Depending on the context, it's still a dick move.

Like pirating big media's work, whatever. I think it's devaluing the work, but not theft. In the aggregate it might suck because it makes it harder to continue making work, like in the case of some games, anime, manga and comics.

Using someone else's work to make money? That's a dick move. If you're a big corporation and using an artists work with out them getting credit? You've deprived someone of something in a huge way. That's theft in some degree.

They function differently, but to most folks, they appear exactly the same. This is how gun-control types inject fear, uncertainty and doubt into the debate.

He's talking about gun FUD.

Calling an AR-15 an "assault weapon" isn't FUD. AR-15s are marketed as weapons used to assault people. They're designed for assault. As opposed to pepper spray or a taser which, while unpleasant and possibly deadly, they're marketed for defensive use and not optimized for maximum death.

Also cite your sources and explain yourself. What do you mean by firearm related crime goes up? Are more people getting busted with owning an illegal firearm AND committing crime when they'd otherwise just be charged with just the crime? How are you defining these terms? Do more people get guns because they're banned?

Cites sources showing that defensive gun ownership is a myth.

not unless you work for Lockheed Martin

That thing has a better screen at 1080p than the MacBook has at 2304x1440?

Are you kidding?

Gunshot victim's family ordered to pay the legal feeds of ammo dealers.

American lawmakers, especially at the state level, are getting their marching orders from the gun lobby.

Even in "liberal" states like California and New York, gun control laws are getting laxer and laxer.

Yes, saying that a gun is more likely to kill a person in their own home is FUD but that we need guns to repel invaders or fight a tyrannical Federal Government isn't FUD.

I'm sorry but, firearms are largely designed for killing. Either animals or humans. Yes you can kill someone with a book or a car or a baseball bat, but no one's marketing books, cars or sports gear by telling you how efficiently and effectively you can end someone's life with their product.

A 21 pound, 21" notebook would mean you could skip leg and back day all you want.

Fuck that. I just want a charging port, external monitor and USB.

I just can't wait for the peripherals to get cheaper.

i hope they change the branding away from games so they won't feel so pressured into selling me preorders for games I don't give a shit about when I walk in for replacement cables or whatever it is i need.

Yeah, but the USB Implementers Forum has final say about who can use what USB port and why.

The use cases for USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt are different too. I wouldn't want a joystick plugging in via thunderbolt and I wouldn't want to plug in a RAID array full of hyper fast disks in via USB.

After using some experimental kernels and some really buggy distros, I can say that no, Vista was actually fine.

Relatively speaking of course, but the day to day use of Vista? Stable.

Swarms of unemployed people attempting to influence discussion online?

No. Our corporations and politicians aren't that smart, or well organized. They may be malicious but I don't think they've got the gumption to properly be this corrupt and evil.

USB Power Delivery spec.

If you have a dingus that plugs into the mains on one end and has USB-C on the other, then it has to conform to certain standards. If it has USB-C and connected to a battery, I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to supply 100W.

We've finally done it. One connector for charge, data and display.

Intel's hardware developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

NT4 was fine. Windows 2000 was fine. XP was fine. Vista was fine. 7 was fine. 8 was fine but had weird UI issues and now 10 is going to be just as fine.

Or expecting people to use dropbox, airdrop, soundcloud, etc. for file sharing and bluetooth for accessories.

I think we might see another USB port on the next version, but I think that's missing the point.