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I was offered this option in June or July.

I don't know how to evaluate its trustworthiness, but I use PIA too and like it. Quite fast, servers in many countries, and support for L2TP (so you can use it in Android without a client -- though they provide one).

> It is understood that you don't talk about how the government takes the risk out of business by funding R&D efforts through taxpayer-funded grant allocations to research institutions, subsidies to business, generous patent monopoly grants and other measures.

I don't know why you think this would upset libertarians, myself included. Much of the problem we have with public funding* is that it privatizes gain and socializes loss, thus distorting market outcomes.

IP is more controversial among libertarians, and I will grant that many libertarians support it on psuedo-Lockean grounds -- though many oppose it in whole or in part because of the market distortions it can create and because it restricts the peaceful behaviour of others.

*I do not object to all public funding.

> Walmart is in business relationships with more poor people than just its employees

"more" here refers to "a greater number than", not "poorer than"

Was he "wrong" or was he lying?

It's possible that he was misinformed by his advisers and indeed did not actually know. But I am not optimistic about that notion.

> 3. It's compatible with Libertarian/Tea Party beliefs, as military spending tends to get a free pass from the balanced budget brigade.

Tea Party, maybe, but not libertarian. Reason, Cato, and the like are highly critical of military spending and very frequently chastise mainstream Republicans for focussing on discretionary and entitlement spending while ignoring the military spending.

It depends on the store. I've had Fry's match a Newegg price before.

> Over the past several days, commentators have burst forth with a cacophony of competing ideas for your revival. The following list contains some potentially promising options for you to consider:

> Port Agenda Wizard from Java to python. Removed 11 files, 5345 lines of java code (Xisco Faulí)

> Port Web Wizard from Java to python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code (Javier Fernandez)

So it looks like they're trying to scrub out the Java parts (except perhaps in Base). Does anyone know if this is the case?

Line 11 is "Added simplified password hashing API"

The flip-side of relying on smaller companies, of course, is they may not have the cash available to challenge specious searches that a company like Google does -- assuming it wants to challenge requests, of course.

Then again, from what we know about the FISC it's hard to say whether legal challenges make much difference.

Android doesn't require a Google Account to operate. You just won't be able to use Google services or third-party apps that use them.

>If you can't fully fund science out of philanthropy, then it will be behind a paywall. Who'd have thought you need to pay for some of the most valuable information on the Earth? Wow.

>People will pay for a half-assed book on PHP, but if you want to sell a journal on astrophysics the internet gets all riled up about it.

Those examples are not analogous at all. Research isn't funded through the subscription fees to the journals, it's funded through tuition (via faculty salaries) and grants.