The BBC has had a couple of stories on that 2000-year old question. The first is about the British government, Snowden leaks: GCHQ ‘attacked Anonymous’ hackers, and the second about the US government; US agrees to pay $50m after ‘piracy’ of software.

The second informs us that:

The US government has agreed to pay $50m (£31m) after it was said to have pirated “thousands” of copies of military software.

Apptricity, based in Texas, has provided logistics programs to the army since 2004.

The company said it had discovered last year the software had been installed on many more machines than had been licensed.

The Department of Justice has not commented on the settlement.

The Dallas Morning News reported a DoJ spokeswoman had confirmed the agreement, but would not give more details.

The government acts like hackers and pirates software while it imprisons people for these activities. Apparently the War on Terror™ justifies everything.

According to Charlie Pierce it seems to allow people to redefine legal terms to suit their prejudices. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), a former FBI agent, redefines larceny to include copying, so he can accuse the media of selling stolen property.

The government still has all the documents that are being revealed by Edward Snowden. That is why they don’t know which documents he copied. If he had ‘stolen’ the documents, the government would be able to determine what was missing.

You can’t classify documents because they are embarrassing to the government, nor can you classify documents to conceal crimes. This makes the claims about the nature of the documents problematical, especially given the tendency of the leaders of the intelligence community to lie to Congress. either outright or by half-truths.

Chairman Rogers is one of those leaders who has not spoken the truth. Who oversees the overseers?

Jerry Joinson’s 8-hour penalty for having to replace his busted sled has been rescinded by the Race Marshal. He probably felt that Jerry spent that much time [and/or money equivalent] getting a replacement sled to continue the race.

Tony Angelo has been withdrawn from the race after using the alert button on his tracking device 32 miles from Dawson. Both he and his team are reported in good condition by the Canadian Ranger response team, who will escort them to Dawson.

Standings at 10:20PM CST (8:20PM PST):

Beyond Carmacks
1 Brent Sass (2)
2 Allen Moore (8)
At Carmacks
3 Hugh Neff (14)
Beyond Dawson
4 Cody Strathe (10)
5 Matt Hall (3)^R
6 John Schandelmeier (17)
7 Ken Anderson (6)
8 Torsten Kohnert (13)^R
9 Curt Perano (16)^R
10 Dave Dalton (5)
At Dawson
11 Jerry Joinson (4)
12 Mandy Nauman (11)^R
13 Brian Wilmshurst (9)
14 Hank DeBruin (18)

These are the official standings. That means they are official, not that they are correct. Things jump around a lot as people decide to update the standings. This problem is especially bad in the back of the pack, as no one bothers to update those standings when the lead is changing.

The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Yukon Quest, the numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers, and the small “R” indicates a rookie.

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