I don't think anyone at Youtube ever send out emails to all of its own employees saying "upload all the videos you can by monday or you're on my shit list!"
It's one thing to be unable to keep up with the take-down lists, and it's quite another to encourage your employers to contribute to the infringing.

So therefore we conclude what? Massive copryight infringement should be allowed because someone sold an extra 5 CDs? If someone wants more exposure, then they can grant permission. It should never be assumed a-priori that you have permission to take without asking.

More proof that you don't need to be smart or have common sense to be a CEO or CTO. Sending out emails to every employee demanding that they break the law? These are the sorts of boneheaded mistakes you expect to see on the "stupid criminals of the month" column.

Though I am worried about Anonymous Coward's mental health, as he's always publicly fighting with himself (or herself, that part seems seems to change over time as well).

How so? Deaths from the nuclear accident, even accounting for very long term results, will be very minor compared with the loss of life from the earthquake itself.

It's not just the US. Look around. Even in major "enlightened" nations you see all sorts of idiocy up at the top. Now the US may have its faults but having EU countries point at the US and laugh is just hypocrisy.

Even when they present both sides, it is much more interesting and informative if they're not on at the same time arguing with each other. A local radio call in show has both formats, and when a full hour is given to one candidate, then the next day is the other candidate, you learn a lot. But them both on debating and arguing then you learn nothing.

At least NPR's Science Friday never had the "now for the opposing argument" format.

Don't forget social media, with "seven foods that kill cancer". Wait, that stuff shows up on news broadcasts too.

Also the advertisements. Head-On: Apply Directly to Forehead. or the cold remedy promoted as "invented by a teacher" which is code for "no untrustworthy scientists were involved".

I like google+, but I hate having a useless youtube forced on me. Google+ is where friends are. Don't know about facebook, never tried it, probably never will.

Hey India, can we get some extra quotas for visas for out of work American space scientists?

We have a constitutional right to privacy now? I thought it was still a point of debate but had not been firmly decided by the courts (though there are good cases to be made for it on certain grounds, such as 9th amendment).

Depends upon where you are. When I was growing up in the hot central valley, a swimming pool absolutely added to the home's value (not the above ground type though).

Isn't the property tax most places based upon the value of the home? So adding a pool will increase the value of the home. Normally though there's a tax assessor that goes around and should be looking at every lot and assign a new assessed value, though in practice I think they just google if the prices in the neighborhood have gone up or down.

A lot of government in the US works by assuming most people are generally lawful, and they're not going to just start adding rooms onto the house without filing the paperwork first. For taxes they do some random audits on a small subset. This generally works, those breaking the rules aren't too many and don't get away with it for too long (often neighbors turn them in, they get very nosy when construction starts). But this all breaks down if you have wholesale cheating going on, such as Greeks with taxes awhile back, and perhaps these Argentinean neighborhoods.

It looks like a side effect of how it passes exported functions to sub shells. The only communication mechanism for talking to the subshell is the environment. So these are implemented by putting the function in an environment variable, then the subshell on startup looks at every variable to see if it looks like a function, and if so tries to turn them into a function. The snag then is that it does this by actually executing what's in the variable instead of fully parsing it first.

Mistake here, the problem I saw with SHELL screwing stuff up wasn't with system(), real unices use a hardcoded path there. I've been on too many embedded systems that try to be unix-like.