True, but with a president who won a Nobel Peace prize, the US can't be everyone's enemy.x

If those companies are bidding to supply critical network equipment, then yes, I'd like my government to breach corporate secrecy to figure out whether the equipment has back doors. That really is an issue of national security.

FWIW, as a US citizen, I have no expectation of privacy vs. the Chinese, French, or Russian governments either. Your question is a little too broad though. Is this the world I want to live in? Any answer shorter than a book would be disappointing.

I followed the link and do not see the double standard. We bitch about their hacking, and they bitch about ours...

Openness and transparency are generally praised, especially when they apply to governments. Their value is not automatically diminished by being the product of espionage. Of course it's different if a government trashes it's legitimacy by spying on its own citizens. But as far as I know, Chinese citizens and companies have no privacy rights with respect to the US government.

Countries spying on each other is not a bad thing. It reduces uncertainty about the target's intentions, and also reduces the incentive to act preemptively. Knowledgable folks think WWI might have been avoided if countries had better intelligence about one another.

Yea, I think part of this is females feeling insecure when they see images of other females with idealized features. But that doesn't make a video game with lots of pretty girls sexist. It's just more for guys than for girls.

Who would have thought that Target IT security was almost good enough to catch the hackers?

It's one in the same!

http://www.fremontco.com/clerkandrecorder/motorvehicledepartment/dr2421.pdf

In 1976, when the government evaluated the effects of DST, they found no significant energy savings. They did find that year-round DST kills children on their way to school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States