Basics? You mean "exactly what I got but nothing else?

And no, the US was not founded on libertarian principles.

Of course not. That'll only pay for your past usage of the common infrastructure. You must also cease any use of it.

Don't flatter yourself. Libertardian ideology is far older and was well-known even centuries before.

Yes. Please return that several millions of dollars that people before you have spent on your roads, security, education, good environment and so on. Libertardians in the US have never actually lived in countries that lack this stuff so they have no freaking idea how privileged they are.

We can build structures that can last for millenia. That's easy. For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... utterly dwarfs pyramids and it's expected to last longer.

It's just that with rare exceptions people do not WANT such structures. A typical house could probably be rebuilt much cheaper in 50-70 years and with better safety. For example, the house where I live right now was built 5 years ago - it certainly doesn't look as 'solid' as a renovated Victorian house where I'd been living earlier. However, the new house is an order of magnitude better insulated so it requires much less heating and cooling. Its sound insulation allows me to run on a treadmill listening to music while my girlfriend is sleeping downstairs. The electrical wiring allows me to power a coffee maker, electric kettle and a dishwasher without burning down the whole block and so on.

But I totally expect that in 100 years it'd replaced with a house made from paper-thing carbon-nanotube reinforced smart self-forming concrete with built-in automated furniture extruders. While people will be telling each other that nobody can make anything lasting more than a week, unlike people in 2010 who could build stuff lasting for _decades_.

So let me get it straight, freedom of press is OK only when it's of no consequence? Do you tell me that North Korea and the USSR had been making the right decision to block and jam the Western radio?

That's OK. ISPs just have to provide equal opportunities (within reasonable bounds) for Netflix competitors to interconnect their own CDNs.

Should that matter? Freedom of speech should mean even the freedom of speech that you don't like. Even if you think its propaganda or pure nonsense.

There are double standards in play in Europe.

Yes, that's OK as long as CDNs are independent business entities and ISPs do not discriminate on price and hosting conditions.

If they are independent entities then I don't see a problem. If an ISP starts to discriminate against them (for example, favoring one CDN) then the bill will apply to that situation.

CDNs are third-party entities that provide you a service. ISPs are not allowed to discriminate against them.

President Holland declared that France will stand for freedom of speech with more than 100000 people marching out to support it.

Meanwhile in Lithuania just today two Russian TV channels were banned because of their 'one-sided views' on lots of problems.

Dude, taxes are way down since 50-s or even 60-s. Stop smoking that untaxed crack cocaine.

SDKs are useful to investigate and develop homebrew exploits (they provide information on the system architecture), but they are not useful for actually developing homebrew unless you want to end up with a situation like the Xbox 1 (the original) where all homebrew (except for Linux) was basically illegal because compiling it meant using the SDK and the resulting binaries were not legally redistributable. As a counterexample, the Wii has a fully open source homebrew SDK (though some bits have a questionable history and are arguably non-cleanroom reverse-engineered SDK code from games, but that's a much finer point than outright using the official SDK).

Given what I've heard of the Xbox One security architecture, it's going to be a tough nut to crack, SDK or not.

I speak a little bit of Udmurt which is in the same language family as Finnish so I know what you're speaking about. Simple comparisons like this are meaningless. With highly flective languages it's important to learn the grammar - it then starts helping you by giving cues to the meaning of unknown words.

You can reasonably expect to being able to read novels and newspapers after 1 year of studying an 'easy' language like French or German. You certainly won't be fluent but you'll be able to understand the general idea of any reasonable text. With Chinese it's more like 3-5 years (I've heard that Japanese is actually easier).