JasonIpswitch

I also suffered something similar on multiple occassions in my late 20s and early 30s - growing rainbow zig-zags accompanied by graduals loss of vision in both the center of my field of view and edges of my peripheral vision, although never to the point of total blindness. Incidents would last between one and two hours. But, after several ophatmologist and visits to other physicians, I finally found the trigger: it happened roughly 18 hours after consuming 2 or more glasses of absinthe. Stopped drinking absinthe, haven't had an aura in years.

If he's lucky, the US will end up at odds with China in a few years, giving him another large nation on his "side".

I've seen two explanations for why the US government gives money to the Tor Project. One reason is to support dissidents in countries like China. Another is that US agents use Tor, but that the network requires a degree of popularity in order for agents to "hide" in it.

Anyone care to bet that within 18 months some Microsoft C-level will be complaining about "lack of company loyalty" over something an employee has done?

While I served > 10 years ago, you could classify everyone into a couple types: mercenaries (time servers, GI Bill folks, can't get any other job, in for the benefits, etc), and zealots (true believers in either the Red, White & Blue or in some flavor of dominionism, with plenty of overlap).

Our decision loops for things like regulation have become too slow to deal with reality. The greatest threat to the Federal Government is irrelevance.

Or, to paraphrase, fast-food and big box stores might not be viable business models in such a world?