Wrong. On an individual scale, it's called "stalking". On a grand scale, it's called surveillance.

In thinking about this, I believe that both should apply here, both rein and reign. Seriously, I'd rather the American people rule OVER the NSA than the other way around, wouldn't you?

Because you made me curious...

What3Words: NSA

Whoosh!

It's only murder if it doesn't look self-inflicted.

In addition to the point about carrier pigeons, even modern technology is re-embracing what others might consider to be obsolete.

See: IPoAC

I believe the poster was supporting the idea that software patents are a bad idea. If the sorting algorithms had been patented things would suck.
Since patenting of software didn't occur until after many of them had been written, they remain unpatented and this is a good thing.

Reading comprehension is hard.

...because it's a start? Not all technology starts of at it's peak. This just happens to be a piss-poor beginning.

You're not alone, but in this case you'd not get to feel the ground beneath your feet due to it being a gas giant. Just sayin'.

I've been practicing ways to make my fellow cyclists pay more attention to their dick behaviour.

My most recent attempt is to yell "confirmation bias" whenever I see one of us doing something like ignoring a stop sign or blowing a light. The idea is that, when they come back (and normally get aggressive thinking I was cussing them out) I explain that every dick move they make makes all of us look bad.

That leads me to you drivers: you see those of us who cut you off and blow the light. You see the ones who split the lane and haul ass to the light so they can be first out the gate when it changes. You don't see most of us who are being cautious because, in our caution, we're staying the fuck out of your way. Trust me: we exist.

I hope this driver is found and has to answer for what they did. I hope more of us cyclists start caring about how being killed in traffic affects us all.

I believe the point was that to the average Joe user, not getting a GUI is just as good as not booting at all. Those of us who love the CLI wont have any problem debugging a broken X but my Mom would call me and tell me her computer wont boot if it barfed some errors and dumped her at a shell login prompt.

This.
The idea of giving money to another person for the sake of receiving some sort of benefit or consideration is as old as the hills. If we're going to outlaw some forms of it but not all, things get sticky. It gets worse when we rename the exceptions so as to obfuscate their intent. Lobbying is just giving someone something in exchange for them giving you some additional consideration in their decision making process.
I bet if I "lobbied" the police department in my town so as to have them decide not to ticket me the next time I was late for work I'd be accused of bribery. If I "lobby" a politician so that they make decisions that benefit me it's not? I fail to see the difference.

If I had to venture a guess about the fighter jets, it would be that they are a dramatic simulation of what the initial wars looked like, when the bugs came to Earth to attack us the first time.

That made my day. Just sayin'.

4) get shot because you are witness to nearly a million dollars in ill-gotten income and you are now a liability rather than a useful too;.