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Do you think it was necessary to be this hostile? The poster didn't claim to be an American and even if they are American, there are lots of different opinions on what things are i…

This may be the dream but is not and has not been the reality of rooting phones and flashing them with custom software. It's ugly, it's error-prone, and the software that attempts …

Another way to approach interacting with other humans is to understand that the law only describes minimum expectations and isn't a replacement for ethics or common decency. You ca…

I went through a similar change from my sparkier first years of driving as a teen and early twenty something to now. The motivation incidentally wasn't to improve economy or avoid …

What I find especially bothersome is that their resolution has, in practice, only cost their victims more. Because the time needed to fill out that form and provide the documents w…

This particular example is an added expense but doesn't strike me as an extraordinary one, and brings with it many administrative savings to do with applications, enrollments, grad…

There certainly would be more murders if concrete deterrents were relaxed or eliminated. We definitely do not rely on the honor system to keep murder rates in check. In any case, s…

Trying to address a problem like this one by placing the responsibility squarely on end consumers seems like a mistake. There are too many of them in too many places and their beha…

This is nearly the opposite of what I would want from HTML or the web. A fixed layout is not going to work for all devices. Such a choice is tantamount to deciding that some classe…

How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?

Sure, but it's not conventionally what is called "uptime", an uninterrupted period in a normal and responsive state. Voyager has had faults and been rebooted. In any other situatio…

I still get Corelle branded dishes, like you see at Walmart these days. I haven't broken one yet; they're remarkably durable compared to your usual ceramic pieces. That they're thi…

Claims like this have been made from older generations to the younger and about every language since recording began. They were once made in Latin about a degenerate bastardization…

[Excentro]( http://www.excourse.com/excentro/ ) is fun specialized software for creating guilloche or "Spirograph" vector designs like you might see on bank notes and contracts and…

I'd say that's a pretty uncharitable reading of my comment! That wasn't intended, to be clear.

Eeeehhh... He's arguing for principles and I'm not comfortable with the claim that not having principles is every bit as valid as having them.

In US law, you aren't supposed to be able to trademark or copyright things that are functional to the product, which I'd strongly contend applies to their word list and their algor…

Things not being free isn't a very compelling argument for inventing a problem and charging for its solution while adding no value. That's called rent-seeking.

There are licenses to address that, though they're even more expansive or "viral", making the proposition less attractive. What I've seen instead is software project owners, tired …

The way I see it, we're drawing from a pool where most ideas are bad. Most problems (or, more broadly, "systems") have unsettlingly narrow parameters under which we can secure a be…

Yours is a good example, if a bit meta, of one side arguing in bad faith and being less legitimate than the other. Arguably so is this one.

These tradeoffs aren't laws of nature and they can be changed. Discussing them, the economic and social forces behind them, and what remedies might exist is reasonable and worthwhi…

By analogy, you might as well be asking if I've ever seen Rolexes get cheaper. Why are you talking about Rolexes and not watches?

It's a seldom-acknowledged fact but ad hominems run both ways. If saying that he can't have been that good for his bad actions is an ad hominem, then saying he can't have been that…

Would it be impractical to engineer a limited portion of the fuselage to withstand this scenario?