670 karma · joined April 18, 2009
Really? You are comparing calling your elected representatives to a lynch mob? wtf?
The NSA appears to have tapped 3rd party fiber links, and not Google directly. Google is now encrypting data across those links, moving all client access to use https, and advocating for http/2.0 (based on SPDY) to allow only encrypted connections.
Except that I hate using Office, and my job doesn't require it.
Microsoft cannot be trusted. They'll change the game out from under you at some point and you'll have no recourse, because you're depending on Microsoft's proprietary software.
How would you propose that we set about determining which religion or mythology is "correct"?
> until we have established that religions do not reflect reality, we should at least remain open to that possibility.
The burden of proof is on the religious. If they can offer testable, reproducible proof that a religion makes valid predictions in specific circumstances, and explains how the universe operates, then they should do so. Once they have, we can call it "science".
In the meantime, as Christopher Hitchens said, "that which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."