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The Russian government will enforce a contract made in Russia.

>> Noting of course that Law Enforcement already has access to numbers you have called and all SMS & MMS messages you have sent by subpoena to the carrier responsible for your service.

That's a poor excuse. Those calls may have been made in a different country.

>> This is ridiculously stupid

No, it's not. IMHO the problem is not the exact procedure, but the lack of option for the user to properly encrypt their data.

IMHO if your only/main source of news is the western media, you get a very one sided, anti-Russian point of view. Things are really not that black and white, they almost never are in the global politics.

And if they do, would the US government pay off any current contract obligations IBM had to break?

How can your server blacklist requests to doubleclick.net?

Heard this idea a few times, e.g. a "Social time bomb". Very hard to actually make work, as it depends on friends to check achievements and punish the originator.

Willpower is the greatest force in our world and 99.999999% of us have a limited quantity of it. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco addiction; overeating and lack of exercise; not working or studying hard enough. Are you really trying to say anybody can overcome those by "doing and completing something because its important to you"?

Did you fall for the anti-sugar campaign? There's nothing wrong with sugar in reasonable quantity.

Hmmmm, won't be so brilliant if Russia is to develop a missile that corrects it's course after passing the air defense zone.