Range voting seems to be better than other systems for voting.

There is no system of voting that satisfies all the criteria that we intuitively believe elections should satisfy. Every system has an imperfection.

In the case of range voting, the imperfection is that it does not strictly satisfy the majority criterion: a candidate A preferred by the majority of voters must win. With range voting, another candidate B can win, if most voters say that B is nearly as good as A, while a fraction strongly prefers B to A. That seems like a reasonable outcome to me, given those stated preferences.

Cody Wilson has sued to affirm his constitutional right to post instructions for making a 3D-printed gun.

In the case of weapons, there is a valid public interest argument for prohibition, though it has to contend with freedom of expression.

The US already has a law prohibiting publishing code to do a certain job: the DMCA, which makes it a crime to publish a recipe for breaking digital handcuffs. There was never a public interest argument for this prohibition; this law was a simple sell-out to media companies.

DefectiveByDesign.org

I am concerned that the DMCA, which is pure injustice, will be cited as an argument in Wilson's case, and that if he loses it will be used to legitimize the DMCA.

German intelligence says it will henceforth spy for the NSA only when given specific reasons for specific targets.

Why did the US use Germany to spy on Airbus? Perhaps so that the US can say "our agencies don't spy for companies" without an outright lie.

Omar Khadr has been freed on bail in Canada while he appeals his conviction by a US kangaroo court in Guantanamo.

It appears that Khadr was a child soldier fighting against US forces. If he didn't throw a grenade at US troops, he presumably wished to. That was a valid reason to take him prisoner. It would have been a valid reason to shoot him, if he hadn't been incapacitated already. That's war.

However, prisoners of war are not supposed to be accused of a crime for waging war against our troops. And they are not supposed to be tortured — not even adult soldiers. (Khadr's "confession", extracted by torture, counts for nothing.) As for child soldiers, they are all victims. It appears Omar Khadr does not want to fight that war any more.

As for the Canadian government, when it called for keeping a Canadian in prison to cater to a foreign government, it reached a low point of servility.

Recycling oilfield water for irrigation sounds logical until you wonder whether pollutants from the oil are getting into the food. Without more investigation, there is no way to tell whether this is a significant danger.