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I believe his functional importance is in keeping dead man switches from triggering, the site is his insurance policy. He also gives an interesting public face to the website, given he is permanently embroiled in scandal. Arguably Assange's keeping wikileaks in the public eye is more important than his technical or mechanical function

When I was younger and saw the full word "Gentlemen" on a toilet door I would wonder whether I was polite enough to qualify.

The article approaches it from the perspective of "what preventative measures does the human body and mind use against suicide." In this context "so few" is probably the right wording, given a 98.6% reduction compared to no prevention (according to the numbers from the article).

It is very easy as a young person to convince yourself that everyone in your age group is a liberal, because you only really hear political opinions from your peers that fit with modern liberal issues. Personally I am a right-leaning moderate but to reveal my political beliefs to my friends would be social suicide, at least until more articles like this come to light. Currently it is cool to be a liberal and show it, and anything else gets you shut out.

An important factor on what a corporation might be able to "afford" is the return on that spending. There's a nice short story from NPR's Planet Money [1] estimating on the order of a 22,000% return for money spent on lobbying.

Granted that estimate was for tax breaks specifically, but it rather suggests big industries can't afford /not/ to lobby.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forge...

My initial response to the IPB was that, when I graduate from my UK university, I would simply move to some other European state and enjoy less pervasive surveillance.

However, after giving it more than a seconds thought, I realised most of my life I've had no reason to pursue a second language so I am limited to the anglosphere. In addition, 5 of the 6 anglosphere countries form the Five Eyes alliance, so my data would probably go back to the UK government no matter what.

I assume it's due to the liquid oxygen remaining in the booster; essentially its a towering pressurised container falling on its side causing a breach.