað skrifað á Facebook. :P

If it's so reasonable to "transliterate foreign proper names", then why is it that they only seem to do it with countries like Iceland? They don't usually transliterate proper names from other countries - for example, German (Düsseldorf) or France (Équipe FLN), just to pick a few quick examples.

Mér finnst samt pirrandi THegar fólk gerir THetta. THað er ófagmannlegt - Washington Post er mikil fréttasíða, ekki eitthvað skrifað á Facebook. :P

If it's so reasonable to "transliterate foreign proper names", then why is it that they only seem to do it with countries like Iceland? They don't usually transliterate proper names from other countries - for example, German (Düsseldorf) or France (Équipe FLN), just to pick a few quick examples.

Why is the parent post moderated flamebait?

The comment is statistically accurate if a bit understated. Lots of charts:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

There are countless articles anyone on /. should be competent to find on their own, such as this:

The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

As for the "war on black people" comment, see the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Once a person is convicted of a felony, like for having an ounce of pot or whatever, huge swaths of civil and privacy rights are just taken away for life, finding employment becomes very hard, and they end up never being financially capable of escaping the ghetto. This is just as effective as "whites only" laws.

This study has been misreported nearly everywhere. The study didn't find states with legalized medical marijuana had fewer deaths than non-legal states. Legalized states continually had more deaths per capita, and both groups had dramatic increased in opiate OD deaths over the period covered by the study. The researchers found OD death rates in legalized states increased ~25% less than expected.

I don't have access to the full study, but this chart included in this Washington Post article shows both groups OD death rate increase dramatically over time. It's interesting to note the change from 2009-2010, which significantly narrowed the gap between the groups. Prior to that year both groups seemed to be on similar trend lines. That said, groups moved from the illegal to legalized group over the course of the study and I'm not sure if or how the chart was adjusted for those changes.

But, but , but Mr. Obama is Mr. Transparency.

He said so.

One of the things President Obama has done for this country is to show us that whether the Republicans or Democrats are in office, we get a lot of the same policies. Not identical, but most of the foreign policy, national security, surveillance and domestic security policies are the same between the parties. Some choice!

I'd also argue Obama is a perfect example of what happens when the press abdicates its responsibility to hold government accountable.

ISIS has been rampaging across Syria for what? Two years now? It's kind of obvious now why Putin blocked the US from bombing Assad's government - that would have put ISIS in power in Syria. And yet even now Obama openly admits to having no strategy on how to deal with ISIS. WHAT THE FUCK?!!?!

Umm, not having a strategy to deal with a large terrorist group that's been around literally for years kinda qualifies as "doing stupid shit", I'd say. So Obama even fails his own pathetic standard.

The press has pretty much allowed Obama free reign (literally!) Not a smidgen of corruption at the "the dog ate my hard drive, then came back for my Blackberry after the start of the investigation" IRS? Yeah, BULLSHIT. Yet the press has let Obama off the hook on that. What would the press have done had Nixon uttered, "What does it matter now"?

Hell, the leader of ISIS - Abu Bakr al Baghdadi - was held in a US prison in Iraq until - wait for it - 2009. Guess who let him go? Why isn't the press ALL OVER that? (He was definitely in DoD custody until 2004, then "released". If W had let him out, the press would be all over it, so I'd bet he was held by the CIA until 2009. Hmmm, 2009...)

Why isn't the press digging into whether or not James Foley's murderer was released by Obama from Gitmo?

People keep repeating this but I don't think it's true.

It will be difficult in the short term but the consequences of being under Russia (Or rather the robber barons that control the failed state that carries the name Russia) are becoming too big to ignore.

China and Russia really are not friends. China's not stupid. They don't want to be dependent on them either.

Maybe you missed this May 2014 article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/china-russia-sign-400-billion-gas-deal/2014/05/21/364e9e74-e0de-11e3-8dcc-d6b7fede081a_story.html

Is that a fact?

Right, as opposed to the previous guy, who went into Iraq to settle his daddy's score

His daddy has kicked Saddam's ass so bad, there were no score left to settle. But let's not change the subject, Ok?

blunder around with pointy objects in the dark making a lot of noise and hoping everyone swoons over your manliness

Oh, I guess, you just can't help it, can you?

the country you did invade is falling into civil war.

Had we withdrawn from Germany in 1955, that country would've fallen into a "civil war" as well... Whatever you blame Bush for, the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq are squarely Obama's doing. As is the emboldened Russia, to bring us back on topic.

The US can't afford to perform any surgeries.

Of course, we can. Obama's economy may be weak, but it is still greater than that of Russia and Ukraine combined. Many times greater.

We don't need to send "boots on the ground" — just help Ukrainian defenders with weapons. Like, for example, precise ground-to-ground missiles to let them destroy a Russian "Grad" parked behind an apartment building without hitting the building too. Or all that surplus equipment, that Pentagon has been sending to police departments nation-wide, militarizing them against fellow citizens . But the charlatan-in-chief would not even send Ukrainians the perfectly defensive helmets and body armor...

pissing it all away invading Afghanistan and Iraq?

We pissed nothing away invading those two. We pissed it away by withdrawing prematurely.

Better yet. Some guy calling himself a "scientist", in the WaPo Comments here to a similar article with this conclusion: " the perfect alignment of variables that must all fall into place for this explanation to work is virtually impossible on the regular basis required to satisfy the frequency of the event. There is a different reason; they don not know what it is."

When I was young, many years ago, I thought ignorance could be overcome by education. Now, some 60+ years later, I begin to think that is not the case. /sigh

Don't forget how the Texas Republicans opposed the teaching of critical thinking strongly enough to actually put it into their party platform.

Hi AC re "realistic hard number costs" would all be hidden over federal, gov and mil projects or just buying in bulk from the private sector.
Water and power usage at one site thats in the news is about all that can be worked back from.
"‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives" (August 29, 2013)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
hints at "$52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013" but that could be for very limited number for US internal consumption over a subset of mil/gov projects.
ie the US gov gets all domestic data thanks to tame telcos. The costs of storing aspects of every call would be small over decades as the above linked DEA news showed.

Rolling the stones as huge cylinders would've been cool but they used water to wet the sand, which reduced friction. There's even some hieroglyphs that show it being done. Was big news back in the spring. See:

• Scientists May Have Figured Out How Ancient Egyptians Moved Huge Pyramid Stones
• The surprisingly simple way Egyptians moved massive pyramid stones without modern technology
• Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand

Do you think those that pay for the supersonic speed should be shuttled to the Grayhound station for certain destinations

How about allowing consumers to choose, instead of imposing regulations that may not benefit me in any way?

Simplified hypothetical example:

Mega-ISP offers three tiers of service:
1. 7 Mbps to all destinations - $30 per month
2. 40 Mbps to all destinations web services, with some exceptions: you get 7 Mpbs when visiting foo.com, foo2.com, and foo4.com - $50 per month
3. 40 Mbps to all destinations, period -- $60 per month

If a fast connection to foo2.com is important to me, I'd probably choose Tier 3. If not, I'd choose Tier 2 and save $120 per year. Let ME have that choice.

I can see how this will go down... "No matter how we reform the 'net, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your internet plan, you will be able to keep your internet plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

Oh get off your high horse. Yes, if only Canada had stamped out all other languages officially in government a hundred years ago, then we wouldn't have these issues today. And in the US there are definitely language issues - in some places you can speak any language you want as long as that language is English.

I very much disagree with Quebec's (and the rest of the country's) language laws, but the US isn't some magical place where all these problems don't exist - they just don't exist for the english population.

yet somehow we don't have a violence problem.

Btw, Florida thinks it's acceptable to stalk an unarmed kid in the middle of the night and then shoot him.

There hasn't been much of an "admission" of anything from these agencies, let alone guilt or wrongdoing. The surveillance practices currently employed, as shown by documents leaked by Edward Snowden and others, take a "collect it all" kind of approach in which they assert that they must have the proverbial haystack before they can find the needle. In fact, data on innocents is far more abundant than even the data stored on targeted individuals, and this includes many, many American citizens.

If you read the article there is a statement that the methane is converted to CO2 before it reaches the surface. It is a fuel source after all.

The thing is, where else is this going on? Like those mysterious holes in Russia?

Place the realm blame where it belongs and leave Oracle alone.

Who? Lotus Notes? Bill Gates? Nixon?

Nixon. I say we blame Nixon. After all, he was the first sitting president to propose national health care (and of all ironies, Ted Kennedy helped spike it.)

oh yeah.. and here it is...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

like i said.. barely even trying to pretend.

"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.

"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002

For reference, a skyscraper is expected to kill 24 birds a year. Quite a bit less than the 1000 per solar collector, but it turns out to be a rather large number as we have quite a few skyscrapers.

You seem a little ignorant of recent history. Have you heard of America's rendition program? Have you heard of all the EU countries which participated? Here's a map to help:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Barton Gellman says it is a Flash vulnerability in this Washington Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I think you're really a special kind of stupid.

I think we'll let others decide that.

First of all, a company doing business in a country must respect and obey the laws of said country. That goes without even saying, moron. Apple has registered subsidiaries in China, nevermind their huge manufacturing sourcing business in mainland.

Show me where there is a law saying that Apple must store its encryption keys on-shore. Guess what? There isn't one. See, Apple isn't breaking the law because it isn't IN China, it just does business there. But there's more to this... very much more.

As for "gradually been bringing its manufacturing back home" this means you are too stupid to cross the street. No consumer IT / electronics company in the US, Apple included, can bring manufacturing back to the US

Yeah? How about this? And this? And this? And this?

And many, many more. Hmmm. It seems just maybe I knew a bit more about it than you, eh?