As you've noted, saying "no" over and over again isn't enough. There needs to be more structural limitations in place, to confine our government to a small set of permitted functions. We weren't quite explicit enough in 1776.

Good luck getting it past her patent attorneys!

The war on guns will likely do the same (as it has already massively increased the number of guns in circulation). As people look for creative ways to skirt the regulations, the weapons will end up becoming more dangerous and easier to conceal.

Going back to Clinton era spending, even after adjusting it for inflation, would net us about a $500 billion dollar surplus now.

If the corporations control both sides, then a vote "against" is no different than a vote "for." You're helping them to win either way.

But that's where the creepers are.

Does that mean they have to start paying customers to use their free products?

Not completely. Especially if you have multiple users. There used to be an option to not even compile it in, but they took that out.

What difference does it make? Does a desktop get a pass for instability, simply because it's aiming for a higher goal? And I'm not even comparing. I'm just saying I had to move on to something useable.

I never said faster, I said more stabile.

Between those "features" and knotify4 hogging 97% of the CPU after a certain period of uptime (along with the inevitable system lockups), I switched to openbox and have had nothing but stability ever since. I liked KDE but it was just more hassle, than it was worth. I very much wish they'd make a slimmed down, window manager only version.

Javascript is fine, once you divorce it from all of the browser peculiarities, but it's an untyped language and untyped languages suck for refactoring. They should never be used for complex apps requiring maintainability. And yes, that goes for python too.

Yeah, I know they said "apps," but even most apps quickly grow beyond the comfort zone of a script.

No doubt, this evens the scales after decades of buffer overun exploits. Especially given the explosive popularity of applets.

Ahhh, if only we could nullify the Patriot Act, for having nothing to do with patriotism. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way over here (or anywhere else AFAIK).

If there were perfect enforcement of all laws, most people would be in jail for life.