Maybe I'm old, but when I was in grade school kindergarteners on up had to walk to and from school if they lived less than a mile away unless there was some major road in between or they had a parent or babysitter ready to drive them.

I think "prevailed" is a bit overstating things. Mainframes have more "held on" despite the march of the killer micros.

If by celebrity we mean that good scientists get famous for actual research and get patronage to run their labs free of government funding, then hell yes.

If by celebrity we mean that their career as a "Scientist" means to be an advocate for one bit of research over others even well outside their own work, then probably not.

It's not shocking, as it seems a good portion of every profession is incompetent.

Indeed. The equivalent argument to mine when applied to firearms would be to ban stupid firearms users. See what I did there?

Title II does, though. If they are regulated under Title II then they can't have a monopoly on the utility poles.

See, this just shows the screwed up nature of calling the R the right and the D the left. Pro abortion rights? Rightist. Pro gun control? Leftist. Pro gay marriage? Rightist. Pro marijuana? Rightist.

You see, the "right" or "conservative" traditionally wants a smaller government with less control over people's daily lives. The "left" wants more and bigger government with more control over the population.

The current parties are both hybrids. One claims to want a smaller, leaner government with less control over _industry_ and _markets_ but more control over _lives_. The other wants bigger social spending and more control over _industry_ and _markets_ but to let the individual do pretty much what they want.

Many Democrats these days fiscally are more in favor of limiting spending than Reagan did, meanwhile wanting to infringe less on individual rights.

If we had anything other than this false dichotomy of a self-reinforcing two-party system we may just find a party in some amount of power that wants to get the government out of your office _and_ your bedroom as much as possible.

They might be called Republicans, but anyone supporting that project was a liberal underneath their costume.

That's a beautiful strawman you've got there. I never said it didn't enable those. I said it did enable the American Revolutionary War. The fact that additional things were helped first does not diminish the role printing played in stoking the fires for that war.

I think you underestimate Paine, Franklin, and Locke.

Texas doesn't have open carry of handguns. One can only carry handguns concealed and with a permit. One can only open carry a long arm. How often do you see people being mugged with a rifle or shotgun?

The printing press was a major enabler of the American Revolution.

The most common cause of death in children from ages one to thirteen is traffic accidents. Let's ban stupid drivers.

It's a lot easier to build a reliable firearm with a CNC mill than with a 3D printer.

Truth: some Linux distros have a "wheel" group.
Truth: this group is used as a list of people with elevated permissions
Truth: one of the elevated permissions often assigned to this group is the ability to become root, especially with sudo
Falsehood: all users on a Linux system are members of the "wheel" group
Falsehood: one can add oneself to the "wheel" group without having permissions already elevated above regular user status

tl;dr: someone misunderstands groups and called it a vulnerability