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I don't care about freedom of the tobacco industry, nor the freedom of teenagers to smoke, nor the freedom of adults to smoke flavored cigarettes. I take it you can't identify any …

> If nicotine addiction is relatively harmless without conventional cigarettes, who cares? Because we aren't doing anybody any favors when we permit the industry to give teenagers …

> "Changing the flavor sounds needlessly draconian, as adults like apple and bubblegum, too." I heard this same sort of thing back when Obama banned flavored cigarettes. I wasn't v…

NFS will give you better performance if you've got a trusted LAN.

I don't think "war with the US" was meant to imply "A war in which America was on it's own and did everything" ; that's a cynical read of it. A less cynical read would be that "war…

Americans do call it a World War, don't they? I think you're being a bit too cynical.

I think you're discounting the roll of America's massive industrial output, which shipped more than 17 million tons of goods to the Soviet Union throughout the war, including more …

> "aren't those ads targeted to the viewer (you) rather than the content of the video?" That shouldn't matter; youtube should not be showing adult ads to an adult when the adult is…

Oh, I completely agree. Youtube should stop pretending they have a service suitable for children. Youtube should be making it clear to consumers that their service is for mature vi…

It may be the case that they do it with sufficient accuracy to stay in business, but insufficient accuracy to provide quality content streams for children. My above comment seems a…

> " The fact that this isn't a difficult problem to solve is the strongest indication that A) YouTube knows exactly what's going on" It may also be the case they're totally incapab…

If kids 'need' TV shows to watch and parents need a source of children's entertainment they can trust, isn't that were we normally expect an organization like PBS to fill the need?…

Yep, people saying Breezewood isn't special probably haven't been there. The experience isn't something you can really derive from looking at any picture. I've driven across Americ…

This is certainly not what Dobbs had in mind.

> "[fans don't] help when it gets above the 98.6 degree body temperature." I'm not sure about that. It would be true with a spherical cow, but I don't think it's true when real peo…

Could it be the case that Boeing is behaving obstinately as a negotiation tactic, perhaps to negotiate more favorable terms concerning who pays for the re-training? Maybe they reco…

If I headbutt a brick wall because it's in my way, was it the wall that gave me a concussion? Or was it me that gave me a concussion?

From what I've personally seen, the vast majority of "hostile design" is employed on private property. Particularly on property owned by corporations or universities, moreso than p…

So called hostile design in fact reduces the incidence of confrontations between police officers and trespassers. Since it reduces the incidence of confrontations, and therefore vi…

> "Yet an underlying concern is that pilot programs like these could alienate riders from taking public transportation entirely." Junkies defecating in the train station discourage…

I was participating in rec.games.roguelike.development until 2011 or so. Some of those communities lasted a lot longer than most would expect.

Sometimes, but it's becoming less and less common.

I've seen professionally-oriented PHP forums and they are no better than any casual-interest oriented PHP forum. Tons of visual clutter with all kinds of rectangles nested inside e…