the point is, if it's peer-reviewed, you don't get to jeer at someone and call them a child molester. Good science can indeed lead to incorrect conclusions, but that doesn't mean it isn't good science.

Good, except this doesn't explain ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Arabia, Carthage, Ethiopia, the Central America empires, or any number of extremely sophisticated government structures originating and thriving in climates much warmer than northern countries (which have historically been populated by tribal raiders who at various points had nearly destroyed themselves wtih infighting) Nor does it explain the issues faced by South African regions.

Not for Africans it didn't

Historically, Africa has at various times done better or worse than other regions. However, colonialism seriously fucked them up. "Save Africa" is recent because "starving Africa" is recent

Yeah that's right, driving local industry out of business is the best thing for an economy. Free food has the same effect that undersold goods pushed into banana republics: it makes the population dependent on imports. Dependent on imports = your shit is all fucked. lrn2economics

Imagine if your LTE was as reliable as your GPS. Go ahead, I'll wait. You'd get dropped calls on humid days: and you can forget about serving anyone living in a city.

Isn't carnival of souls the ICP mythology? Why doesn't he sue them?

So then why are ALL electronic devices allowed during flight, but cell phones disallowed? Wouldn't you want the noisy stuff quiet at all times?

The thing that always gets me is the "cell phones but not other device" allowed until you reach the gate. How is is that, during the flight, cell phones send signals to the flight control and radar telling them to turn on their human masters, but everything else is okay, while once the plane is on the ground, cell phones are okay, but somehow if I use an mp3 player that DOESN'T have a phone plan attached to it, arcs of lightning will shoot out and melt everyone's eyeballs.

that's right! You heard me! POSSIBLY NOT AT ALL

My lease agreement says the landlord is responsible for making all repairs: even if I were permitted to, I am not obligated to. To connect this back to the main point, only FOSS software should be exempt by this logic, since a security hole in a product which cannot be altered is one which the user has no power over

The door to my apartment is in the habit of blowing open during strong winds even when "locked" unless we carefully move the bolt in when the door is positioned correctly. My landlord will not fix it: he doesn't claim a reason, just never gets around to it. If the door blows open, and someone steals our stuff, I should be able to sue the landlord by arguing that his negligence lead to the conditions under which I was burgled: the door would have remained shut if he furnished the apartment with a working door.

Everything is stuff that matters to someone. Some things are things that matter to most people. On a football news site, I wouldn't expect to see a story about OEM. I wouldn't expect to see a football story here. I would expect to see in both places stories about important issues which may be only tangentially related to the main theme of the website. Some nerds care about things besides computers and Battlestar Galactica.

or whatever the hell "which is" is. It's not a valid use of the semicolon, in any case

Semicolons replace conjunctions, not prepositions.