No, they were in your opinion heroes.

I'm sure that does not bear on whether the average person would consider them heroes.

I think most people would consider them failures. Most people who worked on those projects didn't die. How many of those people died because they tripped, or because they otherwise didn't pay adequate attention to safety?

It's an eyesore we only "need" because of the twisted shape of our society. Oh look, my opinion is different from yours.

Try this on for size: A construction worker helping to build an energy-intensive concrete and steel monstrosity is actually harming the rest of us. How in fuck does that make them a hero? It seems to me like they're the antagonists in this story.

You're forgetting the IBM (and indeed corporate) mentality. To the president of IBM, those two things were one and the same.

But that was a period characterized by a shift in taxation towards the middle class. I don't think rich people did fund it.

That can't be the opposite, Windows and OSX are both shitty places to run your webserver.

For the purpose of disenfranchisement, of course. They only publicize the last day to register in the neighborhoods from which they want votes.

This site has been trolling both wings for some time now, and this helps with that. FTFY.

Holy shit, where do you live, man?
In my neck of the woods, it's a driving infraction, covered under civil law. Sure there's a threshold where it becomes a criminal act, but it's high enough that I can't really argue with it.