A quick check of the opinion shows that "god" is mentioned 41 times. The opinion includes verbiage such as "Man's creation in God's image..." It's beyond ironic that courts are supposed to work based on evidence, yet there's not a shred of evidence for the validity of this statement. "Your honor I object! Assumes facts not in evidence!"

Bullshit. The prevalence of acid rain has decreased because the component of emissions that cause it, SO2, has decreased even if total emissions haven't. Go research the history of the debate on acid rain. You'll find the same people behind the claims that smoking doesn't cause cancer, CFCs don't destroy the ozone layer, and CO2 emissions don't cause global warming were behind the claims that acid rain wasn't a problem caused by industrial emissions.

And much of the far-right in this country thinks the 13th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act are anti-American bullshit too...

The exact same thing happened when I was working at LSI Logic and Avago swallowed it up. Hock Tan came and gave a speech that was probably word-for-word the same as he gave at Broadcom. It wasn't long before LSI was a shell of its former self.

Or how about the French pianist in the 1920s who was getting heckled by the audience during his performances? At his next performance, he pulled a pistol out of his pocket and laid it on top of the piano as he sat down to perform. Strangely, no one heckled him during that performance.

Do you actually haul things in your "truck", or are you like the 99%+ of pickup truck owners I see on the road who never carry anything in their truck, but drive them due to some stupid macho thing?

This would be like the publishers of textbooks suing the users of the books for learning from them and using the knowledge learned in the pursuit of their jobs.

Usenet had a rich history. Before NNTP became the dominant protocol, UUCP was used to connect machines in point-to-point connections via modems. And then there was the Great Renaming that occurred in the mid-1980s that lasted almost a year. Add to that the silly fights about creating new groups that led to the creation of groups like alt.aquaria, sci.aquaria, and rec.aquaria.

There were lots of good user apps, including my favorite, Gravity. Even GNU Emacs had a newsreader mode.

The whole thing started going to hell when AOL gave its unwashed masses access and when spam started to overwhelm the system.

My 300k population UK city still has at least three in the city centre and maybe ten in total.

You're lucky. I live in Silicon Valley (population almost 4 million) and we used to have several Fry's Electronics stores, a Microcenter, and a bunch of surplus stores like Weird Stuff Warehouse and Halted. Those are all gone now and the only thing left is a couple of Central Computer stores.

Why do we keep doing it? Because the telcos have a powerful lobby and have bought and paid for politicians.

Make your own. That's what we do. My wife bought an Italian commercial ice cream machine and we make our own using real ingredients. Tastes much better than anything you can buy in a store.

It's a good thing this was a lab freezer and not life support equipment attached to someone.

Don't forget they did the exact same thing before. When the Lisa came out, it was $10,000. And that was forty years ago in 1983...

As an American I applaud India's move to decrease the competitiveness of their students and, ultimately, their industries on the world market.

Their loss is our gain (but we have to remain vigilant lest the whacko religious fundamentalists do the same thing over here).

...I don't "buy" movies on streaming services but rather prefer to buy them on DVD or Blu-Ray. With streaming service "purchases" the company can do what Amazon just did with the celebrity voices.