Let's imagine a 1-ton rock colliding with a 1000-ton rock. At a 25,000 miles/hour plus collision speed, one of two things happens...
1) Both masses get vapourized from the kinetic energy of impact ( m * (v SQUARED) )
2) The 1,000-ton rock gets broken up into thousands of smaller rocks that will not survive entry into the earth's atmosphere
3) Worst-case... let's assume that the 1,000-ton rock suffers no damage, while the 1-ton rock is totally pulverized. It has 1,000 times the momentum of the 1-ton rock, so the velocity changes by 25 mph. Note that to survive high-speed atmospheric entry it must enter within a limited range of angles. Head-on entry will result in anything less than a small asteroid burning up completely. Too shallow of an angle will result in it just skipping through the top of the earth's atmosphere and going off into space again. It has to enter at just the right angle. Even the deflection from hitting a smaller body will be enough to divert it to a harmless (to earth) angle.
> Today we have GPS and navigation apps with real time traffic information.
And today we have guys driving cars into subway tunnels and getting stuck on the tracks when following their GPS... http://www.citynews.ca/2017/02...
Another scarey situation is in the province of British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada. There are quite a few towns/cities on islands off the coast. The Ferry system is considered part of the highway system. In evenings or foggy conditions, people have literally driven off the ferry dock into the water. They didn't know they were supposed to wait for the ferry to come along first.
I'll pay for a knowledgable taxi driver, thank you.
http://nokiamuseum.info/nokia-... The main reason I'm hanging on to it is that it's on a grandfathered $100 per year plan from Virgin Mobile Canada. It's pre-paid, and unused balance carries over. I don't use it much. I try to do my few long-distance calls on it. Although the rates may look high, that's the only way I can use my accumulated balance.
> And Android still makes almost no money for Google.
Stock Android phones come with Chrome, Google Search, etc, and collect tons of telemetry for Google. Google makes its money off of data about people. So, yes, Android does (indirectly) boost Google's bottom line.
> Did you get your biofuel from you local landfill yet? No?? Why not? All it takes > to convert almost anything in a landfill into biofuel, is a high pressure tank, > heat and time. Because they've been doing it for almost 2 decades now > in Canada. (It's been mostly scrubbed off of the Web.) Latin people laugh > at you when you don't believe they can make gasoline out of tires....
Yes you can make biofuel. Yes it does work in Latin America, aka the tropics. Other areas of the planet have this thing called "winter". Biofuel congeals when temperatures drop near zero. Back in 2009 https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...
> "All schools in the Bloomington School District (Minnesota) will be closed today > after state-required biodiesel fuel clogged in school buses Thursday morning and > left dozens of students stranded in frigid weather, the district said late Thursday. > > Rick Kaufman, the district's spokesman, said elements in the biodiesel fuel that > turn into a gel-like substance at temperatures below 10 degrees clogged > about a dozen district buses Thursday morning. Some buses weren't able to > operate at all and others experienced problems while picking up students, he said. > > We had students at bus stops longer than we think is acceptable, and > that's too dangerous in these types of temperatures," Kaufman said."
Other school districts avoided these problems by either idling their buses all night long, or using heated parking garages. Not exactly "green solutions". And finally, the biodiesel stuff was forced down people's throats in Minnesota. If it's so cost effective and wonderful, why does it need to be mandatory? And the cold-weather problems are not exactly unkown. http://www.startribune.com/min... because "essential services" are exempt from the mandate.
> First, key industries have been permanently exempted from the requirement to use > any biodiesel whatsoever. The state's nuclear power industry was given an indefinite > exemption. A temporary exemption for railroads; taconite and copper mining; > logging, and the U.S. Coast Guard was changed to a lifetime pass. Through > such action, legislators acknowledged that biodiesel is not reliable enough > to ensure that these vital industries would not suffer serious disruptions.
> The only downside is some builds for some systems have gstreamer > built in and some don't. MP4 video works on all of them though.
As of version 27.1.0, linux Pale Moon defaults to using ffmpeg directly. No need for Gstreamer plugins as middle-men. The current roadmap is for Gstreamer code to be removed entirely by version 27.2.0. BTW, libav is touted as a "drop-in replacement" for ffmpeg, so it may work in place of ffmpeg.
> Actually its ABC's fault. > > Back when Clinton was president, the story about Monica was given > to ABC 3 times over a 8 month period. They buried it every time they > got it. There is no telling how many stories the "big 3" buried.
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a > story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White > House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States! > > The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of > his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication.
By the way, the crying about "Fake News" by the lib-left elite is not new. It's been going on for over 2 decades already. http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be > consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was > allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and > access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press. > > The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative > media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
When the Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, the Clintons denied-denied-denied. Hillary Clinton even said that internet news needs a "rethink", and bemoaned the lack of "gatekeepers" whatever that means. http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
And when she was running in 2016, her campaign sent out a newsletter saying that the Breitbart website did not have a right to exist. And it also suggested that if Hillary was elected, Breitbart would be shut down.http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/18/hillary-campaign-vows-to-destroy-opposition-website/
TLDR; The lib-left has controlled news for a long time via their media lapdogs. Thanks to the internet, anybody with an internet connection can break a story that the lib-left wants to bury. Do not expect the lib-left to go down without a fight. The next Democrat president, 4, 8, or however many years from now will rush in internet censorship ASAP. It may be under the guise of stopping "Fake News" or "Hate Speech" or whatever excuse, but underneath, it'll be the lib-left censoring conservatives.
> You are leaving out the money part. Credit is not rich. Its debt. You > want to be rich, have money as savings. You want to be wealthy, have > money as assets/investments. Most don't need credit except for a car > (still poor), a home (very common), school loans (credit may affect rates).
That's how it used to be. Nowadays, credit ratings are part of the hiring process. If you have a bad credit score, you can't get a promotion, or in some cases even a job. So you have no income and default on loans. And the credit rating algorithm shows up as being "successful".
Or at best, you're stuck in a lower income job. Either way, you end up poorer because of credit ratings, even if you have no intention of applying for a loan.
> Here in the UK people living in flood plains get flooded, who > would have expected that eh? And then they go complaining > to the government. That's mostly as bad as it gets.
Many years ago, local governments would dredge river channels every so often, so they wouldn't flood. Good. Then Britain joined the EU. Along came unelected Eurocrats, who imposed ridiculously punitive/expensive standards regarding the disposal of the dredged up mud/silt. Result... * local authorities couldn't afford to dredge river channels * river channels silted up * rivers flooded
Well... like... duhhhh. To add insult to injury, the flooding was wrongly blamed on global warming. It was crap like this that contributed to the Brexit vote result.
> > So 'jumping species lines' would only be possible if the two species naturally interbred.
> If they can breed and pass the gene, they're already the same species, by definition . . .
Not necessary. E.g. SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) jumped into humans, and became HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Virus strains from two of these primate species, SIVsmm in sooty mangabeys > and SIVcpz in chimpanzees, are believed to have crossed the species barrier > into humans, resulting in HIV-2 and HIV-1, respectively. The most likely route > of transmission of HIV-1 to humans involves contact with the blood of > chimps that are often hunted for bushmeat in Africa.
http://business.financialpost.... Leading up to the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore filed a financial report claiming a net worth of less than $2 million. Today he's worth $200 million. Let's just say those $100,000+ speaking fees didn't hurt.
Consumers buy 2 el-cheapo machines @ $500 each. MS gets 2 Windows licences worth of revenue, and Intel sells 2 sets of chips. OEM gets very little profit.
Consumer buys 1 "ultrabook" @ $1000. MS gets 1 Windows licence worth of revenue, and Intel sells 1 set of chips. OEM gets a higher profit margin.
The OEMs may be better off, but MS sells fewer licences, and Intel sells fewer chipsets. WTF would Microsoft deliberately hurt their bottom line???
>> It's too easy to get you facebook account deleted or locked out for it to be useful for this.
> But is it really? I mean the only people I know of who get their account deleted or locked out are > trolls, SJWs, activists, and people who just plain shit on their terms of service for shits and giggles.
Guy mysteriously gets his account disabled and is forbidden from creating a new one. This is straight out of Kafka...
> According to the company's responses, Facebook's decision is final. There's > no way I can get back on the service and there's no way I can get my data > back and there's no way I can know why I've become ineligible for an account.
Imagine you had all your calendar, contact, and password info on Facebook, and woke up one day to find out that you were locked out, with no access to that info. There are almost 1.8 billion users vulnerable to that scenario, of being locked out of Facebook at Zuckerberg's whim...
> China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling > its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of > concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday. > > Only two nations â" the Soviet Union and the United States â" have previously destroyed > spacecraft in antisatellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid-1980s.
At the speeds in question, a head-on impact with an inert third stage will at least break up the rock into smaller, harmless fragments. No nukes required. The force of impact might even vaporize most of the target. The main problem is detecting the rocks. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was not detected http://www.businessinsider.com...
While a similar rock may not directly wipe out humanity, like the Chicxulub rock wiped out the dinosaurs, consider this... Washington or Moscow gets hit, with no warning, by the equivalant of a multi-megaton nuke. If the surviving commanders have itchy trigger-fingers, a disastrous nuclear exchange could ensue.
> Sorry, but if you feed emails automatically to the shell in Mutt on Linux, no such protection happens. > *** Of course you would need to configure this yourself,*** > but it is entirely possible to do.
My emphasis. "Clicking on an email attachment" should ***NOT*** default to running an executable. Showing my age here, but I remember a "kinder gentler" time when WFWG (Windows For Work Groups) was not generally connected to the internet. There was no such thing as "group policy", to reconfigure an entire work group, either. But MS had a hack for that. Microsoft ***BRAGGED*** that an admin could send an "all-subscribers" email, and that when the individual users clicked on an attachment, it would re-configure their Windws PC as desired by the admin. YES!!!
That was a quarter of a century ago, and MS hasn't changed. What also doesn't help is hiding extensions. So "my-naked-wife.jpg.js" shows up as "my-nake-wife.jpg".
> In addition, I believe that Zuckerberg will be the second > greatest president in the history of the US, after Trump.
And in other news, last week, Donald Trump kicked a black family out of the residence they had lived in for the last 8 years on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. The black family consisted of a husband, wife, and 2 daughters. Women and minorities most affected.
Donald might forgive him, but Hillary never will. Too many people who crossed Hillary have ended up "committing suicide" with 2 bullet holes to the back of their head.
Putin got a lot of PR, and possibly his preferred POTUS, because of Snowden. If the throws Snowden under the bus, future potential whistleblowers/leakers may not give out info. It is in his enlightened self interest to treat Snowden nice.
FTFY. ISPs in the US are getting rid of, or raising the price of unlimited data plans. It's bad enough having Youtube chewing up your monthly allotment. When you start pushing years of personal photos back and forth across the net, you may find that a one-time purchase of a $2,000 PC costs less after a couple of years.
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Let's imagine a 1-ton rock colliding with a 1000-ton rock. At a 25,000 miles/hour plus collision speed, one of two things happens...
1) Both masses get vapourized from the kinetic energy of impact ( m * (v SQUARED) )
2) The 1,000-ton rock gets broken up into thousands of smaller rocks that will not survive entry into the earth's atmosphere
3) Worst-case... let's assume that the 1,000-ton rock suffers no damage, while the 1-ton rock is totally pulverized. It has 1,000 times the momentum of the 1-ton rock, so the velocity changes by 25 mph. Note that to survive high-speed atmospheric entry it must enter within a limited range of angles. Head-on entry will result in anything less than a small asteroid burning up completely. Too shallow of an angle will result in it just skipping through the top of the earth's atmosphere and going off into space again. It has to enter at just the right angle. Even the deflection from hitting a smaller body will be enough to divert it to a harmless (to earth) angle.
> Today we have GPS and navigation apps with real time traffic information.
And today we have guys driving cars into subway tunnels and getting stuck on the tracks when following their GPS...
http://www.citynews.ca/2017/02...
Another scarey situation is in the province of British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada. There are quite a few towns/cities on islands off the coast. The Ferry system is considered part of the highway system. In evenings or foggy conditions, people have literally driven off the ferry dock into the water. They didn't know they were supposed to wait for the ferry to come along first.
I'll pay for a knowledgable taxi driver, thank you.
> Also, buy both seats and bring one of the hookers with you.
Interesting idea
http://nokiamuseum.info/nokia-... The main reason I'm hanging on to it is that it's on a grandfathered $100 per year plan from Virgin Mobile Canada. It's pre-paid, and unused balance carries over. I don't use it much. I try to do my few long-distance calls on it. Although the rates may look high, that's the only way I can use my accumulated balance.
> And Android still makes almost no money for Google.
Stock Android phones come with Chrome, Google Search, etc, and collect tons of telemetry for Google. Google makes its money off of data about people. So, yes, Android does (indirectly) boost Google's bottom line.
> Did you get your biofuel from you local landfill yet? No?? Why not? All it takes ...
> to convert almost anything in a landfill into biofuel, is a high pressure tank,
> heat and time. Because they've been doing it for almost 2 decades now
> in Canada. (It's been mostly scrubbed off of the Web.) Latin people laugh
> at you when you don't believe they can make gasoline out of tires.
Yes you can make biofuel. Yes it does work in Latin America, aka the tropics. Other areas of the planet have this thing called "winter". Biofuel congeals when temperatures drop near zero. Back in 2009 https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...
> "All schools in the Bloomington School District (Minnesota) will be closed today
> after state-required biodiesel fuel clogged in school buses Thursday morning and
> left dozens of students stranded in frigid weather, the district said late Thursday.
>
> Rick Kaufman, the district's spokesman, said elements in the biodiesel fuel that
> turn into a gel-like substance at temperatures below 10 degrees clogged
> about a dozen district buses Thursday morning. Some buses weren't able to
> operate at all and others experienced problems while picking up students, he said.
>
> We had students at bus stops longer than we think is acceptable, and
> that's too dangerous in these types of temperatures," Kaufman said."
Other school districts avoided these problems by either idling their buses all night long, or using heated parking garages. Not exactly "green solutions". And finally, the biodiesel stuff was forced down people's throats in Minnesota. If it's so cost effective and wonderful, why does it need to be mandatory? And the cold-weather problems are not exactly unkown. http://www.startribune.com/min... because "essential services" are exempt from the mandate.
> First, key industries have been permanently exempted from the requirement to use
> any biodiesel whatsoever. The state's nuclear power industry was given an indefinite
> exemption. A temporary exemption for railroads; taconite and copper mining;
> logging, and the U.S. Coast Guard was changed to a lifetime pass. Through
> such action, legislators acknowledged that biodiesel is not reliable enough
> to ensure that these vital industries would not suffer serious disruptions.
> The only downside is some builds for some systems have gstreamer
> built in and some don't. MP4 video works on all of them though.
As of version 27.1.0, linux Pale Moon defaults to using ffmpeg directly. No need for Gstreamer plugins as middle-men. The current roadmap is for Gstreamer code to be removed entirely by version 27.2.0. BTW, libav is touted as a "drop-in replacement" for ffmpeg, so it may work in place of ffmpeg.
> Actually its ABC's fault.
>
> Back when Clinton was president, the story about Monica was given
> to ABC 3 times over a 8 month period. They buried it every time they
> got it. There is no telling how many stories the "big 3" buried.
Add Newsweek to the list. http://australianpolitics.com/...
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a
> story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White
> House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
>
> The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of
> his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication.
By the way, the crying about "Fake News" by the lib-left elite is not new. It's been going on for over 2 decades already. http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be
> consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was
> allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and
> access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
>
> The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative
> media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
When the Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, the Clintons denied-denied-denied. Hillary Clinton even said that internet news needs a "rethink", and bemoaned the lack of "gatekeepers" whatever that means. http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
And when she was running in 2016, her campaign sent out a newsletter saying that the Breitbart website did not have a right to exist. And it also suggested that if Hillary was elected, Breitbart would be shut down.http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/18/hillary-campaign-vows-to-destroy-opposition-website/
TLDR; The lib-left has controlled news for a long time via their media lapdogs. Thanks to the internet, anybody with an internet connection can break a story that the lib-left wants to bury. Do not expect the lib-left to go down without a fight. The next Democrat president, 4, 8, or however many years from now will rush in internet censorship ASAP. It may be under the guise of stopping "Fake News" or "Hate Speech" or whatever excuse, but underneath, it'll be the lib-left censoring conservatives.
> You are leaving out the money part. Credit is not rich. Its debt. You
> want to be rich, have money as savings. You want to be wealthy, have
> money as assets/investments. Most don't need credit except for a car
> (still poor), a home (very common), school loans (credit may affect rates).
That's how it used to be. Nowadays, credit ratings are part of the hiring process. If you have a bad credit score, you can't get a promotion, or in some cases even a job. So you have no income and default on loans. And the credit rating algorithm shows up as being "successful".
Or at best, you're stuck in a lower income job. Either way, you end up poorer because of credit ratings, even if you have no intention of applying for a loan.
> Here in the UK people living in flood plains get flooded, who
> would have expected that eh? And then they go complaining
> to the government. That's mostly as bad as it gets.
Many years ago, local governments would dredge river channels every so often, so they wouldn't flood. Good. Then Britain joined the EU. Along came unelected Eurocrats, who imposed ridiculously punitive/expensive standards regarding the disposal of the dredged up mud/silt. Result...
* local authorities couldn't afford to dredge river channels
* river channels silted up
* rivers flooded
Well... like... duhhhh. To add insult to injury, the flooding was wrongly blamed on global warming. It was crap like this that contributed to the Brexit vote result.
> > So 'jumping species lines' would only be possible if the two species naturally interbred.
> If they can breed and pass the gene, they're already the same species, by definition . . .
Not necessary. E.g. SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) jumped into humans, and became HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Virus strains from two of these primate species, SIVsmm in sooty mangabeys
> and SIVcpz in chimpanzees, are believed to have crossed the species barrier
> into humans, resulting in HIV-2 and HIV-1, respectively. The most likely route
> of transmission of HIV-1 to humans involves contact with the blood of
> chimps that are often hunted for bushmeat in Africa.
> Coming soon from Microsoft: there's a robot for that.
MS could blackmail millions of people.
That's the real question.
...I'm not a dumb fuck
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? howâ(TM)d you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
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ZUCK: they âoetrust meâ
ZUCK: dumb fucks
> Or become President.
Or run unsuccessfully for president.
http://business.financialpost.... Leading up to the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore filed a financial report claiming a net worth of less than $2 million. Today he's worth $200 million. Let's just say those $100,000+ speaking fees didn't hurt.
Consumers buy 2 el-cheapo machines @ $500 each. MS gets 2 Windows licences worth of revenue, and Intel sells 2 sets of chips. OEM gets very little profit.
Consumer buys 1 "ultrabook" @ $1000. MS gets 1 Windows licence worth of revenue, and Intel sells 1 set of chips. OEM gets a higher profit margin.
The OEMs may be better off, but MS sells fewer licences, and Intel sells fewer chipsets. WTF would Microsoft deliberately hurt their bottom line???
> Then think about how stupid the average person is. Then half of them are stupider than that.
And then there is the set of people who don't know the difference between the median and the average.
>> It's too easy to get you facebook account deleted or locked out for it to be useful for this.
> But is it really? I mean the only people I know of who get their account deleted or locked out are
> trolls, SJWs, activists, and people who just plain shit on their terms of service for shits and giggles.
Blame the victim, why don't you. Read this horror story... https://thenextweb.com/faceboo...
Guy mysteriously gets his account disabled and is forbidden from creating a new one. This is straight out of Kafka...
> According to the company's responses, Facebook's decision is final. There's
> no way I can get back on the service and there's no way I can get my data
> back and there's no way I can know why I've become ineligible for an account.
Imagine you had all your calendar, contact, and password info on Facebook, and woke up one day to find out that you were locked out, with no access to that info. There are almost 1.8 billion users vulnerable to that scenario, of being locked out of Facebook at Zuckerberg's whim...
I don't know why they "trust him"... dumb fucks. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
China, US, and the former USSR have already knocked out satellites. From the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01...
> China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling
> its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of
> concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday.
>
> Only two nations â" the Soviet Union and the United States â" have previously destroyed
> spacecraft in antisatellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid-1980s.
At the speeds in question, a head-on impact with an inert third stage will at least break up the rock into smaller, harmless fragments. No nukes required. The force of impact might even vaporize most of the target. The main problem is detecting the rocks. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was not detected http://www.businessinsider.com...
While a similar rock may not directly wipe out humanity, like the Chicxulub rock wiped out the dinosaurs, consider this... Washington or Moscow gets hit, with no warning, by the equivalant of a multi-megaton nuke. If the surviving commanders have itchy trigger-fingers, a disastrous nuclear exchange could ensue.
> Sorry, but if you feed emails automatically to the shell in Mutt on Linux, no such protection happens.
> *** Of course you would need to configure this yourself,***
> but it is entirely possible to do.
My emphasis. "Clicking on an email attachment" should ***NOT*** default to running an executable. Showing my age here, but I remember a "kinder gentler" time when WFWG (Windows For Work Groups) was not generally connected to the internet. There was no such thing as "group policy", to reconfigure an entire work group, either. But MS had a hack for that. Microsoft ***BRAGGED*** that an admin could send an "all-subscribers" email, and that when the individual users clicked on an attachment, it would re-configure their Windws PC as desired by the admin. YES!!!
That was a quarter of a century ago, and MS hasn't changed. What also doesn't help is hiding extensions. So "my-naked-wife.jpg.js" shows up as "my-nake-wife.jpg".
> In addition, I believe that Zuckerberg will be the second
> greatest president in the history of the US, after Trump.
And in other news, last week, Donald Trump kicked a black family out of the residence they had lived in for the last 8 years on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. The black family consisted of a husband, wife, and 2 daughters. Women and minorities most affected.
Not the first use of such brand names.
Donald might forgive him, but Hillary never will. Too many people who crossed Hillary have ended up "committing suicide" with 2 bullet holes to the back of their head.
Putin got a lot of PR, and possibly his preferred POTUS, because of Snowden. If the throws Snowden under the bus, future potential whistleblowers/leakers may not give out info. It is in his enlightened self interest to treat Snowden nice.
> (if you don't operate on any data).
FTFY. ISPs in the US are getting rid of, or raising the price of unlimited data plans. It's bad enough having Youtube chewing up your monthly allotment. When you start pushing years of personal photos back and forth across the net, you may find that a one-time purchase of a $2,000 PC costs less after a couple of years.